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Sierralta LabThe interest of my laboratory is the synapse, a specialized junction between neurons that allows the transmission of information between neurons or between a neuron and a post-synaptic cell such as a muscle cell. Our goal is to understand how the synapses are formed, maintained and modified along the life span of an organism. Since the basic principles underlying the function and structure of a synapse are shared by all organisms that possess a nervous system, we chose as a model organism the fruit fly.
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