Longnian Lin

Professor Longnian Lin, PhD, is an Affiliated Professor of Neuroscience at NYU Shanghai, the Director of the Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics at the Ministry of Education, and the Deputy Director of the Institute of Brain and Education Innovation at East China Normal University (ECNU). Between 2002 and 2004, he went to a postdoctoral program at the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. In 2004, he returned to China to preside over the construction of brain coding analysis technology platform and serves as head of the brain coding laboratory.

Select Publications

• Ma X, Zhang Y, Wang L, Li N, Barkai E, Zhang X, Lin L, Xu J. The firing of theta state related septal cholinergic neurons disrupt hippocampal ripple oscillations via muscarinic receptors. J Neurosci. 2020 Apr 29; 40(18):3591–3603.

•  Li Y, Xu J, Liu Y, Zhu J, Liu N, Zeng W, Huang N, Rasch MJ, Jiang H, Gu X, Li X, Luo M, Li C, Teng J, Chen J, Zeng S, Lin L, Zhang X. A distinct entorhinal cortex to hippocampal CA1 direct circuit for olfactory associative learning. Nat Neurosci. 2017 Apr;20(4):559-570.

• Zhang L, Ma X, Chen G, Barkai E, Lin L. Theta Rhythmic Clock-Like Activity of Single Units in the Mouse Hippocampus. J Neurosci. 2016 Apr 20;36(16):4415-20.

• Zhang L, Chen G, Niu R, Wei W, Ma X, Xu J, Wang J, Wang Z, Lin L. Hippocampal theta-driving cells revealed by Granger causality. Hippocampus. 2012 Aug; 22(8): 1781-93.

• Lin L, Chen G, Kuang H, Wang D, Tsien JZ. Neural encoding of the concept of nest in the mouse brain. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) 2007, 104(14):6066-71.

Education

• PhD, Physiology 
  East China Normal University, 2001
• MS, Physiology
  East China Normal University, 1994
• BS,  Biology
  East China Normal University, 1984