The Faculty of Science of the University of South Bohemia has received a prestigious international EMBO grant

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From single-celled organisms to humans, a basic form of learning called habituation is widespread, enabling focus on important aspects such as food or danger and the tuning out of irrelevant information. But genetic factors can cause habituation to go awry, contributing to disorders such as intellectual disabilities and autism. New EMBO Installation Grantee Michaela Fenckova aims to shine light on these effects by studying habituation in the fruit fly, Drosophila.

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