Motor Systems: Searching for Principles

by Prof. Quan Wen (University of Science and Technology of China)

Wednesday 23 Jan 2019, 15:00 → 15:50 Asia/Shanghai

TDLI Meeting Room 200

Abstract

I will discuss our recent progress towards an algorithmic understanding of flexible control of motor behaviors. We are paying special attention to the one millimeter long nematode C. elegans, a unique systems neuroscience model to test computational theories via a combination of genetic and imaging methods.

Biography

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Biophysical and Computational neuroscience of small animals

• Connectomics, Structure-function relationship of neural circuit

• Optical imaging technology, Computer vision, Machine learning

 

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Principal Investigator

School of Life Sciences                                                           Hefei, Anhui

University of Science and Technology of China                      8/2014 -till now

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Physics and Center for Brain Science            Cambridge, MA

Harvard University with Aravinthan Samuel                           04/2009-7/2014

Associate

Janelia Research Campus, HHMI                                          Ashburn, VA

with Dmitri Chklovskii                                                             09/2007-03/2009

 

EDUCATION

State University of New York at Stony Brook & Cold

Spring Harbor Laboratory, PhD in Physics                            09/2001-06/2007

Fudan University, BS in Physics                                            09/1997-06/2001

Division

Condensed Matter