Ye Wu

Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, University of California Los Angeles

Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry, University of California Los Angeles

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Education and Training

Stanford UniversityPhD2013

Awards and Honors

  • Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, 2024.
  • Collaboratory Fellowship, UCLA, 2017.
  • Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 2007-2010.

Publications

  1. Zhang M, Wu YE, Jiang M, Hong W. Cortical regulation of helping behaviour towards others in pain.. Nature, 2024.
  2. Gandal MJ, Haney JR, Wamsley B, Yap CX, Parhami S, Emani PS, Chang N, Chen GT, Hoftman GD, de Alba D, Ramaswami G, Hartl CL, Bhattacharya A, Luo C, Jin T, Wang D, Kawaguchi R, Quintero D, Ou J, Wu YE, Parikshak NN, Swarup V, Belgard TG, Gerstein M, Pasaniuc B, Geschwind DH. Broad transcriptomic dysregulation occurs across the cerebral cortex in ASD.. Nature, 2022.
  3. Wu YE, Hong W. Neural basis of prosocial behavior.. Trends in neurosciences, 2022.
  4. Wu YE, Dang J, Kingsbury L, Zhang M, Sun F, Hu RK, Hong W. Neural control of affiliative touch in prosocial interaction.. Nature, 2021.
  5. Mohr MA, Wong AM, Sukumar G, Dalgard CL, Hong W, Wu TJ, Wu YE, Micevych PE. RNA-sequencing of AVPV and ARH reveals vastly different temporal and transcriptomic responses to estradiol in the female rat hypothalamus.. PloS one, 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. Crowell PD, Fox JJ, Hashimoto T, Diaz JA, Navarro HI, Henry GH, Feldmar BA, Lowe MG, Garcia AJ, Wu YE, Sajed DP, Strand DW, Goldstein AS. Expansion of Luminal Progenitor Cells in the Aging Mouse and Human Prostate.. Cell reports, 2019.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Kim YJ, Khoshkhoo S, Frankowski JC, Zhu B, Abbasi S, Lee S, Wu YE, Hunt RF. Chd2 Is Necessary for Neural Circuit Development and Long-Term Memory.. Neuron, 2018.
  11. Wu YE, Pan L, Zuo Y, Li X, Hong W. Detecting Activated Cell Populations Using Single-Cell RNA-Seq.. Neuron, 2017.
  12. Wu YE, Parikshak NN, Belgard TG, Geschwind DH. Genome-wide, integrative analysis implicates microRNA dysregulation in autism spectrum disorder.. Nature neuroscience, 2016.
  13. Maeder CI, San-Miguel A, Wu EY, Lu H, Shen K. In vivo neuron-wide analysis of synaptic vesicle precursor trafficking.. Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark), 2014.
  14. Wu YE, Huo L, Maeder CI, Feng W, Shen K. The balance between capture and dissociation of presynaptic proteins controls the spatial distribution of synapses.. Neuron, 2013.
  15. Hong W, Wu YE, Fu X, Chang Z. Chaperone-dependent mechanisms for acid resistance in enteric bacteria.. Trends in microbiology, 2012.
  16. Klassen MP, Wu YE, Maeder CI, Nakae I, Cueva JG, Lehrman EK, Tada M, Gengyo-Ando K, Wang GJ, Goodman M, Mitani S, Kontani K, Katada T, Shen K. An Arf-like small G protein, ARL-8, promotes the axonal transport of presynaptic cargoes by suppressing vesicle aggregation.. Neuron, 2010.
  17. 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.