孙向东，博士，广州医科大学教授，博士生导师。2014年毕业于南方医科大学，获博士学位，导师为神经科学家高天明教授。之后在美国著名神经生物学家梅林教授的实验室从事博士后工作。2017年以高水平大学引进人才身份加入广州医科大学基础学院神经科学平台。多年来从事神经系统疾病的机制研究，代表性论文以第一作者或共同通讯作者发表在国际著名杂志如《Nature Neuroscience》、《Neuron》、《PNAS》等上，成果受到国际同行发文评述及媒体的报道。实验室的长远目标是通过对神经突触发育、功能和神经环路的研究，力图阐明神经精神疾病如精神分裂症、焦虑障碍以及癫痫病等的分子机制并提供相应的治疗策略。

近期代表性论文：

1. Xiang-Dong Sun*#, Lei Li#, Fang Liu, Zhi-Hui Huang, Jonathan. C. Bean, Hui-Feng Jiao, Arnab Barik, Seon-Myung Kim, Haitao Wu, Chengyong Shen, Yun Tian, Thiri W. Lin, Ryan Bates, Anupama Sathyamurthy, Yong-Jun Chen, Dong-Min Yin, Lei Xiong, Hui-Ping Lin, Jin-Xia Hu, Bao-Ming Li, Tian-Ming Gao, Wen-Cheng Xiong, Lin Mei#. Lrp4 in astrocytes modulates glutamatergic transmission. Nature Neuroscience. 2016. 19(8): p. 1010-8. (#: equal contribution; *: co-correspondence)

2. Yisheng Lu#, Xiang-Dong Sun#, Feng-Qing Hou, Lin-Lin Bi, Dong-Min Yin, Fang Liu, Yong-Jun Chen, Jonathan C. Bean, Hui-Feng Jiao, XiHui Liu, Bao-Ming Li, Wen-Cheng Xiong, Tian-Ming Gao and Lin Mei. Maintenance of GABAergic Activity by Neuregulin 1-ErbB4 in Amygdala for Fear Memory. Neuron. 2014 84: 835-846. (#: equal contribution)

3. Hui-Feng Jiao#, Xiang-Dong Sun#, Ryan Bates#, Lei Xiong, Fang Liu, Lei Li, hong-Sheng Zhang, Shun-Qi Wang, Ming-Tao Xiong, Mihir Patel, Alexis M. Stranahan, Wen-Cheng Xiong, Bao-Ming Li and Lin Mei. Transmembrane protein 108 is required for glutamatergic transmission in dentate gyrus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2017 (#: equal contribution)

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