Areas of Focus
- Thalamic functions in brain diseases
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
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2008-2012 Bachelor: Nanjing University
- 2012-2017 PhD: Zhejiang University
- 2017-2023 Postdoctoral Researcher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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
