Brain

Part of the graduate program’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Capecchi’s talk described using the same mouse genetics research methods that earned him the Nobel Prize in 2007.

Neuroscientist Sathya Puthanveettil, Ph.D., has documented the packets of material that move from neuron body to synapse during memory formation.

When the brain’s synapses are activated, they set off a signaling cascade that results in the expression of long noncoding RNA called “ADEPTR.” The RNA is quickly transported along dendrites to synapses, where it acts on proteins involved in remodeling. (Image courtesy of Jenna Wingfield and Yibo Zhao of the…