
Pankaj Sah 客座教授
个人简介:
Pankaj Sah(Professor),澳大利亚科学院院士、澳大利亚健康与医学科学院院士,华中科技大学医疗装备科学与工程研究院客座教授,现任澳大利亚昆士兰大学昆士兰脑研究所所长、突触可塑性实验室负责人,兼任昆士兰大学—南方科技大学神经科学与神经工程联合中心联合主任、昆士兰大学昆士兰脑研究所亚太神经调控中心联合主任,并担任Nature合作期刊《npj Science of Learning》创刊主编。他在新南威尔士大学接受医学训练,后于澳大利亚国立大学获得博士学位,并在加州大学旧金山分校开展博士后研究;2003年作为创始成员加入昆士兰脑研究所,2015年起担任所长。Pankaj Sah教授长期致力于学习、记忆、情绪及运动控制相关神经环路研究,在杏仁核局部环路、离子通道、突触传递和突触可塑性等领域作出重要贡献。其实验室综合运用分子工具、电生理、解剖重建、钙成像和行为学方法研究脑区电生理特征及其与疾病的关系,近年来进一步开展脑深部刺激与临床神经调控研究,涉及帕金森病、抽动秽语综合征和特发性震颤等疾病。已在Cell、Science、Nature、Nature Neuroscience、Neuron、Molecular Psychiatry、Physiological Reviews等国际期刊发表论文170余篇。
邮箱:pankaj.sah@uq.edu.au
个人主页:https://qbi.uq.edu.au/profile/111/pankaj-sah
研究方向:
学习与记忆形成的神经环路机制
杏仁核功能、突触可塑性与焦虑相关疾病
运动控制神经环路与神经信号解码
脑深部刺激、神经调控与运动障碍临床转化
教育经历:
[1] 澳大利亚国立大学,博士,1988
[2] 澳大利亚新南威尔士大学,医学与外科学学士(M.B.B.S.),1983
[3] 澳大利亚新南威尔士大学,医学科学学士(B.Med(Sci)),1980
主要科研项目:
[1] 澳大利亚国家健康与医学研究委员会(NHMRC)Ideas Grant,控制运动的神经环路:从小鼠到人类(Neural circuits that control movement: from mice to humans),2023-2026
[2] 澳大利亚国家健康与医学研究委员会(NHMRC)Ideas Grant(QIMR牵头),强迫症脑回路的选择性调控(Selective modulation of brain circuits in obsessive-compulsive disorder),2023-2027
[3] 澳大利亚研究理事会(ARC)Discovery Project,网络活动及NMDA受体在联想学习中的作用(Network activity and the role of NMDA receptors in associative learning),2022-2025
代表性论文:
[1] Sun Y, Qian L, Xu L, Hunt S, Sah P. Somatostatin neurons in the central amygdala mediate anxiety by disinhibition of the central sublenticular extended amygdala. Molecular Psychiatry, 28: 4163-4174, 2023.
[2] Inagaki HK, Chen S, Ridder MC, Sah P, Li N, Yang Z, Hasanbegovic H, Gao Z, Gerfen CR, Svoboda K. A midbrain-thalamus-cortex circuit reorganizes cortical dynamics to initiate movement. Cell, 185(6): 1065-1081.e23, 2022.
[3] Perumal MB, Latimer B, Xu L, Stratton P, Nair S, Sah P. Microcircuit mechanisms for the generation of sharp-wave ripples in the basolateral amygdala: A role for chandelier interneurons. Cell Reports, 35(6): 109106, 2021.
[4] Marek R, Jin J, Goode TD, Giustino TF, Wang Q, Acca GM, Holehonnur R, Ploski JE, Fitzgerald PJ, Lynagh T, Lynch JW, Maren S, Sah P. Hippocampus-driven feed-forward inhibition of the prefrontal cortex mediates relapse of extinguished fear. Nature Neuroscience, 21: 384-392, 2018.
[5] Marek R, Xu L, Sullivan RKP, Sah P. Excitatory connections between the prelimbic and infralimbic medial prefrontal cortex show a role for the prelimbic cortex in fear extinction. Nature Neuroscience, 21(5): 654-658, 2018.
[6] Jhaveri DJ, Tedoldi A, Hunt S, Sullivan R, Watts NR, Power JM, Bartlett PF, Sah P. Evidence for newly generated interneurons in the basolateral amygdala of adult mice. Molecular Psychiatry, 23: 521-532, 2018.
[7] Botta P, Demmou L, Kasugai Y, Markovic M, Xu C, Fadok JP, Lu T, Poe MM, Xu L, Cook JM, Rudolph U, Sah P, Ferraguti F, Luthi A. Regulating anxiety with extrasynaptic inhibition. Nature Neuroscience, 18: 1493-1500, 2015.
[8] Tattersall TL, Stratton PG, Coyne TJ, Cook R, Silberstein P, Silburn PA, Windels F, Sah P. Real and imagined movement modulates the temporal dynamics of neuronal networks in the pedunculopontine nucleus. Nature Neuroscience, 17: 449-454, 2014.
[9] Adelman JP, Maylie J, Sah P. Small-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels: form and function. Annual Review of Physiology, 74: 245-269, 2012.
[10] Sah P, Westbrook RF. Behavioural neuroscience: The circuit of fear. Nature, 454: 589-590, 2008.
[11] Woodruff AR, Sah P. Networks of parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the basolateral amygdala. Journal of Neuroscience, 27: 553-563, 2007.
[12] Delaney AJ, Crane JW, Sah P. Noradrenaline modulates transmission at a central synapse by a presynaptic mechanism. Neuron, 56: 880-892, 2007.
[13] Faber ESL, Delaney AJ, Sah P. SK channels regulate excitatory synaptic transmission and plasticity in the lateral amygdala. Nature Neuroscience, 8: 635-641, 2005.
[14] Mahanty NK, Sah P. Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors mediate long-term potentiation in interneurons in the amygdala. Nature, 394: 683-687, 1998.
[15] Sah P. Ca2+-activated K+ currents in neurones: Types, physiological roles and modulation. Trends in Neurosciences, 19: 150-154, 1996.
[16] Sah P, Hestrin S, Nicoll RA. Tonic activation of NMDA receptors by ambient glutamate enhances excitability of neurons. Science, 246: 815-818, 1989.
荣誉获奖:
[1] 澳大利亚科学院院士(FAA),2023
[2] 澳大利亚健康与医学科学院院士(FAHMS),2019
[3] 昆士兰艺术与科学学院院士(FQA),2015
[4] NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship,2015-2020
[5] 昆士兰大学校长高级研究奖学金,2013-2014
[6] ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship,2008-2012
[7] NHMRC Achievement Award,2008
[8] Sylvia and Charles Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship,1996-2000
[9] 澳大利亚神经科学学会A. W. Campbell Award,1995