Weizhe Hong

Professor, Biological Chemistry, University of California Los Angeles

Professor, Neurobiology, University of California Los Angeles

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Education and Training

Stanford UniversityPhD2012

Awards and Honors

  • H. W. Magoun Distinguished Lectureship, UCLA, 2023.
  • John H. Walsh Young Investigator Research Prize, UCLA, 2021.
  • W. M. Keck Foundation Junior Faculty Award, 2021.
  • Mallinckrodt Scholar Award (the 69th Mallinckrodt Scholar), The Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation, 2020.
  • Vallee Scholar Award, The Vallee Foundation, 2020.
  • Young Investigator Award, Society for Neuroscience, 2020.
  • Early Career Award, Society for Social Neuroscience, 2019.
  • McKnight Scholar Award, McKnight Foundation, 2019.
  • Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award, 2018.
  • Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 2018.
  • Searle Scholar Award, Searle Scholars Program, 2017.
  • Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2017.
  • NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, 2016.
  • Whitehall Foundation Grant, 2016.
  • Category Winner in Developmental Biology, Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientist, 2013.
  • Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship, 2013.
  • Larry Sandler Memorial Award, Genetics Society of America, 2013.
  • Larry Katz Memorial Lecture, Cold Spring Harbor Meeting in Neural Circuits, 2012.

Publications

  1. Zhang M, Wu YE, Jiang M, Hong W. Cortical regulation of helping behaviour towards others in pain.. Nature, 2024.
  2. Phi NT, Yu X, Hong W. Control of social hierarchy beyond neurons.. Nature neuroscience, 2023.
  3. Lim KY, Hong W. Neural mechanisms of comforting: Prosocial touch and stress buffering.. Hormones and behavior, 2023.
  4. Wu YE, Hong W. Neural basis of prosocial behavior.. Trends in neurosciences, 2022.
  5. Wu YE, Dang J, Kingsbury L, Zhang M, Sun F, Hu RK, Hong W. Neural control of affiliative touch in prosocial interaction.. Nature, 2021.
  6. Hu RK, Zuo Y, Ly T, Wang J, Meera P, Wu YE, Hong W. An amygdala-to-hypothalamus circuit for social reward.. Nature neuroscience, 2021.
  7. Kingsbury L, Hong W. A Multi-Brain Framework for Social Interaction.. Trends in neurosciences, 2020.
  8. Kingsbury L, Huang S, Raam T, Ye LS, Wei D, Hu RK, Ye L, Hong W. Cortical Representations of Conspecific Sex Shape Social Behavior.. Neuron, 2020.
  9. Kingsbury L, Huang S, Wang J, Gu K, Golshani P, Wu YE, Hong W. Correlated Neural Activity and Encoding of Behavior across Brains of Socially Interacting Animals.. Cell, 2019.
  10. Chen PB, Hu RK, Wu YE, Pan L, Huang S, Micevych PE, Hong W. Sexually Dimorphic Control of Parenting Behavior by the Medial Amygdala.. Cell, 2019.
  11. Chen P, Hong W. Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Social Behavior.. Neuron, 2018.
  12. Wu YE, Pan L, Zuo Y, Li X, Hong W. Detecting Activated Cell Populations Using Single-Cell RNA-Seq.. Neuron, 2017.
  13. Hong W, Kennedy A, Burgos-Artizzu XP, Zelikowsky M, Navonne SG, Perona P, Anderson DJ. Automated measurement of mouse social behaviors using depth sensing, video tracking, and machine learning.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015.
  14. Ward A, Hong W, Favaloro V, Luo L. Toll receptors instruct axon and dendrite targeting and participate in synaptic partner matching in a Drosophila olfactory circuit.. Neuron, 2015.
  15. Hong W, Kim DW, Anderson DJ. Antagonistic control of social versus repetitive self-grooming behaviors by separable amygdala neuronal subsets.. Cell, 2014.
  16. Hong W, Luo L. Genetic control of wiring specificity in the fly olfactory system.. Genetics, 2014.
  17. Hong W. Science & SciLifeLab Prize. Assembly of a neural circuit.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2013.
  18. Hong W, Wu YE, Fu X, Chang Z. Chaperone-dependent mechanisms for acid resistance in enteric bacteria.. Trends in microbiology, 2012.
  19. Hong W, Mosca TJ, Luo L. Teneurins instruct synaptic partner matching in an olfactory map.. Nature, 2012.
  20. Mosca TJ, Hong W, Dani VS, Favaloro V, Luo L. Trans-synaptic Teneurin signalling in neuromuscular synapse organization and target choice.. Nature, 2012.
  21. de Wit J, Hong W, Luo L, Ghosh A. Role of leucine-rich repeat proteins in the development and function of neural circuits.. Annual review of cell and developmental biology, 2011.
  22. Hong W, Luo L. Dendritic tiling through TOR signalling.. The EMBO journal, 2009.
  23. Hong W, Zhu H, Potter CJ, Barsh G, Kurusu M, Zinn K, Luo L. Leucine-rich repeat transmembrane proteins instruct discrete dendrite targeting in an olfactory map.. Nature neuroscience, 2009.
  24. Wu YE, Hong W, Liu C, Zhang L, Chang Z. Conserved amphiphilic feature is essential for periplasmic chaperone HdeA to support acid resistance in enteric bacteria.. The Biochemical journal, 2008.
  25. Hong W, Jiao W, Hu J, Zhang J, Liu C, Fu X, Shen D, Xia B, Chang Z. Periplasmic protein HdeA exhibits chaperone-like activity exclusively within stomach pH range by transforming into disordered conformation.. The Journal of biological chemistry, 2005.