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.