CEOS Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Biography:

Dr. Xiangyu Renis a molecular neurobiologist that currently works at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA. His research focuses on interaction between nervous system and internal organs and tries to understand how the nervous system regulates physiology of and sends feedback from the internal organs. His expertise is broad including mouse genetics, animal behavior, in vivo imaging technology (photometry, two-photon), electrophysiology and endocrinology. He obtained his BS in Zhejiang University, China in 2014. During 2014-2015, he worked as a research assistant at Harvard Medical School and focused on spinal cell types that underlie pain sensation. He obtained his PhD in University of California San Diego, USA in 2021. During his PhD research, Dr. Ren’s research discovered novel and essential ascending sensory pathways that transmit distinct itch information from the spinal cord to the brain. In 2022, Dr. Ren joined the Scripps Research Institute and move his research focus onto interoceptive system and tries to figure out how peripheral sensory system interacts with different internal organs of the endocrine system. Dr. Ren has been publishing his research work in a cohort of prestigious journals including Cell, Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, Cell Reports, Pain etc. During his PhD period, Dr. Ren was awarded the Bert and Ethel Aginsky Research Scholarship. Recently, Dr. Ren was awarded the Doris research scholarship at Scripps Research. Dr. Ren is a current member of the Society of Neuroscience.

Research Interest:

Mouse genetics, Animal behavior, in vivo imaging technology (photometry, two-photon), electrophysiology and Endocrinology