Month June 2015

Dr. Pierce-Shimomura publishes in eLIFE

Dr. Jon Pierce-Shimomura and colleagues published a research article in eLIFE entitled “Magnetosensitive neurons mediate geomagnetic orientation in Caenorhabditis elegans”.  This research identifies a microscopic, magnetic sensing structure located on the end of a neuron in C. elegans worms.  The…

Priebe lab publishes in Journal of Neurophysiology

Dr. Nicholas Priebe and colleagues published a research article in the Journal of Neurophysiology entitled “Motion dependence of smooth pursuit eye movements in the marmots”.   This research revealed that marmosets engage similar mechanisms to other non-human primates to accomplish…