Dr. Puming Zhang received her bachelor's degree of Automation in Industry from Zhejiang University in 1997, and Ph.D. degree of Control Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2002. She conducted post-doctoral research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2002-2003) before joining Department of Biomedical Engineering, SJTU in 2004 as an Associate Professor. Dr. Zhang is supported by many research agencies including the NSFC and the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Research Interests:

Neural Information Processing

Neural population coding in retina

Epileptiform discharges in key brain regions in vitro and in vivo, and clinical data analysis

Selected Publications:

1. Xiao L, Gong HY, Gong HQ, Liang PJ and Zhang PM*. Response properties of ON-OFF retinal ganglion cells to high-order stimulus statistics. Neuroscience Letters. 2014; 582:43-48

2. Bu JY, Li H, Gong HQ, Liang PJ and Zhang PM^*. Gap junction permeability modulated by dopamine exerts effects on spatial and temporal correlation of retinal ganglion cells’ firing activities. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 2014, 36(1): 67-79

3. Li YH, Li JJ, Lu QC, Gong HQ, Liang PJ and Zhang PM^*. Involvement of thalamus in initiation of epileptic seizures induced by pilocarpine in mice. Neural Plasticity. 2014, doi:10.1155/2014/675128.

4. Gong XW, Li JB, Lu QC, Liang PJ and Zhang PM^*. Effective connectivity of hippocampal neural network and its alteration in Mg²⁺-Free epilepsy model. PLoS One. 2014, 9(3): e92961.

5. Ren H, Shi YJ, Lu QC, Liang PJ and Zhang PM*. The role of the entorhinal cortex in epileptiform activities of the hippocampus. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling. 2014; 11:14.

Fundings:

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China: Coding strategies of retinal ganglion cells in response to complex stimuli (61375114), 2014.01-2017.12, PI.

2. The Key Basic Research Project of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai: Researches in pathogenesis and intervene treatments of intractable epilepsy (13DJ1400303), 2013.09-2016.08, Collaborator.

3. Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai: Research on characteristics of epilepsy neural network by multi-channel recording systems (12ZR1413800), 2012.07-2015.06, PI.

4. National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on modeling and algorithms of information coding in retinas (60775034), 2008.01-2010.12, PI.

5. 973: Visual information processing (2005CB724301), 2005.12-2010.11, Collaborator.

6. National Natural Science Foundation of China: Neuronal population coding of visual information processing (30400088), 2005.01-2007.12, PI.

E-mail: pmzhang@sjtu.edu.cn

Tel : 86-21-34204015

Website : nip.sjtu.edu.cn