![]() | Name: | Lau Pak-Ming (刘北明) |
Address: | School of Life Sciences | |
University of Science and Technology of China | ||
230026 Hefei, P. R. China | ||
Tel: | 86-551-63606046 | |
E-mail: | plau@ustc.edu.cn | |
Home page: | http://neurophysics.ustc.edu.cn/ |
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE |
1985 - 1989 | B.S. (Physics), Peking University |
1989 - 1992 | M.S. program (Physics), University of Hong Kong |
1993 - 1999 | Ph.D. (Molecular and Cell Biology), University of California at Berkeley |
1999 - 2000 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at San Diego |
2000 - 2006 | Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
2006 - 2008 | Research Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
2009 - | Professor, University of Science and Technology of China |
RESEARCH INTERESTS |
1. | Synaptic development and plasticity |
2. | Neural network dynamics and learning |
3. | Stress and related diseases |
4. | Brain mapping techniques |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS |
1. | Xu C, Liu H-J, Qi L, Tao C-L, Wang Y-J, Shen Z, Tian C-L, Lau P-M* & Bi G-Q*. Structure and plasticity of silent synapses in developing hippocampal neurons visualized by super-resolution imaging. Cell Discovery 6, 1-11 (2020). |
2. | Wang H, Zhu Q, Ding L, Shen Y, Yang C-Y, Xu F, Shu C, Guo Y, Xiong Z, Shan Q, Jia F, Su P, Yang Q-R, Li B, He X, Chen X, Wu F, Zhou J-N, Xu F, Han H, Lau P-M* & Bi G-Q*. Scalable volumetric imaging for ultrahigh-speed brain mapping at synaptic resolution. National Science Review 6, 982-992 (2019). |
3. | Liu YT, Tao CL, Lau PM, Zhou ZH & Bi GQ. Postsynaptic protein organization revealed by electron microscopy. Curr Opin Struct Biol 54, 152-160 (2019). |
4. | Guo Y, Tang X, Zhang J, Jin S, Li J, Ding L, Zhang K, Yang C, Zhou H, He X, Xu F, Bi GQ, Xu L & Lau PM. Corticosterone Signaling and a Lateral Habenula-Ventral Tegmental Area Circuit Modulate Compulsive Self-Injurious Behavior in a Rat Model. J Neurosci 38, 5251-5266 (2018). |
5. | Zhang JC, Lau PM & Bi GQ. Gain in sensitivity and loss in temporal contrast of STDP by dopaminergic modulation at hippocampal synapses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106, 13028-13033 (2009). |
6. | Lau P & Bi G. Reverberatory activity in neuronal networks in vitro. Chinese Science Bulletin 54, 1828-1835 (2009). |
7. | Lau PM & Bi GQ. Synaptic mechanisms of persistent reverberatory activity in neuronal networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102, 10333-10338 (2005). |
8. | Lau PM, Zucker RS & Bentley D. Induction of filopodia by direct local elevation of intracellular calcium ion concentration. J Cell Biol 145, 1265-1275 (1999). |