Xiaofan Zhang, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Physiology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• PhD Neuroscience Scripps Research 2022
• BS Biology Huazhong University of Science & Technology 2013

Publications (6)

Top publication keywords:
Nerve Tissue ProteinsOlfactory PathwaysLearningNeuronsElectroshockOlfactory PerceptionAvoidance LearningMemoryDopamineSynapsesOdorantsDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsPresynaptic TerminalsMushroom Bodies

• Active forgetting requires Sickie function in a dedicated dopamine circuit in Drosophila.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2022 Zhang X, Sabandal JM, Tsaprailis G, Davis RL
• Aversive Training Induces Both Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Suppression in Drosophila.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2019 Zhang X, Noyes NC, Zeng J, Li Y, Davis RL
• Independent Contributions of Discrete Dopaminergic Circuits to Cellular Plasticity, Memory Strength, and Valence in Drosophila.
  Cell reports 2019 Boto T, Stahl A, Zhang X, Louis T, Tomchik SM
• Suppression of GABAergic neurons through D2-like receptor secures efficient conditioning in Drosophila aversive olfactory learning.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2019 Zhou M, Chen N, Tian J, Zeng J, Zhang Y, Zhang X, Guo J, Sun J, Li Y, Guo A, Li Y
• Brain transcriptome changes in the aging Drosophila melanogaster accompany olfactory memory performance deficits.
  PloS one 2018 Pacifico R, MacMullen CM, Walkinshaw E, Zhang X, Davis RL
• Behavioral Switch of Food Preference upon Sugar Deficiency Is Regulated by GPCRs in Drosophila.
  Journal of genetics and genomics = Yi chuan xue bao 2015 Liu C, Bai X, Sun J, Zhang X, Li Y