Current events

Date: 25 October 2013

Time: 09:30 am

Place : Gonda 2303 (2nd Floor Conference Room)

Title: Perineuronal Nets and Plasticity

Speaker: Kelsey Martin

I will discuss a recent PNAS paper from Roger Tsien (see below) that is essentially a hypothesis paper about the function of perineuronal nets and long-term plasticity. I will also present work from other research papers on perineuronal nets during developmental and adult plasticity.

"Very long-term memories may be stored in the pattern of holes in the perineuronal net"

Tsien, RY (2013) PNAS 110:12456.

http://www.pnas.org/content/110/30/12456.full?sid=ec9e5dc0-bb51-46f5-b83c-313145c456ee