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.
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.
On January 22, 2018, the research groups led by Prof. Bailong Xiao published ’Structure and Mechanogating Mechanism of the Piezo1 Channel’ in Nature.
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.
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.
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.
On October 30, 2017, Kexin Yuan research group of Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, IDG/ Mcgovern Institute for Brain Research and Center for Brain-Inspired Computing Research published the paper online named ‘Fast Inhibitory Decay Facilitates Adult-like Temporal Processing in Layer 5 of Developing Primary Auditory Cortex’ in Cerebral Cortex.
On Aug.2, 2017, Prof. Yi Zhong published ’Structure and Mechanogating Mechanism of the Piezo1 Channel’ in Neuron.