5月10日 王佐仁:Cross-species Study of the Evolution of Animal Cooperative Behavior


报告题目:Cross-species Study of the Evolution of Animal Cooperative Behavior

时间2019510  上午10:00

地点:中北校区 脑功能基因组学研究所一楼

报告人:王佐仁  博士

            中国科学院 神经科学研究所

主持人:曹晓华 博士

 

报告人简介

    王佐仁, 博士,中国科学院神经科学研究所高级研究员,神经科学国家重点实验室副主任,中国科学院脑科学与智能技术卓越创新中心执行委会委员,中国科学院人工智能产学研创新联盟战略咨询委员会委员,中国科学院智能信息处理重点实验室学术委员会委员,中国科学院大学未来技术学院脑智教研室岗位教授及课程首席教师。曾任中科院神经所所长助理,副所长,现任中科院神经所党委副书记兼纪委书记。获得了国家百千万人才工程奖励及有突出贡献中青年专家称号,以及国家杰出青年科学基金、国务院政府特殊津贴、中科院百人计划择优、上海市浦江人才计划、人事部留学回国人员科技活动等人才项目的资助,获得中国科学院优秀研究生指导老师奖2005年从美国加州大学伯克利分校回到中科院神经科学研究所,从事神经科学与类脑智能的交叉研究,在神经科学方面研究,主要以大鼠为模式动物研究共情的神经环路机制、共情与社会隔离及合作行为的关系、跨物种研究合作行为的进化机制以及顿悟行为的神经机制,在类脑智能研究方面,与中科院自动化所的研究员共同指导了两名研究生,主要研究神经机制在类脑算法中的运用,同时也关注忆阻器神经网络与脑的硬件模拟。

 

报告简介:

    Cooperation has generally been attributed to a cognitively demanding, complex social behavior that two or more individuals act together to achieve a common goal. The ability of cooperation is key to surviving. However, the details of how and why cooperation evolved remain unclear. Thus, “How Did Cooperative Behavior Evolve?” ranked No. 16 in the 125 most important scientific questions asked by the Science magazine. Animal behavior researchers and behavioral geneticists are trying to understand the genetic basis and molecular drivers of animal cooperative behaviors. As neuroscientists, we are interested in dissecting the neural mechanisms underlying animal cooperative behaviors and their evolution processes. Therefore, we devised a novel temporal coordination task to quantitatively assess the cooperative ability of animal. The beauty of our novel cooperative paradigm is that it is suitable for different model animals, such as mouse, rat, tree shrew and marmoset, rendering us the ability of cross-species study of animal cooperative behavior. Our preliminary results demonstrated that the cooperative ability ranked in such an order, tree shrew > rat > mouse. We also recorded the activities of neural ensemble in rat brain during the cooperative task, and found the evidence of neuronal activities in several brain region encoding different information related to cooperation. Our research is aimed to identify neurons and neural circuits encoding the information of cooperation, and to find out the driving force in the neural networks for the evolution of cooperative behavior by cross-species studies.