The UCL Neuroscience Society is excited to be hosting Brain Prize winner Gero Miesenböck! He will be presenting his groundbreaking work on light sleep:

"In two decades, optogenetic control of neuronal activity has developed from a far-fetched idea to a widely used technique. My talk will recount how this happened, drawing on the earliest and latest results from my lab. To illustrate what is now possible, I will present recent work on the regulation and function of sleep. Optogenetics has allowed us to pinpoint neurons whose sleep-inducing activity switches on as sleep deficits accrue, revealed how this activity switch works, and furnished a molecular interpretation of sleep pressure, its accumulation, and its discharge."

Entrance is free but priority will be given to members!
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