{"612881":{"#nid":"612881","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GT Neuro Seminar Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;What the Fly Can Tell Us about the Neural Basis of Navigation\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Jayaraman, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSenior Group Leader \u0026amp; Head of Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nJanelia Research Campus\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHoward Hughes Medical Institute\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOur goal is to establish causal links between the dynamics of neural circuits and the behavioral decisions that an animal continuously makes as it navigates a multi-sensory world. Our focus is on computations in the central complex, a middle-of-the-insect-brain region that is thought to be important for sensory-guided decision making, navigation and motor control.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe believe that our choice of studying the function of a higher brain region involved in sensorimotor processing requires us to study neural activity in a behaving organism. Furthermore, validating any potential answers requires manipulating neural circuits in precise and well-controlled ways. This leads us to our experimental system, the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, which has long been the organism of choice for behavioral genetics and comes with tools to fluorescently label, manipulate the activity of, and optically record from genetically targeted neurons.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cWhat the Fly Can Tell Us about the Neural Basis of Navigation\u201d - Vivek Jayaraman, Ph.D - Howard Hughes Medical Institute"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2018-10-17 15:58:02","changed_gmt":"2018-10-17 15:58:02","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-11-12T11:15:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2018-11-12T12:15:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-11-12T12:15:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-11-12 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-11-12 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-11-12 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuro.gatech.edu","title":"GT Neuro"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.janelia.org\/lab\/jayaraman-lab\/research","title":"Jayaraman lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rozell@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EChris Rozell\u003C\/a\u003E - faculty host\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}