时间：2023年2月14日（周二）16:00~17:30

Time：4:00-5:30 AM, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023

地点：西湖大学云谷校区E10-222

Venue: E10-222, Yungu Campus

主持人：西湖大学生命科学学院讲席教授  马秋富

Host: Chair Professor Qiufu Ma, School of Life Sciences

主讲人/Speaker：

Bo Li

Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dr. Bo Li is the Robert Lourie Professor, and a Professor in Neuroscience, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA. He received his bachelor's degree in Medicine at Jining Medical College in China, Master’s degree in Psychology at Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Ph.D. in Neuroscience (in 2003) at the University of British Columbia in Canada. He did his postdoctoral research first at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and then at University of California, San Diego. He started his own lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2008 and has been there since.

报告题目/Title:

Dissecting the Neural Circuitry Underlying Motivated Behaviors

讲座摘要/Abstract:

The amygdala and basal ganglia circuits have important roles in learning and executing behaviors motivated by either appetitive or aversive stimuli. How exactly these circuits contribute to the generation of divergent behavioral responses remains elusive. Our recent studies indicate that learning driven by reward or punishment induces distinct plastic changes in discrete circuits in the basal ganglia and the amygdala, and reveal how these learning-induced changes participate in guiding flexible behaviors. Interestingly, neurons in these circuits can also convey information about the nutritional properties of foods and the metabolic status of animals, and furthermore control energy utilization and weight gain. An emerging picture is that these circuits are used to regulate different aspects of motivated behaviors as well as energy homeostasis.

讲座联系人/Contact:

科技合作部 sci-tech02@westlake.edu.cn