Sleep and Performance Research Center Seminar Series

Presented by Washington State University – Sleep and Performance Research Center

Imaging Neuromodulatory Signaling In Vivo

November 21, 2024
12:10 – 1 p.m. PST
SAC 347 or via Zoom
Meeting ID: 923 6974 6453
Passcode: 001533

Speaker: Haining Zhong, PhD
Professor and Senior Scientist at the Vollum Institute at the Oregon State Health and Sciences University

Dr. Haining Zhong received his double bachelor’s degrees in Biology and in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1996. He did his Ph.D. study in Neuroscience with Dr. King Wai Yau at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and postdoctoral training with Dr. Karel Svoboda and Eric Betzig at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and then at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus. In 2010 he started his independent lab at the Vollum Institute and is currently a full professor and senior scientist at Vollum.

Dr. Zhong’s lab develops imaging technologies and uses these technologies to study the cellular mechanisms underlying animal locomotion execution and learning. His lab has developed strategies, both based on mouse genetics and on CRISPR-based gene editing, to fluorescently label endogenous proteins for live imaging without overexpression. More recently, his lab became the first to achieve in vivo imaging of neuromodulatory signaling activities, including cAMP, PKA and PKC, with cellular resolution in the cortex and the striatum of behaving mice.