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How does infection change social behavior?
Work led by Yun Zhang, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, provides some insight into how pathogens change animal social behaviors. Harvard Gazette ...
Taihong's paper in Nature.
Congratulations to Taihong Wu for his paper on Worms exposed to virulent bacteria show changes in social behaviour.
Forgetting, fast and slow
Work led by Yun Zhang, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, shows C. elegans worms, a model organism for brain research, found that forgetting doesn’t reverse changes in the brain resulting from learning or erase them, as some theories...
Congratulations to Taihong for his paper being accepted by Neuron!
Taihong's paper "Pheromones modulate learning by regulating the balanced signals of two insulin-like peptides" is out in Neuron.
Ana awarded the 2018 Dean's Competitive Fund
Congrats to Ana Pereira for receiving the 2018 Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship.
Xico's paper in Cell Reports
Congratulations to Xico Gracida for his paper on An Elongin-Cullin-SOCS Box Complex Regulates Stress-Induced Serotonergic Neuromodulation!
He's Paper in Neuron
Congratulations to He Liu for his paper on Cholinergic Sensorimotor Integration Regulates Olfactory Steering!
Linking insulin to learning
Work led by Yun Zhang, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, shows how the pathway of insulin and insulinlike peptides plays a critical role in helping to regulate learning and memory. Full story in the Harvard Gazette here.
Following the worm
Harvard research examining the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans -- tiny, transparent worms -- suggest a path for investigations that may shed light on disorders such as schizophrenia. Full story in the Harvard Gazette here.
Circuits of sense and sensibility
A Harvard biologist succeeds in mapping a neural network for learned olfactory behavior, using a roundworm model to trace the dislike of a particular smell to the reaction that avoids it. Full story in the Harvard Gazette here.
