Research of the laboratory focuses on investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neural development, and deciphering the neural circuits and functions of distinct hypothalamic neuronal subtypes, the main research topics including:
1. The cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the developmental
establishment of hypothalamic nuclei and generation of neuronal diversity.
2. The hypothalamic neural circuits mediating innate behaviors.
3. The evolutionary conservation and changes in the hypothalamic
development during mammalian evolution.
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Research Direction:Developmental formation of individual Hypothalamic nuclei
Email:22111520032@m.fudan.edu.cn
Research Direction:Neural Circuits of the Hypothalamus
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Research Direction:Development of Hypothalamic Nuclei
Email:23211520039@m.fudan.edu.cn
Research Direction:Neural Circuits of the Hypothalamus
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Research Direction:Neural Circuits of the Hypothalamus
Fang Liu, Yan You, Xiaosu Li, Tong Ma, Yanzhen Nie, Bin Wei, Tiejun Li, Huanbing Lin, and Zhengang Yang* (2009). Brain injury does not alter the intrinsic differentiation potential of adult neuroblasts. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(16): 5075–5087.
Xiaosu Li, Chifei Sun, Chao Lin, Tong Ma, Mayur C. Madhavan, Kenneth Campbell, and Zhengang Yang* (2011). The transcription factor Sp8 Is required for the production of parvalbumin-expressing interneurons in the olfactory bulb. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(23): 8450-8455.
Tong Ma, Qiangqiang Zhang, Yuqun Cai, Yan You, John L. R. Rubenstein, and Zhengang Yang* (2012). A subpopulation of dorsal lateral/caudal ganglionic eminence-derived neocortical interneurons expresses the transcription factor Sp8. Cerebral Cortex, 22 (9): 2120-2130.
Tong Ma#, Congmin Wang#, Lei Wang#, Xing Zhou, Miao Tian, Qiangqiang Zhang, Yue Zhang, Jiwen Li, Zhidong Liu, Yuqun Cai, Fang Liu, Yan You, Chao Chen, Kenneth Campbell, Hongjun Song, Lan Ma, John L Rubenstein and Zhengang Yang* (2013). Subcortical origins of human and monkey neocortical interneurons. Nature Neuroscience, 16 (11):1588-1597. (Highlighted by Nature Neuroscience and Nature Review Neuroscience)
Tong Ma, Samuel Zheng Hao Wong, Bora Lee, Guo-li Ming and Hongjun Song* (2021). Decoding neuronal composition and ontogeny of individual hypothalamic nuclei. Neuron, 109 (7): 1150-1167.
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