Duke Kunshan University (DKU) held its first neuroscience symposium, bringing together some of the leading minds in neuroscience to share the latest findings on the functioning of the nervous system and to promote an interdisciplinary approach that bridges various branches of neuroscience with related disciplines such as data science, medicine, AI, and engineering.
To explore groundbreaking attempts to understand the human mind, the speakers discussed reading neural signals via high-throughput brain-computer interfaces, combining generative models with brain stimulation, and deciphering cortical-hippocampal dynamics to understand language, motor control, and memory neural codes. Researchers also discussed nonhuman primate studies with a focus on animals’ metacognition and learning.
The symposium also explored several promising discoveries about a retinal photoreceptor that harnesses light, the neural and molecular mechanisms of a hormone that regulates body weight, and “neuronal reprogramming.”
Sze Chai Kwok, associate professor of cognitive neuroscience at DKU, who also chaired the symposium’s organizing committee, gave the opening address. Wuhan University’s Leilei Wang and Jie Xu, University College London’s Parashkev Nachev, West Lake University’s Jie Yang, and Shu Kit Eric Tam, Zhiyong Jin and Xuanlong Zhu from DKU, also spoke.
Neuroscience-loving scholars, students, and staff attended the symposium, which served as an organized setting at DKU for researchers to discuss and share ideas to foster professional relationships and collaborations.
In partnership with our collaborating institutions, DKU now welcomes applications from PhD candidates (1-2 openings) in neuroscience to join us.
