ICPBR Colloquia/Seminars
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Nov 26, 2024Dr. Takafumi Minamimoto: "Imaging-guided chemogenetics in nonhuman primates: advancement and future directions"
Nonhuman primates (NHPs), particularly macaques and marmosets, are invaluable models for understanding complex brain functions and behaviors. Despite their significance, tools for precise genetic neuromodulation in NHPs remain limited, hindering our ability to st... -
Nov 20, 2024Dr. Peter Mombaerts: "Visualizing how SARS-CoV-2 attacks the olfactory system in COVID-19 patients"
Anosmia, the loss of smell, is a common and often the sole symptom of COVID-19. The onset of the sequence of pathobiological events leading to olfactory dysfunction remains obscure. We reasoned that the neurotropic or neuroinvasive capacity of SARS-CoV-2, if it e... -
Oct 15, 2024【CANCELLED】Prof. Klaus Armin Nave :"Novel functions of oligodendrocytes in brain energy metabolism and neurodegenerative diseases”
Oligodendrocytes make myelin and support axonal energy metabolism with the delivery of glycolysis products. Moreover, myelin itself can act as a lipid-based energy reserve that is metabolized when glucose levels are low. Such glial metabolic support requires the ... -
Sep 02, 2024Prof. Anna Wang Roe: "A cortical specialization for foveal vision"
A common tenet of neural sensory representation is that species-specific behaviors are reflected in specialized brain organizations1. In humans and nonhuman primates, the central one degree of vision is processed by the foveola2, a retinal structure which compris... -
Aug 26, 2024Prof. Mingsha Zhang: "Human intralaminar and medial thalamic nuclei transiently gate conscious perception through the thalamocortical loop"Human high-order thalamic nuclei have been known to closely correlate with conscious states. However, given the great difference of conscious states and contents (conscious perception), it is nearly unknown how those thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical interactio... -
Jun 05, 2024Prof. Alan Jasanoff: "Analyzing integrated brain function with molecular MRI"
Understanding the neural bases of behavior and cognition requires determining how mechanistical-ly distinct processing elements combine to carry out brain function. In this talk, I will introduce some of our laboratory’s efforts to address this goal using a comb...