From an unexpected microscope demo to a groundbreaking discovery, Dr. Rankin’s journey into C. elegans research began by chance and forever changed the field. Her lab was the first to show that these tiny worms, once thought incapable of learning, could in fact remember and adapt their behaviour. This serendipitous finding opened the door to decades of research uncovering the surprising complexity of learning and memory in a creature with only 300 neurons. https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2020.1833009
