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(301) 215-8858
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(571) 209-4358
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Laboratories
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Tamir Gonen is using structural biology to study how channels and transporters function in a tightly regulated way. More
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Adam Hantman seeks to understand how the central nervous system uses proprioceptive sensory information to inform and optimize circuits involved in motor control. More -
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Tim Harris studies expression patterns and the resulting protein patterns that are responsible for the processes of cell differentiation and organism development. More -
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Ulrike Heberlein uses the fruit fly Drosophila to study the mechanisms by which experiences induce long-lasting changes in behavior using genetic, genomic, and neuroanatomical approaches. More -
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Harald Hess is both developing new high-resolution microscope concepts for molecular and cellular biology and adapting microscope technology employed in other fields to the specific challenges of neural circuits at Janelia. More -
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Stephen Huston is studying how Drosophila motor neurons decode the outputs of their visual system inputs. More -
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Viren Jain's long-term goal is to understand the computational principles underlying the organization and activity of nervous systems. More -
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Vivek Jayaraman is interested in understanding how information from different senses is represented and integrated by ensembles of neurons in the brain. His lab plans to use a combination of experimental and computational techniques to explore multimodal circuits in the fruit fly brain. The lab's long-term goal is to link computation in such circuits to the insect's behavioral decisions. More -
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Na Ji develops adaptive optical methods to improve imaging resolution in vivo. She applies these methods to the structural and functional imaging of neural circuits. She will move to Janelia in April 2011. More -
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Alla Karpova's goal is to understand the circuitry behind the ability of animals to adapt their behavior to constantly changing reward contingencies. She is also interested in how dysfunctions in this circuitry lead to diseases of perseveration, such as addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder. More -
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Philipp Keller is interested in the principles underlying the developmental building plans of animals. He uses advanced light sheet microscopy and computational methods to quantitatively study embryonic and neural development in Drosophila and zebrafish. More
