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DESCRIPTION:Join the speaker for coffee\, cookies\, and conversation before
  the talk\, starting at 11:45am.\n\nNeural algorithms of olfactory navigat
 ionAbstract \n\nOlfactory systems are continuously barraged with odors\, v
 arying in their structure\, physicochemical properties\, and concentration
 . Detecting and making sense of such a complex chemical landscape poses a 
 distinct challenge to the fundamental flexibility of the nervous system. W
 e have has been using olfaction as a window into the mechanisms of adaptiv
 e behavior\, leveraging the concise olfactory circuits of Drosophila to re
 veal how animals can detect\, perceive\, and navigate the vast chemical wo
 rld.  \n\nVanessa Ruta\, PhDGabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Associ
 ate Professor of Neurophysiology and Behavior\, Rockefeller University\; I
 nvestigator\, Howard Hughes Medical Institute \n\nVanessa Ruta is the Gabr
 ielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Professor at the Rockefeller Universit
 y where her lab aims to elucidate how nervous systems are shaped by either
  individual experience or evolutionary selection to give rise to flexible 
 variations in behavior.  By applying a broad multidisciplinary toolkit to 
 the relatively simple neural circuits of the fly\, her lab has begun to ga
 in mechanistic insight into how behaviors can be flexibly modified over di
 fferent timescales at the level of synaptic\, cellular\, and circuit motif
 s. Dr. Ruta received a B.A. in chemistry from Hunter College of CUNY and a
  Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University\, where she worked with Rod MacKinn
 on. After conducting postdoctoral research in Richard Axel’s lab at Colu
 mbia University\, she returned to Rockefeller University to start her own 
 group in 2011. Dr. Ruta was named a MacArthur Fellow\, a McKnight Scholar\
 , a Pew Biomedical Scholar\, and a Simons Foundation Investigator. Dr. Rut
 a was appointed as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in 2021.
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SUMMARY:Neurosciences Seminar: Vanessa Ruta - Neural algorithms of olfactor
 y navigation
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