2016华东师范大学学术讲座：Metabotropic neurotransmission: message taken and reported through G protein-regulated ion channels

一、讲座题目

       Metabotropic neurotransmission: message taken and reported through G protein-regulated ion channels

二、主讲人

       Michael Xi Zhuprofessor of University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

三、主持人

       李晓涛

四、开始时间

       2016-11-23 10:00:00

五、讲座地址

       生命科学学院534报告厅

六、报告人简介

       Michael Xi Zhu is professor of Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas.  He received his B.S. degree in Biology from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1984, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA, in 1988 and 1991, respectively.  He had his postdoctoral training in Cellular and Molecular Biology from 1991-1994 at Baylor College of Medicine.  He then worked as an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Anesthesiology, UCLA, from 1994 to 1997. In autumn of 1997, he went to the Ohio State University to build his own lab and rose from the rank of Assistant Professor to Full Professor in the Department of Neuroscience there.  In 2010, he moved to his current position at the University of Texas-Houston.  Dr. Zhu’s research interests include several aspects of cell signaling, especially those that involve heterotrimeric G proteins and ion channels that affect Ca2+ signaling.  He has published more than 130 research papers, reviews, and monographs on these topics and delivered lectures at many international conferences and symposia.  Dr. Zhu’s main contributions include identification and characterization of multiple Transient Receptor Potential Canonical (TRPC) channels in mammalian species and determination of the molecular identity of endolysosomal Ca2+ release channels activated by the Ca2+ mobilizing messenger, nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP).  Dr. Zhu is a regular member of the Biophysical Society, Aspet and ASMBM.  He is Series Editors of the CRC Methods in Signal Transduction Book Series, an Associate Editor of Journal of Cellular Physiology and a member of editorial boards of Pflügers Archiv European Journal of Physiology, Biophysics Reports and Molecular Pharmacology.