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| Name | Zhiwen Ye |
| yezhiwen@smart.org.cn | |
| Website | http://www.yezhiwen.com |
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2026 - now Junior Principal Investigator
Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation, Shenzhen, China
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2020 - 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Washington, Seattle, US
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2015 - 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow
the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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2014 - 2015 Research Assistant
Imperial College London, London, UK
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2010 - 2015 PhD
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK
Neuroscience
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2006 - 2010 BSc
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Life Sciences
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2010 - 2014 UK-China Scholarship for Excellence
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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]
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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]
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2023 Quantitative analysis of rabies virus-based synaptic connectivity tracing
PLoS ONE
A Tran-Van-Minh*, Z Ye*, and E Rancz
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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
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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
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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†
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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†
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2013 The contribution of δsubunit-containing GABA_A receptors to phasic and tonic conductance changes in cerebellum, thalamus and neocortex
Frontiers in Neural Circuits
Z Ye, TP McGee, CM Houston, and SG Brickley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2022 Dendritic domain-specific sampling of long-range axons shapes feedforward and feedback connectivity of L5 neurons
Journal of Neuroscience
AR Galloni, Z Ye, and E Rancz
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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
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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†
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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†
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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†
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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†
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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†