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.
On Jul. 26, 2017, Professor Guangshuo Ou’s group published ’Centriole translocation and degeneration during ciliogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans neurons’ in EMBO Journal.
On July 19, 2017, Qin Shen research group of School of Medicine, IDG/ Mcgovern Institute for Brain Research and Center at Tsinghua University published the paper online named ‘Persistent expression of VCAM1 in radial glial cells is required for the embryonic origin of postnatal neural stem cells ’ in Neuron.
On July 14, 2017, the 5th McG/CLS Summer School on Neurological and Cognitive Sciences was officially opened in Tsinghua University. A total of 96 undergraduates from major universities in China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas universities will conduct 7-day systematic learning of neuroscience and cognitive science in Tsinghua University and Peking University. The curriculum modules cover nerve circuits, synapses, sensation, learning and memory, neurological diseases, psychological awareness, etc.
On July 5, 2017,Sen Song’s group published ’Somatostatin Neurons in the Basal Forebrain Promote High-Calorie Food Intake’ in Cell Reports.
On May 31,2017, Minmin Luo’s group published ’Learning shapes the aversion and reward responses of lateral habenula neurons’ in elife.
On March 28, 2017, Jisong Guan research group of School of Life Sciences, IDG/ Mcgovern Institute for Brain Research at Tsinghua University published the paper online named ‘Activity-induced histone modifications govern Neurexin-1 mRNA splicing and memory preservation’ in Nature Neuroscience.