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Name Zhiwen Ye
Email yezhiwen@smart.org.cn
Website http://www.yezhiwen.com

Employment
  • 2026 - now
    Junior Principal Investigator
    Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation, Shenzhen, China
  • 2020 - 2026
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    University of Washington, Seattle, US
  • 2015 - 2019
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
  • 2014 - 2015
    Research Assistant
    Imperial College London, London, UK

Education
  • 2010 - 2015
    PhD
    Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK
    Neuroscience
  • 2006 - 2010
    BSc
    Harbin Institute of Technology, China
    Life Sciences

Awards
  • 2010 - 2014
    UK-China Scholarship for Excellence

Publication list
First-author publications
  1. 2026
    Brain-wide topographic coordination of rotating waves
    Science
    Z Ye, AE Ladd, N MacKenzie, L Kolich, AJ Li, D Birman, MS Bull, TL Daigle, B Tasic, H Zeng, and NA Steinmetz
    [Code][Data]
  2. 2025
    Ultra-high-density Neuropixels probes improve detection and identification in neuronal recordings
    Neuron
    Z Ye*, AM Shelton*, JR Shaker, J Boussard, J Colonell, D Birman, S Manavi, S Chen, C Windolf, C Hurwitz, H Yu, T Namima, F Pedraja, S Weiss, BC Raducanu, TV Ness, X Jia, G Mastroberardino, LF Rossi, M Carandini, M Häusser, GT Einevoll, G Laurent, NB Sawtell, W Bair, A Pasupathy, C Mora Lopez, B Dutta, L Paninski, JH Siegle, C Koch, SR Olsen, TD Harris, and NA Steinmetz
    [Data][Website]
  3. 2023
  4. 2017
    Fast and slow inhibition in the visual thalamus is influenced by allocating GABA_A receptors with different γsubunits
    Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
    Z Ye, X Yu, CM Houston, Z Aboukhalil, NP Franks, W Wisden, and SG Brickley
  5. 2016
    Tectal-derived interneurons contribute to phasic and tonic inhibition in the visual thalamus
    Nature Communications
    P Jager*, Z Ye*, X Yu, L Zagoraiou, H Prekop, J Partanen, TM Jessell, W Wisden, SG Brickley, and A Delogu
  6. 2016
    Bottom-up versus top-down induction of sleep by zolpidem acting on histaminergic and neocortex neurons
    Journal of Neuroscience
    DS Uygun*, Z Ye*, AY Zecharia, EC Harding, X Yu, R Yustos, AL Vyssotski, SG Brickley, NP Franks, and W Wisden
  7. 2015
    Wakefulness is governed by GABA and histamine cotransmission
    Neuron
    X Yu*, Z Ye*, CM Houston, AY Zecharia, Y Ma, Z Zhang, DS Uygun, S Parker, AL Vyssotski, R Yustos, NP Franks, SG Brickley, and W Wisden

Other publications
  1. 2026
    Neuropixels Opto: Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics
    Nature Methods
    AA Lakunina, KZ Socha, AE Ladd, AJ Bowen, S Chen, J Colonell, A Doshi, B Karsh, M Krumin, P Kulik, AJ Li, P Neutens, J O’Callaghan, M Olsen, J Putzeys, C Bai Reddy, HAC Tilmans, S Vargas, M Welkenhuysen, Z Ye, M Häusser, C Koch, JT Ting, B Dutta, TD Harris, NA Steinmetz, K Svoboda, JH Siegle, and M Carandini
  2. 2025
    DREDge: robust motion correction for high-density extracellular recordings across species
    Nature Methods
    C Windolf, H Yu, AC Paulk, D Meszéna, W Muñoz, J Boussard, R Hardstone, I Caprara, M Jamali, Y Kfir, D Xu, JE Chung, KK Sellers, Z Ye, J Shaker, A Lebedeva, RT Raghavan, E Trautmann, M Melin, J Couto, S Garcia, B Coughlin, M Elmaleh, D Christianson, JDW Greenlee, C Horváth, R Fiáth, I Ulbert, MA Long, JA Movshon, MN Shadlen, MM Churchland, AK Churchland, NA Steinmetz, EF Chang, JS Schweitzer, ZM Williams, SS Cash, L Paninski, and E Varol
  3. 2024
    The type of inhibition provided by thalamic interneurons alters the input selectivity of thalamocortical neurons
    Current Research in Neurobiology
    D Djama, F Zirpel, Z Ye, G Moore, C Chue, C Edge, P Jager, A Delogu, and SG Brickley
  4. 2024
    Simultaneous mesoscopic measurement and manipulation of mouse cortical activity
    bioRxiv
    P Matveev, AJ Li, Z Ye, AJ Bowen, X Opitz-Araya, JT Ting, and NA Steinmetz
  5. 2022
    jULIEs: nanostructured polytrodes for low traumatic extracellular recordings and stimulation in the mammalian brain
    Journal of Neural Engineering
    RR Racz, M Kollo, G Racz, C Bulz, T Ackels, T Warner, W Wray, N Kiskin, C Chen, Z Ye, L Hoz, E Rancz, and AT Schaefer
  6. 2021
    Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings
    Science
    NA Steinmetz, C Aydin, A Lebedeva, M Okun, M Pachitariu, M Bauza, M Beau, J Bhagat, C Böhm, M Broux, S Chen, J Colonell, RJ Gardner, B Karsh, F Kloosterman, D Kostadinov, C Mora-Lopez, J O’Callaghan, J Park, J Putzeys, B Sauerbrei, RJJ Daal, AZ Vollan, S Wang, M Welkenhuysen, Z Ye, JT Dudman, B Dutta, AW Hantman, KD Harris, AK Lee, EI Moser, J O’Keefe, A Renart, K Svoboda, M Häusser, S Haesler, M Carandini, and TD Harris
  7. 2018
    A neuronal hub binding sleep initiation and body cooling in response to a warm external stimulus
    Current Biology
    EC Harding, X Yu, A Miao, N Andrews, Y Ma, Z Ye, L Lignos, G Miracca, W Ba, R Yustos, AL Vyssotski, W Wisden, and NP Franks
  8. 2018
    Excitatory pathways from the lateral habenula enable propofol-induced sedation
    Current Biology
    C Gelegen, G Miracca, MZ Ran, EC Harding, Z Ye, X Yu, K Tossell, CM Houston, R Yustos, ED Hawkins, AL Vyssotski, HL Dong, W Wisden, and NP Franks
  9. 2015
    Neuronal ensembles sufficient for recovery sleep and the sedative actions of \alpha2 adrenergic agonists
    Nature Neuroscience
    Z Zhang, V Ferretti, İ Güntan, A Moro, EA Steinberg, Z Ye, AY Zecharia, X Yu, AL Vyssotski, SG Brickley, R Yustos, ZE Pillidge, EC Harding, W Wisden, and NP Franks
  10. 2012
    GABAergic inhibition of histaminergic neurons regulates active waking but not the sleep–wake switch or propofol-induced loss of consciousness
    Journal of Neuroscience
    AY Zecharia, X Yu, T Götz, Z Ye, DR Carr, P Wulff, B Bettler, AL Vyssotski, SG Brickley, NP Franks, and W Wisden