A fundamental question in neuroscience is how synapses are assembled in living animals to produce behaviors and store memories. Our lab is focused on this question and uses the nematode C. elegans to examine the cell biological mechanisms by which synapses are precisely assembled during development, maintained during growth and modified during learning to store memories.
Cell biology of the synapse and behavior in C. elegans
https://www.ibiology.org/neuroscience/neuronal-synapse/
We can scrutinize the interplay between the cell biology of the synapse and behavior at three levels:
Mechanisms of neuronal synapse assembly and function
https://www.ibiology.org/neuroscience/neuronal-synapse/#part-2
Actuating memory: how C. elegans remembers
https://www.ibiology.org/neuroscience/neuronal-synapse/#part-3