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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt"><br>
<span style="background:white">Biology Department Seminar</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Thursday, January 25, 2024 – 12:00 Noon </span>
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<b><span style="background:white">Brady Weissbourd</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white">Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT</span><br>
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<b><span style="background:white">A Genetically Tractable Jellyfish Model for Systems and Evolutionary Neuroscience</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white">Jellyfish have successfully hunted the oceans for ~600 million years; over this long history, they have played critical roles in ocean ecosystems, including tremendous socioeconomic impacts in modern times. Most recently, they
are also presenting exciting model organisms for basic biological research due to their experimental tractability, evolutionary position, and shocking regenerative abilities. Here, I will describe the development of the jellyfish,
<i>Clytia hemisphaerica</i>, as a laboratory model for neuroscience research. Using a suite of newly established genetic tools, I will present preliminary findings on how the distributed jellyfish nervous system is organized to robustly control behavior. Looking
forward, <i>Clytia</i> presents exciting opportunities to deeply study the biology of these remarkable animals, with implications for systems, evolutionary, and regenerative neuroscience.</span><br>
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