This spiraling organ residing in the mammalian inner ear is responsible for receiving sounds from the environment and transmitting them through neurons (green in the picture, cell bodies in the center) to the brain. The red is phalloidin which binds to the internal skeleton (actin) of the other cells in this organ (hair cells and support cells). The blue is a stain for DAPI, which binds to DNA in the nucleus of each cell.

This image depicts a developing mouse embryo with muscles in red, and motor neurons in green.

Two ring neurons are labeled on opposite sides of the fruit fly brain. These neurons convey visual information to the brain’s internal ‘compass’ and are important for establishing and maintaining the fly’s sense of direction.

This image shows a thin slice from an adult mouse cerebellum, highlighting blue nuclei, and Purkinje cells in red and green. Our lab is studying a gene that is expressed by some Purkinje cells but has different functions in different parts of the brain.

Axon terminals of olfactory sensory neurons terminating in the olfactory bulb at structures called glomeruli. All sensory neurons of a common type project to the same glomerulus and enter as a dense bundle of fibers. Axons are labeled with green fluorescent protein.