Participants of the Fifth China Symposium on Nerve-controlled Metabolism pose for a group photo. [Photo/WeChat account: BSC]

The Fifth China Symposium on Nerve-controlled Metabolism was held by the Metabolic Biology Academic Subgroup affiliated to the Biophysical Society of China (BSC) in Hefei, capital city of East China's Anhui province, from March 24 to 26.

Jointly undertaken by the Division of Life Sciences and Medicine of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Anhui Neuroscience Society, the three-day symposium brought together more than 300 experts and scholars in the field of nerve-controlled metabolism.

Zhan Cheng, a professor at the USTC, presided over the opening ceremony. He extended a warm welcome to all participants and called on talents at home and abroad to contribute to the development of nerve-controlled metabolism.

Xue Tian, director of the BSC Organization Construction Working Committee, a member of the CPC USTC committee and director of the neural circuits & brain cognition department of the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, addresses the symposium. [Photo/WeChat account: BSC]

Xue Tian, director of the BSC Organization Construction Working Committee, a member of the CPC USTC committee and director of the neural circuits & brain cognition department of the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, addressed the opening of the symposium and delivered a keynote report titled Light and Blood Glucose Metabolism. He called on participants to make concerted efforts to raise Chinese scientists’ international influence in nerve-controlled metabolism.

Scholars give speeches at the symposium. [Photo/WeChat account: BSC]

Experts and scholars exchange views at the symposium. [Photo/WeChat account: BSC]

In addition to building a high-end cooperation platform for scholars engaging in nerve-controlled metabolism, the symposium also facilitated cross-disciplinary exchanges among basic sciences, clinical medicine and nerve sciences and advanced the integrated and innovative growth of nerve-controlled metabolism, according to those in attendance of the symposium.