MIT Picower Institute

@MIT_Picower

Dedicated to understanding the mechanisms underlying learning and memory and related brain functions and disease. Profile art by @toddsiler

Cambridge, Massachusetts picower.mit.edu Joined May 2010

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MIT Picower Institute @MIT_Picower Jul 15

We are heartbroken to have lost our founder, who provided so much inspiration, but we are all honored to carry on the science he loved so much. picower.mit.edu/news/picower-p… #neuroscience #biology

picower.mit.edu Picower Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 Tonegawa made landmark discoveries about how the immune system generates antibody diversity and how the brain forms memories.

MIT Picower Institute @MIT_Picower Oct 30

How did Li-Huei Tsai's lab celebrate passing the 100,000 citation mark on Google Scholar this morning? A box of 100 Grand bars in the break room, of course.

MIT Picower Institute @MIT_Picower Oct 28

🪱🪼🪰There's still limited time to register for our daylong symposium "Comparative Neuroscience: Lessons from Biodiversity" Nov. 4. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… @MITBiology @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT @MITevents

MIT Picower Institute @MIT_Picower Oct 26

Mentees, colleagues, friends shared remembrances of Susumu Tonegawa at an Oct. 16 memorial service. picower.mit.edu/news/mentees-c… @MITBiology @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT

MIT Picower Institute @MIT_Picower Oct 15

New in @CellStemCell: How the biggest Alzheimer’s risk gene disrupts the process of insulating neurons picower.mit.edu/news/how-bigge… #neuroscience #alzheimers @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT