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Balint Kacsoh - "Elucidating genes, circuits, and behavior in a novel Drosophila social learning and memory paradigm"
Add to Calendar 2019-09-03T19:30:00 2019-09-03T20:30:00 UTC Balint Kacsoh - "Elucidating genes, circuits, and behavior in a novel Drosophila social learning and memory paradigm" Mueller Laboratory (room 8)
Start DateTue, Sep 03, 2019
3:30 PM
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End DateTue, Sep 03, 2019
4:30 PM
Presented By
Balint Kacsoh

Balint Kacsoh - Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

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“Flies can communicate with one another about an anticipated danger, such as a parasitoid   wasp, which is suggestive of a fly “language.” Interestingly, when wasp-exposed flies of one   species are placed with a student of a different species, communication exists, to varying   degrees, which seems dependent on evolutionary relatedness. Cohabitation of two species   that can partially communicate can learn each other’s “dialect”, yielding effective inter-  species communication. There are various inputs involved in communication between   exposed and naïve flies, including the presence of visual and olfactory cues and circuitry,   along with canonical learning and memory genes, including those implicated in social   learning defects in murine models, such as PTEN and FMR.”