Congratulations to Sven Dorkenwald, one of our Shanahan fellows, who was chosen as the 2024 Larry Katz Memorial Lecturer for the Cold Spring Harbor Labs Neuronal Circuits meeting in March.
The Larry Katz Memorial Lectureship is awarded to a graduate student who has done “the most original and significant work in the past two years on neuronal circuits.” Sven has made amazing contributions to the …
Similar to genomics, the science which maps our genetic background, “connectomics” is a new emerging science which is becoming very popular in the neuroscience area. Basically, connectomics aims to map the highly intense neuron connections and properties in the brain, more exactly the synapses, and recently researchers have made important progress in the field which brings us a step closer to dev…
