Yao Wang is an Associate Researcher. She received her B.Sc. in Biology from the Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University, and her Ph.D. in Physiology from the School of Life Sciences, Peking University.She then conducted postdoctoral research in neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
In late 2021, she joined the Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an Associate Researcher.

In recent years, her research has focused on exploring synaptic plasticity changes and underlying mechanisms in the central nervous system during learning and memory, drug dependence, and addiction, using approaches including animal behavioral assays, electrophysiology, microscopic imaging, and optogenetics.

(1) He, Yi; Wang, Junshi; Li, King-Lun; Wang, Yao Q; Freyberg, Zachary; Dong, Yan ; Membrane

excitability of nucleus accumbens neurons gates the incubation of cocaine craving,

Neuropsychopharmacology, 2023, 48: 1318-1327 第四作者

(2) Li, Bingjin; Yang, Wei; Ge, Tongtong; Wang, Yao; Cui, Ranji ; Stress induced microglial

activation contributes to depression, pharmacological research, 2022.5, 179(106145) 共同通讯作者

(3) Wang, Yao Q; Huang, Yanhua H; Balakrishnan, Saju; Liu, Lidong; Wang, Yu Tian; Nestler,

Eric J; Schluter, Oliver M; Dong, Yan ; AMPA and NMDA receptor trafficking at cocaine-generated

synapses, journal of neuroscience, 2021, 41(9): 1996-2011 第一作者

(4) Wang, Yao Q; Wang, Junshi; Xia, Sun-Hui; Gutstein, Howard B; Huang, Yanhua H; Schluter,

Oliver M; Cao, Jun-Li; Dong, Yan ; Neuropathic pain generates silent synapses in thalamic

projection to anterior cingulate cortex, pain, 2021, 162(5): 1322-1333 共同第一作者 (5) Wang, Junshi; Li, King-Lun; Shukla, Avani; Beroun, Ania; Ishikawa, Masago; Huang,

Xiaojie; Wang, Yao; Wang, Yao Q; Yang, Yue; Bastola, Noah D; Huang, Hugh H; Kramer, Lily E; Chao,

Terry; Huang, Yanhua H; Sesack, Susan R; Nestler, Eric J; Schluter, Oliver M; Dong, Yan ; Cocaine

Triggers Astrocyte-Mediated Synaptogenesis, biological psychiatry, 2021, 89(4): 386-397 第八作者

In the past three years, her relevant research findings have been published as corresponding author, first author, or co-author in leading international peer-reviewed journals including Pain, Journal of Neuroscience, Frontiers in Pharmacology, and Pharmacological Research.