Director
Dr. Hwai-Jong Cheng 程淮榮 博士
Distinguished Research Fellow and Director
Education and Positions
- Medical Student, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (1982-1989)
- Clinical Resident, Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (1989-1991, 1996-1997)
- Graduate Student, Dr. John G. Flanagan, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University (1991-1995)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Anatomy, University of California at San Francisco, and Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University (1997-2002)
- Assistant Professor(2002-2008);Associate Professor(2008-2011); Professor(2011-2020) Center for Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences, and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
- Advisory Research Committee (ARC), Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis (2004-2012)
- Director, Diagnostic and Research Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis (2010-2013)
- Research Scholar, Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Sabbatical leave) (2012-2013)
- Faculty Executive Committee member, College of Biological Science, UC Davis (2015-2017)
- Visiting Professor, Brain Research Center and Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan (Sabbatical leave) (2019)
- Committee on Courses of Instruction member, Academic Senate, UC Davis (2014-2016,2017-2019)
- Executive Committee, NIH T32 Training Grant Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB), College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis (2008-2012,2018-2020)
- Executive Committee member, Neuroscience Graduate Group, UC Davis (2014-2020)
- Chair, Neuroscience Graduate Group, UC Davis (2018-2020)
Honors and Awards
- NACADA Region 9 Excellence in Advising Award (2016)
- UC Davis Academic Advising Award (2015)
- Faculty Service Award, Neuroscience Graduate Group, UC Davis (2012)
- Klingenstein Fellowship Award (2004)
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2004)
- Whitehall Foundation Grant Award (2003)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician Postdoctoral Fellowship(1997-2002)
- Pharmacia Biotech & Science Prize for Young Scientists in Molecular Biology, Regional winner from North America (1996)
Specialty
- Neurobiology
- Developmental Biology
Selected Publications
- Murray, K.D., Liu, X.-B., King, A.N., Luu, J. and Cheng, H.-J.. Age-related changes in synaptic plasticity associated with mossy fiber terminal integration during adult neurogenesis. eNeuro 7(3):ENEURO.0030-20 (2020).
- Chen, S.-Y., Ho, C.-T., Liu, W.-W., Lucanic, M., Shih, H.-M., Huang, P.-H. and Cheng, H.-J.. Regulation of axon repulsion by MAX-1 SUMOylation and AP-3. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115: E8236-E8245 (2018).
- Davis, Z.W., Chapman, B., and Cheng, H.-J.. Increasing spontaneous retinal activity before eye opening accelerates the development of geniculate receptive fields. J. Neurosci. 35:14612-14623 (2015).
- Failor, S., Chapman, B., and Cheng, H.-J.. Retinal waves regulate afferent terminal targeting in the early visual pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112: E2957-E2966 (2015).
- Liu, W.-W., Chen, S.-Y., Cheng, C.-H., Cheng, H.-J. and Huang, P.-H.. Blm-s, a BH3-only protein enriched in postmitotic immature neurons, is transcriptionally upregulated by p53 during DNA damage. Cell Reports 9: 166-179 (2014).
Deputy Director
Dr. Hsiao, Chwan-Deng
蕭傳鐙 博士
Research Fellow
