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SUMMARY:Of Maggots and Memory  - Dr Miranda Robbins (Department of Zoology
 \, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Miroslava Novoveska
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 r over 70 years researchers have proposed that long-term memory formation 
 occurs through changes to the synaptic structures between neurons\, howeve
 r this hypothesis is yet to be experimentally proven. Thanks to Drosophila
  larvae\, it is now possible to gain evidence of long-term memory formtion
 \, from learning at a behavioural scale\, to circuit reconstruction at a m
 olecular level. In this talk I will discuss the methods involved for this 
 project such as using optogenetic light activation of neurons to induce a 
 memory in larvae\, and electron microscopy to reconstruct individual synap
 tic connections. In the future\, this work showing mechanisms of long-term
  memory in larvae will hopefully contribute to our understanding of human 
 memory\, and how this is impaired in numerous neurological disorders. 
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