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SUMMARY: Watching the Brain in Action: Creating Tools for Functional Analys
 is of Neural Circuitry\, Lin Tian\, PhD (University of California\, Davis)
DESCRIPTION: Lin Tian\, PhD\, is Professor and Vice Chair in the Department
  of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of California\, D
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 7816" src="https://neuroscience.wustl.edu/app/uploads/2021/08/Headshot-Tian
 L.jpg" alt="lin tian" width="250" height="260" /></p><p><a href="https://he
 alth.ucdavis.edu/biochem/faculty/tian/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noop
 ener">Lin Tian</a>\, PhD<br />Professor and Vice Chair<br />Department of B
 iochemistry and Molecular Medicine<br />Director of AggieLight Initiative<b
 r />University of California\, Davis</p><p><strong>Hosted by:</strong> Yao 
 Chen\, PhD</p><p><em>Virtual event</em><br />Zoom link: <a href="https://bi
 t.ly/DoNSeminarSeries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://bit.ly/DoNSem
 inarSeries</a></p><p>To study neural circuitry\, the action of one cell und
 er the context of others\, one would precisely measure and perturb specific
  neuronal populations and molecules in behaving animals who are specificall
 y engaged in performing the computation or function of interest. The datase
 t of millions of neurons firing together underlying a behavior are required
  to develop and refine theories (hypotheses) explaining animal behavior in 
 terms of brain physiology.</p><p>The focus of the lab is to develop novel g
 enetically encoded indicators based on fluorescence proteins\, especially f
 ocusing on direct and specific measurement of myriad input signals with nee
 ded spatial and temporal resolutions. In this talk\, I will discuss our rec
 ent progress into developing and applying a new suite of genetically encode
 d indicators of neural activity. I will discuss the design\, characterizati
 on and applications of these genetically encoded indicators for both in viv
 o imaging and drug discovery. In combination with calcium imaging and optog
 enetics\, these sensors are well poised to permit direct functional analysi
 s of how the spatiotemporal coding of neural input signaling mediates the p
 lasticity and function of target circuits.</p><p><a href="https://neuroscie
 nce.wustl.edu/news-events/events/">Return to events calendar »</a></p>
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