TITLE: "From Cells to Cognition: Understanding Brain Function in Health and Disease"
 DATE: Tuesday, November 8th 2016
TIME: 8:30am – 5:00pm 
LOCATION: MIT Bldg 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium)
QUESTIONS? Naomi Berkowitz | naomiber@mit.edu | 617.715.5396

A Joint Symposium of the McGovern Institutes at

MIT
Peking Univeristy
Tsinghua University
Beijing Normal University

PROGRAM

8:30 am 
Continental Breakfast Served in Atrium

9:00 am – 9:10 am 
ROBERT DESIMONE, McGovern Institute  at MIT
Welcoming Remarks

Session I (Chair: TBA)

9:10 am - 9:50 am
BAILONG XIAO, IDG/McGovern Institute, Tsinghua University
In touch with the mechanosensitive Piezo channels: structure, ion permeation and mechano-gating

 9:50 am - 10:30 am 
JING YANG, IDG/McGovern Institute, Peking University
The mechanism underlying neuronal response to axonal injury

10:30 am – 10:45 am
Break

10:45 am - 11:20 am 
JUN YAO, IDG/McGovern Institute, Tsinghua University
Ca2+ dependent synaptic vesicle cycling

11:20 am - 12:00 pm 
YONG ZHANG, IDG/McGovern Institute, Peking University
Visualizing AMPA receptor synaptic plasticity in vivo

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm
Poster Session and Lunch in Atrium

Session II (Chair: TBA)

1:30 pm – 2:10 pm
GUOPING FENG, McGovern Institute at MIT
Thalamic reticular nucleus dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders

2:10 pm – 2:50 pm
HUAN LUO, IDG/McGovern Institute, Peking University
Serial-like sampling of visual objects during sustained attention

2:50 pm – 3:30 pm
XIAOHONG WAN, IDG/McGovern Institute Beijing Normal University
Investigating Neural Mechanisms of Metacognition

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
 Break

3:45 pm – 4:25 pm
YINA MA, IDG/McGovern Institute, Beijing Normal University
Oxytocin and social adaptation

4:25 pm - 5:05 pm 
BO HONG, IDG/McGovern Institute, Tsinghua University
Spatio-temporal organization and assembly of human cortical networks

5:05 pm - 6:05 pm 
Reception 5th floor overlooking Atrium

Supported by Hugo Shong and the McGovern Institutes