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Individual nerve cells are obscured in the dense, forest-like geography of the brain. Unlike blood cells, for example, which are solitary travelers and can thus be easily captured and studied in isolation, the nerve cells (or neurons) of the brain conceal their identities among a thicket of similar-looking, but functionally diverse neighbors. Developed by new Ó³»­´«Ã½ core member Myriam Heiman during her postdoctoral studies at The Rockefeller University, a methodology called TRAP is designed to catch single types of neurons and reveal what makes them different from their neighbors.

Les Szabo has been working with wheat stem rust fungi for 23 years. But that’s just a small fraction of the more than 1,700-year history in which a variety of cultures have done battle with the fungi that attack agricultural cereal plants and grasses, decimating these important food sources with impunity.

With nearly 125 posts to date on the Ó³»­´«Ã½ blog, we are now venturing out into another realm of social media: Twitter. On the Ó³»­´«Ã½â€™s new , you can follow news updates, press releases, blog posts, and other announcements all in one place.