Speaker

Shumin Duan

Time

2024.11.20 16:00-17:30

Abstract

Innate behavior is characterized by actions that animals can perform without prior learning, automatically triggered in specific contexts, and is crucial for survival and adaptation to the environment. These behaviors include sleep, feeding, fear, and aggression, etc. which are regulated by specific neural circuits. In recent years, neuroscientists have utilized technologies such as optogenetics, chemogenetics, and calcium imaging to monitor and manipulate these neural circuits in real time at single-cell resolution, thereby revealing the functions of specific neuronal subpopulations in innate behaviors. Despite our understanding of the neural basis of innate behaviors, further research is needed to uncover more complex neural circuit networks. This will help elucidate behavioral abnormalities in neurological disorders such as depression and Parkinson's disease, potentially providing new therapeutic approaches.

Bio

Shumin Duan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was a member of the 11th, 12th and 13th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He served as the President of the Chinese Neuroscience Society (2011-2019) and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board (2019-present). He obtained Ph.D. in Medicine from Kyushu University in 1991. From 2000 to 2009, he worked at the Institute of Neuroscience (ION), Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a researcher, director of the National Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, and Deputy Director of the ION. In 2010, he served as the Dean of the School of Medicine at Zhejiang University. In 2019, he was appointed as the Dean of the Institute for Translational Brain Research at Fudan University. From 2022, he is the Dean of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Songjiang Institute. Dr. Duan has led several key projects, including the Ministry of Science and Technology's 973 Program, major and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and was the leader of the NSFC’s Innovation Team. He also chaired an eight-year NSFC Major Research Plan on "Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Emotion and Memory." His efforts have significantly promoted research on neural circuits in China and have had a profound impact on brain science research nationwide. Dr. Duan has served on the editorial boards of several international journals, including J Neurophysiol, Neurobiol Disease, Hippocampus, Glia, and Cell Calcium. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience Bulletin and a member of the Advisory Board of Neuron. His primary research focuses on synaptic function, neuron-glial cell interactions, and the neural circuit controlling brain function. His findings have been published in prestigious international journals such as Science, Cell, Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, and Nature Cell Biology, making significant international contributions in the field. His research achievements were selected as one of China’s Top 10 Medical and Technological News in 2003 and as one of China’s Top 10 Basic Research News in 2006. His students have won several National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards. Dr. Duan has won the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award twice (as the first awardee in 2010 and the second awardee in 2017). In 2008, he received the Fund for Science and Technology Progress Award.