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Eve Marder, neural circuits and being heard

The National Medal of Science winner explains why she built her career around the crustacean and what it was like attending high school in a Hudson River town.

By Brady Huggett
1 June 2024 | 1 min read
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Eve Marder is Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Biology at Brandeis University. In this episode of “Synaptic,” Marder talks about her mother’s life as an activist, and the benefits of studying the stomatogastric ganglion.

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