Platform

  • Search
  • Seminars
  • Conferences
  • Jobs

Resources

  • Submit Content
  • About Us

© 2025 World Wide

Open knowledge for all • Started with World Wide Neuro • A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization

Analytics consent required

World Wide relies on analytics signals to operate securely and keep research services available. Accept to continue, or leave the site.

Review the Privacy Policy for details about analytics processing.

World Wide
SeminarsConferencesWorkshopsCoursesJobsMapsFeedLibrary
Back to SeminarsBack
SeminarPast EventNeuroscience

Self-perception: mechanosensation and beyond

Wei Zhang

Dr.

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Schedule
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Showing your local timezone

Schedule

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

2:00 PM Europe/Lisbon

Host: Brain-Body Interactions

Access Seminar

Event Information

Domain

Neuroscience

Original Event

View source

Host

Brain-Body Interactions

Duration

70 minutes

Abstract

Brain-organ communications play a crucial role in maintaining the body's physiological and psychological homeostasis, and are controlled by complex neural and hormonal systems, including the internal mechanosensory organs. However, the progress has been slow due to technical hurdles: the sensory neurons are deeply buried inside the body and are not readily accessible for direct observation, the projection patterns from different organs or body parts are complex rather than converging into dedicate brain regions, the coding principle cannot be directly adapted from that learned from conventional sensory pathways. Our lab apply the pipeline of "biophysics of receptors-cell biology of neurons-functionality of neural circuits-animal behaviors" to explore the molecular and neural mechanisms of self-perception. In the lab, we mainly focus on the following three questions: 1, The molecular and cellular basis for proprioception and interoception. 2, The circuit mechanisms of sensory coding and integration of internal and external information. 3, The function of interoception in regulating behavior homeostasis.

Topics

behavioural regulationcourtshipdrosophilafeedinghormonesinteroceptionmechanosensationneural circuitsphysiological homeostasisproprioceptionself-perceptionsensory codingsensory neurons

About the Speaker

Wei Zhang

Dr.

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Contact & Resources

Personal Website

life.tsinghua.edu.cn/lifeen/info/1035/1345.htm

@no

Follow on Twitter/X

twitter.com/no

Related Seminars

Seminar60%

Knight ADRC Seminar

neuro

Jan 20, 2025
Washington University in St. Louis, Neurology
Seminar60%

TBD

neuro

Jan 20, 2025
King's College London
Seminar60%

Guiding Visual Attention in Dynamic Scenes

neuro

Jan 20, 2025
Haifa U
January 2026
Full calendar →