From the 19th-century to today, studies of regeneration in nervous systems have had a place at the MBL and in the history of the “neuro” disciplines.

We seek to understand the history of regeneration research in nervous systems. How have different organisms differed in their contributions over time? What about the parts that biologists have viewed as contributing to regenerating nervous systems — and how has this “regeneration” been defined? Finally, how does this history matter for biomedical research today?

Project Leaders: Kathryn Maxson Jones (Purdue University), Jennifer Morgan (MBL)

Working Group Members: Pamela Imperadore (Association for Cephalopod Research, Naples), Fabio de Sio (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf), Frank W. Stahnisch

Featured image courtesy of Jennifer Morgan’s laboratory.