CURRICULUM VITAE
Xiaoying (Sharon) Huang
Ph.D.
Office Address:
Max Planck Florida Institute
5353 Parkside Drive, MC19-RE
Jupiter, FL 33458
EDUCATION
1995-1999
BS
College of Life Sciences, Beijing University (Peking Uni.),
Beijing, China
1999-2002
MS
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China
2002-2007
Ph.D. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC
2008 Aug
Methods in Computational neuroscience, MBL
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2000-2002
Studying auditory information processing in inferior
colliculus of mice, using electrophysiological techniques in vivo
2003- 2009 (Feb)
Studying spatiotemporal patterns of population neuronal
activity in rat neocortex, using voltage-sensitive dye imaging
2009Studying neuronal circuits in visual cortex using
optogenetic methods
HONORS AND AWARDS
1996
Excellent Student Scholarship
Beijing University
1998
Siyue Scholarship
Beijing University
1999
Graduation with distinction
Beijing University
2000
Dong’s Scholarship
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2006
Pre-doctoral Research Training Fellowship Epilepsy Foundation
PUBLICATIONS
Research Articles and Reviews
Xiaoying Huang, Qiang Qiu, Jun-Xian Shen (2002) Azimuthal response of
auditory neurons in inferior colliculus of mice. ACTA Biophysics Sinica; 18: 404408.
Xiaoying Huang, William C. Troy, Qian Yang, Hongtao Ma, Carlo R. Laing
Steven J. Schiff, and Jian-Young Wu (2004) Spiral waves in disinhibited
mammalian neocortex. J Neurosci. 24:9897-9902.
Sonia Bolea, Juan V Sanchez-Andres, Xiaoying Huang and Jian-young Wu
(2006) Initiation and propagation of neuronal co-activation in the developing
hippocampus. J Neurophysiol 95:552-561.
Li Bai*, Xiaoying Huang*, Qian Yang, and Jian-young Wu (2006)
Spatiotemporal Patterns of an Evoked Network Oscillation in Neocortical Slices:
Coupled Local Oscillators. J Neurophysiol. 96:2529-2538. (* These people
contributed equally to this work)
Michael Lippert, Kentaroh Takagaki, Weifeng Xu, Xiaoying Huang and Jianyoung Wu (2007) Methods for voltage-sensitive dye imaging of rat cortical activity
with high signal-to-noise ratio. J. Neurophysiol 98: 502-512.
Steve J Schiff, Xiaoying Huang and Jian-young Wu (2007) Dynamical evolution
of spatiotemporal patterns in mammalian middle cortex. Physical Review Letters
98(17):178102.
Weifeng Xu, Xiaoying Huang, Kentaroh Takagaki and Jian-young Wu. (2007)
Compression and reflection of visually evoked cortical waves. Neuron 55:119129.
Jian-young Wu, Xiaoying Huang and Chuan Zhang (2008) Propagating waves
of activity in the neocortex: What they are, what they do? The Neuroscientist 14:
487-502.
Per E Roland, Xiaoying Huang and Jian-young Wu (2009) In vivo dynamics of
the visual cortex measured with voltage sensitive dyes. Imaging the Brain with
Optical Methods. Ed by AW Roe, Springer New York
Xiaoying Huang, Weifeng Xu, Kentaroh Takagaki and Jian-young Wu (2009)
Monitoring population membrane potential signals from neocortex. Membrane
Potential Imaging in the Nervous System. Ed by M Canepari and D Zecevic,
Springer New York.
Xiaoying Huang*, Weifeng Xu*, Jianmin Liang*, Kentaroh Takagaki, Xin Gao
and Jian-young Wu (2010) Spiral wave dynamics in neocortex. Neuron
68(5):978-990.
Ying Xiao, Xiaoying Huang, Stephen Wert, Ernest Barreto, Bruce Gluckman,
and Steven Schiff (2011) The role of GABAergic inhibition in oscillatory wave
dynamics in neocortex. Submitted.
Abstracts
Xiaoying Huang, Hongtao Ma, Qian Yang and Jian-young Wu (2003) Spiral
waves in tangential slices from sensory cortex. Abstracts Society for
Neuroscience 173.8
Xiaoying Huang, Jian-young Wu (2004) Dynamic characteristics of spiral waves
in tangential neocortical slices. Abstracts Society for neuroscience 985.5
Xiaoying Huang, Qian Yang, Jian-young Wu (2005) Spatiotemporal patterns of
evoked gamma band oscillations in rat neocortical slices. Abstracts Society for
neuroscience 284.5
Xiaoying Huang, Qian Yang, Jian-young Wu (2006) Spiral Waves in Neocortex:
Voltage Sensitive Dye Imaging of Seizure-like Events. Abstracts Annual meeting
for American epilepsy society
Steven J Schiff, Xiaoying Huang, Jian-young Wu (2006) Spatiotemporal
Organization of Cortical Dynamics (#308) to the Fifteenth Annual Computational
Neuroscience Meeting CNS
Weifeng Xu, Xiaoying Huang, Jian-young Wu (2007) Spatiotemporal property of
visually evoked waves in rat visual cortex. Abstracts Society for neuroscience
Xiaoying Huang, Chuan Zhang, Weifeng Xu, Kentaroh Takagaki and Jian-young
Wu (2008) Spiral wave dynamics in rat cortex in vivo. Abstracts Society for
neuroscience
Jianmin Liang, Xiaoying Huang, Weifeng Xu and Jian-young Wu (2009) Spiral
wave dynamics during NREM and REM sleep stages. Abstracts Society for
neuroscience
Ying Xiao, Jian-young Wu, SV Wert, Xiaoying Huang, B. Gluckman and Steve J
Schiff (2010) The role of GABAergic inhibition in dynamics of theta oscillation in
rat neocortex slices. Abstracts Society for neuroscience
Yishai M Elyada*, Xiaoying Huang *, Stephen Van Hooser , Anders Nelson ,
Jiefeng Jiang and David Fitzpatrick (2010) Investigating modular cortical
connectivity with an optogenetic SLMscope. Abstracts Israel Neuroscience
Meeting
Xiaoying Huang*, Yishai M Elyada*, Stephen Van Hooser , Jiefeng Jiang,
Anders Nelson and David Fitzpatrick (2011) Probing the function of circuits in
visual cortex using optogenetics with spatial light modulator control. Abstracts
Society for neuroscience