The versatile nerve cell

Speaker: Dr Brian McCabe, Fellow and Deputy Senior Tutor of Robinson College Cambridge.

Synopsis: Nerve cells are quite astonishing.  Simple modifications of their basic design have led to exquisitely sensitive sense organs and some bizarre life styles.  I’ll be focussing on the use of electric fields for hunting and social communication, how a simple molecular accident enables an otherwise lethal lifestyle, and how this modification has implications for pain control.

Before retirement, Brian was a University Lecturer in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, and sometime Director of the Sub-department of Animal Behaviour at Madingley. Brian is a Fellow and Deputy Senior Tutor of Robinson College Cambridge.

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