Weifeng Xu, PhD

    Education & Training

  • Ph.D, Brown University
Research Concentration
Learning and Memory
Neurotransmitter Receptors, Ion Channels and Membrane Transporters
Plasticity and Circuits and Synapses
Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders
Visual System
Recent Publications

Jones KJ, Templet S, Zemoura K, Kuzniewska B, Pena FX, Hwang H, Lei DJ, Haensgen H, Nguyen S, Saenz C, Leis M, Dziembowska M, and Xu W. Rapid, Experience-dependent translation of neurogranin enables memory encoding (2018). PNAS 115 E5805-5814 PMID: 29880715

Xu W*, Löwel S*, Schlüter OM*. Silent Synapse-Based Mechanisms of Critical Period Plasticity (2020). Front Cell Neurosci. 14:213.  PMID: 32765222 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2020.00213

Han KS, Cooke SF, and Xu W. Experience-dependent equilibration of AMPAR-mediated synaptic transmission during the critical period (2017). Cell Reports 18: 892-904 PMID: 28122240 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.12.084

Hwang H, Szucs MJ*, Ding LJ*, Allen, A, Ren X, Haensgen H, Gao F, Andrade A, Pan JQ, Carr SA, Amhad R, and Xu W. Neurogranin, encoded by the schizophrenia risk gene NRGN, bidirectionally modulates synaptic plasticity via calmodulin-dependent regulation of the neuronal phosphoroteome (2021). Biol. Psych. 89:256-169 PMID: 33032807 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.07.014