
Jun Zhuang, Ph.D.
Scientist II
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
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
Selected Publications View Publications
Biological variation in the sizes, shapes and locations of visual cortical areas in the mouse
PLoS One
May 1, 2019
Waters J, Lee E, Gaudreault N, Griffin F, Lecoq J, Slaughterbeck C, Sullivan D, Farrell C, Perkins J, Reid D, Feng D, Graddis N, Garrett M, Li Y, Long F, Mochizuki C, Roll K, Zhuang J, Thompson C
Separation of hemodynamic signals from GCaMP fluorescence measured with widefield imaging
Journal of Neurophysiology
November 20, 2019
Valley MT, Moore MG, Zhuang J, Mesa N, Castelli D, Sullivan D, Reimers M, Waters J
bioRxiv
December 19, 2018
Larsen RS, Turschak E, Daigle T, Zeng H, Zhuang J, Waters J
Directional selective neurons in the awake LGN: Response properties and modulation by brain state
Journal of Neurophysiology
July 2014
Hei X, Stoelzel CR, Zhuang J, Bereshpolova YI, Huff J, Alonso JM, Swadlow HA.
Brain state effects on layer 4 of the awake visual cortex.
Journal of Neuroscience
March 12, 2014
Zhuang J, Bereshpolova YI, Stoelzel CR, Huff J, Hei X, Alonso JM, Swadlow HA.
Journal of Neuroscience
July 2013
Zhuang J, Stoelzel CR, Bereshpolova YI, Huff J, Hei X, Alonso JM, Swadlow HA
Getting drowsy? Alert/nonalert transitions and visual thalamocortical network dynamics
Journal of Neuroscience
November 2011
Bereshpolova YI, Stoelzel CR, Zhuang J, Amitai Y, Alonso JM, Swadlow HA
Cultured rat cortical astrocytes synthesize melatonin: absence of a diurnal rhythm
Journal of Pineal Research
October 2007
Liu YJ, Zhuang J, Zhu HY, Shen YX, Tan ZL, Zhou JN