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Kimberly Huber on synapse pruning in autism

 /  26 June 2013
The Presenter
Presenter
Kimberly Huber
Associate Professor, University of Texas Southwestern

Among her research interests, Kimberly Huber looks at how different autism-linked genes control the natural pruning of synapses, the junctions between neurons, and how a deficit in this process may contribute to autism.

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On 26 June, Kimberly Huber presented her lab’s work seeking to understand how different autism-linked genes control the natural pruning of synapses, the junctions between neurons, and how a deficit in this process may contribute to autism. Huber is associate professor of neuroscience at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

You can watch a complete replay of the webinar above.

Use the comments section below to submit questions we didn’t have time to discuss during the Q&A session, or to pose follow-up questions for Huber.

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TAGS:   autism, community, FMRP, fragile X syndrome, synapses, synaptic plasticity
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