Yu Zhang
About me
2016-2019: Bachelor of Biomedicine, Queen Mary University of London.
2016-2021: Bachelor of Clinical Medicine, Nanchang University
2021-2023: Master of Biomedicine, Karolinska Institutet
2023- : phd at Onur Dagliyan group, Karolinska Institutet
Research
With great enthusiasm for researching experience-driven neuronal activity and synaptic plasticity, I am currently engineering an important optogenetic ion channel which is inivolved in multiple neuropsychiatric diseases. Light allows me to spatiotemporally control this channel to study its precise role in physiological and pathological conditions. Animal models, electrophysiology and behavioural experiments will be utilized to investigate the in vivo function of the channel. And hopefully with my contribution to the understanding of this channel, new therapies targeting it could be developed for neuropsychiatric disorders.
Teaching
Teacher of Metabolic projects.