sensory neurons

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This powerful microscope was built by Vivek Venkatachalam (above), a postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of Professor of Physics Aravinthan Samuel in collaboration with fellow postdoc Ni Ji, Professor Mark Alkema of UMass Worcester, and Professor Mei Zhen, a former Radcliffe Fellow at the University of Toronto.

Watching sensory information translate into behavior

Microscope captures neural activity in worms’ brains in real time

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DateFebruary 11, 2016

New research by the laboratory of Professor Aravi Samuel in the Harvard Physics Department and the Center for Brain Sciences is uncovering surprising sophistication in the individual neurons of the worm’s “simple” nervous system.

Sophisticated worms

One cell does it all: Sensory input to motor output in extraordinary neuron

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DateNovember 21, 2012