WANG, Jing W.
Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle):
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NAME
POSITION TITLE
Jing W. Wang
Assistant Professor of Biology
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
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EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
DEGREE
(if applicable)
Tsinghua University, Beijing
Tsinghua University, Beijing
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill
Columbia University, New York City
B.S.
M.S
Ph.D.
YEAR(s)
1982-1987
1987-1990
1991-1997
1997-2000
2000-2004
FIELD OF STUDY
Laser physics
Biophysics
Neurobiology
Neurobiology
Neurobiology
A. Positions and Honors
Positions and employment
2004-present Assistant Professor of Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San
Diego.
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
1991-1997
Graduate Student (with Chun-Fang Wu), Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa.
1997-2000
Postdoctoral Fellow (with Alan Gelperin), Department of Biological Computation, Bell Labs.
1998
Neurobiology Course. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.
2000
Grass Fellow in Neuroscience. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.
2000-2004
Postdoctoral Research Scientist (with Richard Axel), Center for Neurobiology and Behavior,
Columbia University.
1994-present Member, Society for Neuroscience.
Honors
2004
2005-2008
2005-2008
Chris and Warren Hellman Faculty Scholar, UCSD.
Beckman Young Investigator Award
Searle Scholar
B. Peer-reviewed Publications (in chronological order).
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Griffith, L.C., Wang, J., Zhong, Y., Wu, C.-F., and Greenspan, R.J. (1994). Calcium/calmodulin-dependent
protein kinase II and potassium channel subunit eag similarly affect plasticity in Drosophila. Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. USA 91, 10044-10048.
Stewart, B.A., Atwood, H.L., Renger, J.J., Wang, J., and Wu, C.-F. (1994). Improved stability of Drosophila
larval neuromuscular preparations in haemolymph-like physiological solutions. J. Comp. Physiol. [A] 175,
179-191.
Wang, J., Renger, J.J., Griffith, L.C., Greenspan, R.J., and Wu, C.-F. (1994). Concomitant alterations of
physiological and developmental plasticity in Drosophila CaM kinase II-inhibited synapses. Neuron 13,
1373-1384.
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Wang, J.W., and Wu, C.-F. (1996). In vivo functional role of the Drosophila Hyperkinetic  subunit in
gating and inactivation of Shaker K+ channels. Biophys. J. 71, 3167-3176.
Wang, J.W., Sylwester, A.W., Reed, D., Wu, D.A., Soll, D.R., and Wu, C.-F. (1997). Morphometric
description of the wandering behavior in Drosophila larvae: aberrant locomotion in Na+ and K+ channel
mutants revealed by computer-assisted motion analysis. J. Neurogenet. 11, 231-254.
Teyke, T., Wang, J.W., and Gelperin, A. (2000). Lateralized memory storage and crossed inhibition during
odor processing by Limax. J. Comp. Physiol. [A] 186, 269-278.
Wang, J.W. (2000). Odor-induced oscillatory activity in Drosophila CNS. Biol. Bull. 199, 170-171.
Wang, J.W., Humphreys, J.M., Phillips, J.P., Hilliker, A.J., and Wu, C.-F. (2000). A novel leg-shaking
Drosophila mutant defective in a voltage-gated K+ current and hypersensitive to reactive oxygen species.
J. Neurosci. 20, 5958-5964.
Ermentrout, B., Wang, J.W., Flores, J., and Gelperin, A. (2001). Model for olfactory discrimination and
learning in Limax procerebrum incorporating oscillatory dynamics and wave propagation. J. Neurophysiol.
85, 1444-1452.
Wang, J.W., Denk, W., Flores, J., and Gelperin, A. (2001). Initiation and propagation of calciumdependent action potentials in a coupled network of olfactory interneurons. J. Neurophysiol. 85, 977-985.
Wang, J.W., Soll, D.R., and Wu, C.-F. (2002). Morphometric description of the wandering behavior in
Drosophila larvae: a phenotypic analysis of K+ channel mutants. J. Neurogenet. 16, 45-63.
Wong, A.M.*, Wang, J.W.*, and Axel, R. (2002). Spatial representation of the glomerular map in the
Drosophila protocerebrum. Cell 109, 229-241. *These authors contributed equally to this work.
Wang, J.W., Wong, A.M., Flores, J., Vosshall, L.B., and Axel, R. (2003). Two-photon calcium imaging
reveals an odor-evoked map of activity in the fly brain. Cell 112, 271-282.
Ermentrout B, Wang, J.W., Flores, J., Gelperin, A. (2004) Model for transition from waves to synchrony in
the olfactory lobe of Limax. J Comput Neurosci. 17, 365-83.
Suh, G.S.B., Wong, A.M., Hergarden, A.C., Wang, J.W., Simon, A., Benzer, S., Axel, R., and Anderson,
D.J. (2004) A single population of olfactory sensory neurons mediates an innate avoidance behavior in
Drosophila. Nature. 431, 854-9.
Root, C.M., Semmelhack, J.L., Wong, A.M., Flores, J. and Wang, J.W. (2007) The propagation of olfactory
information in the Drosophila. PNAS. 104: 11826-11831.
Root CM, Masuyama K, Green DS, Enell LE, Nässel DR, Lee CH, Wang JW. (2008) A presynaptic gain
control mechanism fine-tunes olfactory behavior. Neuron. 59:311-21.
Gao S, Takemura SY, Ting CY, Huang S, Lu Z, Luan H, Rister J, Thum AS, Yang M, Hong ST, Wang JW,
Odenwald WF, White BH, Meinertzhagen IA, Lee CH. (2008) The neural substrate of spectral preference
in Drosophila. Neuron. 60:328-42.
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