学术报告
题目：Neural circuits of C. elegans olfactory behavior and plasticity
报告人：Yun Zhang. Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
时间： Thursday 10:30 a.m., November 22nd
地点：生命科学学院金光大楼311会议室
C. elegans, with the well-defined connectivity of the 302 neurons in its entire nervous system, offers an opportunity to address how the structure and function of neural circuits regulate behavior. The “wiring diagram” has facilitated the functional mapping of hard-wired neuronal circuits underlying behaviors. We have also characterized a second type of circuits, “the invisible wiring diagram”, which regulates olfactory behavior and plasticity via ligand-receptor interaction and acts in a way that is often independent of synaptic connections. Intriguingly, our recent work has uncovered a third type of circuits, “the topographic circuits”, which is organized by the subcellular localization of synapses. These findings together underscore the computational potential of the small C. elegansnervous system in regulating behavior and experience-dependent plasticity.
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