Department of Biology | University of Maryland

Senior Lecturer

Daniel Butts' Work Using Artificial Neural Networks to Understand the Visual System Featured in Press Conference at Neuroscience 2023

A research team led by University of Maryland neuroscientists used artificial neural networks to uncover how cells in the visual cortex interpret light signals from the retina and translate that data into vision.

Using machine learning, researchers glean deeper insights from brain data and apply this new knowledge in clinic

- 13 November 2023

In laboratory flasks containing just two teaspoons of media, scientists document how rapid adaptation between bacteria and viruses produce complex ecological networks. Credit: Josh Borin, UC San Diego

Bacteria-Virus Arms Race Provides Rare Window into Rapid and Complex Evolution

Study co-authored by Biology Professor Joshua Weitz found intricate ecological networks emerge from simple beginnings that feature repeating patterns of evolutionary development.

As conceived by Charles Darwin in the 1800s, evolution is a slow, gradual process during which species adaptations ar

- 9 November 2023