Zhen Huang
Associate Professor
Department of neuroscience
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States of America
Biography
Professor Zhen Huang pursued his Ph.D.from Harvard University and At present he is working as a Associate Professor in Department Of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin Madison. His Research Interests includes- Professor Huang has also published many articles such as- "Molecular mechanisms that regulate neuronal migration, laminar assembly, and vascular patterning in the cerebral cortex". "Radial glia neural progenitors regulate nascent brain vascular network stabilization via inhibition of Wnt signalling". "A functional requirement for astroglia in promoting blood vessel development in the early postnatal brain". "Ric-8a, a guanine nucleotide exchange factor in GPCR signaling, regulates Bergmann glia-basement membrane adhesion during cerebellar foliation". "Radial glia regulate Cajla-Retzius cell positioning in the early embryonic cerebral cortex".
Research Interest
Molecular mechanisms that regulate neuronal migration, laminar assembly, and vascular patterning in the cerebral cortex
Publications
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Graus-Porta D, Blaess S, Senften M, Littlewood-Evans A, Damsky C, Huang Z, Orban P, Klein R, Schittny JC, Müller U. β1-class integrins regulate the development of laminae and folia in the cerebral and cerebellar cortex. Neuron. 2001 Aug 16;31(3):367-79.
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Huang Z, Shimazu K, Woo NH, Zang K, Müller U, Lu B, Reichardt LF. Distinct roles of the β1-class integrins at the developing and the mature hippocampal excitatory synapse. Journal of Neuroscience. 2006 Oct 25;26(43):11208-19.
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Huang X, Lisberger SG. Noise correlations in cortical area MT and their potential impact on trial-by-trial variation in the direction and speed of smooth-pursuit eye movements. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2009 Jun 1;101(6):3012-30.
