Zhong-wei Zhang, PhD

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Research

The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, United States

Area:

thalamus, cortex, neural circuit development

Website:

http://research.jax.org/faculty/zhong_wei_zhang.html

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Bio:

Dr. Zhong-wei Zhang received his BSc from Peking University, China and PhD from the University of Strasbourg, France, where he worked with the late Paul Feltz studying the physiology of the pituitary gland. During a postdoctoral fellowship with Darwin Berg at University of California San Diego, he studied nicotinic receptor function in chick ciliary ganglion. He then joined the laboratory of Martin Deschenes at Laval University, Canada to study functional organization of corticothalamic pathways. He became an Assistant Professor at Laval University in 2000 where he studied the development of the prefrontal cortex. In 2006 he moved to The Jackson Laboratory as an Assistant Professor. His laboratory is studying the development and function of neuronal circuits in the mouse using a variety of experimental approaches.

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Parents

Paul Feltz	grad student	1987-1991	University Louis Pasteur
Darwin K. Berg	post-doc	1991-1995	UCSD Neurosciences
Martin Deschenes	post-doc	1995-1998	Laval University

Children

Joseph D. Zak	research assistant	2008-2010	The Jackson Laboratory
Cyril Bories	grad student	2005-2006	Université Laval
Wen Zhang	post-doc	2010-2013

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Liu H, Wang H, Peterson M, et al. (2019) N-terminal alternative splicing of GluN1 regulates the maturation of excitatory synapses and seizure susceptibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Hou G, Smith AG, Zhang ZW. (2016) Lack of Intrinsic GABAergic Connections in the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus of the Mouse. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 36: 7246-7252
Sun F, Zhang ZW, Tan EM, et al. (2016) Icaritin suppresses development of neuroendocrine differentiation of prostate cancer through inhibition of IL-6/STAT3 and Aurora kinase A pathways in TRAMP mice. Carcinogenesis
Zhang W, Zhang L, Liang B, et al. (2016) Hyperactive somatostatin interneurons contribute to excitotoxicity in neurodegenerative disorders. Nature Neuroscience
Meng JF, Xu TF, Song CZ, et al. (2015) Melatonin treatment of pre-veraison grape berries to increase size and synchronicity of berries and modify wine aroma components. Food Chemistry. 185: 127-34
Zhang W, Peterson M, Beyer B, et al. (2014) Loss of MeCP2 from forebrain excitatory neurons leads to cortical hyperexcitation and seizures. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 34: 2754-63
Zhang ZW, Peterson M, Liu H. (2013) Essential role of postsynaptic NMDA receptors in developmental refinement of excitatory synapses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 1095-100
Wang H, Liu H, Zhang ZW. (2011) Elimination of redundant synaptic inputs in the absence of synaptic strengthening. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 31: 16675-84
Boumil RM, Letts VA, Roberts MC, et al. (2010) A missense mutation in a highly conserved alternate exon of dynamin-1 causes epilepsy in fitful mice. Plos Genetics. 6
Zhang ZW, Zak JD, Liu H. (2010) MeCP2 is required for normal development of GABAergic circuits in the thalamus. Journal of Neurophysiology. 103: 2470-81