Hongkui Zeng is the Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, where she leads the creation of open-access datasets and tools to accelerate neuroscience discovery.
Then as a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the laboratory of Susumu Tonegawa she studied the molecular and synaptic mechanisms underlying hippocampus-dependent plasticity and learning.
[8] It was obtained by injecting the brains of living mice with viruses carrying the gene for the glowing marker green fluorescence protein (GFP).
[3] Zeng leads the creation of atlases of cell types[4][5][6] in the brain of humans and mice.
To gain systematic understanding of the properties, interconnections and functions of these cell types, her team combines genetic tools with large-scale imaging and single-cell analysis technologies.