Pharmaceuticals

General Education Studies, Writing Education and Pedagogy

2025–Present: Associate Professor & Deputy Director, Teaching Center for Writing and Communication (TCWC), Tsinghua University

2023–2025: Associate Professor, TCWC, Tsinghua University

2020–2023: Lecturer, TCWC, Tsinghua University

2016–2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University

Medical Essay Writing and Expression

First Prize, General Education Research Paper Award, Federation for General Education (2022)

Academic Research

Mi Zhen, Jia Wenxu. “Exploration and Innovation in Curriculum Design for General Education Writing Courses: A Case Study of Life Science-Related Themes.” General Education Review (Accepted).

Deng, S., Li, J., Zhu, J., He, Q., Li, L., Yang, X., Mi, Z., Jiang, M., Shu, Y.. “Regulation of Recurrent Inhibition by Asynchronous Glutamate Release in Neocortex.” Neuron, 105(3) (2020), 522-533.

Mi, Z., Yang, J., He, Q., Zhang, X., Shu, Y.. “Alterations of Electrophysiological Properties and Ion Channel Expression in Prefrontal Cortex of a Mouse Model of Schizophrenia.” Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 13 (2019), 554

Godar, S. C., Cadeddu, R., Floris, G., Mosher, L. J., Mi, Z., Jarmolowicz, D. P. Bortolato, M. (2019). The Steroidogenesis Inhibitor Finasteride Reduces the Response to Both Stressful and Rewarding Stimuli. Biomolecules, 9(11), E749.

Yin, L., Zheng, R., Ke, W., He, Q., Zhang, Y., Li, J., Wang, B., Mi, Z., Long, Y.S., Rasch, M.J. and Li, T.. “Autapses enhance bursting and coincidence detection in neocortical pyramidal cells.” Nature communications, 9(1) (2018), p.4890.

Mi, Z., Si, T., Kapadia, K., Li, Q., Muma, N. A “Receptor-stimulated transamidation induces activation of Rac1 and Cdc42 and theregulation of dendritic spines.” Neuropharmacolgy, 117 (2017), 93-105.

Muma, N. A., & Mi, Z. “Serotonylation and transamidation of other monoamines.” ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 6 (7) (2015), 961–969.

Research Projects

Principal Investigator: Teaching Reform Project (Phase II), TCWC, Tsinghua University (2021) – “Reading Instruction in University Writing Courses.”

Principal Investigator: Young Scientists Fund Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China (2019–2021) – “The Role of Axonal Dysfunction of Prefrontal Cortex Neurons in Schizophrenia-Like Behaviors.”

Participant: Targeted Support Project for Curriculum Innovation, Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform (2022–2023) – “Exploration and Practice of the General Education Concept in Thematic Writing Courses.”

Participant: Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2017–2021) – “Mechanisms of Axonal Structure and Function and Their Abnormalities in Midbrain Dopamine Neurons.”

Participant: International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China (2017–2019) – “Neurobiological Mechanisms of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.”