I am a neurobiologist interested in stress- related psychiatric disorders. I was trained in biomedical sciences, physiology and pharmacology. I started working on psychiatric neuroscience since 2012. I am familiar with different stress animal models, animal behaviours and molecular sequencings. I received my PhD at Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in 2021. Before stating my own group as a Junior Professor I was working on genetics of major depression at Helmholtz Pioneer Campus.
Career
W1 professor, University of Regensburg, Germany (2024- present)
Postdoc, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Germany, 2021-24 (Cai lab)
PhD, Systemic Neuroscience, LMU & MPI of Psychiatry, Germany, 2021 (Deussing lab)
MSc, Physiology & Pharmacology, 2016 (Huang lab)
BSc, Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University, 2014
Talks and seminars
2024 GSRnet meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Spatial- single cell transcriptome co-profiling of chronic stress responses in the brain"
2023 GRC amygdala, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
"Molecular and neuronal mechanisms of behavioural integration in the extended-amygdala"
2022 GRK summer school, Regensburg, Germany
"Tissue clearing in assistant of whole brain visualization in neuroscience"
2022 3rd Munich Conference on Stress, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
"Diverse ensembles in the Extended amygdala encode emotion and social behaviours"
2021 EBBS 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Extended amygdala circuit triggers aversive responses through basal ganglia"
2018 CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Program, 2018, Bordeaux, France
"Characterization of CRH/CRHR1 and their relationship with stress"
Awards
2021 EBBS Young Investigator award
European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS), Lausanne, Switzerland
2019 Best poster prize, FENS-Hertie winter school
FENS-Hertie winter school, Obergurgl, Austria
2017 Mifek Kirschner Young scientists award
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
Teaching
I am involved in lectures for both bachelor and master's students:
Bachelors in biology
Neurobiology - Functional imaging (in vivo) and functional genomic analysis, Neurobiological experiments
Workshop - Tissue clearing techniques
Seminar - Molecular and Behavioural neurobiology
Masters in neurobiology
Systemic neurobiology - Receptors and signalling, Functional dissection of circuits in emotions
Workshop - Advanced microscopy (miniscope in freely moving animals)
Seminar - Molecular, Cellular and Systemic neurobiology
Scientific activities
Chair of symposium “Tracking dynamics of emotion in the brain, indication of psychiatric diseases” at EBBS meeting 2025
Member of The Global Stress & Resilience Network (GSRNet), 2025- present
Member of European society of spatial biology (ESSB), 2024- present
Member of European brain and behaviour society (EBBS), 2022- present
Member of Federal European Neuroscience society (FENS), 2022- present
Chair of section, Minerva school 2019