Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Animal Disease Models of Neurodegeneration, Drug Discovery, Repeat Expansion Diseases, RNA Toxicity

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Professor Edwin Chan Ho-yin is Director and Professor in the School of Life Sciences,
CUHK. He received undergraduate training in biochemistry from CUHK, doctoral training at The University of Cambridge (UK) and postdoctoral training at The University of Pennsylvania (US). Since 1999, Professor Chan has been investigating rare neurological and neuromuscular disorders. In 2014, he established an intercontinental research collaboration network on rare neuronal diseases, including Huntington’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, myotonic dystrophy and spinocerebellar ataxia.

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Machine Learning, Motor Control, Stroke Rehabilitation                    

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Optogenetics, Photoactivable Proteins                            

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Embryonic development involves complex genetic regulation of cell growth, migration, and differentiation. Our research uses diverse experimental approaches to study these processes, focusing on neural crest development in melanoma and motor neuron degeneration in spinal muscular atrophy, aiming to develop therapeutic strategies for both congenital diseases and cancer treatment approaches.

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Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Hippocampal Dependent Learning, Circular RNA, RNA granules, Two-Photon Imaging

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Our group at CUHK is interested in: 1) The mechanisms and potential therapeutics of neurodevelopmental disorders. 2) Molecular and circuit mechanisms of learning and memory. We employ a range of techniques, including molecular and systems neuroscience tools.

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Emotions, Social Behavior, Higher Cognitive Functions                      

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Neurodegenerative Disorders, Sensorimotor Circuits, Neurotechnology                

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Auditory Perception, Cochlear Implant, Sensory Plasticity                        

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The Schnupp Lab focuses on how sensory processing interprets auditory inputs to the brain and how they are transformed to underpin subjective perceptual qualities of sound such as pitch, timbre and sound source location. They are also studying how the brain learns to adapt to the statistical structure of the sounds in our environment to form efficient neural representations of sound and to support auditory scene analysis. This work has important implications for design and use of auditory prosthetics.

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Auditory, Music, Speech, Neuroscience, Oscillation                         

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Xiangbin TENG is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in Cognition and Perception from New York University and previously conducted research at the Max Planck Institutes in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on how the brain dynamically encodes and predicts temporal structure in naturalistic auditory signals, such as speech and music.

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Synaptic Plasticity, Axonal Biology, Local Protein Synthesis, mRNA, Multipatch, 2-Photon Microscopy/Manipulation

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The H.Wong Lab focuses on brain circuit formation, maintenance, and plasticity, with a strong emphasis on understanding the molecular signalling at brain connections, known as synapses. By uncovering fundamental principles of information processing and memory storage, this knowledge is leveraged to reveal synaptic targets for alleviating neurological disorders.

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Language Learning, Speech Perception, Communicative Disorders              

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