Principal Investigators
Principal Investigators
Principal Investigator
Neurobiology
yyyao(at)smart.org.cn
Neural circuit and molecular mechanism of "brain-heart" regulation under physiological and pathological conditions.
2023 - PresentJunior Principal Investigator, Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation
2019 - 2023Research Associate, University of California at Berkeley/HHMI
2016 - 2019Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California at Berkeley
2008 - 2016PhD, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
2007 - 2007School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
2003 - 2007BS in Biology, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
2022 MCB Outstanding Postdoc Award, UC Berkeley
2020 First prize of 2020 Shanghai Natural Science Award, 4th awardee
2017 Chang Hsiang-Tung Outstanding Thesis Award
2016 Outstanding PhD graduate in Shanghai
2015 The Ray Wu Prize for Excellence
2014 Invited Participant of the 64th Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau
2014 First Prize of National Scholarship Award
2013 Collaborative Scholarship Funded by the National Institute of Genetics, Japan
2013 Sanofi Best Paper Award
2012, 2013 Cold Spring Harbor Asia Fellowship
2012 Annual Scientific Meeting of Institute of Neuroscience, 2nd prize of oral presentation
2006 Hui-Chun Chin and Tsung-Dao Lee Chinese Undergraduate Research Endowment
2003-2007 Scholarship Awards of Lanzhou University
First Prize of National Scholarship Award
Guo-Chang Zheng Undergraduate Scholarship
* for co-author.
1.Yao, Y., Zeke, B., Saffari Doost, M., Tso, C.F., Darmohray, D., Silverman, D., Liu, D., Chen, M., Cetin., A., Yao, S., Zeng, H. and Dan, Y.（2022）Cardiovascular baroreflex circuit moonlights in sleep control. Neuron 110, 3986-3999.
2.Liu, D., Li, W., Ma, C., Zheng, W., Yao, Y., Tso, C.F., Zhong, P., Chen, X., Song, J.H., Choi, W., Paik, S.B., Han, H. and Dan, Y.（2020）A common hub for sleep and motor control in the substantia nigra. Science 367, 440-445.
3.Zhang, B.* , Yao, Y.* , Zhang, H., Kawakami, K., and Du, J. (2017). Left habenula mediates lightpreference behavior in zebrafish via an asymmetry visual pathway. Neuron 93, 914-928. (* Co-first author)
4.Yao, Y.*, Li, X. * , Zhang, B. * , Yin, C., Liu, Y., Chen, W., Zeng, S. and Du, J. (2016) Visual cue-specific dopaminergic control of visuomotor transformation and behavior selection. Neuron 89, 598- 612 (* Co-first author)
5.Yao, Y. (2016). Exploring neural substrates underlying the execution of behavior across the whole brain. Neurosci Bull 32, 505-507.
6.Wei, H., Yao, Y., Zhang, R., Zhao, X., Du, J. (2012). Activity-induced long-term potentiation of excitatory synapses in developing zebrafish retina in vivo. Neuron 75, 479-489.
