Neurobiology Division
One of the biggest challenges facing the biological sciences is to understand how brains can give rise to minds. The goal of the Division is to explore the properties of nerve cells at a fundamental level. What are the mechanisms that determine the special abilities of nerve cells to rapidly transmit and process information? What are the rules by which communication between small numbers of nerve cells in the intact brain gives rise to simple behaviours? What are the molecular processes that lead to common dementias and movement disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease?
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Head of Division:
Michel Goedert
Divisional Administrator:
Mary-Ann Starkey
Assistant Divisional Administrator:
Emma Thurston
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Francis Crick Avenue,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus,
Cambridge CB2 0QH,
UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 267050
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 213556
Group Leaders
- Anne Bertolotti - Misfolded proteins: deposition and cure
- Tiago Branco - Synaptic integration in circuits controlling innate behaviour
- Michel Goedert - Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
- Ingo Greger - Glutamate-gated ion channels: biogenesis and trafficking
- Michael Hastings - Molecular neurobiology of circadian timing
- Gregory Jefferis - Olfactory perception in the fruit fly
- Leon Lagnado - Synaptic transmission in the visual system of zebrafish
- Harvey McMahon - Sculpting cell membranes
- Marco Tripodi - Neural circuitry of action: from spatial perception to motor integration.
Emeritus Scientists
- Nigel Unwin - Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor