Edited book: Network Functions and Plasticity, Academic Press, 2017
Current - Nanjing University - Professor
Past - University of Illinois - Researcher
Past - Mount Sinai School of Medicine - Researcher
Research
Behavioral/Systems and Cellular Neuroscience
A single central pattern generator for the control of a locomotor rolling wave in mollusc Aplysia, Wang H. Y., Yu K., Yang Z., Zhang G., Guo S. Q., WangT., Liu D. D., Jia R. N., Zheng Y. T., Su Y.N., Lou Y., Weiss K.R., Zhou H. B.*, Liu F.*, Cropper E.C., Yu Q.*, Jing J.*, 2023
AI protein structure prediction-based modeling and mutagenesis of a protostome receptor and peptide ligands reveal key residues for their interaction, Guo S. Q., Li Y. D., Chen P., Zhang G., Wang H. Y., Jiang H. M., Liu W.J., Xu J. P., Ding X.Y., Fu P., Yu K., Zhou H. B. *, Checco J. W. *, Jing J.*, 2022
Identification of an allatostatin C signaling system in mollusc Aplysia, Jiang H. M., Yang Z., Xue Y. Y., Wang H. Y., Guo S. Q., Xu J. P., Li Y. D., Ding X. Y., Yu K., Liu W. J., Zhang G. *, Wang J.*, Zhou H. B.*, Susswein A.J., Jing J.*, 2022
Synaptic mechanisms for motor variability in a feedforward network, Zhang G., Yu K., WangT., Chen T-T., Yuan W-D., Yang F., LeZ-W., Guo S-Q., XueY-Y., Chen S-A., Yang Z., Liu F.*, Cropper E.C., Weiss K.R., Jing J.*, 2020
Aplysia allatotropin-related peptide and its newly identified d-amino acid–containing epimer both activate a receptor and a neuronal target, Checco J.W., Zhang G., Yuan W-D., Le Z-W., Jing J. *, Sweedler J.V.*, 2018
Molecular and physiological characterization of a receptor for D‑amino acid-containing neuropeptides, Checco J.W., Zhang G., Yuan W-D., Yu K., Yin S-Y., Roberts-Galbraith R.H., Yau P.M., Romanova E.V., Jing J. *, Sweedler J.V. *, 2018
Newly identified Aplysia SPTR-Gene Family-Derived Peptides: localization and function, Zhang G., Yuan W-D., Vilim F.S., Romanova E.V., Yu K., Yin S-Y., Le Z-W., Xue Y-Y., Chen T-T., Chen G-K., Chen S-A., Cropper E.C., Sweedler J.V., Weiss K.R., Jing J. *, 2018
Discovery of leucokinin-like neuropeptides that modulate a specific parameter of feeding motor programs in the molluscan model, Aplysia, Zhang G., Vilim F.S., Liu D-D, Romanova E.V., Yu K., Yuan W-D., Xiao H., Chen T-T., Alexeeva V.Y., Yin S-Y., Chen S-A., Cropper E.C., Sweedler J.V., Weiss K.R., Jing J. *, 2017
A D-amino acid-containing neuropeptide discovery funnel, Livnat I., Tai H-C., Jansson E. T., Bai L., Romanova E.V., Chen T-T., Yu K., Chen S-A., Zhang Y., WangZ-Y., Liu D-D., Weiss K.R., Jing J. *, Sweedler J.V. *, 2016
Repetition priming of motor activity mediated by a central pattern generator: the importance of extrinsic vs. intrinsic program initiators, Siniscalchi M.J., Cropper E.C., Jing J., Weiss K.R., 2016
Aplysia locomotion: network and behavioral actions of GdFFD, a D-amino acid-containing neuropeptide, Yang C-Y., Yu K., Wang Y., Chen S-A., Liu D-D., WangZ-Y., Su Y-N., Yang S-Z., Chen T-T., Livnat I., Vilim F.S., Cropper E.C., Weiss K.R., Sweedler J.V., Jing J. *, 2016
Functional characterization of a vesicular glutamate transporter in an interneuron that makes excitatory and inhibitory synaptic connections in a molluscan neural circuit, Jing J. *, Alexeeva V.Y., Chen S-A., Yu K., Due M.R., Tan L-N., Chen T-T., Liu D-D., Cropper E.C., Vilim F.S., Weiss K.R., 2015
Complementary interactions between command-like interneurons that function to activate and specify motor programs, Wu J-S., Wang N, Siniscalchi M.J., Perkins M.H., Zheng Y-T., Yu W., Chen S-A., Jia R-N., Gu J-W., Qian Y-Q., Ye Y., Vilim F.S., Cropper E.C., Weiss K.R., Jing J. *, 2014
Characterization of GdFFD, a D-amino acid-containing neuropeptide that functions as an extrinsic modulator of the Aplysia feeding circuit, Bai L., Livnat I., Romanova E.V., Alexeeva V.Y., Yau P.M., Vilim F.S., Weiss K.R., Jing J. *, Sweedler J.V.*, 2013
Functional differentiation of a population of electrically coupled heterogeneous elements in a microcircuit, Sasaki K., Cropper E.C., Weiss K.R., Jing J. *, 2013
Feedforward compensation mediated by the central and peripheral actions of a single neuropeptide discovered using representational differences analysis, Jing J. *, Sweedler J.V., Cropper E.C., Alexeeva V., Park J.H., Romanova E., Xie F., Dembrow N.C., Ludwar B.C., Weiss K.R., Vilim F.S., 2010
Distinct inhibitory neurons exert temporally specific control over activity of a motoneuron receiving concurrent excitation and inhibition, Sasaki K., Brezina V., Weiss K.R., Jing J.*, 2009
Neural analog of arousal: persistent conditional activation of a feeding modulator by serotonergic initiators of locomotion, Jing J. *, Vilim F.S., Cropper E.C., Weiss K.R., 2008
From hunger to satiety: reconfiguration of a feeding network by Aplysia neuropeptide Y, Jing J. *, Vilim F.S., Horn C., Alexeeva V.Y., Hatcher N.G., Sasaki K., Yashina I., Zhurov Y., Kupfermann I., Sweedler J.V., Weiss K.R., 2007
Generation of variants of a motor act in a modular and hierarchical motor network, Jing J. *, Weiss K.R., 2005
The construction of movement with behavior-specific and behavior-independent modules, Jing J. *, Cropper E.C., Hurwitz I., Weiss K.R., 2004
Directional avoidance turns encoded by single interneurons and sustained by multifunctional serotonergic cells, Jing J. *, Gillette R., 2003
Keywords
Sensorimotor IntegrationMovement CoordinationNeuromodulationBehavioral PlasticityCircuit PlasticityMotivationArousalDecision MakingNeural CircuitsModel Systems
