College of Medicine
Davis Lab
Led by Ronald Davis · Neuroscience
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What we study
The lab studies how the brain stores and forgets memories, using fruit flies. It also develops drugs that protect mitochondria in brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and ALS. The lab is at UF Scripps in Jupiter, Florida, not on the Gainesville campus.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Fruit flies
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
Current projects
Active forgetting in fruit flies
Chronic dopamine release onto memory-storing neurons causes slow, continual memory loss.
Mitochondrial therapeutics
Drugs to counter mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease.
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