Network Functions and Plasticity

Jian Jing obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. He has been performing circuitry studies with molluscan model systems for over two decades at University of Illinois, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine at New York, and now at Nanjing University in China. Dr. Jing has published extensively in high-profile journals such as J. Neurosci., Current Biology, J. Biol. Chem. He successfully organized a 2013 Society for Neuroscience mini-symposium (with 6 speakers) on the subject, which is the basis for the proposed book.

• 1. Electrical Coupling in Caenorhabditis elegans Mechanosensory Circuits2. Neural Circuits Underlying Escape Behavior in Drosophila: Focus on Electrical Signaling3. Gap Junctions Underlying Labile Memory4. The Role of Electrical Coupling in Rhythm Generation in Small Networks5. Network Functions of Electrical Coupling Present in Multiple and Specific Sites in Behavior-Generating Circuits6. Electrical Synapses and Learning–Induced Plasticity in Motor Rhythmogenesis7. Electrical Synapses and Neuroendocrine Cell Function8. Electrical Synapses in Fishes: Their Relevance to Synaptic Transmission9. Dynamic Properties of Electrically Coupled Retinal Networks10. Circadian and Light-Adaptive Control of Electrical Synaptic Plasticity in the Vertebrate Retina11. Electrical Coupling in the Generation of Vertebrate Motor Rhythms12. Implications of Electrical Synapse Plasticity in the Inferior Olive13. Gap Junctions Between Pyramidal Cells Account for a Variety of Very Fast Network Oscillations (>80Hz) in Cortical Structures14. Lineage-Dependent Electrical Synapse Formation in the Mammalian Neocortex