Dr. Murcia-Belmonte in SPONT Meeting 2018

Dr. Verónica Murcia-Belmonte, has just participated in the Meeting on Spontaneous Activity in Brain Development (SPONT 2018) held at Leiden, in the Netherlands.

The discovery that the developing brain generates spontaneous activity already before the senses become active excited many neuroscientists. Since its discovery, many studies have shown that spontaneous activity is required for normal wiring of the brain. However, only recent technological advances have allowed investigating how spontaneous activity actually drives cellular and molecular processes, such as synaptic plasticity, to prepare the brain for computing sensory inputs. The goal of this meeting was to bring together scientists working in this field from across the world to present and discuss the latest, ideally unpublished, data on the role of spontaneous activity in the developing brain.

Dr. Verónica Murcia-Belmonte has presented her work with a poster entitled "A retino-retinal projection controlled by Unc5 emerges in species with retinal waves".