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Neurobiology Class Visits Vanderbilt Primate Lab

neurobiology_classDr. Lori McGrew, associate professor of biology, recently had her neurobiology class visit a nonhuman primate lab at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Jeff Schall, a neuroscientist who uses macaque monkeys to study brain regions involved in controlling eye movements, provided the class with a tour of the facilities and the opportunity to watch some of the monkeys performing their visual discrimination tasks.  The group also discussed important ethical considerations of working with primates as well as the sort of information that can only be obtained by using primates or humans.  Michelle Howell-Young, a Belmont alumna, is Schall’s lab manager and works extensively with the macaques. 

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