On Nov. 29th, 2012, Dr. Jiulin Du’s research group at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published online a research article entitled “Reciprocal Regulation between Resting Microglial Dynamics and Neuronal Activity In Vivo” in Developmental Cell.
Dr. Hai-Lan Hu was invited to attend the 11th Pacific Neurochemistry Symposium and the 55th Japan Neurochemistry Conference in Kobe, Japan from September 28th to October 10th, 2012. During the conference, Dr. Hu gave an invited talk entitled "Neurobiology of social behavior".
On September 26, 2012, The Journal of Neuroscience published online a research article entitled " Distinct functional organizations for processing different motion signals in V1, V2, and V4 of macaque ". This work was carried out by Mr. Xu An (a visiting graduate student from USTC), assistant investigator Mr Gong Hongliang, and Dr. Wei Wang along with other colleagues in Dr. Wang’s Lab at ION, CAS.
On May 16, 2012, The Journal of Neuroscience published online a research article entitled "Equivalent representation of real and illusory contours in macaque V4" and highlighted this article at "This Week in The Journal". This work was mainly carried out by graduate student Mr. Yanxia Pan and his supervisor Dr. Wei Wang and colleagues.
On September 26, 2012, The Journal of Neuroscience published online a research article entitled " Distinct functional organizations for processing different motion signals in V1, V2, and V4 of macaque ". This work was carried out by Mr. Xu An (a visiting graduate student from USTC), assistant investigator Mr Gong Hongliang, and Dr. Wei Wang along with other colleagues in Dr. Wang’s Lab at ION, CAS.
Ph.D. student Qi Chen in Dr. Jiu-lin Du’s lab was invited to attend the 7th International Kloster Seeon angiogenesis meeting, which was held in Germany during September 14th-18th, 2012. During the meeting, Qi Chen gave an invited talk entitled "Haemodynamics-driven developmental pruning of brain vasculature in zebrafish". This work won the 1st prize for poster presentation in the meeting and previously highlighted by Nature (2012, 488:560).
Dr. Xiang Yu was invited to attend the 35th Japan Neuroscience Annual Meeting from September 17th to September 22nd, 2012. During the meeting, Dr. Yu gave an invited talk entitled "Function of the cadherin/catenin cell adhesion complex during dendrite development and neural circuit formation".
Dr. Hai-Lan Hu was invited to attend the 14th International Congress of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry in Kyoto, Japan from August 23rd to August 30th, 2012. During the congress, Dr. Hu gave an invited talk entitled "Neurobiology of social behavior".
On August 23, 2012, Prof. Aike Guo's research group at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a research article entitled "A GABAergic inhibitory neural circuit regulates visual reversal learning in Drosophila" in the Journal of Neuroscience.
On August 23, 2012, Neuron published a research article entitled "Visual Input Modulates Audiomotor Function Via Hypothalamic Dopaminergic Neurons Through A Cooperative Mechanism". This work was carried out by graduate students Yu Mu and Xiao-quan Li, under the supervision of Dr. Jiu-lin Du.
On Aug 14, 2012, Dr. Jiu-lin Du’s research group at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a research article entitled "Haemodynamics-Driven Developmental Pruning of Brain Vasculature in Zebrafish" in PLoS BIOLOGY. This work was also highlighted by SYNOPSES in the current issue of the journal.
On August 09, 2012, Dr. Jiu-lin Du’s research group at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a research article entitled “Activity-Induced Long-Term Potentiation of Excitatory Synapses in Developing Zebrafish Retina In Vivo” in Neuron. This work was mainly carried out by graduate student Hongping Wei and colleagues, under the supervision of Dr. Jiu-lin Du.
Dr. Ming-Sha Zhang was invited to attend the 8th FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Spain from July 13th to July 19th, 2012. During the conference, Dr. Zhang gave an invited talk entitled "Baseline activity in the parietal cortex reflects intrinsic fluctuations in motivation".
Dr. Jin Xu was invited to attend the Life Science Institute Neurobiology/Aging Program at the National University of Singapore from July 10th to July 15th, 2012. During the program, Dr. Xu gave an invited talk entitled "Oxidative stress, post-translational modification and neurodegenerative diseases".
On July 4, 2012, Dr. Yizheng Wang’s research group at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a research article entitled “TRPC5 channel is the mediator of Neurotrophin-3 in regulating dendritic growth via CaMKIIa in rat hippocampal neurons” in the Journal of Neuroscience.
