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Yun Zhang is a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, affiliated with the Northwest Building. Their research focuses on understanding how the nervous system generates learning, with a focus on conserved mechanisms using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. Key areas include olfactory learning, neural circuit function, and neuromodulation. Notable achievements include mapping neuronal networks for learned olfactory preferences and discovering compartmentalized activity in key learning neurons.
Research combines genetic, molecular, and imaging techniques to study how pathogens influence behavior, how forgetting creates reactivatable states, and the role of insulin-like peptides in learning regulation. The lab also investigates cholinergic sensorimotor integration and the impact of thioredoxin on sensory responses.
Lab members include researchers such as Taihong Wu, Minghai Ge, and Wenjing Yang. The Zhang Lab collaborates extensively, as seen in multi-author publications addressing bacterial modulation of mating behaviors, GABAergic signaling in locomotion, and dynamic neural encoding of perception.
