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SUMMARY:The development of a motor network in Drosophila\, the role of pre
 cocious neural activity in the emergence of coordination - Michael Bate (U
 niversity of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Philip Sterne
DESCRIPTION:While neural activity has been shown to be essential to the no
 rmal development of connectivity between sensory neurons and their central
  targets in the brain\, little is known about the significance of such ear
 ly activity for the development of the neural networks underlying movement
 . Nonetheless many embryos show precocious motor activity\, in the form of
  twitches and incomplete movements. Here we apply a novel technique to the
  embryo of the fruitfly to show that such precocious activation of the mot
 or system is essential for the normal development of patterns of output th
 at underlie coordinated movement.
LOCATION:TCM Seminar Room\, Cavendish Laboratory\, Department of Physics
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