Education

2011-2017 Ph.D in Neuroscience Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria

                        Supervisor: Prof. Jozsef Csicsvari

                  Dissertation: Reactivation of Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Goal-Directed Spatial Tasks

2008-2011 M.S. in Neuropharmacology Nanjing Medical University

                  Supervisor：Prof. Dong-Ya Zhu

                  Dissertation: Protection of Cerebral Ischemia by Disrupting nNOS-PSD95 Interaction

2003-2008 B.S. in Clinical Pharmacy  Nanjing Medical University

Research Experience

Since July 2020 Professor Southern Medical University

2018-2020 Post-doctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School

2017-2018 Post-doctoral Fellow IST Austria

Key Research Areas

w Neural dynamics of memory circuits during active waking behavior and sleep

w In vivo multichannel recordings and optogenetic manipulation of neuronal ensembles

w Functional restoration of the central nervous system injury

Research Techniques

w Multichannel recordings (64-128 channels) in freely moving animals

w Cell-type-selective and input-defined optogenetics

w Miniscope for deep brain imaging

w Memory-guided behavior and associated in vivo data analyses

Publications

1. Xu H, Baracskay P, O’Neill J, Csicsvari J. Assembly responses of hippocampal CA1 place cells predict learned behaviour in goal-directed spatial tasks on the radial eight-arm maze. Neuron. 2019.101(1):119-132.e4

2. Zhou L*, Li F*, Xu H*, Luo C, Wu H, Zhu M, Lu W, Ji X, Zhou Q, Zhu D. Treatment of cerebral ischemia by disrupting ischemia-induced interaction of nNOS with PSD95. Nature Medicine. 2010. 16, 1439–1443 (*co-first author)