Connectomics: Jeff Lichtman at TEDxCaltech
Jeff Lichtman is Jeremy R. Knowles professor of Molecular and Cellular Bio at Harvard. He holds an A.B. He received an A.B. He received his Ph.D. and M.D. degrees from Washington University, St. Louis in 1980. He worked at the university for 30 years prior to moving to Cambridge (2004). He is also a member at the newly-established Center for Brain Science in Harvard. Jeff’s interests in research revolve around how experiences can physically alter mammalian circuits, particularly during early life. He has studied the dramatic rewiring of neural pathways during early postnatal development. His research has recently focused on the development of new electron microscopy techniques to map the wiring diagram of both the developing brain and the adult brain. This \”connectomics\” method aims to discover how information is stored within neural networks.

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