Fei Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ophthalmology
School of Medicine

I am a neurophysiologist by training. I have devoted my career to understanding how retina and visual system are wired together for precise visual features, leading to accurate vision-mediated behaviors and how these circuits change in normal or disease conditions.

Education & Training

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• Ph.D. Neurobiology University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 06/2019
• B.S. Biological Sciences Hebei University 06/2011
• Postdoctoral Scholar Ophthalmology University of California, San Francisco

Publications (6)

Top publication keywords:
AxonsFearSodium ChannelsRetinal NeuronsExecutive FunctionInterleukin-1betaSize PerceptionKv Channel-Interacting ProteinsVisual PerceptionFreezing Reaction, CatalepticOptogeneticsEscape ReactionSuperior ColliculiEpilepsies, MyoclonicRetinal Ganglion Cells

• Adaptive functioning and neurodevelopment in patients with Dravet syndrome: 12-month interim analysis of the BUTTERFLY observational study.
  Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 2024 Sullivan J, Wirrell E, Knupp KG, Chen D, Flamini R, Zafar M, Ventola P, Avendaño J, Wang F, Parkerson KA, Ticho B
• Postsynaptic neuronal activity promotes regeneration of retinal axons.
  Cell reports 2023 Varadarajan SG, Wang F, Dhande OS, Le P, Duan X, Huberman AD
• Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin.
  Nature neuroscience 2022 Tsai NY, Wang F, Toma K, Yin C, Takatoh J, Pai EL, Wu K, Matcham AC, Yin L, Dang EJ, Marciano DK, Rubenstein JL, Wang F, Ullian EM, Duan X
• OFF-transient alpha RGCs mediate looming triggered innate defensive response.
  Current biology : CB 2021 Wang F, Li E, De L, Wu Q, Zhang Y
• [Acute effects of IL-1β on sodium current in cortical neurons of rats].
  Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research 2011 Qi C, Zhang WW, Wang F, Bao CF, Wang XW, Li XN, Yu XQ, Zhou C
• Interleukin-1β inhibits voltage-gated sodium currents in a time- and dose-dependent manner in cortical neurons.
  Neurochemical research 2011 Zhou C, Qi C, Zhao J, Wang F, Zhang W, Li C, Jing J, Kang X, Chai Z