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Columbia University’s Thomas Jessell, Ph.D., delivers last week’s Discovery Lecture before a large crowd in Light Hall. Jessel’s talk, “Assembly and Organization of Spinal Motor Circuits,” was sponsored by the Vanderbilt Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series.