Yi Zhong’s group published ’Active Protection: Learning-Activated Raf/MAPK Activity Protects Labile Memory from Rac1-Independent Forgetting ’ in Neuron
On March 15, 2018, a research team led by Professor Yi Zhong from the School of Life Sciences and IDG/McGovern Institute at Tsinghua University published a research article entitled Active Protection: Learning-Activated Raf/MAPK Activity Protects Labile Memory from Rac1-Independent Forgetting in Neuron. In this paper, the authors found that learning/training itself activates Raf/MAPK pathway to protect the newly formed labile memory from non-associative disruption. In other words, if such active protection mechanism is activated physiologically or by drug feeding, the English words you just remembered will not be forgotten because of a sudden phone call or a fire.
Minmin Luo’s group published ’A hybridization chain-reaction-based method for amplifying immunosignals’ in Nature Methods
On Feb. 26, 2018, a research team led by Professor Minmin Luo from the School of Life Sciences and IDG/McGovern Institute at Tsinghua University published a research article entitled A hybridization chain-reaction-based method for amplifying immunosignals in Nature Methods.
Jun Yao’s group published ’CRISPR interference-based specific and efficient gene inactivation in the brain’ in Nature Neuroscience
On February 5th, 2018, the Yao lab’s new paper, entitled ‘CRISPR interference-based specific and efficient gene inactivation in the brain’, was published online in Nature Neuroscience. In this paper, Dr. Yao and colleagues reported their latest progress in establishing a dCas9/CRISPR-based gene silencing platform to achieve highly specific multiplex and conditional gene knockdown in the mammalian brain.
Minmin Luo’s group published ’Hypothalamic Circuits for Predation and Evasion’ in Neuron
On Feb. 1, 2018, a research team led by Professor Minmin Luo from the School of Life Sciences and IDG/McGovern Institute at Tsinghua University published a research article entitled ’Hypothalamic Circuits for Predation and Evasion’ in Neuron.
Bailong Xiao’s group published ’Structure and Mechanogating Mechanism of the Piezo1 Channel’ in Nature
On January 22, 2018, the research groups led by Prof. Bailong Xiao published ’Structure and Mechanogating Mechanism of the Piezo1 Channel’ in Nature.
Bo Hong’s and Xiaoqin Wang’s group published ’The Roles of Subdivisions of Human Insula in Emotion Perception and Auditory Processing’ in Cerebral Cortex
On Jan. 12, 2018, a research team led by Professor Bo Hong and Xiaoqin Wang from the School of Medicine and IDG/McGovern Institute at Tsinghua University published a research article entitled ’The Roles of Subdivisions of Human Insula in Emotion Perception and Auditory Processing’ in Cerebral Cortex.
Bailong Xiao‘s group published ’A protein interaction mechanism for suppressing the mechanosensitive Piezo channels’ in Nature Communications
On Nov. 27, 2017, a research team led by Professor Bailong Xiao from School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and IDG/McGovern Brain Institute at Tsinghua University published a research article entitled A protein interaction mechanism for suppressing the mechanosensitive Piezo channels in Nature Communications.
Bo Hong’s Group published ’Cooperative cortical network for categorical processing of Chinese lexical tone’ in PNAS
On Oct. 30, 2017, a research team led by Professor Bo Hong from School of Medicine and IDG/McGovern Brain Institute at Tsinghua University published a research article entitled ’Cooperative cortical network for categorical processing of Chinese lexical tone’ in PNAS.