Liqun Luo
PROFESSOR
NEUROBIOLOGY
Canary Center at Stanford
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Luo is currently a Professor of Biology and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He teaches neurobiology to Stanford undergraduate and graduate students. He recently published a single-author textbook entitled “Principles of Neurobiology.”Dr. Luo started his own lab in the Department of Biology, Stanford University in December 1996. Together with his postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, Dr. Luo studies the logic of brain wiring using genetic tools. They have developed mosaic marking systems in flies and mice and used them to study how signals are transduced from cell surface receptors to the cytoskeleton, how neuronal processes are pruned, and how neural circuits are organized and built.
Research Interest
Organization of the olfactory system, Development of wiring specificity in the fly olfactory system,Developmental neurobiology
Publications
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Huang WH, Guenthner CJ, Xu J, Nguyen T, Schwarz LA, Wilkinson AW, Gozani O, Chang HY, Shamloo M, Luo L. Molecular and neural functions of Rai1, the Causal Gene for Smith-Magenis syndrome. Neuron. 2016 Oct 19;92(2):392-406.
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Wagner MJ, Kim TH, Savall J, Schnitzer MJ, Luo L. Cerebellar granule cells encode the expectation of reward. Nature. 2017 Apr 6;544(7648):96-100.
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Wagner MJ, Kim TH, Savall J, Schnitzer MJ, Luo L. Cerebellar granule cells encode the expectation of reward. Nature. 2017 Apr 6;544(7648):96-100.
