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Biographical Sketch Professor Perry Bartlett has been responsible for a series of ground-breaking discoveries in neuroscience, which have often overturned existing dogma and led to a new understanding, particularly in the areas of neuronal precursor regulation and neuron survival in the developing and adult nervous system. Most prominent amongst these, was his laboratory’s discovery in 1992 of the presence of stem cells in the adult brain that had the capacity to produce new neurons. His group was first to isolate and characterise these stem cells in 2001 and more recently revealed the presence of a latent hippocampal stem cell population that influences learning and memory.
Professor Bartlett is the inaugural Director of the Queensland Brain Institute and holds the Foundation Chair in Molecular Neuroscience at The University of Queensland. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA), a past National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Principal Research Fellow and Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, and a past President of the Australian Neuroscience Society. He has championed interactions with China, establishing three joint neuroscience laboratories, two with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and one with the Second Military Medical University. With Professor He, Professor Bartlett leads the Joint Laboratory of Neuroscience and Cognition.
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Biographical Sketch Professor He RongQiao’s work is focussed on understanding the effects of aldehydes, such as formaldehyde, on the structure and function of neural proteins in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. At present, the focus of his laboratory is on chemical modification and aggregation of protein, and the risk factors that trigger hyperphosphorylation of neuronal tau-and the association of these with age-related cognitive impairment. Professor He has hypothesised that advanced age is associated with an imbalance in the metabolism of endogenous formaldehyde, and that this imbalance is a risk factor for neurodegeneration. He has demonstrated that D-ribose, which induces cognitive impairment when present at an abnormally high level, is positively correlated with the level of glycated haemoglobin found in type 2 diabetics.
Professor He is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Biophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is former Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Science and former Executive Director of the State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science. With Professor Perry Bartlett, Professor He leads the Joint Laboratory of Neuroscience and Cognition.
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Bartlett, P.F., He, R. Introduction to the thematic issue “From brain function to therapy”. Sci. China Life Sci. 57, 363–365 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-014-4645-y
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