Neurobiology

Neurobiology

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

Frank B. Gertler
Faculty Spotlight

Frank B. Gertler

Professor of Biology Emeritus

Before closing his lab, Frank B. Gertler considered the role of cell shape and movement in developmental defects and diseases.

Opioids and the brain: new insights through epigenetics

A single memory is stored across many connected brain regions

Introducing Whitehead Institute Member Siniša Hrvatin

The model remodeler

‘What Were you Thinking?’

A pivot from accounting to neuroscience

Mapping the cellular circuits behind spitting

Study of synapse strength focuses on ‘active zones’