Sentences with phrase «at synapse»

TAMPA — One of the top executives in the far - off world of Hyperloop technology, Dirk Ahlborn, spoke at the Synapse Innovation Summitt last month at Amalie Arena.

This report is the product of almost 6 months of research by ACEEE staff, supported by analysts at Synapse Energy Economics, Inc..

In a 2012 study, Elizabeth A. Stanton, an environmental economist at Synapse Energy Economics, noted that projections by the International Energy Agency, on which leading climate models are based, assume that the least developed countries will fail to close the prosperity gap with the rich of the world.

New York Times columnist Eduardo Porter quoted Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanton, a senior economist at Synapse, in his recent discussion on the tension between economic development and efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Latin America.

Mr. Knight's recent work at Synapse includes analyzing the implications of expanding the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative by modeling least - cost strategies for reducing emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels states by 2030.

Check out our recent energy efficiency projects here at Synapse by searching «Energy Efficiency and Demand Response» on the projects page of our website.

In a recent study for the Civil Society Institute, my colleagues and I at Synapse Energy Economics analyzed the ALEC studies of the costs of renewable energy.

Neurotransmitters are in limited supply at each synapse and can deplete after as little as 10 minutes of continuing the same type of learning activity (attentive listening, practice drills, note - taking).

A dendritic spine (or spine) is a small membranous protrusion from a neuron's dendrite that typically receives input from a single axon at the synapse.

Stability is a hallmark of healthy neuronal circuits and disruption of this stability in the form of increased activity at the synapse may lead to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia or epilepsy.

Even the fastest of cellular packages can take two days to travel the meter to their destination at the synapse.

«But perhaps the opposite is true; it could be that malfunctions at the synapse drive the aging process,» he said, noting that existing therapies for neurodegenerative diseases only target symptoms.

Future therapies will have to be based on strategies that act by reducing or increasing the number or activity of specific subtypes of pre - and postsynaptic receptors, transporters, and ion channels, or other membrane molecules at the synapse, and by strategies that exploit the new possibilities offered by stem cell technology and targeted repair.

A resting pool of vesicles is responsible for spontaneous vesicle fusion at the synapse.

The other family is comprised of a family of scaffolding proteins that bind to the auxiliary subunits and thereby anchor the receptors at the synapse.

OIST Researchers have shown that the speed of neurotransmitter recycling at the synapse is determined by the refilling speed of vesicles.

Based on his biochemical studies, Südhof developed a model whereby the SNARE complex forms at the synapse prior to actual Ca2 + - triggered release.

At a synapse, neurotransmitter release requires localization of Ca2 + channels to presynaptic active zones.

«Made to order at the synapse: Dynamics of protein synthesis at neuron tip.»

This mechanism helps «clean up» cellular debris at the synapse, by engulfing the debris in a membrane and then removing it, for instance.

By inhibiting p38 MAPK, it prevents both inflammation in the glial cells and disruption of the neuronal messages at the synapse.

It is due to these proteins that the information arriving at a synapse can be transmitted and then received by the next neuron.

With more receptors at the synapse, signals are boosted and amplified and the memory persists.

But when the returning mice received an infusion of a proteasome inhibitor, a molecule that blocks degradation of protein at the synapse, they were unable to update the original memory and could not shake their fear of the box.

«Keeping it local: Protecting the brain starts at the synapse.»

However, direct application of glutamate to astrocytes did not induce Nrf2 activity, which indicates that glutamate release is «necessary, but not sufficient» for Nrf2 regulation, and that future research may reveal other factors are at work at the synapse, Margeta said.

The emerging pathway is likely a problem that occurs at the synapse, the point of contact between neurons, Zoghbi says.

Using single - cell electrophysiology, Charité - researcher Christian Rosenmund observed that spontaneous vesicle release at the synapse happened twice as often.

At the synapse, where two neurons meet, Montague says, «It takes very sophisticated fluorophores to mark pathways inside and outside of the cells.»

Currently at Synapse Energy Economics in Cambridge MA, Asa Hopkins, 2010 - 2011 Executive Branch Fellow at the Department of Energy (DOE), was until recently the director of energy policy and planning at the Vermont Department of Public Service.

She served as PTA chair at Synapse School in Menlo Park for two years and continues to be active in the area of education and learning differences, via both professional affiliations and philanthropic efforts.

Sabrina served as PTA chair at Synapse School in Menlo Park for two years and continues to be active in the area of education and learning differences, via both professional affiliations and philanthropic efforts.

Be sure to join guest speaker Sheryl S. Hunter, Esq., along with other entrepreneurs, innovators, accelerators, inventors, incubators, tycoons, educators, research institutions, service providers, opportunity seekers, and companies of all stages or sizes at the Synapse Innovation Summit on March 28, 2018 and March 29, 2018.

Not exact matches

Rodrigo Alverez, system engineer for IBM, tests new SyNAPSE chips at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose.

Engineers test new SyNAPSE chips at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose.David Paul Morris — Bloomberg via Getty Images

As a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy, he and a friend created a Web tool called Synapse that built personalized music playlists by automatically determining listener's preferences.

It seems funny, too, to discover that every American in the deepest little synapse in his brain considers himself a natural at hunting and fishing, a genetic Pete Maravich of the outback, wherever that is.

1 TIM WOOLF ET AL., SYNAPSE ENERGY ECONOMICS, INC., INDIAN POINT REPLACEMENT ANALYSIS: A CLEAN ENERGY ROADMAP: A PROPOSAL FOR REPLACING THE NUCLEAR PLANT WITH CLEAN, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY RESOURCES 1 - 2 (Oct. 2012), available at http://www.riverkeeper.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Synapse-Indian-Point-Replacement-Study-10-11.pdf

At one point, the party was paying Synapse Downtown LLC $ 2,000 a month at 333 E. Water SAt one point, the party was paying Synapse Downtown LLC $ 2,000 a month at 333 E. Water Sat 333 E. Water St.

Water Street Gym at the corner of S. State St. and E. Water St. is part of a renovation project by Synapse.

Sarah Stephens, for example, is listed as the director of business development and public relations at the for - profit Synapse, but she works mostly as a nonprofit grant writer and as director of CuseCar.

She takes offense at any suggestion that politics might give Synapse projects an advantage.

Synapse asked the council for a 14 - year tax deal on its new building, the former Water Street Gym at Erie Boulevard and State Street.

But members of the Democrat - controlled council balked at the tax deal, which would save Synapse an estimated $ 86,000 over 14 years, fearing it would be perceived as a favor for the Democratic Party.

His research program aimed at understanding synapse formation and development tools to manipulate the neuronal network.

William Greenough, a neuroscientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, decided to peer more closely at proteins forming near the synapse.

In October researchers at Columbia University reported that young mice predisposed to acquiring Alzheimer's accumulate protein clusters in synaptic mitochondria and that these clusters directly impair synapse function.

As a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University, Diering characterized changes in synapse composition that occur during sleep.

He showed that short - term memory involves increased levels of neurotransmitters at the synapses, the communication sites between nerve cells and long - term memory requires changes in the levels of proteins in the synapse.

Alcino Silva sits laughing, something he does frequently, over lunch at the Café Synapse, where madeleines are always served.