Hui-Chen Lu, Ph.D.

Phone:

(812) 856-9663

Email:

hclu@iu.edu

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Campus:

IU Bloomington

Biography

Dr. Lu is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, a Linda and Jack Gill Chair and the current Director of the Gill Institute for Neuroscience. She was one of three initial students to enroll in the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston's first developmental biology Ph.D. program. She diversified her training through a postdoctoral under neuroscientist Michael Crair, where she became increasingly interested in brain development and eventually took on an assistant professorship in the same department. She was recruited to join the Linda and Jack Gill Center in 2015, and became the director of the Center in 2018, superceding Dr. Mackie.

Dr. Lu's research focuses on the signaling cascades underlying neural circuit connections during brain development, to understand how sensory experiences affect neural circuit wiring, and to identify novel factors required to maintain the health of neural circuits during aging.