Curriculum Vitae
Name	Haining ZHONG
Contact	Email: hnzhong@gmail.com / Phone: (631) 946-0520 HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus  19700 Helix Drive, Room 2W.260, Ashburn, VA 20147
Education	B.S. (in biological sciences and biotechnology) and B.Eng. (in electronics and computer technology), 1996, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Ph.D., 2002, Program of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Other  Training	July, 1998  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course on Molecular Cloning of Neural Genes. June, 2000 – August, 2000  Marine Biological Laboratory summer course on Neurobiology.
Research	June, 1994 – July, 1996  Undergraduate research on the denaturing and refolding processes of creatine kinase, in Dr. Hai-Meng Zhou’s laboratory, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.  Three original papers were published. May, 1997 – May, 2002  Graduate research on the structure and function of cyclic nucleotide-gated channels, in Dr. King-Wai Yau’s laboratory, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.  Four original papers and a book chapter have been published. June, 2002 – March, 2004 Postdoctoral research on the physiology of light-sensing retina ganglion cells, in Dr. King-Wai Yau’s laboratory, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.  One original paper has been published. April, 2004 –  December, 2007 Postdoctoral research on PKA signaling in neurons using advance optical techniques, in Karel Svoboda’s laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA.  Two original papers have been published.  Another (as first and corresponding author) is in preparation. January, 2008 – Research specialist with Dr. Eric Betzig in HHMI, Janelia Farm Research Campus, working on synaptic protein distribution using nanometic light microscopy in correlation with EM. One review article is in preparation.
Teaching	2001 and 2002  Teaching assistant in the course, Neuroscience, provided by the Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Honors and Awards	1993  Tsinghua Scholarship for Excellent Students, First Class, Tsinghua Univ. 1994  Tsinghua Scholarship for Excellent Students, First Class, Tsinghua Univ. 1995  Sumitomo Bank Scholarship, Tsinghua University 2002  The Paul Ehrlich Research Award, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 2002  First prize, GSA poster competition, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 2005  Essel Investigator Award, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression