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Black-and-white illustrated head-and-shoulders portrait of a smiling man wearing glasses and a collared coat, identified in the metadata as Richard Tsien, PhD.

March 29, 2021

NYU’s Tsien to discuss brain plasticity at next Discovery Lecture

Richard Tsien, PhD, director of the Neuroscience Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center, will deliver the next web-based Discovery Lecture.

By Leigh MacMillan

Stylized 3D visualization of a glowing purple synapse, with two bulbous nerve endings separated by a bright gap and surrounded by smaller synaptic structures.

September 18, 2015

Nerve cell remodelers

Vanderbilt investigators have defined a gene expression program that controls the timing of synaptic remodeling – a process that is critical to brain development, learning and memory.

By Leigh MacMillan