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29 Mar
Circuitry Mechanisms Underlying Brain Plasticity and Associative Learning
Dr. Xiaohui Zhang, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning-BNU
27 Mar
TMC Proteins Modulate Membrane Excitability through a Background Na+ Conductance
Dr. Lijun Kang, Professor, Center for Neuroscience, Zhejiang University
Xiaodong Liu’s group published ’Cryo-EM structure of the polycystic kidney disease-like channel PKD2L1’ in Nature Communicaitons
On Mar.22, 2018, Xiaodong Liu’s group published ’Cryo-EM structure of the polycystic kidney disease-like channel PKD2L1’ in Nature Communicaitons.
20 Mar
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