Speaker
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Bassem HassanDr at ICM (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle épinière, Paris, France
The neuroscience of why flies are people too!, seminar by Bassem Hassan
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Summary: The genome versus experience dichotomy has dominated understanding of behavioral individuality. By contrast, the role of nonheritable noise during brain development in behavioral variation is understudied. Using Drosophila melanogaster, we demonstrate a link between stochastic variation in brain wiring and behavioral individuality.
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