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Hong Zhu
Basic Medical Sciences
Nanjing Medical University
Jiangsu
Language: English, Chinese
Neural Circuits
Social Behavior
Neurotransmitters
Neuropeptides
Receptors
Social Motivation
Individual Preference
Optogenetics
Chemogenetics
Molecular Biology
Areas of Focus
- Neural circuit mechanisms of social behavior
Work Experience
- 2024-Now: Professor at School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University
- 2019-2023: Postdoctoral Researcher at Emory University, USA
- 2018-2019: Postdoctoral Researcher at Scripps Research Institute, USA
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2010-2018: Master's and PhD at Shanghai Institute of Neuroscience, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publications
- History of winning remodels thalamo-PFC circuit to reinforce social dominance., Zhou, T#, Zhu, H#, Fan, Z, Wang, F, Chen, Y, Liang, H, Yang, Z, Zhang, L, Lin, L, Zhan, Y, Wang, Z, Hu, H*, 2017
- Dynamics of a disinhibitory prefrontal microcircuit in controlling social competition., Zhang C#, Zhu H*#, Ni Z*, Xin Q, Zhou T, Wu R, Gao G, Gao Z, Ma H, Li H, He M, Zhang J, Cheng H, Hu H*, 2022
- Brain’s neural switch for social dominance in animals., Zhu, H, Hu, H*, 2017
- Neural mechanism underlying depressive-like state associate with social status loss., Fan ZX, Chang JR, Liang YL, Zhu H, Zhang CY, Wang JY, Xu Y, Li QJ, and Hu H*, 2023
- Social experience alters oxytocinergic modulation in the nucleus accumbens of female prairie voles., Borie AM, Agezo S, Lunsford P, Boender AJ, Guo JD, Zhu H, Berman GJ, Young LJ*, Liu RC*, 2022
- Using the tube test to measure social hierarchy in mice., Fan, Z, Zhu, H, Zhou, T, Wang, S, Wu, Y, Hu, H*, 2019
- Bidirectional control of social hierarchy by synaptic efficacy in medial prefrontal cortex., Wang, F, Zhu, J, Zhu, H, Zhang, Q, Lin, Z, Hu, H*, 2011
