Gero Miesenböck: instructing the nervous system. Interview by William A Wells.
Gero Miesenböck uses light and genetically encoded sensors and actuators to observe and control neural activity. Having caused headless flies to fly at will, he is set to understand how the nervous system encodes behavior.
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