Snails
How many of you saw snail in your place?
Can we develop Snail as a potential model system?
Poll done during Chatshaala sessions
What parts does a snail have?
We also discussed the Nobel Prize-winning work of Eric Kandel, which is connected to the response to touch in the tentacles of snails, as well as the olfactory sense of snails in finding food.
Related references:
[04/10, 9:58 pm] Theertha: The gastropod shell is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical damage, and dehydration, but also serves for muscle attachment and calcium storage.Gastropod shell - Wikipedia
[04/10, 9:59 pm] Theertha: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Eric Kandel in 2000 for his research on the sea slug Aplysia californica and how memories are formed and stored in neurons.https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2000/kandel/facts/#:~:text=His%20breakthrough%20came%20in%201970,signals%20are%20sent%20and%20received.
[04/10, 9:59 pm] Theertha: Habituation is a type of learning where an organism’s response to a stimulus decreases after repeated exposure to that stimulus:https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/habituation#:~:text=Habituation%20is%20a%20form%20of,disorder%20pathophysiology%2C%20and%20potential%20treatments