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Jiamin Xu

Jiamin Xu

Professor, Institute of Brain Functional Genomics, East China Normal University

Email: xujiamin@bio.ecnu.edu.cn

Phone: +86 021-62232920

Office: Room 207, Institute of Brain Functional Genomics, East China Normal University, 3663 Zhongshan Road N., Shanghai, China, 200062

Faculty Website

Research Interests

Hippocampus, learning and memory, in vivo ephys recording, optogenetics

Research Summary

Neuronal coding heterogeneity of hippocampal pyramidal neurons during replay events, in vivo long-term ephys profile of hippocampal engrams, neuromodulatory effect on hippocampal oscillations and neuronal coding.

Education Background

2015    Ph.D., East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

2009    B.S. in Bioscience, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Work/Research Experience

2021-present    Professor (Zijiang Young Scholar), Institute of Brain Functional Genomics, East China Normal University

2016-2021    Research Assistant, Institute of Brain Functional Genomics, East China Normal University

Selected Awards

2020    Qiusuo Distinguished Junior Research Fellow, Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Technology

2016    Shanghai Sailing Program, Shanghai Municipal of Science and Technology

Representative Publications
  1. Zhang L, Chen G, Niu R, Wei W, Ma X, Xu J, Wang J, Wang Z and Lin L, Hippocampal theta-driving cells revealed by Granger causality, Hippocampus, 2012, 22, 1781-1793.
  2. Li S#, Xu J#, Chen G, Lin L, Zhou D and Cai D, The characterization of hippocampal theta-driving neurons - a time-delayed mutual information approach, Scientific reports, 2017, 7, 5637.
  3. Li Y#, Xu J#, Liu Y, Zhu J, Liu N, Zeng W, Huang N, Rasch MJ, Jiang H, Gu X, Li X, Luo M, Li C, Teng J, Chen J, Zeng S, Lin L and Zhang X, A distinct entorhinal cortex to hippocampal CA1 direct circuit for olfactory associative learning, Nature neuroscience, 2017, 20, 559-570.
  4. Ma X, Zhang Y, Wang L, Li N, Barkai E, Zhang X, Lin L* and Xu J*, The Firing of Theta State-Related Septal Cholinergic Neurons Disrupt Hippocampal Ripple Oscillations via Muscarinic Receptors, The Journal of neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020, 40, 3591-3603.
  5. Yao Y, Wu M, Wang L, Lin L* and Xu J*, Phase Coupled Firing of Prefrontal Parvalbumin Interneuron With High Frequency Oscillations, Front Cell Neurosci, 2020, 14, 610741.
  6. 徐佳敏, 王策群, 林龙年, 多通道在体记录技术——动作电位与场电位信号处理,《生理学报》,2014, 66(3): 349–357。