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Bachelor of Science at Department of Biological Science and Technology, the Hangzhou University in 1993. From 1996, he was jointly cultivated by Zhejiang University and Shanghai Institute of Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and conducated retinal neurobiological research, being supervised by Prof. Xiong-Li Yang (member of Chinese Academy of Sciences). He received a Doctorate of Science on October 1999. He went to Prof. David Linden///'s lab at Department of Molecular Neuroscience of the Johns Hopkins University for post-doctoral training. He was appointed professor and doctoral tutor in the Department of Neurobiology, the Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and principal investigator of unit of molecular and cellular mechanism of neural signal transduction. His achievements include: A) first detailed analysis of the retinal glutamate receptor subtype composition and their roles in light signal transduction. B) confirmation of a new cerebellar synaptic plasticity and experimental evidence for its expression location with a reliable experiment. C) first report of long-term potentiation of neuronal glutamate transporters. D) first report that SRF, rather than CREB, may play a key role in hippocampal LTP. All these work has been highly recommended by famous international neuroscientists, including Dr. Richard Huganir (member of Academy of Sciences USA), Dr. David Ginty (HHMI member) and an internationally renowned scientist Dr. David Linden. He has published series of research articles in international top journals, including Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, PNAS, Neuroscience, European Journal of Neurosicnece. He won First grade prize of National Zhang Xi-Jung Excellent Young Research///'s Thesis Award of Chinese Association of Physiology (1999) and First grade prize of Beckman Shanghai Life Science Award (1998). His research group has been supported by 973 project of Ministry of Science and Technology, National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC-RGC Project, Ministry of Education Fund for returned overseas students, New Century Talent Project of Ministry of Education, Talent Project of Zhejiang Province Natural Science Foundation.