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CURRICULUM VITAE
Zhi-Qi (Jason) Xiong,   h.D.
BIRTHPLACE Hunan Province, P. R. China
BIRTHDATE August 19, 1968
MARITAL STATUS
Married to Chi Zhang
Child: Andy Xiong Born: November 2, 1996 Jeff Xiong Born: January 13, 2003
ADDRESS Duke University Medical Center
Box 3676
401 Bryan Research Building for Neurobiology
Research Drive
Durham, NC 27710
EMAIL xiong@neuro.duke.edu
xiongzq@yahoo.com
TELEPHONE 919-684-4241 (lab); 919-490-5883 (home)
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Postdoctoral training March, 2000-Present Duke University Medical Center
Department of Neurobiology
Projects: “Complement, seizure, and neurodegeneration” “BDNF-TrkB signaling in epileptogenesis”
Ph.D.
August, 1995-Feb., 2000 Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology and Division of Neuroscience
Dissertation: “Ionic Mechanisms of Epileptiform Activity”
M.S.
Sept., 1992-July, 1995 Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Department of Pharmacology
Thesis: “Effects of Huperzine A and its Analogs on Cholinesterases and Memory Impairments”
Pharm.B.
Sept., 1987-June, 1992 West China University of Medical Sciences
(Sichuan University Huaxi Medical Center)
School of Pharmacy
Thesis: “Pharmacological and toxicological studies of Chinese traditional herb—Yangjianhua”
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Research Associate Duke University Medical Center
March, 2000-Present Department of Neurobiology
Dr. James O. McNamara’s lab
Calcium imaging; Confocal microscopy
Primary cortical and hippocampal cultures
Hippocampal explant cultures
In vivo EEG recordings
Multi-electrode array recordings
Whole-cell patch recordings
Biochemical and molecular techniques
Research Assistant Baylor College of Medicine
Dec., 1998-Sept., 1999 Division of Neuroscience
Dr. Peter Saggau’s lab
Optical recording techniques
April, 1998-June, 1998 Division of Neuroscience
Dr. John Dani’s lab
Neuronal microisland cultures
Whole cell patch recordings
August, 1995-Feb., 2000 Department of Pharmacology and Division of neuroscience
Dr. Janet L. Stringer’s lab
In vivo electrophysiological recordings
In vitro intracellular and extracellular recordings
Ion-sensitive microelectrodes (pH, K+, Ca2+)
Immunohistochemistry
Research Assistant Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sept., 1992-June, 1995 Department of Neuropharmacology
Professor Xi-Can Tang’s lab
Drug screening; Neurochemistry
Behavioral pharmacology
(rat spatial learning and memory)
PUBLICATIONS
1. Xiong Z-Q and McNamara JO. Blockade of complement-induced neuronal cell death by low molecular organic inhibitors of membrane attack complex. In preparation.
2. Xiong Z-Q, Qian W, Suzuki K, and McNamara JO. (2003). Formation of complement membrane attack complex in mammalian cerebral cortex evokes seizures and neurodegeneration. J. Neurosci. 23: 955-960.
3. Xiong Z-Q and McNamara JO. (2002). Fleeting activation of ionotropic glutamate receptors sensitizes cortical neurons to complement attack. Neuron 36: 363-374.
4. Xiong Z-Q and McNamara JO. (2002). Fas(t) balls and Lou Gehrig disease: a clue to selective vulnerability of motor neurons? Neuron 35: 1011-1013. (preview)
5. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. (2001). Prolonged bursts occur in normal calcium levels in hippocampal slices after raising excitability and blocking synaptic transmission. J. Neurophysiol. 86: 2625-2628.
6. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. (2001). Effects of postsynaptic GABAB receptor activation on epileptiform activity in hippocampal slices. Neuropharmacology 40: 131-138.
7. Xiong Z-Q, Saggau P, and Stringer JL. (2000). Activity-dependent intracellular acidification correlates with the duration of seizure activity. J. Neurosci. 20: 1290-1296.
8. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. (2000). Extracellular pH responses in CA1 and the dentate gyrus during electrical stimulation, seizure discharges, and spreading depression. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 3519-3524.
9. Schweitzer JS, Wang H, Xiong Z-Q, and Stringer JL. (2000). pH sensitivity of non-synaptic field bursts in the dentate gyrus. J. Neurophysiol. 84: 927-933.
10. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. (2000). Sodium pump activity, not glial spatial buffering, clears potassium after epileptiform activity induced in the dentate gyrus. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 1443-1451.
11. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. (2000). Regulation of extracellular pH in the developing hippocampus. Dev. Brain Res. 122: 113-117.
12. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. (1999). Astrocytic regulation of the recovery of extracellular potassium after seizures in vivo. Eur. J. Neurosci. 11: 1677-1684.
13. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. (1999). Cesium induces spontaneous epileptiform activity without changing extracellular potassium regulation in rat hippocampus. J. Neurophysiol. 82: 3339-3346.
14. Xiong Z-Q, Cheng DH, and Tang XC. (1998). Effects of huperzine A on nucleus basalis magnocellularis lesion-induced spatial working memory deficit. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica 19: 128-132.
15. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. (1997). Effects of felbamate, gabapentin and lamotrigine on seizure parameters and excitability in the rat hippocampus. Epilepsy Res. 27: 187-194.
16. Xiong Z-Q, Han YF, and Tang XC. (1995). Huperzine A ameliorates the spatial working memory impairments induced by AF64A. NeuroReport 6: 2221-2224.
17. Xiong Z-Q and Tang XC. (1995). Effect of huperzine A, a novel acetyl-cholinesterase inhibitor, on radial maze performance in rats.   harmacol. Biochem. Behav. 51: 415-419.
18. Xiong Z-Q and Tang XC. (1995). Effects of isovanihuperzine A on cholinesterase and scopolamine-induced memory impairment. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica 16: 21-25.
19. Xiong Z-Q and Tang XC. (1995). Effect of N-nitro-L -arginine on eight-arm maze performance in rats. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica 16: 301-304.
20. Tang XC, Xiong Z-Q, Qian BC, Zhou ZF. (1994). Cognition improvement by oral huperzine A: a novel acetylcholinesterase inhibitor. In Giacobini E and Becker R Eds. Alzheimer Therapy: Therapeutic Strategies. Birkhauser, Boston. 113-119 (review)
MEETING ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS:
1. Xiong Z-Q and McNamara JO. 2002. Fleeting activation of ionotropic glutamate receptors sensitizes cortical neurons to complement attack.
Poster presentation: the 32th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience. Orlando, FL.
2. Stringer JL and Xiong Z-Q. 2000. In hippocampal slices, blocking synaptic transmission allows the appearance of field bursts in normal extracellular calcium levels.
Poster presentation: the annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Meeting. Los Angeles, CA.
Abstract: Epilepsia 41(suppl. 7): 5.
3. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. 2000. Activity-dependent intracellular acidification correlates with the duration of seizure activity.
Abstract: BCM Graduate Student Symposium 2000: 230.
4. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL 1999. Sodium pump activity, not glial spatial buffering, accounts for the potassium clearing during and after epileptiform activity induced in the dentate gyrus.
Poster presentation: Graduate Student Symposium, Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, TX. Abstract 1999: 244.
Poster presentation: the Ninth Annual Rush & Helen Record Neuroscience Forum. Galveston, TX. Abstract: p53.
Poster presentation: the 29th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience. Miami Beach, FL.
Soc Neurosci Abstr: 25: 843.
5. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. 1998. The contribution of gap junctions to nonsynaptic epileptiform activity in rat dentate gyrus.
Poster presentation: the eighth Annual Rush & Helen Record Neuroscience Forum. Galveston, TX. Abstract: p44.
Poster presentation: the Graduate Student Symposium, Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, TX. Abstract 1998: p250.
Poster presentation: the 28th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience. Los Angles, CA.
Soc Neurosci Abstr: 24: 1214.
6. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. 1997. Role of glia in regulation of extracellular potassium during seizures.
Poster presentation: the Graduate Student Symposium, Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, TX. Abstract 1997: 228.
Poster presentation: the 27th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience. New Orleans, LA.
Soc Neurosci Abstr: 23: 2264.
7. Xiong Z-Q and Stringer JL. 1996. Effects of felbamate and gabapentin on excitability in the dentate gyrus and on hippocampal seizures in vivo.
Poster presentation: the 26th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience. Washington, D.C.
Soc Neurosci Abstr: 22: 2105.
8. Yeung OY, Xiong Z-Q, Tang XC, and Han YF. 1995. Comparison of memory-enhancing effects of huperzine A and tacrine on the radial maze performance of scoplamine-treated rats.
Poster presentation: the 25th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, LA.
Soc Neurosci Abstr: 21: 165.
PATENTS
• United States Patent, in process. Low molecular weight organic inhibitors of complement membrane attack complex. Inventors: James O. McNamara and Zhi-Qi Xiong. Assignee: Duke University.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Society for Neuroscience
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