Wenjing Sun, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neuroscience
Academic contact
Academic information
- Department: Neuroscience
Research interests
- Myelination
- Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell
- Neurotrauma
- Neuronal Plasticity
About
Biography
My research interest is focused on dissecting the cellular and molecular mechanism underlying myelin formation and neural plasticity in health and disease.
Main techniques in the lab include genetics, experimental models of CNS trauma and demyelination, tract tracing, in vivo and ex vivo electrophysiology, optogenetics, calcium imaging, glutamate uncaging and behavioral tests.
Credentials
Education
- Postdoctoral
- University of Bonn Medical School, Bonn, Germany
- Postdoctoral
- Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- PhD
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Research
Research interests
- Myelination
- Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell
- Neurotrauma
- Neuronal Plasticity