Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Biology recently hosted Niels Ringstad, a cell biology professor at NYU to discuss how microbes effect the neurobiology of worms. The talk titled “Modulation of Behavior by Host-Microbe Interactions” goes into detail about his lab’s study and possible connections to human health.
The nematode C. elegans serves as an ideal organism for studying how effects on the animal nervous system can alter behavior, as the simple nervous system of C. elegans functions remarkably similar to our own. Instead of the billions of neurons that humans have, C. elegans has just 302, which have been mapped in close detail. This allows researchers like Ringstad to utilize C. elegans as a powerful tool to identify the neural circuits and molecular mechanisms behind animal behavior.
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