OpenWorm Journal Club: How Does The Brain Control the Body

If you were building a robot, you’d need to build a way to tell it how to move around.  Living bodies naturally have systems that tell them how to move around; they are called brains.  How brains control bodies is still a mysterious topic, even for a worm.  At the next OpenWorm Journal Club, Saul Kato will talk about some exciting new progress in understanding how the activity of the worm’s brain leads to controlling its body. The activity of nearly all neurons in the C. elegans brain is recorded and analy