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Name	Quan Wen
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Language ability	English, Chinese
Province	Anhui

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Name

Quan Wen

Contact Information

qwen@ustc.edu.cn

Language ability

English, Chinese

Province

Anhui

University/Lab Affiliation and Title	University of Science and Technology of China
Faculty	Life Sciences
Academic Background & Achievements	2001 - Bachelor of Science: Fudan University 2007 - PhD in Physics: State University of New York at Stony Brook and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2008 - Research at Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Janelia Farm 2009-2013 - Postdoctoral Research: Harvard University
Work Experience	2014-present - University of Science and Technology of China - Associate Professor

University/Lab Affiliation and Title

University of Science and Technology of China

Faculty

Life Sciences

Academic Background & Achievements

2001 - Bachelor of Science: Fudan University
2007 - PhD in Physics: State University of New York at Stony Brook and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2008 - Research at Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Janelia Farm
2009-2013 - Postdoctoral Research: Harvard University

Work Experience

2014-present - University of Science and Technology of China - Associate Professor

Areas of Focus	Research on behavior and intelligence using small model animals Systems and computational neuroscience Development of optical techniques for monitoring and manipulating behavior and neural circuits Connectomics; relationship between neural circuit structure and function
Publications	Hierarchical behavior control by a single class of interneurons, Jing Huo, Tianqi Xu, Qi Liu, Mahiber Polat, Sandeep Kumar, Xiaoqian Zhang, Andrew Leifer, Quan Wen, 2023 The geometry and dimensionality of brain-wide activity, Zezhen Wang, Weihao Mai, Yuming Chai, Kexin Qi, Hongtai Ren, Chen Shen, Shiwu Zhang, Yu Hu, Quan Wen, 2023 Flexible motor sequence generation during stereotyped escape responses, Yuan Wang, Xiaoqian Zhang, Qi Xin, Wesley Hung, Jeremy Florman, Jing Huo, Tianqi Xu, Yu Xie, Mark J. Alkema, Mei Zhen, Quan Wen, 2020 Rapid whole brain imaging of neural activity in freely behaving larval zebrafish, Lin Cong, Zeguan Wang, Yuming Chai, Wei Hang, Chunfeng Shang, Wenbing Yang, Lu Bai, Jiulin Du, Kai Wang, Quan Wen, 2017 Proprioceptive couplings within motor neurons drive C. elegans forward locomotion, Quan Wen, Michelle Po, Elizabeth Hulme, Sway Chen, Xinyu Liu, Marc Gershow, Andrew Leifer, Victoria Butler, Christopher Fang-Yen, William Schafer, George Whitesides, Matthieu Wyart, Dmitri Chklovskii, Mei Zhen, Aravinthan Samuel, 2012 Maximizing the connectivity repertoire as a statistical principle governing the dendritic arbor shape, Quan Wen, Armen Stepanyants, Guy Elston, Alexander Grosberg, Dmitri Chklovskii, 2009

Areas of Focus

Research on behavior and intelligence using small model animals
Systems and computational neuroscience
Development of optical techniques for monitoring and manipulating behavior and neural circuits
Connectomics; relationship between neural circuit structure and function

Publications

Hierarchical behavior control by a single class of interneurons, Jing Huo, Tianqi Xu, Qi Liu, Mahiber Polat, Sandeep Kumar, Xiaoqian Zhang, Andrew Leifer, Quan Wen, 2023
The geometry and dimensionality of brain-wide activity, Zezhen Wang, Weihao Mai, Yuming Chai, Kexin Qi, Hongtai Ren, Chen Shen, Shiwu Zhang, Yu Hu, Quan Wen, 2023
Flexible motor sequence generation during stereotyped escape responses, Yuan Wang, Xiaoqian Zhang, Qi Xin, Wesley Hung, Jeremy Florman, Jing Huo, Tianqi Xu, Yu Xie, Mark J. Alkema, Mei Zhen, Quan Wen, 2020
Rapid whole brain imaging of neural activity in freely behaving larval zebrafish, Lin Cong, Zeguan Wang, Yuming Chai, Wei Hang, Chunfeng Shang, Wenbing Yang, Lu Bai, Jiulin Du, Kai Wang, Quan Wen, 2017
Proprioceptive couplings within motor neurons drive C. elegans forward locomotion, Quan Wen, Michelle Po, Elizabeth Hulme, Sway Chen, Xinyu Liu, Marc Gershow, Andrew Leifer, Victoria Butler, Christopher Fang-Yen, William Schafer, George Whitesides, Matthieu Wyart, Dmitri Chklovskii, Mei Zhen, Aravinthan Samuel, 2012
Maximizing the connectivity repertoire as a statistical principle governing the dendritic arbor shape, Quan Wen, Armen Stepanyants, Guy Elston, Alexander Grosberg, Dmitri Chklovskii, 2009

Behavior Intelligence Model Animals Neuroscience Optical Techniques Neural Circuits Connectomics Structure Function Computational

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