CV

General Information

Full Name Chaoyi Zhang
Date of Birth 20th November 1992
Languages Chinese, English

Education

  • 2016-2022
    Ph.D.
    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
    • School of Brain Science and Brain Medicine
    • Neurobiology;
  • 2012-2016
    B.S.
    Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
    • School of pharmacy
    • Biopharmaceutics

Research Experience

  • 2023 - current
    Postdoc
    Guoping Feng Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.
    • Investigating the biological mechanism of psychiatric diseases
  • 2022 - 2023
    Postdoc
    Gord Fishell Lab, Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.
    • Investigated how the wS1 circuits assembled to control whisking behavior during the development
  • 2016 - 2022
    Ph.D.
    Hailan Hu Lab, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
    • Explored the roles and dynamics of different mPFC cell types in social competition behavior
    • Deciphered the relationship within mPFC microcircuits via in vivo optrodes recording and miniature two-photon microscope
  • 2016 summer
    Summer Scholar
    Minmin Luo Lab, National institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS), Beijing, China
    • Explored the roles of dopamine neurons and serotonin neurons in reward behavior via fiber photometry recording and optogenetics
  • 2013 - 2016
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Xiaokun Li Lab, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
    • Validated the repair function of the basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) on the blood brain barrier after brain injury on mice model

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Excellent Doctoral Dissertations of Zhejiang University
  • 2022
    • Ray Wu Prize
    • Excellent graduate of Zhejiang Province
  • 2020
    • National scholarship
  • 2016
    • Excellent graduate of Zhejiang Province

Academic Interests

  • Neuroscience
    • The neurobiological mechinism of psychiatric diseases
    • The neural mechanism of social and emotion in non-human primate

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Tennis, Cycling, Swimming