Stefano joins TWiN to discuss his work on understanding genomic decoding of neuronal depolarization by stimulus-specific transcriptional regulators.
TWiN 7: Stress, the good, bad and beautiful
- June 13, 2020
- Tagged as: antibodies, B cells, brain, germinal center, gray hair, immune responses, nerves, nervous system, neuroscience, spinal cord, spleen, stress, T cells
The TWiN team reveals how the nervous system controls hair graying in mice subjected to stress, and adaptive immune responses.
Bob Datta joins TWiN to reveal the findings of his laboratory on expression of SARS-CoV-2 entry genes in the olfactory epithelium and the implications for anosmia associated with COVID-19.
Erin and the TWiN team explain how dopamine neurons encode reward probability and uncertainty, and their roles in attention-based learning and risk-taking such as gambling and addiction.
The TWiN team explain the basic principles of synaptic transmission, and review a classic paper demonstrating that recycling endosomes are important for modifying synaptic strength, which is involved in information storage and processing.