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On January 9, ӳý was honored to host renowned neurobiologist .

Barres, Chairman of Neurobiology and Professor of Neurobiology, Developmental Biology, Neurology, and Ophthalmology at Stanford, visited ӳý as a guest of the Stanley Center and gave a seminar entitled “What do reactive astrocytes do?” to a packed auditorium. His research has made important contributions to the role of microglia and astrocytes in the biology of the brain, in particular their role in synaptic pruning.

You can watch his talk .

A cancer cell can also harbor thousands of structural variants — large-scale losses (deletions), duplications, swaps (translocations), and other changes — in its DNA. Matthew Meyerson and Rameen Beroukhim of the ӳý Cancer Program and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute discuss the challenges to studying structural variations in cancer, why it is important to do so, and what researchers are learning that could benefit patients today and in the future.