QBI Neuroscience seminar: How do axons detect and respond to molecular gradients?

Event Details

Date:

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Time:

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Room:

Auditorium, level-7

UQ Location:

Queensland Brain Institute (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au//index.html?page=26835

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Speaker: Professor Geoffery Goodhill
Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute,
The University of Queensland

Title:
How do axons detect and respond to molecular gradients?

Abstract:
Molecular gradients play a key role in guiding axons to appropriate
targets in the developing nervous system. To be guided by a gradient
an axon must both detect the direction of the gradient, and change its
behaviour appropriately. We have been using a combination of
experimental and mathematical analyses to attempt to dissect the
computational mechanisms axons use to achieve both of these
processes. In this talk I will discuss our latest results in this
regard.