生命科学学院2018年度春季学期学术系列讲座之六
题目:How the brain encodes time
讲座人:Paul H. Taghert, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Washington University
School of Medicine
时间:2018年4月20日(星期五),13:00-14:30
地点:生命科学学院邓祐才报告厅
主持人:罗冬根研究员
Abstract:
Circadian physiology provides a series of phase cues across the solar day, according to which various physiological and developmental processes can be optimally aligned to times that are most adaptive. It does so by placing the internal biological clock (a 24 hr time-keeping system) in register with local time. While much is know about the molecular clockworks and about mechanisms that promote clock synchrony, much less is known about the neuronal mechanisms used by circadian pacemakers to generate and then transmit different phase cues to downstream (non-pacemaker) centers. In this seminar I will describe studies of rhythmic neuronal activity
in vivo in
Drosophila, focusing first on the pacemaker network, then considering whether such rhythms may be propagated to other parts of the brain, which lack strong endogenous clock properties.
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