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No Ordinary Vampire Fish: Insights from Sea Lampreys on Neuroscience and Human Health
August 1 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Jennifer Morgan, MBL Senior Scientist and Director of the Bell Center
Registration link: https://mbl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zNh_-vNkRdeyjouNywvWgw#/registration
Jennifer Morgan’s laboratory investigates the mechanisms of neuronal communication, particularly how spinal cord injury and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disrupt neurotransmission at the synapses. Using sea lampreys as a model organism, her team explores regenerative processes such as axon and synapse regrowth to restore function after injury. Her lab explores how condensate biology can explain the sufficient clustering of synaptic vesicles within the synapse, which is necessary for neurotransmission to occur, and the contributions of condensates to disease pathogenesis.