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We report with great sadness the death of Pat McGovern, on March 19, 2014. Since the founding of the institute, he has been a constant source of inspiration and encouragement. He will be greatly missed.

2014 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience

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Huda Y. Zoghbi, of Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, is the winner of the 2014 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.

Work uncovers secret of how genome-editing tool works as “guided missile” to correct errors in the genetic code.

New light-sensitive proteins allow scientists to study how multiple sets of neurons interact.

In the 2014 Sharp Lecture, May-Britt Moser of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology described her work on “grid cells,” which she co-discovered with husband Edvard Moser in 2005. The activity of these cells suggests that the brain maps 2D space onto a grid from which the animal’s location can be computed.

Brain-scanning technique allows scientists to see when and where the brain processes visual information.

Neurons in the mouse cerebellum, expressing the synaptic protein SAPAP-4. Image: Louis Tee and Guoping Feng

SPEAKER: Dr. May-Britt Moser ORGANIZATION: Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience DATE + TIME: Wednesday February 5, 2014 at 4pm LOCATION: MIT Bldg 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium) ABSTRACT: The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) is part of the brain’s circuit for dynamic representation of self-location. The metric of this representation is provided by grid cells, cells with spatial firing fields […]