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Chun Xu
Life Science
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai
Language: Chinese, English
Context
Behavior
Neurobiology
Hippocampus
Synaptic
Inputs
Outputs
Anxiety
Depression
Cognition
Areas of Focus
- Neurobiological mechanisms of context regulation of behavior
- Synaptic inputs and outputs of hippocampal cell subtypes
- Role of contextual regulation in anxiety and depression
- Role of contextual regulation in higher cognitive functions
Work Experience
- 2017-01 to Present - Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Researcher
- 2009-05 to 2016-12 - FMI Research Institute, Basel, Switzerland - Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2003-09 to 2009-03 PhD in Science: Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1999-09 to 2003-07 Bachelor of Science: Xiamen University
Publications
- An intein-split transactivator for intersectional neural imaging and optogenetic manipulation, Chen, HaoShan, Zhang, XiaoLong, Yang, RongRong, Wang, GuangLing, Zhu, XinYue, Xu, YuanFang, Wang, DanYang, Zhang, Na, Qiu, Shou, Zhan, LiJie, Shen, ZhiMing, Xu, XiaoHong, Long, Gang, Xu, Chun, 2022
- Accelerated evolution of an Lhx2 enhancer shapes mammalian social hierarchies, Wang, Yuting, Dai, Guangyi, Gu, Zhili, Liu, Guopeng, Tang, Ke, Pan, YiHsuan, Chen, Yujie, Lin, Xin, Wu, Nan, Chen, Haoshan, Feng, Su, Qiu, Shou, Sun, Hongduo, Li, Qian, Xu, Chuan, Mao, Yanan, Zhang, Yong Edward, Khaitovich, Philipp, Wang, YanLing, Liu, Qunxiu, Han, JingDong Jackie, Shao, Zhen, Wei, Gang, Xu, Chun, Jing, Naihe, Li, Haipeng, 2020
- Specific Hypothalamic Neurons Required for Sensing Conspecific Male Cues Relevant to Inter-male Aggression, Chen, AiXiao, Yan, JingJing, Zhang, Wen, Wang, Lei, Yu, ZiXian, Ding, XiaoJing, Wang, DanYang, Zhang, Min, Zhang, YanLi, Song, Nan, Jiao, ZhuoLei, Xu, Chun, Zhu, ShuJia, Xu, XiaoHong, 2020
- VMHvl-Projecting Vglut1+ Neurons in the Posterior Amygdala Gate Territorial Aggression, Zha, Xi, Wang, Lei, Jiao, ZhuoLei, Yang, RongRong, Xu, Chun, Xu, XiaoHong, 2020
- The orbitofrontal cortex projects to the parvafox nucleus of the ventrolateral hypothalamus and to its targets in the ventromedial periaqueductal grey matter, Babalian, Alexandre, Eichenberger, Simone, Bilella, Alessandro, Girard, Franck, Szabolcsi, Viktoria, Roccaro, Diana, AlvarezBolado, Gonzalo, Xu, Chun, Celio, Marco R., 2019
- Adaptive disinhibitory gating by VIP interneurons permits associative learning, Krabbe, Sabine, Paradiso, Enrica, DAquin, Simon, Bitterman, Yael, Courtin, Julien, Xu, Chun, Yonehara, Keisuke, Markovic, Milica, Mueller, Christian, Eichlisberger, Tobias, Grundemann, Jan, Ferraguti, Francesco, Luthi, Andreas, 2019
- NMDA-receptor-dependent plasticity in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis triggers long-term anxiolysis, Glangetas, Christelle, Massi, Lema, Fois, Giulia R, Jalabert, Marion, Girard, Delphine, Diana, Marco, Yonehara, Keisuke, Roska, Botond, Xu, Chun, Luthi, Andreas, Caille, Stephanie, Georges, Francois, 2017
- A competitive inhibitory circuit for selection of active and passive fear responses, Fadok, Jonathan P, Krabbe, Sabine, Markovic, Milica, Courtin, Julien, Xu, Chun, Massi, Lema, Botta, Paolo, Bylund, Kristine, Mueller, Christian, Kovacevic, Aleksandar, Tovote, Philip, Luthi, Andreas, 2017
- Distinct Hippocampal Pathways Mediate Dissociable Roles of Context in Memory Retrieval, Xu, Chun, Krabbe, Sabine, Grundemann, Jan, Botta, Paolo, Fadok, Jonathan P, Osakada, Fumitaka, Saur, Dieter, Grewe, Benjamin F, Schnitzer, Mark J, Callaway, Edward M, Luthi, Andreas, 2016
- Regulating anxiety with extrasynaptic inhibition, Botta, Paolo, Demmou, Lynda, Kasugai, Yu, Markovic, Milica, Xu, Chun, Fadok, Jonathan P, Lu, Tingjia, Poe, Michael M, Xu, Li, Cook, James M, Rudolph, Uwe, Sah, Pankaj, Ferraguti, Francesco, Luethi, Andreas, 2015
- Tonic GABA(A) conductance decreases membrane time constant and increases EPSP-spike precision in hippocampal pyramidal neurons, Wlodarczyk, Agnieszka I, Xu, Chun, Song, Inseon, Doronin, Maxim, Wu, YuWei, Walker, Matthew C, Semyanov, Alexey, 2013
- Identification and functional analysis of novel mutations of the CLCNKB gene in Chinese patients with classic Bartter syndrome, Yu, Y, Xu, C, Pan, X, Ren, H, Wang, W, Meng, X, Huang, F, Chen, N, 2010
- GABAB receptor activation mediates frequency-dependent plasticity of developing hippocampal GABAergic synapses, Xu Chun, 2008
