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Welcome to the Colón-Ramos Lab

Overview

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.


video: Cell biology of the synapse and behavior in C. elegans

Cell biology of the synapse and behavior in C. elegans
https://www.ibiology.org/neuroscience/neuronal-synapse/

Projects

We can scrutinize the interplay between the cell biology of the synapse and behavior at three levels:

video: Mechanisms of neuronal synapse assembly and function

Mechanisms of neuronal synapse assembly and function
https://www.ibiology.org/neuroscience/neuronal-synapse/#part-2

  • Modifying the architecture to form memories

    During certain behaviors, experiences persist as memories. How does the cell biology of the synapse encode memories?
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video: Actuating memory: how C. elegans remembers

Actuating memory: how C. elegans remembers
https://www.ibiology.org/neuroscience/neuronal-synapse/#part-3