Mu-ming Poo is the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and the Founding Director of the Shanghai-based Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
19 Facts About Mu-ming Poo
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Mu-ming Poo was awarded the 2016 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience for his pioneering work on synaptic plasticity.
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At ION, Poo led a team of scientists that produced the world's first truly cloned primates, a pair of crab-eating macaques called Zhongzhong and Huahua in 2017, using somatic cell nuclear transfer.
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Mu-ming Poo is academicians of National Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica, and CAS.
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Mu-ming Poo was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China on October 31,1948.
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Mu-ming Poo attended National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, graduating with a degree in physics in 1970.
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Mu-ming Poo's research was published in the major journal Nature in 1974.
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Mu-ming Poo developed a new method to manipulate proteins in cell membranes called "in situ electrophoresis".
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Mu-ming Poo moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 2000, where he later became Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology.
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Mu-ming Poo made important discoveries in synaptic plasticity, demonstrating that spike-timing-dependent plasticity plays a crucial role in neuron connections.
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In 1999, Mu-ming Poo co-founded the Shanghai-based Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and served as its director.
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Mu-ming Poo is a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley.
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At ION, Mu-ming Poo led a team of Chinese scientists that produced the world's first truly cloned primates, a pair of crab-eating macaques called Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua in late 2017, using somatic cell nuclear transfer rather than embryo twinning.
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Crab-eating macaques are already an established model organism for studies of atherosclerosis, though Mu-ming Poo chose to emphasize neuroscience, naming Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease when he appeared on the radio news program All Things Considered in January 2018.
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Mu-ming Poo is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica of Taiwan, and the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences.
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Mu-ming Poo married a fellow Taiwanese immigrant to the US, chemist and oncologist Wen-jen Hwu, and they later divorced.
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Ai-jen Mu-ming Poo was born on 1974 and is a social activist and writer who won the MacArthur "Genius" Award in 2014.
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Ting Mu-ming Poo is a filmmaker who was the editor of Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2017.
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Mu-ming Poo married again, to Yang Dan, his former student at Columbia University.