时间：5月18日星期二下午16:00-17:30    

Time：4:00-5:30 PM，Tues.，May 18，2021

地点：西湖大学云栖校区3号楼312会议室

Venue: Room 312, 3F, Building 3,  Yunqi Campus

主持人：西湖大学生命科学学院研究员 Kiryl D. Piatkevich 

Host：Dr. Kiryl D. Piatkevich, School of Life Sciences

主讲嘉宾/Speaker:

Dr. Yu Mu

Principal Investigator,Institute of Neuroscience, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr. Yu Mu received his B.S. degree in Biochemistry from Nanjing University (2006) and his Ph.D. degree in Neurobiology from the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ION) in 2013. He conducted his postdoctoral research with Dr. Misha Ahrens at Janelia Research Campus, HHMI. Dr. Mu joined ION in 2020 as a PI in June 2020. His lab studies object recognition and decision-making distributed neural circuits at whole-brain scale.

讲座摘要/Abstract:

When a behavior repeatedly fails to achieve its goal, animals often give up and become passive, which can be strategic for preserving energy or regrouping between attempts. This transition requires a joint effort from the brain: to detect behavioral failures, accumulate such information across actions, and initiate a state switch. Combining whole-brain scale functional imaging, virtual reality, optogenetic, chemogenetic and laser ablation approach, we identified a neural circuit involves astrocytes, neuromodulatory neurons, and inhibitory neurons, to mediate “giving-up” when actions are futile.

联系人/Contact：

生命科学学院

于文越 yuwenyue@westlake.edu.cn