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Lu Chen (scientist)

Chinese American neuroscientist

Lu Chen (Chinese: 陈路) is a Chinese-born Americanneuroscientist, who is a Professor of Neurosurgery, and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and is a member of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.[1] She was previously an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.[2]

Life

She was born and raised in China.

She graduated from the University of Southern California with a PhD in Neurobiology in She studied with Richard F. Thompson.[3]

Her husband is Thomas C. Südhof, a Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine and a professor at Stanford University.

Lu chen stanford neuroscience graduate program She was born and raised in China. She studied with Richard F. Her husband is Thomas C. Her former husband, Shaowen Bao, is a professor of neuroscience. The long-term goal of Chen's research is to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie synapse function during behavior in the developing and mature brain, and how synapse function is altered during mental retardation.

Her former husband, Shaowen Bao, is a professor of neuroscience.[4][5]

Research

The long-term goal of Chen's research is to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie synapse function during behavior in the developing and mature brain, and how synapse function is altered during mental retardation.

Chen discovered an important role of retinoic acid in synaptic scaling.[6]

Awards

References

  1. ^Lu Chen, Stanford Medicine
  2. ^Lu Chen, Molecular & Cell Biology, College of Letters & Science, University of California, Berkeley
  3. ^"Neuroscience Alumni Lu Chen > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences".
  4. ^"Life at the synapse".

    UC Berkeley News.

  5. ^"A Scholar Who Prizes Independent Thinking". USC News.
  6. ^Aoto, Jason; Nam, Christine I.; Poon, Michael M.; Ting, Pamela; Chen, Lu ().

    Lu chen stanford neuroscience graduate The long-term goal of my research is to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie synapse function during behavior in the developing and mature brain, and how synapse function is altered during mental retardation. In this broad research area, I am specifically interested in the homeostatic control of synaptic strength, the role of postsynaptic protein translation in this control, and the impairment of synapses in Fragile X syndrome that involves changes in postsynaptic protein translation and synaptic strength. We recently discovered a role of all-trans retinoic acid RA in regulating synapse formation and synaptic strength, which we identified during studies of homeostatic synaptic plasticity. We found that RA is a potent activator of synaptic strength in mature neurons. Neuronal synthesis of RA is regulated by activity.

    "Synaptic Signaling by All-Trans Retinoic Acid in Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity". Neuron. 60 (2): – doi/ PMC&#; PMID&#;

  7. ^"Lu Chen".
  8. ^"Lu Chen". Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Retrieved 9 March