I am currently working in Hanganu-Opatz Lab. My primary aim is to investigate how the sensory entrainment of brain systems changes over neural development. Alongside this, I’m interested in understanding the potentially important role of sensory processing during neonatal age for later cognitive maturation.
I have published more than 10 papers on SCI journals mainly in the field of neuroscience (first-authored and co-authored).

🙌 News

• 2024.08:  😃 I am so honored to be recognized by the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad!
• 2024.07:  🔥 Our paper comprehensively introducing the workflow of combining in vivo optogenetics and electrophysiology is now published on STAR Protocols.
• 2023.11:  🎉 Our paper “Olfactory bulb activity shapes the development of entorhinal-hippocampal coupling and associated cognitive abilities” on Current Biology gets selected as UKE Paper of the Month (PoM) for October 2023.

📝 Featured Publications

Protocol for adeno-associated virus-mediated optogenetic activation of olfactory output neurons in neonatal mice

Chen, Y.-N., Kostka, J. K., Bitzenhofer, S. H., Hanganu-Opatz, I. L.

STAR Protocols, 5, 103164

STAR Protocols 2024

Olfactory bulb activity shapes the development of entorhinal-hippocampal coupling and associated cognitive abilities

Chen, Y.-N., Kostka, J. K., Bitzenhofer, S. H., Hanganu-Opatz, I. L.

Current Biology, 33(20), 4353-4366

Current Biology 2023

Enhancing GABAergic signaling ameliorates aberrant gamma oscillations of olfactory bulb in AD mouse models

Chen, M. ^†, Chen, Y.-N. ^†, Huo, Q. ^†, … Wang, L., Tan, S., Misrani, A., Jiang, J., Chen, J., Chen, S., Zhang, J., Tabassum, S., Wang, J., Chen, X. , Long C., Yang, L.

Molecular Neurodegeneration, 16(1), 1-23

Molecular Neurodegeneration 2021

Pelvic pain alters functional connectivity between anterior cingulate cortex and hippocampus in both humans and a rat model

Yu, W. ^†, Wu, X. ^†, Chen, Y.-N. ^†, … Liang, Z., Jiang, J., Misrani, A., Su, Y., Peng, Y., Chen, J., Tang, B., Sun, M., Long C. , Shen J., Yang, L.

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 15, 642349

Evaluation of hemisphere lateralization with bilateral local field potential recording in secondary motor cortex of mice

Chen, Y.-N., Li, M., Zheng, Y., Yang, L.

JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), (149), e59310

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🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.08, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad
• 2024.03, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Travel Grant for 17^th Meeting of the Chinese Neuroscience Society (CNS 2024)
• 2023.10, UKE Paper of the Month (PoM)
• 2023.08, CDGTM-BGI Outstanding Youth Award
• 2018.09, China National Scholarship (Top 1%)

💻 Talks in Academic Conferences

• 2024.09, “Not Only with Smaller Size: Dynamic Landscape of Developing Brain”
  The 17^th Meeting of the Chinese Neuroscience Society, Suzhou
• 2023.08, “Olfaction: a Key Player in Cognitive Development/Degeneration”
  International Forum of Extracellular Space and Translational Medicine, Bern & Beijing
• 2021.09, “Time Correlation Between Olfactory Network Dysfunction and Cognitive Degeneration”
  Neuromatch Conference, online | [video]

📖 Educations

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👨‍💻 Internships

• 2015.12 - 2016.05, Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), China.