Neuroscientists study how the brain works, often focusing on one brain in isolation. However, much of our unconscious thinking and feeling unfold in social group contexts, influencing decisions about people’s worth, goodness, and competence.

Laura Otis is a professor of English at Emory University. She obtained a PhD in comparative literature. She holds a BS in molecular biophysics and biochemistry and an MA in neuroscience, and she worked in research labs for years.

In this video, Eyrún Eyjólfsdóttir describes a method for predicting the behavior of fruit flies.

In this keynote session, Eve Marder discusses her career studying the stomatogasric ganglion in crustaceans to learn how neuronal networks produce a behaviorally appropriate output. Then, she and Felix Schweizer discuss the past and future field of neuroethology and the broader impacts of Marder’s work.

In this video, Kai Liu discusses how directing neuronal lipid metabolism away from triglyceride synthesis and toward phospholipids synthesis may promote axon regeneration in adult nervous system.