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Herwig Baier

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Dr. Herwig Baier is a Professor of Physiology at the University of California – San Francisco.

He wants to know how brain cells (neurons) give rise to behavior. He explains to us how he is using light to turn on neurons in the zebrafish brain to understand how these cells affect the fish’s swimming.

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Keywords:

  • Zebrafish
  • Neural circuits
  • Behavior
  • Optogenetics

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Posted: November 11th, 2009
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