Chen Albert I-ming
"School of Biological Sciences College of Science"
Korea University
Korea
Biography
Albert Chen is an assistant professor in the Warwick-NTU Neuroscience Program. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and Ph.D. from Columbia University where he studied developmental neurobiology in the laboratory of Thomas Jessell. Albert was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Louis Reichardt at the University of California, San Francisco.
Research Interest
Albert Chen's research aims to identify and characterize factors that direct the assembly and maintenance of neural circuits, and to understand how the organization of these circuits controls specific behaviors. These general issues are examined through the analysis of circuits in the cerebellum important for coordination, movement and motor learning. His lab is exploring mechanisms underlying the development and function of cerebellar circuits using genetics, imaging, and behavioral approaches.
Publications
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Chen AI, Nguyen CN, Copenhagen DR, Badurek S, Minichiello L, Ranscht B, Reichardt LF. TrkB (tropomyosin-related kinase B) controls the assembly and maintenance of GABAergic synapses in the cerebellar cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 2011 Feb 23;31(8):2769-80.
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Chen AI, Zang K, Masliah E, Reichardt LF. Glutamatergic axon-derived BDNF controls GABAergic synaptic differentiation in the cerebellum. Scientific reports. 2016 Feb 1;6:20201.
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Zainolabidin N, Kamath SP, Thanawalla AR, Chen AI. Distinct Activities of Tfap2A and Tfap2B in the Specification of GABAergic Interneurons in the Developing Cerebellum. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 2017;10.
