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题 目：Neurochemical Organization (and Disorganization) of the First Visual Synapse
主讲人：Prof. Noga Vardi
        University of Pennsylvania, US (美国宾西法利亚大学)
主持人：徐颖副教授
时 间：2012年9月11日上午9:30
地 点：第二理工楼8楼脑功能与健康联合实验室会议室
 
主讲嘉宾简介                                 
Prof. Noga Vardi is currently the Research Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, Medical School of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US. She works on retinal signal processing and has over 40 research articles published in peer reviewed journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Neurophysiology and Nature Neuroscience.
Prof. Vardi’s lab is interested in signal processing at the molecular and system level. She uses the retina as a model system because it is accessible and it is perfectly organized allowing detailed investigation of synaptic mechanisms and network organization. In the retina, the synaptic complex from photoreceptors to second order cells (horizontal cells and ON and OFF bipolar cells) is highly specialized. The ON class of bipolar cells inverts the light signal that arrives from photoreceptor using the mGluR6 cascade. In this talk she will briefly describe the structural and chemical organization of the photoreceptor synaptic complex and expand on the effects of removing certain elements of the mGluR6 cascade.
 
 
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暨南大学医学院科研与研究生管理办公室
暨南大学-香港大学脑功能与健康联合实验室
                                         2012年9月5日

作者：吉念宁