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Home » Speakers » Mu-ming Poo
Mu-ming Poo

Mu-ming Poo

University of California, Berkeley
National Academy of Sciences

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Currently, Poo is the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology in the Division of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Poo is also founding Director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1999.

Poo has received many awards and honors, including P.R.China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award in 2005, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences US in 2009. Mu-ming Poo completed his undergraduate education in physics at Tsinghua University in Taiwan. He received his PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. It was there that his research interest shifted from physics to neuroscience.

Talks with this Speaker

Learning and Memory: From Synapse to Perception

Mu-ming Poo gives an overview of the cellular basis of learning and memory with a focus on the role of synapses. (Talk recorded in April 2010)

  • Part 1: The Cellular Basis of Learning and Memory
    Part 1: The Cellular Basis of Learning and Memory
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 39:13
  • Part 2: Hebb’s Postulate Revisited
    Part 2: Hebb’s Postulate Revisited
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 20:44
  • Part 3: Sequence Learning and Memory
    Part 3: Sequence Learning and Memory
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 24:51
  • Part 4: How Neural Circuits Learn Time Intervals
    Part 4: How Neural Circuits Learn Time Intervals
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 36:30

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