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Yi Rao (Founder)

E-mail : yrao@pku.edu.cn

Job title :
Professor

Office Address : No. 5 Summer Palace Road, Haidian District, Beijing, Wang Kezhen Floor, 100871

Laboratory home page : http://raolab.org

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

2016 to director of science department of Peking University
2012 to director of McGovern Institute of Brain Science, Peking University
2011 to Peking University - Tsinghua University Life Sciences Joint Center
2007-2013 Dean, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
2004-2007 Professor Elsa Swanson, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Professor, Deputy Director, Research Director, Institute of Neuroscience
1994-2004 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine
1991-1994 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University, postdoctoral
1985-1991 Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D.
1983 -1985 Shanghai First Medical College, master's degree
1978 -1983 Jiangxi Medical College, undergraduate

WORK EXPERIENCE

Associate Editor, Journal of Neuroscience 2001-2006
Editorial Board, Developmental Biology 2006-
Editorial Board, Neuroscience Research 2000-2006
Editorial Board, Developmental Brain Research 2002-2005
Reviews Editor, Frontier in Neural Circuits 2008-
Editorial Board, NeuroSignal 2001-2008
Member, Faculty of 1000 2001-2006
Editorial Board, Chinese Science Bulletin 2003-2005
Editorial Board, Neuroscience Bulletin 2005-
Editorial Board, Cell Research 2006-
Editorial Board, Science in China 2008-
Editorial Board, Journal of Molecular Cell Biology  2008-

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

Associate Editor, Journal of Neuroscience 2001-2006
Editorial Board, Developmental Biology 2006-
Editorial Board, Neuroscience Research 2000-2006
Editorial Board, Developmental Brain Research 2002-2005
Reviews Editor, Frontier in Neural Circuits 2008-
Editorial Board, NeuroSignal 2001-2008
Member, Faculty of 1000 2001-2006
Editorial Board, Chinese Science Bulletin 2003-2005
Editorial Board, Neuroscience Bulletin 2005-
Editorial Board, Cell Research 2006-
Editorial Board, Science in China 2008-
Editorial Board, Journal of Molecular Cell Biology  2008-

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Zhang SS, Liu Y, Rao Y , Serotonin signaling in the brain of adult female mice is required for sexual preference , Proc Natl Acad Sci USA , 2013 , 110: 9968-9973
2. Liu WW, Liang XH, Li YN, Gong JX, Yang Z, Zhang YH, Zhang JX and Rao Y , Social regulation of aggression mediated by pheromonal activation of Or65a olfactory receptor neurons in Drosophila , Nature Neurosci , 2011 , 7:896-902
3. Liu Y, Jiang Y, Si Y, Kim J-Y, Chen Z-F, and Rao Y , Molecular regulation of sexual preference revealed by genetic studies of 5-HT in the brain of male mice , Nature , 2011 , 472:95-99
4. Zhou C, Rao Y, and Rao Yi , A subset of octopaminergic neurons are important for Drosophila aggression , Nature Neurosci , 2008 , 11:1059-1061
5. Li X, Gao X, Liu G, Xiong W, Wu J, Rao Y , Netrin signal transduction and the guanine nucleotide exchange factor DOCK180 in attractive signaling , Nature Neurosci , 2008 , 11:28-35
6. Jiang H, Guo W, Liang XH, and Rao Y , Both the establishment and the maintenance of neuronal polarity require active mechanisms: critical roles of GSK-3b and its upstream regulators , Cell , 2005 , 120: 123-135
7. Ward ME, Wu JY and Rao Y , Visualization of spatially and temporally regulated N-WASP activity during cytoskeletal reorganization in living cells , Proc Natl Acad Sci USA , 2004 , 101:970-974
8. Liu G, Beggs H, Jürgensen C, Park HT, Tang H, Gorski J, Jones KR, Reichardt LF, Wu JY, and Rao Y , Netrin requires the focal adhesion kinase and the Src family kinases to induce axon outgrowth and to attract axons , Nature Neurosci , 2004 , 7: 1222-1232
9. Zhu Y, Yu T, Zhang X-C, Nagasawa T, Wu JY, and Rao Y , Role of the chemokine SDF-1 as the meningeal attractant for embryonic cerebellar neurons , Nat Neurosci , 2002 , 5: 719-720
10. Wong K, Ren X-R, Huang Y-Z, Xie Y, Liu G, Saito H, Tang H, Wen L, Brady-Kalnay SM, Mei L, Wu JY, Xiong W-C, and Rao Y , Signal Transduction in Neuronal Migration: Roles of GTPase Activating Proteins and the Small GTPase Cdc42 in the Slit-Robo Pathway , Cell , 2001 , 107: 209-221
11. Wu JY, Feng L, Park H-T, Havlioglu N, Wen L, Tang H, Bacon KB, Jiang Z, Zhang X-C, and Rao Y , Slit, a molecule known to guide axon projection and neuronal migration, inhibits leukocyte chemotaxis induced by chemotactic factors , Nature , 2001 , 410: 948-952 
12. Wu W, Wong K, Chen JH, Jiang ZH, Dupuis S, Wu JY, and Rao Y , Directional guidance of neuronal migration in the olfactory system by the protein Slit , Nature , 1999 , 400: 331-336
13. Li HS, Chen JH, Wu W, Fagaly T, Yuan WL, Zhou L, Dupuis S, Jiang Z, Nash W, Gick C, Ornitz D, Wu JY, and Rao Y , Vertebrate Slit, a secreted ligand for the transmembrane protein Roundabout, is a repellent for olfactory bulb axons , Cell , 1999 , 96: 807-818
14. He M, Wen L, Campbell C, Wu JY, and Rao Y , Transcription repression by ET, an ortholog of human Tbx3, a gene involved in ulnar-mammary syndrome , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA , 1999 , 96:10212-10217
15. Zhu Y, Li HS, Zhou L, Wu JY, and Rao Y , Cellular and molecular guidance of GABAergic neuronal migration from an extra-cortical origin to the neocortex , Neuron , 1999 , 23: 473-485 
16. Li HS, Tierney C, Wen L, Wu JY and Rao Y , A single morphogenetic field gives rise to two retina primordia under the influence of the prechordal mesoderm , Development , 1997 , 124: 603-615
17. Rao Y., Jan L.Y., and Jan Y.N. , Similarity of the product of the Drosophila neurogenic gene big brain to transmembrane channel proteins , Nature , 1990 , 345: 163-167

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