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Dr. Hailan Hu is the Professor and Senior Principal Investigator at the ZIINT and School of Medicine, executive director of the Center of Neuroscience at Zhejiang University. Dr. Hu graduated from Beijing University with a B.S. degree in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. She pursued her Ph.D. degree in neuroscience at UC Berkeley, where she was a student of Prof. Corey Goodman, working on repulsive axon guidance. After completing PhD. she conducted postdoctoral research with Dr. Julius Zhu at University of Virginia , and Dr. Roberto Malinow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, working on mechanisms regulating AMPA receptor trafficking in emotional behaviors and disease models. Before joining Zhejiang University, Dr. Hu was a principal investigator at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008-2015). Her laboratory seeks to understand how emotional and social behaviors are encoded and regulated in the brain.  Dr. Hu is a recipient of the Chinese Hundred Talent Plan Award (2009), the CAS Excellent Mentorship Award (2012, 2014), the Chang Jiang Scholar and the National Outstanding Youth Award.Publications:1. Hu H. (2016) Reward and aversion. Annual Review in Neuroscience, in print (invited review)2. Lv Q, Yang L, Li G, Wang Z, Shen Z, Yu W, Jiang Q, Hou B, Pu J, Hu H, Wang Z. (2015) Large-scale persistent network reconfiguration induced by ketamine in anesthetized monkeys: relevance to mood disorders. Biological Psychiatry, in print.3. Xiu JB, Zhang Q, Zhou T, Zhou TT, Hu, H. (2014) Visualizing an emotional valence map in the limbic forebrain by TAI-FISH. Nature Neuroscience, 17:1552-1559 (Selected by Faculty 1000,)4. Wang F, Kessels H*, Hu H*. (2014) The mouse that roared - neural mechanisms of social hierarchy. Trends in Neuroscience 11:674-682 (invited review, cover article, * co-corresponding author)5. Li, K, Zhou, T, Liao, L, Yang, Z, Wong, C, Henn, F, Malinow, R, Yates, J, Hu, H. (2013) βCaMKII in lateral habenula mediates core symptoms of depression. Science, 341:1016-1020. (Highlighted in Nat. Rev. Neuro., JAMA, selected by Faculty 1000)6. Wang, F, Zhu, J, Zhu, H, Zhang, Q, Lin, Z, Hu, H (2011) Bidirectional control of social hierarchy by synaptic efficacy in medial prefrontal cortex. Science, 334: 693-697. (Highlighted in Science)