Time：12:30-13:30, June 27, 2018

Venue：B323, Medical Sciences Building

Speaker：Dr. Guoping Feng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Board Institute of MIT and Harvard

Host：Dr. Yi Zhong

Topic：Synaptic and Circuitry Mechanisms of Psychiatric Disorders

Abstract：Dr. Feng is the Poitras Chair Professor of Neuroscience in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Director of Model Systems and Neurobiology at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute. Dr. Feng’s research is devoted to understanding the mechanisms regulating the development and function of synapses in the brain and how synaptic dysfunction may contribute to psychiatric disorders. Using genetically engineered animal models, Dr. Feng’s laboratory combines cutting-edge technologies and multidisciplinary approaches to unravel the neurobiological mechanisms of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. Dr. Feng studied medicine at Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou, China.? He did his PhD training with Linda Hall at the State University of New York at Buffalo and postdoctoral training with Joshua Sanes at Washington University in St. Louis.? Prior to joining the faculty at MIT, he was a faculty member in the Department of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine.