Mu-ming Poo

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in China Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in China Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in China Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in China Leader Award
• 2016 - Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
• 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• Synaptic Modifications in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons: Dependence on Spike Timing, Synaptic Strength, and Postsynaptic Cell Type

  Guo-qiang Bi;Mu-ming Poo

  5490
  Citations

• Neurotrophins as synaptic modulators

  Mu-ming Poo

  2764
  Citations

• Grand challenges in global mental health

  Pamela Y. Collins;Vikram Patel;Vikram Patel;Sarah S. Joestl;Dana March;Dana March

  2508
  Citations

• Neurotrophin regulation of neural circuit development and function

  Hyungju Park;Mu-ming Poo

  2151
  Citations

• Synaptic Modification by Correlated Activity: Hebb's Postulate Revisited

  Guo-qiang Bi;Mu-ming Poo

  1924
  Citations

• Shrinkage of dendritic spines associated with long-term depression of hippocampal synapses.

  Qiang Zhou;Koichi J. Homma;Mu-ming Poo

  1458
  Citations

• Plexins are a large family of receptors for transmembrane, secreted, and GPI-anchored semaphorins in vertebrates.

  Luca Tamagnone;Stefania Artigiani;Hang Chen;Zhigang He

  1404
  Citations

• Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity of Neural Circuits

  Yang Dan;Mu-ming Poo

  1219
  Citations

• A critical window for cooperation and competition among developing retinotectal synapses

  Li I. Zhang;Huizhong W. Tao;Christine E. Holt;William A. Harris

  1144
  Citations

• Potentiation of developing neuromuscular synapses by the neurotrophins NT-3 and BDNF

  Ann M. Lohof;Nancy Yuk-Yu Ip;Mu-ming Poo

  1111
  Citations

• The neurotrophin hypothesis for synaptic plasticity.

  Alejandro F Schinder;Mu-ming Poo

  1054
  Citations

• Conversion of neuronal growth cone responses from repulsion to attraction by cyclic nucleotides.

  Hong Jun Song;Guo Li Ming;Zhigang He;Maxime Lehmann

  1020
  Citations

• A ligand-gated association between cytoplasmic domains of UNC5 and DCC family receptors converts netrin-induced growth cone attraction to repulsion.

  Kyonsoo Hong;Lindsay Hinck;Makoto Nishiyama;Mu-ming Poo

  899
  Citations

• Lateral diffusion of rhodopsin in the photoreceptor membrane

  Mu-ming Poo;Richard A. Cone

  870
  Citations

• GABA Itself Promotes the Developmental Switch of Neuronal GABAergic Responses from Excitation to Inhibition

  Karunesh Ganguly;Alejandro F. Schinder;Scott T. Wong;Mu ming Poo

  860
  Citations

• cAMP-induced switching in turning direction of nerve growth cones

  Hong Jun Song;Guo Li Ming;Mu Ming Poo

  802
  Citations

• Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity: From Synapse to Perception

  Yang Dan;Mu-Ming Poo

  796
  Citations

• Electrical activity and development of neural circuits

  Li I. Zhang;Mu-ming Poo

  777
  Citations

• Calcium stores regulate the polarity and input specificity of synaptic modification.

  Makoto Nishiyama;Kyonsoo Hong;Kyonsoo Hong;Katsuhiko Mikoshiba;Mu-ming Poo

  760
  Citations

• cAMP-Dependent Growth Cone Guidance by Netrin-1

  Guo Li Ming;Hong Jun Song;Benedikt Berninger;Christine E. Holt

  748
  Citations