Professor | Ying Zhang | Asia Growth Partners

Name	Ying Zhang
Contact Information	y_zhang@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Language ability	Chinese, English
Province	Beijing

Name

Ying Zhang

Contact Information

y_zhang@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Language ability

Chinese, English

Province

Beijing

University/Lab Affiliation and Title	Tsinghua University
Faculty	Life Sciences
Academic Background & Achievements	2008-2012 Bachelor: Nanjing University 2012-2017 PhD: Zhejiang University 2017-2023 Postdoctoral Researcher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Work Experience	2023-Present - Tsinghua University, School of Life Sciences - Assistant Professor 2023-Present - Tsinghua-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research & Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences - Researcher

University/Lab Affiliation and Title

Tsinghua University

Faculty

Life Sciences

Academic Background & Achievements

2008-2012 Bachelor: Nanjing University
2012-2017 PhD: Zhejiang University
2017-2023 Postdoctoral Researcher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Work Experience

2023-Present - Tsinghua University, School of Life Sciences - Assistant Professor
2023-Present - Tsinghua-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research & Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences - Researcher

Areas of Focus	Thalamic functions in brain diseases
Publications	Dynamic and selective engrams emerge with memory consolidation, Tome DF, Zhang Y, Aida T, Mosto O, Lu YF, Chen M, Sadeh S, Roy DS#, Clopath C#, 2024 Targeting thalamic circuits rescues motor and mood deficits in PD mice, Zhang Y, Roy DS, Zhu Y, Chen Y, Aida T, Hou Y, Shen C, Lea NE, Schroeder ME, Skaggs KM, Sullivan HA, Fischer KB, Callaway EM, Wickersham IR, Dai J, Li XM, Lu Z, Feng G#, 2022 Anterior thalamic circuits crucial for working memory, Roy DS, Zhang Y, Aida T, Shen C, Skaggs KM, Hou Y, Fleishman M, Mosto O, Weninger A, Feng G#, 2022 Brain-wide mapping reveals that engrams for a single memory are distributed across multiple brain regions, Roy DS, Park YG, Kim ME, Zhang Y, Ogawa SK, DiNapoli N, Gu X, Cho JH, Choi H, Kamensky L, Martin J, Mosto O, Aida T, Chung K, Tonegawa S, 2022 Anterior thalamic dysfunction underlies cognitive deficits in a subset of neuropsychiatric disease models, Roy DS, Zhang Y, Aida T, Choi S, Chen Q, Hou Y, Lea NE, Skaggs KM, Quay JC, Liew M, Maisano H, Le V, Jones C, Xu J, Kong D, Sullivan HA, Saunders A, McCarroll SA, Wickersham IR, Feng G#, 2021 MeCP2 in cholinergic interneurons of nucleus accumbens regulates fear learning, Zhang Y, Zhu Y, Cao SX, Sun P, Yang JM, Xia YF, Xie SZ, Yu XD, Fu JY, Shen CJ, He HY, Pan HQ, Chen XJ, Wang H, Li XM, 2020 ErbB4 deletion in noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus induces mania-like behavior via elevated catecholamines, Cao SX, Zhang Y, Hu XY, Hong B, Sun P, He HY, Geng HY, Bao AM, Duan SM, Yang JM, Gao TM, Lian H, Li XM Loss of MeCP2 in cholinergic neurons causes part of RTT-like phenotypes via a7 receptor in hippocampus, Zhang Y, Cao SX*, Sun P, He HY, Yang CH, Chen XJ, Shen CJ, Wang XD, Chen Z, Berg D, Duan SM, Li XM, 2016

Areas of Focus

Thalamic functions in brain diseases

Publications

Dynamic and selective engrams emerge with memory consolidation, Tome DF*, Zhang Y*, Aida T, Mosto O, Lu YF, Chen M, Sadeh S, Roy DS#, Clopath C#, 2024
Targeting thalamic circuits rescues motor and mood deficits in PD mice, Zhang Y*, Roy DS*, Zhu Y, Chen Y, Aida T, Hou Y, Shen C, Lea NE, Schroeder ME, Skaggs KM, Sullivan HA, Fischer KB, Callaway EM, Wickersham IR, Dai J, Li XM, Lu Z, Feng G#, 2022
Anterior thalamic circuits crucial for working memory, Roy DS*, Zhang Y*, Aida T, Shen C, Skaggs KM, Hou Y, Fleishman M, Mosto O, Weninger A, Feng G#, 2022
Brain-wide mapping reveals that engrams for a single memory are distributed across multiple brain regions, Roy DS*, Park YG*, Kim ME*, Zhang Y*, Ogawa SK*, DiNapoli N, Gu X, Cho JH, Choi H, Kamensky L, Martin J, Mosto O, Aida T, Chung K, Tonegawa S, 2022
Anterior thalamic dysfunction underlies cognitive deficits in a subset of neuropsychiatric disease models, Roy DS*, Zhang Y*, Aida T, Choi S, Chen Q, Hou Y, Lea NE, Skaggs KM, Quay JC, Liew M, Maisano H, Le V, Jones C, Xu J, Kong D, Sullivan HA, Saunders A, McCarroll SA, Wickersham IR, Feng G#, 2021
MeCP2 in cholinergic interneurons of nucleus accumbens regulates fear learning, Zhang Y*, Zhu Y*, Cao SX*, Sun P, Yang JM, Xia YF, Xie SZ, Yu XD, Fu JY, Shen CJ, He HY, Pan HQ, Chen XJ, Wang H, Li XM, 2020
ErbB4 deletion in noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus induces mania-like behavior via elevated catecholamines, Cao SX*, Zhang Y*, Hu XY*, Hong B, Sun P, He HY, Geng HY, Bao AM, Duan SM, Yang JM, Gao TM, Lian H, Li XM
Loss of MeCP2 in cholinergic neurons causes part of RTT-like phenotypes via a7 receptor in hippocampus, Zhang Y*, Cao SX*, Sun P, He HY, Yang CH, Chen XJ, Shen CJ, Wang XD, Chen Z, Berg D, Duan SM, Li XM, 2016

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