Every other Wednesday, Rabbi Zevy Muller, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, visits our class to teach us neuroscience (science of the brain). Some of the topics that he has been teaching us are: how short-term and long-term memory work, what happens when you lose either one of these, and what parts of the brain are used to store memories.
This past Tuesday, Mrs. Melzer, Mrs. Khanna, Tzipora Kermaier and I visited
Columbia University to see Rabbi Muller, and to meet some of his colleagues.
All of his colleagues research some very interesting topics. One or two of them try to turn proteins into crystals, one researches Lou Gehrig’s disease, and one even takes transparent worms, inserts green fluorescent protein, or GFP, into them to see how it flows through the body.
I found the transparent worms the most interesting of all the different research topics, but they all were very interesting. I learned a lot about these topics and I had a lot of fun. I hope we can do it again sometime!
February 28, 2014
Volume 13, Issue 18
Parshat Pedkudei 5:27 pm
MDS Students Visit Columbia University
by Charlie Samuels, 6B