Wiring The Brain
From Q-Bio Seminar Series
By Prof. [Greg Lemke], Head of Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute
July 21, 2009
For us to be able to see, specific cells in our retinas must be connected in a regular fashion to specific cells in our brains. How does the brain achieve it? How does it reproducibly wire its billions of nerve cells together during embryonic development? This lectures describes how the visual system uses variable abundances of a set of receptors - called EPH proteins - to connect the eye to the brain in a regular, reproducible fashion that allows us to see.
Prof. Lemke will be introduced by Dr. Ilya Nemenman, Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Back to The q-bio Public Lectures main page.
