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By Bob Grant

Seafloor to bench top


Three years ago, Ken Kosik, a Harvard Medical School neurologist who studies Alzheimer disease, packed up files and equipment from his lab in Cambridge and moved 5,000 kilometers west, to the University of California, Santa Barbara. There, he settled into a new laboratory, where he hoped to extend his focus from clinical research into the basic evolutionary questions about the origins of nervous systems, which had always interested him.



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