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Nannan Guo
Basic Medical Sciences
Southern Medical University
Guangdong
Language: English, Chinese, Japanese
Hippocampus
Memory
Neural Circuit
Aging
Adult Neurogenesis
Cognitive Impairment
Stem Cells
Brain Injury
Emergency Stimuli
Molecular Mechanisms
Areas of Focus
- Neural circuits and molecular mechanisms of memory formation and consolidation
- Neural circuits and molecular mechanisms of cognitive impairment due to aging
- Function of adult neural stem cells in response to emergency stimuli and brain injury
Work Experience
- 2020 - Present: High-level talent at Southern Medical University
- Postdoctoral research at Fudan University, Tohoku University, and Harvard University
Academic Background & Achievements
- PhD: Fudan University, Institute of Neurobiology
- Published in Nature Medicine, Neuron, Cell Stem Cell, Journal of Neuroscience
Publications
- Communication, Cross Talk, and Signal Integration in the Adult Hippocampal Neurogenic Niche, Cinzia Vicidomini, Nannan Guo, Amar Sahay, 2020
- Dentate granule cell recruitment of feedforward inhibition governs engram maintenance and remote memory generalization, Nannan Guo, Marta E. Soden, Charlotte Herber, Michael TaeWoo Kim, Antoine Besnard, Paoyan Lin, Xiang Ma, Constance L. Cepko, Larry S. Zweifel, Amar Sahay, 2018
- Neural Circuits Serve as Periscopes for NSCs, Nannan Guo, Amar Sahay, 2017
- Modulating Neuronal Competition Dynamics in the Dentate Gyrus to Rejuvenate Aging Memory Circuits, McAvoy KM, Scobie KN, Berger S, Russo C, Guo N, Decharatanachart P, Vega-Ramirez H, Miake-Lye S, Whalen M, Nelson M, Bergami M, Bartsch D, Hen R, Berninger B, Sahay A, 2016
- Adult neurogenesis modifies excitability of the dentate gyrus, Taruna Ikrar, Nannan Guo, Kaiwen He, Antoine Besnard, Sally Levinson, Alexis Hill, Hey-Kyoung Lee, Rene Hen, Xiangmin Xu, Amar Sahay, 2013
- A sensitive period for GABAergic interneurons in the dentate gyrus in modulating sensorimotor gating, Nannan Guo, Kaichi Yoshizaki, Ryuichi Kimura, Fumikazu Suto, Yuchio Yanagawa, Noriko Osumi, 2013
Awards
- 2020: High-level talent introduction at Southern Medical University
