Chen, Albert I-ming
Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
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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Novitch, B.G., Chen, A.I., and Jessell, T.M. (2001). Coordinate regulation of motor neuron subtype identity and pan-neuronal properties by the bHLH repressor Olig2. Neuron 31, 1-17.
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Chen, A.I., de Nooij, J.N., and Jessell, T.M. (2006). Graded activity of transcription factor Runx3 specifies the laminar termination pattern of sensory axons in the developing spinal cord. Neuron 49, 395-408.
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Chen, A.I., Nguyen, C.N., Copenhagen, D.R., Badurek, S., Minichiello, L., Ranscht, B. and Reichardt, L.F. (2011). TrkB controls the assembly and maintenance of GABAergic synapses in the cerebellar cortex.Journal of Neurosci. 31, 2769-80.
