Areas of Focus
- Neural Basis of Depression
- Neural Circuits of Social Disorders
Work Experience
- 2023-09~Present - Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Researcher
- 2022-05~2023-09 - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Lecturer
- 2018-03~2022-04 - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Postdoctoral Fellow
- 2017-07~2018-03 - Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Assistant Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2013-08--2017-07 PhD: Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2010-08--2013-06 Master's: Chinese Academy of Forestry
- 2006-09--2010-06 Bachelor's: Qingdao University
Publications
- Lateral habenula glutamatergic neurons projecting to the dorsal raphe nucleus promote aggressive arousal in mice, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2022
- Brain motor and fear circuits regulate leukocytes during acute stress, NATURE, 2022
- Sex differences in appetitive and reactive aggression, NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, 2022
- Midbrain projection to the basolateral amygdala encodes anxiety-like but not depression-like behaviors, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2022
- Whole blood transcriptional signatures associated with rapid antidepressant response to ketamine in patients with treatment resistant depression, TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY, 2022
- Distinct forms of regret linked to resilience versus susceptibility to stress are regulated by region-specific CREB function in mice, SCIENCE ADVANCES, 2022
- Social trauma engages lateral septum circuitry to occlude social reward, NATURE, 2022
- Neuromodulatory effect of interleukin 1β in the dorsal raphe nucleus on individual differences in aggression, MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY, 2021
- Sex-specific peripheral and central responses to stress-induced depression and treatment in a mouse model, JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH, 2021
- Orexin signaling in GABAergic lateral habenula neurons modulates aggressive behavior in male mice, NATURE NEUROSCIENCE, 2020
- Visualization and correction of social abnormalities-associated neural ensembles in adult MECP2 duplication mice, SCIENCE BULLETIN, 2020
- A single-cell RNA-seq survey of the developmental landscape of the human prefrontal cortex, NATURE, 2018
- The Primate-Specific Gene TMEM14B Marks Outer Radial Glia Cells and Promotes Cortical Expansion and Folding, CELL STEM CELL, 2017
- Neocortical Expansion and Neurodevelopmental Disease, PROGRESS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS, 2016
- Novel electrode layout for relaxor single crystal pyroelectric detectors with enhanced responsivity and specific detectivity, SENSORS & ACTUATORS: A. PHYSICAL, 2015
- Dynamic expression of small RNA populations in larch (Larix leptolepis), PLANTA, 2013
Awards
- Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award (2021): Other
