Dan Dai, Assistant Researcher
Email: daidan@sjtu.edu.cn

Research Areas:

Neural circuit mechanisms of autonomic nervous system dysfunction caused by mood disorders.

Regulation and intervention of symptoms related to mood disorders.

Education:

2013-2017, Ph.D. in Neurobiology, Neuroscience Institute, Zhejiang University

2014-2016, Joint Ph.D. training (funded by national program), Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Work Experience:
2017-2019, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University
2019-2020, Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale School of Medicine
2020-2024, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Translational Brain Research, Fudan University

Representative Publications:

1.        Dan Dai, Cheryl M. Lacadie, Sophie E Holmes, Cool Ryan, Chris Averill, Chadi Abdallah, Alan Anticevic, Irina Esterlis. Ketamine normalizes the structural alterations of inferior frontal gyrus in depression [J]. Chronic Stress. 2020.

2.        Dan Dai, Qiao-Chu Li, Qiong-Bin Zhu, Shao-Hua Hu, Rawien Balesar, Dick Swaab, Ai-Min Bao. Direct involvement of androgen receptor in oxytocin gene expression: possible relevance for mood disorders [J]. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017, 42(10): 2064.

3.        Lei Guo, Yang-Jian Qi, Hong Tan, Dan Dai, Rawien Balasar, Arja Sluiter, Joop van Heerikhuize, Shao-Hua Hu, Dick F. Swaab, Ai-Min Bao. Hyperactive oxytocin system in bipolar disorder and not in major depressive disorder: relation to corticotropin-releasing hormone. [J]. EBioMedicine, 2022 (84).

Awards and Grants:

Fudan University "Super Postdoctoral" Fellowship.

National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project.

Shanghai Youth Talent Sail Program.

Shenzhen Knowledge Innovation Program for Basic Research.

China Scholarship Council Visiting PhD Scholars Program.

Others:
Member of the Shanghai Popular Science Writers Association.