In this video, Diego Gomez-Nicola talks about the crucial role of microglia in neurodegenerative disorders, highlighting the implication of microglial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease.

In this video, Ulises Ricoy and Andres Romero discuss how the earthworm can be used as a low-cost animal model to study escape behaviors at an undergraduate serving institution.

In this talk, Christophe Dupré discusses how the transparent Hydra vulgaris can be used to study neuronal control of behavior.

In this video, Helmut Kettenmann talks about the state of neuroscience research at the beginning of the 20th century, and describes the discovery of microglia by Pio del Rio-Hortega.

In this video, Nancy Day and Melissa Coleman discuss how the plain-tailed wren can be used to study the neural coding of behavior that must be coordinated between two individuals.

Tabitha Moses, MS, is an administrative and research coordinator at Lehman College, CUNY, as well as a research affiliate at the National Core for Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia.