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Topic: cell-type diversity

Seminar
1 seminar

In Behavioral Neuroscience and Biology

Seminar · Developmental Neuroscience

Evolutionary adaptation of neurogenesis in learning centers

Claude Desplan · Silver Professor, Department of Biology, New York University, USA

Thu, Jun 11, 2026 · 14:00 UTC

This lecture examines the development and evolution of insect learning centres. It asks how expanded neuronal populations and cell-type diversity support the behaviour of social species such as ants. Mechanisms in insect mushroom bodies are compared with changes in the mammalian cortex.