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

Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiN!

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.

Send your neuroscience questions and comments to [email protected]