College of Medicine – Phoenix Department of Translational Neurosciences
When
Where
Health Sciences Education Building, C401
435 N. 5th St., Phoenix, AZ 85004
Event Description
In this Department of Translational Neurosciences guest seminar, Ju Lu, PhD, from the University of California Santa Cruz will deliver a talk titled "Can mind-revealing drugs revive the afflicted mind? The effects of psychedelics and their analog on normal and stressed brains."
This seminar is hybrid.
CME Information
There are no CME credits associated with this seminar.
Presenter Details
Ju Lu, PhD
Associate Project Scientist
University of California Santa Cruz
With an interdisciplinary background in neuroscience and engineering, Lu seeks to understand how neural circuits are organized and modified in response to experiences, and to translate the knowledge into medical applications. After studying microelectronics as an undergraduate at Tsinghua University, he received his doctoral training in neurobiology at Harvard University, during which he reconstructed the first mammalian neuromuscular connectome. He then did a postdoc at Stanford University, working on super-resolution microscopy and deep brain imaging. Since joining the University of California Santa Cruz, Lu has leveraged diverse in vivo imaging techniques to study the structural and functional dynamism of neural circuits across spatiotemporal scales, from synapses and neuronal assemblies to the whole-cortex network. His recent research focused on how psychedelics and their analogs modulate normal behavior and rescue stress-induced neural circuit and behavioral deficits.