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SUMMARY:A Molecular Geneticist's Strategy for Understanding the Fly Brain 
 - Dr. Gerald Rubin\, Vice President\, HHMI\, and Executive Director\, Jane
 lia Farm Research Campus
DTSTART:20120531T090000Z
DTEND:20120531T100000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Dervila Glynn
DESCRIPTION:“The functional elements of the nervous system and the neuro
 nal circuits that process information are not genes\, but cells. Therefore
 \, the classical genetic methods that were so powerful in elucidating embr
 yonic development and other processes in Drosophila will not be adequate t
 o probe the function of the nervous system. Instead\, we will need to be a
 ble to assay and manipulate the function of individual neuronal cells and 
 cell types with the same facility as we can now assay and manipulate the f
 unction of individual genes. The intellectual framework for such an approa
 ch has been articulated by several research groups over the past ten years
 . But tools have been inadequate for the job. I will discuss our efforts t
 o develop and apply some of the tools that will be required for a comprehe
 nsive\, “brain-wide” analysis of the anatomy and function of the fly b
 rain at the level of individual cell types and circuits.”
LOCATION:Department of Zoology\, Main Lecture Theatre
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