Feng Wang Lab

Research

Mapping a behavior atlas throughout the lifespan under diverse internal and external conditions

Uncovering the sex-specific neural mechanisms underlying defensive behaviors

Investigating how male and female mice adapt their behaviors to promote individual survival and species reproduction across different environments.

Research Projects

1.Multimodal Graded Assessment and Mechanism Analysis of Consciousness Recovery after General Anesthesia (No. B2502030), Shenzhen Medical Research Fund, 2026/01-2029/12, Project Leader, ¥ 3, 000, 000

2.Neural mechanism of CB₁R-expressing neurons modulating innate fear behavior (No. 32371062), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2024/01-2027/12, Project Leader, ¥ 650, 000

3. Neural activity of multi-brain region photoelectric information detection in mice (No. JCYJ20220818100805013), Shenzhen Key Basic Research Project, 2022/10-2025/12, Project Leader, ¥ 2, 000, 000

4. Sexual characteristics of subcortical circuits in processing fear emotion information (No. 2022ZD0208300), National Science and Technology Innovation 2030- Major Project of China, 2022/08-2027/07, Project Leader, ¥ 5, 000, 000

5. The Expression Differences of Cannabinoid I Receptor (No. 2019025), Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Fund, 2019/12-2021/11, Project Leader, ¥ 150, 000

6. XXXXXX, Confidential project, 2019/08-2021/07, Project Leader, ¥ 2, 800, 000

7. The Effects of Cannabinoid Intervention in Brain Diseases, Enterprise project, 2019/09-2021/04, Project Leader, ¥ 2, 000, 000

8. XXXXXX, Confidential project, 2017/07-2018/07, Project Leader, ¥ 500, 000

9. Involvement of EAAT2-NDRG2 pathway in neuroprotection induced by electroacupuncture pretreatment (No. 81102631), National Natural Science Foundation of China, Project Leader, ¥ 240, 000

10. Construction of Dynamic Sleep–Refined Behavioral Spectra in Stress-Induced Depression and Analysis of Underlying Neural Mechanisms (No. A2502019), Shenzhen Medical Research Fund - Medical student training - Ph.D candidates, 2026/01-2026/12, Yangting Xu, ¥ 100, 000 (Supervisor)

11. Behavioral characterization of compensatory motor function after spinal cord injury (No. A2402017), Shenzhen Medical Research Fund – Medical student training – Ph.D candidates, 2025/01-2025/12, Han Li, ¥ 100, 000 (Supervisor)

12. Research and Application of Intelligent Animal Behavior Analysis System for Brain Diseases, (No. KJZD20230923114407016), Major Science and Technology Project in Shenzhen, 2024/01-2025/12, Kang Huang, ¥ 2, 000, 000 (PI, ¥ 1, 300, 000)

13. Construction of a three-dimensional behavioral characteristic mapping of forced cocaine administration in mice and analysis of its neural mechanisms (No. A2302035), Shenzhen Medical Research Fund – Medical student training – Ph.D candidates 2024/01-2024/12, Bingqian Zhang, ¥ 100, 000 (Supervisor)

14. Neural Circuit Mechanism of Individual Variations in Affective Disorders (No. T2250710685), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2023/01-2025/12, Minghu Han, ¥ 3, 700, 000 (PI, ¥ 600, 000)

15. Elaborate Behavior Analysis of Defensive Behaviors and Sex Differences Research, GuangDong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, 2023/01-2024/12, Xue Liu, ¥ 100, 000 (Supervisor)

16. Shenzhen Key Lab of Translational Research for Brain Diseases (No. ZDSYS20200828154800001), 2021/03-2023/03, Yutian Wang, ¥ 5, 000, 000 (PI, ¥ 1, 000, 000)

17. The common neurobiological mechanisms of the pathogenesis and intervention across major neuropsychiatric diseases (No. U20A6005), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2021/01-2024/12, Yutian Wang, ¥ 15, 795, 000 (PI, ¥ 500, 000)