Neurobiology

synapse formation, maintenance, and pruning • learning and memory • behavior • neuronal cell fate and diversity • axonal guidance • diseases of the nervous system

Faculty

Elly Nedivi

Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Biology

Elly Nedivi studies the mechanisms underlying brain circuit plasticity — characterizing the genes and proteins involved, as well as visualizing synaptic and neuronal remodeling in the living mouse brain.

Only in Your Head

Neurobiology

Faculty

Martha Constantine-Paton

Frank B. Gertler

H. Robert Horvitz

Rudolf Jaenisch

Dennis Kim

Troy Littleton

Elly Nedivi

Edward Scolnick

Hazel Sive

Susumu Tonegawa

Matthew A. Wilson

Elly Nedivi

Only in Your Head

Antidepressant restores youthful flexibility to aging inhibitory neurons

Altering Neuronal Activity at Will

What separates the strong from weak among connections in the brain

Stem cell-derived zika model suggests mechanisms underlying microcephaly

Study: Fragile X syndrome neurons can be restored

Reading and writing DNA

Decoding the genetics of roundworm mating