Exploring the nervous system across scales

Guo-Qiang Bi is a Xinchuang Professor of Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and Founding Director of Interdisciplinary Center for Brain Information at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his BS in physics at Peking University, PhD in biophysics at UC
Berkeley and postdoctoral training in neurobiology at UCSD. Before joining USTC, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His research interest ranges from synaptic plasticity and learning to the organization of neural circuits. While he has been well known for the seminal discovery in the paper Bi & Poo 1998 on spike-timing dependent plasticity, he works are reaching exciting new heights in more recent years: his team has been combining cryogenic electron tomography with correlative microscopy to investigate in situ structure and dynamics inside neuronal synapses, and developing mesoscale imaging approaches to map system-wide architecture and cross-regional activity of neurons and networks from brain to body.

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