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SUMMARY:Sex and the Brain (in fruit flies) - Dr Gregory Jefferis (MRC LMB\
 , University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20140226T190000Z
DTEND:20140226T203000Z
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CONTACT:Ivan Lam
DESCRIPTION:_This talk is free for members of BioSoc or £2 for non-member
 s. You can also sign up for life membership (£15) at this talk._\n\nUnder
 standing the brain is probably the greatest scientific challenge of \nour 
 century. I will briefly review how work at the level of neural \ncircuits 
 can provide mechanistic understanding of brain function. I will \nthen exp
 lain why the fruit fly\, Drosophila\, is one of the preeminent \nmodel sys
 tems for this work. The remainder of the talk will then show \nhow my grou
 p studies differences in the structure and function of neural \ncircuits b
 etween male and female flies. This has recently resulted in \nthe descript
 ion\, for the first time in any animal\, of a sexually \ndimorphic circuit
  switch that reroutes sex pheromone information between \nmale and female 
 brains.
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Department of Plant Sciences\, Downing Si
 te
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