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Dear Friends,
I’m sure you join all of us at the Chen Institute in welcoming the summer season! We hope that the next few months present ample opportunities for you to travel and spend time with your family and friends.
We’d like to draw your attention to a few things which are upcoming: first is the Chen Institute and Science Prize for AI Accelerated Science which opens in August. We are hard at work planning for the 2024 Chen Institute and Science Joint Conference on AI & Mental Health which takes place in November and the BCI Society – Chen Institute Joint BCI Meeting in December; both meetings will be in Shanghai.
We hope you enjoy looking back at the progress made as much as we did.
Kind regards,
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Tianqiao Chen Chrissy Luo
TCCI IN THE NEWS
Henry Lester Receives Langley Award for Basic Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
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Congratulations to Professor of Biology Henry Lester who was named the 2024 recipient of the Langley Award for Basic Research on Nicotine and Tobacco from the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT). Lester is an affiliated faculty member with the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience.
Read more on the TCCI for Neuroscience website
TCCI Sponsors the Charitable Popular Science Project Initiated by GASA
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In March this year, the 100th session of “GASA Science Classics”, a popular charitable science project sponsored by the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®), was held at the Shanghai Science Hall. Professor Bai Lu from Tsinghua University, together with a number of scientists and scholars, introduced The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of Revolution in Biology, which attracted a total of 7.04 million online viewers.
Read more on the TCCI® website
TCCI Hosts Annual Conference for Chinese Investigators. Tianqiao Chen: Focusing on Two Directions to Promote AI + Brain Science
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Also in March, TCCI® held an annual conference for its Chinese investigators in Shanghai. Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo, attended the conference virtually to introduce two key scientific research fields, namely, AI + Memory and AI + Health (mental health, healthy aging and innovative neuromodulation technology), as well as TCCI®’s comprehensive promotion of AI + Brain Science through multiple channels.
Read more on the TCCI® website
A Journey into the Brain
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The Scientist speaks with Beverly Davidson, a scientist at UPenn, and Viviana Gradinaru, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Gradinaru’s work focuses on adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors as delivery vehicles for gene therapy. AAVs are considered the leader in vivo gene therapy delivery platform due to their unmatched targeting capabilities, lasting expression in nondividing cells, and lack of pathogenicity in humans.
Read more on The Scientist
SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY
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June 17-21, 2024
The IEEE/CVPR Conference On Computer Vision And Pattern Recognition 2024
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June 25-27, 2024
The IEEE/Conference On Artificial Intelligence
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June 25-29, 2024
Federation Of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
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July 14-18, 2024
SIGIR 2024: The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference On Research And Development In Information Retrieval
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July 16-18, 2024
Computational Psychiatry Conference
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July 24-27, 2024
Neuro2024: The 47th Annual Meeting Of The Japanese Neuroscience Society
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August 11-16, 2024
The 62nd Annual Meeting Of The Association For Computational Linguistics
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August 12-14, 2024
Ai4
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August 26-27, 2024
Boston University and Chen Institute Joint Conference on the Neuroscience of the Everyday World
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August 25-31, 2024
FENS – Chen Institute – NeuroLéman 2024 Summer School on Monitoring And Manipulating The Affective State: New Perspectives On Neurotechnologies And AI Tools
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MEETING REPORTS
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16th Annual Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting
By Emma Moughan
The 16th annual meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) took place from April 10th - 14th, 2024 at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, Ontario. Drs. Chelsea Helion (Temple University) and Kalina Michalska (University of California, Riverside) were the co-chairs of the meeting and oversaw a diverse and impressive array of scientific programming under the theme of “the person situated in the greater environment."
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3rd Neurogenesis Conference
By Margaux Quiniou
The long-awaited third edition of the Neurogenesis Conference, with a focus on “Lifelong Development and Disease," took place February 7th to 11th 2024 at the Fiesta Americana Condesa in Cancun, Mexico. Co-organized by Sebastian Jessberger (University of Zurich) and Hongjun Song (University of Pennsylvania), this reunion marked the first neurogenesis conference since the COVID-19 pandemic, with the last event being held back in 2019.
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RESEARCH
TCCI lead author on Nature Review Bioengineering paper: Translation of Neurotechnologies
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Dr. Gerwin Schalk, former director of the Chen Frontier Lab, is lead author of a paper this month in Nature Review Bioengineering. Schalk and his co-authors examine the strengths and weaknesses of neurotechnologies. They discuss what is needed to overcome challenges in bringing these technologies from the lab to real-world use and offer a detailed plan to help these technologies succeed in clinical and commercial settings.
Read the paper on Nature Review Bioengineering
TCCI for Translational Research Director Heralds a New Era of Glioma Surgery with Pioneering Research
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Dr. Mao Ying, President of Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital and Director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research, along with his team, recently collaborated with Professor Wei Hua, Professor Zheng Ouyang from Department of Precision Instrument of Tsinghua University, Professor Graham Cooks from Purdue University and Professor Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa from Mayo Clinic to develop a comprehensive intraoperative diagnostic procedure for detecting IDH mutations in gliomas, reducing the detection time to 1.5 minutes.
Read the article on PNAS
Brain-Machine Interface Device Predicts Internal Speech in Second Patient
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Caltech neuroscientists are making promising progress toward showing that a device known as a brain–machine interface (BMI), which they developed to implant into the brains of patients who have lost the ability to speak, could one day help all such patients communicate by simply thinking and not speaking or miming.
Read more on the TCCI for Neuroscience website
Birds Overcome Brain Damage to Sing Again
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Researchers in the laboratory of Carlos Lois, research professor of biology at Caltech, and affiliated faculty member with TCCI® for Neuroscience, use small birds called zebra finches to study how brains rewire themselves to regain essential functionality after damage. In a new paper, they discover that zebra finches can reacquire the ability to sing after brain damage similar to stroke victims—but without practice. The study appears in the journal Nature Neuroscience on April 29.
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How Insects Control Their Wings: The Mysterious Mechanics of Insect Flight
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“The fly wing hinge is perhaps the most mysterious and underappreciated structure in the history of life,” says Michael Dickinson, Caltech’s Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics, executive officer for biology and biological engineering and an affiliated faculty member with TCCI® for Neuroscience at Caltech. Dickinson’s lab just published a paper, titled “Machine learning reveals the control mechanics of an insect wing hinge” appears in the journal Nature on April 17.
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Debunking a Decades-Long Misconception about the Origin of the Vertebrate Sympathetic Nervous System
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For decades, researchers believed that lamprey—eel-like jawless fish—did not have sympathetic neurons, which are a part of the peripheral nervous system. Researchers in the laboratory of Marianne Bronner, Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology, director of the Beckman Institute and an affiliated faculty member with the TCCI® for Neuroscience at Caltech have published new research that finds sympathetic neurons do exist in lamprey, revising the timeline of sympathetic nervous system evolution.
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When Does the Brain Process Reward and Risk?
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New research from the lab of John O’Doherty, Caltech’s Fletcher Jones Professor of Decision Neuroscience and an affiliate faculty member of the TCCI® Institute for Neuroscience, aims to understand how the brain implements reward/risk decisions by testing a computational model that proposes how representations of reward and risk are built from experience. The work was published in the March 9, 2024, issue of Nature Communications.
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