The TWiN team explain the basic principles of synaptic transmission, and review a classic paper demonstrating that recycling endosomes are important for modifying synaptic strength, which is involved in information storage and processing.

Hosts: Ori Lieberman, Andres Bendesky,Jason Shepherd, and Vincent Racaniello

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Links for this episode

• Bendesky lab
• Recycling Endosomes Supply AMPA Receptors for LTP (Science)
• AMPA receptor (Wikipedia)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiN #2

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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