Liqun Luo
Stanford University · Biology
Active 1992–2026
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About
Liqun Luo is the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Biology, and Professor of Neurobiology by courtesy at Stanford University. He earned his bachelor's degree in molecular biology from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1986 and completed his Ph.D. in Biology at Brandeis University in 1992. Following postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco, he started his own lab in the Department of Biology at Stanford University in December 1996. Dr. Luo's research focuses on how neural circuits are assembled during development and how their architectures enable specific functions in adults. He studies the genetic analysis of neural circuit organization and assembly in flies and mice. As a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, he has contributed significantly to the understanding of neural circuit development. Dr. Luo is also the author of the widely used textbook 'Principles of Neurobiology,' now in its second edition. He has served on the editorial boards of several prominent scientific journals and has received numerous awards, including the McKnight Technological Innovation in Neuroscience Award, the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award, and the Jacob Javits Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Research topics
- Biology
- Computer Science
- Genetics
- Neuroscience
- Data Mining
- Artificial Intelligence
- Database
- Cell biology
- Endocrinology
- Computational biology
Selected publications
Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly
Science · 2022 · 834 citations
community and serves as a reference to study genetic perturbations and disease models at single-cell resolution.
Deep posteromedial cortical rhythm in dissociation
Nature · 2020 · 284 citations
Neuron · 2020 · 196 citations
Cell · 2020 · 189 citations
A preoptic neuronal population controls fever and appetite during sickness
Nature · 2022 · 173 citations
Recent grants
Cell-cell communications in neural circuit assembly
NIH · $7.3M · 2005–2026
NIH · $1.2M · 2005
NIH · $2.6M · 2013
Frequent coauthors
- 150 shared
Stephen R. Quake
Stanford University
- 140 shared
David J. Luginbuhl
Stanford University
- 140 shared
Hongjie Li
Baylor College of Medicine
- 113 shared
Jun Li
Janelia Research Campus
- 109 shared
Qijing Xie
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 108 shared
Tongchao Li
Stanford University
- 74 shared
Chuanyun Xu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 72 shared
Mark J. Wagner
Labs
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Education
- 1992
PhD, Biology
Brandeis University
- 1986
BS, Biology
University of Science and Technology of China
Awards & honors
- McKnight Technological Innovation in Neuroscience Award
- Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award
- Jacob Javits Award from National Institute of Neurological D…
- HW Mossman Award from American Association of Anatomists
- Lawrence Katz Prize
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