Wei Wei

University of Chicago
Department of Neurobiology
USA
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Dr. Wei Wei is an Associate Professor at the Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago. She did her graduate training with Dr. Roberto Malinow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory , and her postdoctoral training with Dr. Marla Feller at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Wei’s group studies the neural basis of motion detection in the mouse retina using a combination of patch clamp electrophysiology, two-photon imaging, cell- and synapse-type specific genetic manipulations and computational methods. The long-term goal of her lab is to uncover synaptic, dendritic and circuit level mechanisms that collectively implement visual motion detection in the complex natural environment.