Biography

Dr. ZHOU Heng is the Principal Investigator from Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Brain Disease Bioinformation, and Research Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Xuzhou Medical University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Science and Technology of China, and finished the post-doc research work at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the field of Neurology. He has published more than 10 SCI papers, such as Nature communicatinos, eLife.

Publications

Representative publications:

1. Zhou H*, Li HY*, Gowravara N, Quan MQ, Kausar N, Gomperts SN. Disruption of hippocampal neuronal circuit function depends upon behavioral state in the APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Scientific Reports. 2022; 12:21022.

2.Yu CL, Li JN, Gan P, Wang LP, Yang YX, Yu DF, Mao RR, Xu FQ, Zhou QX, Gal Richter-Levin, Xu L, Zhou H*. Developing of focal ischemia in the hippocampus or amygdala reveals a regional compensatory rule for fear memory acquisition. eNeuro. 2021 (10.1523).

3.Zhou H, Neville KR, Goldstein N, Kabu S, Kausar N, Ye R, Nguyen TT, Gelwan N, Hyman BT, Gomperts SN. Cholinergic modulation of hippocampal calcium activity across the sleep-wake cycle. eLife. 2019 03 07; 8. Featured paper.

4.Zhou H*, Xiong GJ*, Jing L*, Song NN*, Pu DL, Tang X, He XB, Xu FQ, Huang JF, Li LJ, Richter-Levin G, Mao RR, Zhou QX, Ding YQ, Xu L. The interhemispheric CA1 circuit governs rapid generalisation but not fear memory. Nat Communications. 2017 12 19; 8(1):2190.

5.Zhou H, Zhou Q, Xu L. Unilateral hippocampal inactivation or lesion selectively impairs remote contextual fear memory.Psychopharmacology. 2016 Oct; 233(19-20):3639-46.