2025 TMU Young Scholars Research Symposium
Date: 18th Feb, 2025 (Tue) 09:00 am -12:00 pm
Venue: Cheng-Pu conference Hall, 4F, Comprehensive Medical Building (Front Building), Taipei Medical University
Language: English
The event was a venue to share postdoc/PhD students’ research. Helene Vitet from Braintime lab who presented her work on the first brain structure, the choroid plexus, which shows a 24-hour rhythm in the expression of a clock protein. She shows where and when these oscillations appear first to form an independent embryonic clock, which develops after maternal entrainment.
In complement, Vuong Hung Truong’s (GIMBC PhD student) work demonstrated that the embryonic heart establishes its own circadian rhythm early in development—regulating heart rate independently of the brain’s input. Together, these studies have important implications for adapting neonatal intensive care unit protocols since most preterm babies exhibit an impaired circadian rhythm. Our audience from GIMBC, including Ben (Nguyen), Robert, along with Frank (Cheng-en), a medical undergraduate joined Professor Jihwan Myung to explore these exciting insights with us.
