Mu-ming Poo

PhD, Distinguished Adjunct Professor from CAS，CASM 
Institute of Neuroscience, CAS 

Resume

1974 – 1976 
Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, and Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University 

1976 – 1979 
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California at Irvine 

1979 – 1983 
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California at Irvine 

1983 – 1985 
Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California at Irvine
 
1985 – 1988 
Research Professor, Section of Molecular Neurobiology, Yale University Medical School 1988 - 1995 Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Columbia University 

1996 – 2000 
Stephen W. Kuffler Professor in Neurobiology, University of California at San Diego 

2000 – 2005 
Professor of Neurobiology, Class of 1933 Chair, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 

2002 – 2007 
Head, Division of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 

2005 – 2015 
Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology, U.C. Berkeley 

2015 – present 
Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology Emeritus, U. C. Berkeley 

1999 – present 
Director, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 

2014 – present 
Director, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology

Research Areas

Professor Poo’s research interests center around the development and plasticity of the brain. He has made seminal contributions to our understanding of nerve growth, synapse development and synaptic plasticity.

Selected Publications

1. Cheng, Pei-lin#*; Poo, Mu-ming#.Early Events in Axon/Dendrite Polarization.ANNUAL REVIEW OF NEUROSCIENCE, VOL 35. 2012. 35:181-21. 

2. Xu, Shengjin*; Jiang, Wanchen; Poo, Mu-ming#; Dan, Yang.Activity recall in a visual cortical ensemble.NATURE NEUROSCIENCE. 2012. 15(3):449-U141. 

3. Lu, Hui*; Cheng, Pei-lin; Lim, Byung Kook; Khoshnevisrad, Nina; Poo, Mu-ming#.Elevated BDNF after Cocaine Withdrawal Facilitates LTP in Medial Prefrontal Cortex by Suppressing GABA Inhibition.NEURON. 2010. 67(5):821-833. 

4. Song, Ai-hong*; Wang, Dong; Chen, Gang; Li, Yuju; Luo, Jianhong; Duan, Shumin#; Poo, Mu-ming#.A Selective Filter for Cytoplasmic Transport at the Axon Initial Segment.CELL. 2009. 136(6):1148-116. 

5. Xu, Chun*; Zhao, Man-xia; Poo, Mu-ming#; Zhang, Xiao-hui#.GABA(B) receptor activation mediates frequency-dependent plasticity of developing GABAergic synapses.NATURE NEUROSCIENCE. 2008. 11(12):141-1418. 

6. Guan, Chen-bing*; Xu, Hua-tai; Jin, Ming; Yuan, Xiao-bing#; Poo, Mu-ming#.Long-range Ca2+ signaling from growth cone to soma mediates reversal of neuronal migration induced by Slit-2.CELL. 2007. 129(2):385-395.