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Dr.
National Natural Science Foundation of China
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Schedule
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
2:00 PM Europe/Lisbon
Domain
NeuroscienceOriginal Event
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Brain-Body Interactions
Duration
70 minutes
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.
Wei Zhang
Dr.
National Natural Science Foundation of China