Affiliation: University of Chicago, Department of Neurobiology

Dr. Ting-Feng Lin received his BS in Sports Medicine from China Medical University in 2010. He obtained his MS in Physiology from the National Taiwan University in 2014, working in the neurophysiology lab of Dr. Chih-Yung Tang, where he studied the biophysical properties of voltage-gated potassium channels (Eag and Erg) and their associated proteins by applying both molecular and electrophysiological techniques. He earned his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Zurich in 2019, where he worked in the vestibulo-oculomotor lab of Dr. Melody Ying-Yu Huang. During his thesis work, he investigated oculomotor behaviors in zebrafish. Specifically, he discovered and characterized the negative optokinetic afternystagmus caused by an inherent bias of the OKN gain. The negative optokinetic afternystagmus is a result of the set-point adaptation of the retinal slip velocity, which takes place during both growth and aging and is crucial for animals to perform precise visual motor tasks. During his postdoctoral training, he moved to the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory lab of Dr. Christian Hansel at the University of Chicago, where he used in vivo two-photon imaging to identify the distinctive functions of synaptic long-term potentiation (LTP) and non-synaptic intrinsic potentiation in Purkinje cells of the mouse cerebellum.