报告题目：voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.7 and associated pain disorders

报告人: Dr. Xiaoyang Cheng

报告时间: 2012年12月14日（周五）下午14：00

报告地点: 苏州大学神经科学研究所会议室

报告人简介：

Dr. Xiaoyang Cheng is an associate research scientist at Yale University, Department of Neurology and Center for Neuroscience & Regeneration Research.  Dr. Cheng obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Pharmacology from China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing, Jiangsu.  She then worked in Professor Pei-Hong Zhu’s laboratory at Shanghai Institute of Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she isolated ryanodine receptors from skeletal muscle for atomic force microscopy study.  In 2000, Dr. Cheng went to US and enrolled the graduate program of Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (Memphis, TN).  She completed her graduate study in Dr. Jonathan H Jaggar’s laboratory.  During her graduate study, she discovered a novel N-terminal sequence for alternative splicing of voltage-gated calcium channel CaV1.2 in rat cerebral artery and demonstrated the dominant expression of this novel sequence in rat cerebral arteries.  Dr. Cheng received her PhD degree in 2006.  In 2007, she joined Dr. Stephen G Waxman’s research team at Yale University, Center for Neuroscience & Regeneration Research as a postdoctoral associate.  In Dr. Waxman’s laboratory, Dr. Cheng investigated the roles of voltage-gated sodium channels and associated human diseases, with a specific focus on one sodium channel isoform – NaV1.7, and its role in neuropathic pain. 

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2012-12-12