Staff Profile
Dr Wei Xu
Research Associate
- Telephone: 0191 282 0279
- Personal Website: wei.xu@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Biosciences Institute
Henry Wellcome Building
Newcastle University
NE2 4HH
UK
I am currently studying the role of the motor system in sleep: how waking neuronal patterns can be replayed during sleep to aid offline consolidation of procedural learning. I have designed and carried out in-vivo, in-vitro, psychophysics and computational modelling studies in rodents, non-human primates and humans.
Academic employment history
2015-present: | Postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience, Newcastle University, Andrew Jackson lab |
2014-2015: | Postdoctoral researcher, Newcastle University, Stuart Baker lab |
Education and training
2012-2014: | Trainee doctor, National Health Service Newcastle hospitals |
2010-2012: | MB/BChir (clinical medicine), Cambridge University |
2007-2010: | PhD Neuroscience (intercalated MB/PhD programme), Cambridge University |
2003-2006: | BA (preclinical medicine, physiology), Cambridge University |
Collaborators
Dr Fiona Le Beau, Newcastle University.
Dr Mark Baker, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle.
Professor Richard Apps, Bristol University.
Teaching experience
2006-2009: | Teaching undergraduate physiology and neuroscience in small group settings. |
2012-2013: | Bedside teaching of clinical medical students. |
2016-2018: | Supervision of project and master students in the lab. |
- Kurz A, Xu W, Wiegel P, Leukel C, Baker SN. Non-invasive Assessment of Superficial and Deep Layer Circuits in Human Motor Cortex. Journal of Physiology 2019, 597(12), 2975-2991.
- Susilaradeya D, Xu W, Hall T, Galán F, Alter K, Jackson A. Extrinsic and Intrinsic Dynamics in Movement Intermittency. eLife 2019, 8, e40145.
- Xu W, de Carvalho D, Jackson A. Sequential neural activity in primary motor cortex during sleep. Journal of Neuroscience 2019, 1408-1418.
- Xu W, Baker SN. In Vitro Characterisation of Intrinsic Properties and Local Synaptic Inputs to Pyramidal Neurons in Macaque Primary Motor Cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience 2018, 48(4), 1976-2097.
- Xu W, Baker SN. Timing Intervals Using Population Synchrony and Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 2016, 10, 123.
- Xu W, Jones S, Edgley SA. Event time representation in cerebellar mossy fibres arising from the lateral reticular nucleus. J Physiol 2013, 591(4), 1045–1062.
- Xu W, Edgley SA. Cerebellar Golgi cells in the rat receive convergent peripheral inputs via a lateral reticular nucleus relay. Eur J Neurosci 2010, 32(4), 591–597.
- Xu W, Edgley S. Climbing fibre-dependent changes in Golgi cell responses to peripheral stimulation. J Physiol 2008, 586(20), 4951–4959.
- Chen Z, Hothi SS, Xu W, Huang CL. Conduction velocities in amphibian skeletal muscle fibres exposed to hyperosmotic extracellular solutions. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2007, 28(4), 195-202.
- Usher-Smith JA, Xu W, Fraser JA, Huang CL. Alterations in calcium homeostasis reduce membrane excitability in amphibian skeletal muscle. Pflugers Arch 2006, 453(2), 211-221.