Neurobiologist Vanessa Ruta receives New Innovator Award to fund research on memory wiring in the brain
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 10:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Ruta, head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, will use the New Innovator grant, worth nearly $2.5 million over five years, to fund new technical approaches to studying the fly’s olfactory system, including devising new optical labeling techniques which will allow scientists to trace the circuits that encode a specific olfactory association. More »