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.
13 Mar
Sex, sleep or food: how are animal behaviors generated and selected?
Dr. Yufeng Pan, Professor, School of Life Science, Southeast University
12 Mar
A topographical map of space: micro-organization of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex
Dr. Yi Gu, Postdoctoral fellow, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
06 Mar
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.