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Harvard neurobiologist Florian Engert—known for his work on neural behavior in zebrafish??was awarded tenure in July in the department of molecular and cellular biology. A member of faculty since 2002, Engert has dedicated his time at Harvard to a unique way of studying neural activity that allows the researcher to observe all neurons in a functioning brain. “We look at how the brain processes sensory information—in our case, visual information—and what the brain does with that information in producing behavior,” Engert said...
...Zebrafish??s inner ear and visual systems develop very similarly to the way humans’ do, and it only takes four to five days,” he says. “I’m trying to find out what the alcohol’s doing in the inner ear that’s causing the auditory problems in the fish. I’m using that to extrapolate what might be happening in fetal alcohol syndrome in humans…The first round of results showed basically no cell growth in the hair cells...
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