Title: Neural Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Stress-induced Sex Differences
Time: 9:00-12:00 AM, December 3, 2024
Location: Smart Classroom 404, Zhizhen Building, Ningbo University Health Science Center
Lecturer: Tan Tao
Personal Profile: Dr. Tan Tao holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and is currently a Researcher at Oujiang Lab, heading the Stress Response and Non-invasive Neuromodulation Research Group. He serves as a Graduate Supervisor at Wenzhou Medical University and was previously an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. He has been selected for the Overseas Talents Introduction Program of the Ministry of Education and is recognized as a high-level overseas talent in Zhejiang Province. He is a member of the Stress Neurobiology Branch of the Chinese Neuroscience Society, the Neural Regeneration and Repair Professional Committee of the Chinese Research Hospital Association, the Vice Chairman of the Sleep Research Professional Committee of the Zhejiang Biomedical Society, a member of the Youth Working Committee of the Zhejiang Neuroscience Society, and a member of the Society for Neuroscience. His primary research interests include the development of eye-brain analysis Patch-seq multimodal technology, non-invasive magnetic genetic neuromodulation, neural circuits underlying stress-induced sex differences, and neurobiological mechanisms of neurological/psychiatric disorders. He has published 43 academic papers in journals such as Molecular Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Cell Reports, and Schizophrenia Bulletin, including 20 first/corresponding author (including co-) SCI papers. He independently leads 9 research projects (including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and major scientific and technological innovation projects in Wenzhou). He serves as an editorial board member for Frontiers in Behavioral Psychiatry and a reviewer for SCI journals such as Research.
Title: Mechanisms of Rapid Antidepressant Effects of Primary Metabolites of Ketamine
Lecturer: Cai Xiang
Personal Profile: Dr. Cai Xiang is a Researcher at Oujiang Lab and has previously held positions as an Assistant Professor and Tenured Associate Professor at the University of Maryland and Southern Illinois University, respectively. He has long been engaged in research on the pathology of depression and the pharmacology of antidepressants. He has published multiple papers as the first or corresponding author in prestigious journals such as Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Science Signaling, and Journal of Neuroscience. He has led multiple NIH RO1, NIH R56 grants and National Natural Science Foundation of China projects and has received the Young Investigator Award from the American Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. He is the proposer and a major contributor to the excitatory synapse hypothesis of depression. In recent years, his work has focused on the research and development of rapid-acting antidepressant mechanisms.
