Staff Profiles

Jun Zhuang joined Allen Institute for Brain Science as Scientist in 2013. Before he came to Allen Institute, Zhuang spend 6 years studying the effects of different brain states on the function of visual cortex in awake animals as a Ph.D. student in Dr. Harvey Swadlow’s lab. Zhuang have also studied the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases from human patients and animal models as a Master student in Dr. Jiang-Ning Zhou’s lab back in China. Zhuang got his Bachelor degree in Biology (2004), Master degree in Neurobiology (2007) from University of Science and Technology of China and Ph.D. in Psychology (2013) from University of Connecticut.

Research Interests

Zhuang is interested in understanding the basic brain functions at microcircuit level, e.g. what kind of cortical network could give rise to the functionality of mammalian visual system, such as adaptation and feature selection/integration. At Allen Institute, by taking advantage of various genetically engineered mouse lines, Zhuang focuses on studying functional cortical circuits on behaving animals by imaging activities of different cell types across different brain areas.

Expertise

• Electrophysiology
• Vision physiology
• Optical physiology

Research Programs

• Neural Coding

Contact Infomation

• junz<at>alleninstitute<dot>org