From Navigation to Neurodegeneration: Lessons from Zebrafish Vestibular Circuits

Dr. Yunlu Zhu is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. David Schoppik laboratory at NYU Langone Health. Yunlu earned his B.S. degree at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) with specialization in Cell Biology. He then pursued his Ph.D. degree at the University of Virginia under the mentorship of Dr. Sarah Kucenas, where he studied glial development in neurogenesis and discovered novel roles for neural crest cells in phagocytosis. In the Schoppik lab, Dr. Zhu has developed a new zebrafish model for neurodegenerative diseases. As a Leon Levy Neuroscience Fellow, Dr. Zhu aims to understand how molecular and cellular dysfunction disrupts balance control in neurodegenerative diseases.