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1 Personal Information Born in Taiwan in Present address: N327, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan Phone: and MSN: Education , MS, Dr. Yen-Chung Chang's Lab, Institute of life sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan , BA, Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan Profession experience Present: , Research Assistant, Dr. Bai-Chung Shyu's Lab, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Phone: Language Chinese: excellent Taiwanese: excellent English: very good German: beginner

2 Skills/Lab Work Lab Work Electrophysiology: I have the ability of setting up an electrophysiology facility independently including electrodes choice and the connection between amplifier, oscilloscope and AD card. The acquired data could be imported into Matlab program for off-line analysis. I am proficient with the devices including TDT RA16BA Medusa Base Station with 16-channel Michigan probe and Axopatch 200B, Axoclamp-2A, CyberAmp 380&320, A-M SYSTEMS 1700 Differential AC Amplifier, A-M SYSTEMS1600 Neuroprobe Amplifier with Tungsten electrode, glassy electrode or silver electrode. I also master in A-M SYSTEMS 2100 Isolated Pulse Stimulator, A.M.P.I. Master-8 stimulator and devices for iontophoresis and pressure injection. In Vitro Electrophysiology: Primary cell culture, whole cell patch clamp, drug perfusion and drugs pressure injection. Brain slice preparation and sharp electrode intracellular recording. In Vivo Electrophysiology: Stereotaxic surgery, single and multichannel extracellular recording, peripheral nerve electrical stimulation and drugs administration, laser stimulation, rat brain mounting, slicing, staining and electrodes implantation. Sharp electrode intracellular recording, neuron characteristics identification and Lucifer yellow and neurobiotin injection. Operation on microtome and Confocol microscopy. fmri: fmri training courses in Academia Sinica and with cooperative works. Rat Behavior Test: Electrical avoidance learning and electrophysiology in free-moving

3 rat. Biochemistry: Bacteria protein purification, PAGE, DNA extraction, purification and manipulation. Computer Software Matlab associated processing about electrophysiology, TDT OpenEx, Spike 2, pclamp 6.0, Microsoft Office, Sigmaplot, Reference Manager and Adobe PhotoShop, etc. Statistics and Analysis methods Student t-test, ANOVA, current source density, isopotential contour map, principle component analysis, spike sorting, and the average sliding technique, etc. Computer Programming HTML, perl and Javascript in Homepage. Matlab, Quick Basic, C and Borland C++ Builder in Data Acquisition. I am trying to program in Matlab to acquire real-time signals from NI and TDT AD card. Awards The third place of the poster contest of Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Academia Sinica in 2002 and Extracurricular Activities In 1994, I was elected to be the major editor of newspaper of sports of National Chung Hsing University. In 1994, I was elected as the commander of training courses of editors and reporters with 30 partners. In 1995, I was elected to be the leader of the News Club of National Chung Hsing University. In 1996, the newspapers my club published won a prize from United Daily News in Taiwan.

4 In 1998, I attended to be the leader of a serious live talk show about campus with 20 partners in a student radio station of National Tsing Hua University. In 2002, I built the website of the News Club of National Chung Hsing University for graduated students.

5 Research Interests My background is concerning the electrophysiology in neuroscience including in vitro and in vivo. I am interested in the information processing of brain signals including the field potentials, multiple unit activities, spikes and intracellular recording. The point I want to know is the importance of neuronal signals relating to animal behavior. In this process, I try to use any possible approach to find out the answer. On the other side, I also interested in the application of neuroscience on our life. For example, the neuronal prosthesis, because I always ask myself what kinds of research match the need of people. Therefore, the neuronal prosthesis is a good project for me now to apply the techniques and algorithm I have had (multi-channel recording, data processing in field potentials or multiple unit activities, current source density analysis, principle component analysis in spiking sorting).

6 Autobiography I majored in veterinary medicine in Nation Chung Hsing University and started to notice the neuroscience in pharmacology class. Then, I tried to find institutes concerning the neuroscience and fortunately I got the entrance permission of the Life Science Institute of National Tsing Hua University in 1998 in Taiwan. I was guided into the field of neuroscience from Dr. Chang's guidance and his courses and I started to learn how to design and handle experiments. My master thesis is concerning the neuron behavior using whole cell patch recording technique in cell culture. Then I moved to Dr. Shyu s lab in Academia Sinica in 2000 and started to study electrophysiology in vivo. My first project is the paired-pulse facilitation between medial-dorsal thalamus and anterior cingulated cortex using tungsten electrodes to stimulate the medial-dorsal thalamus and record the field potentials and multiple unit activities in anterior cingulated cortex in anaesthetized rats. And the second project is to implant the tungsten electrodes in medial-dorsal thalamus and anterior cingulated cortex and tried to find the correlation between behavior and paired-pulse facilitation in free-moving rats. The third project used Michigan probe (16-channel electrode) to record the field potentials and multiple unit activities in somatosensory area 1 following laser stimuli (as heat pain) in anaesthetized rats and putative micro-circuit was constructed. And, the project I perform now is about intracellular recording in somatosensory cortex area 1 using sharp glassy pipette to confirm the putative micro-circuit. Therefore, in these years, I learned how to design experiments seriously and obtained the ability of programming with Matlab and got the principle of using AD card even the multi-channel system. I also have published several posters and attended to international neuroscience meetings, and written several manuscripts. At this time, I am going to find another advanced lab in other country for different thinking, attitude and PhD training.

7 Names of reference Dr. Bai-Chuang Shyu Associate researcher, Institute of Biomededical Sciences (IBMS), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Phone: Dr. Chia-Chuan Wang Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei Shien, Taiwan, ROC Phone: ex3466 Dr. Min-Liang Wong Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine College Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC Phone: ex53

8 Articles 1. Bai-Chuang Shyu, Chun-Yu Lin, Jyh-Jang Sun, Sergiy Sylantyev, Chen Chang, A method for direct thalamic stimulation in fmri studies using a glass-coated carbon fiber electrode. J Neurosci Methods Aug 15; 137(1): Shyu BC, Lin CY, Sun JJ, Chen SL, Chang C., BOLD response to direct thalamic stimulation reveals a functional connection between the medial thalamus and the anterior cingulate cortex in the rat., Magn Reson Med Jul;52(1): Jyh-Jang Sun, Shin-Lang Chen, Chia-Chuan Wang and Bai-Chuang Shyu, Mappings of the paired-pulse facilitation in the anterior cingulate cortex of the rat following stimulation in the medial thalamus. (In Preparation) 4. Sin-Chee Chai, Jyh-Jang Sun, Shao-Ying Cheng and Bai-Chuang Shyu, Effects of peripheral stimulations on the paired-pulse facilitation in the anterior cingulate cortex following the stimulation in the medial thalamus. (In Preparation) 5. Jyh-Jang Sun, Jenq-Wei Yang, Bai-Chuang Shyu, Cortical circuitry of thermal nociception in the primary somatosensory cortex of rats. (In Preparation) Posters Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, 2004, Electrophysiological and morphological properties of neurons in the rat primary somatosensory cortex response to short CO 2 laser pulses: An in vivo intracellular recording study, Jyh-Jang Sun, Tsung-Chich. Chen, Bai-Chuang. Shyu. 2. Abstracts of 4th Forum of European Neuroscience, Lisbon, 2004, Cortical circuitry of thermal nociception in the primary somatosensory cortex of rats, Jyh-Jang Sun, Jenq-Wei Yang, Tsung-Chieh Chen and Bai-Chuang Shyu. 3. Program No Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, 2003, The current source density analysis of laser evoked potentials using multichannel recordings in the somatosensory cortex of rats, J.J. Sun, J.W. Yang, M.H. Chang, P.H. Chou, B.C. S. 4. Abstracts of he 6th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience,

9 Prague, 2003, The current source density analysis of the paired-pulse facilitation of the field potentials in the anterior cingulate cortex in vivo, B.C. Shyu, J.J. Sun, M.H. Chang, C.M. Lee. 5. P263, Abstracts of the 19th Annual Conference of the Taiwan Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Taipei, 2003, The current source density analysis of the paired-pulse facilitation in the anterior cingulate cortex in vivo, J.J. Sun, M.H. Chang, S.C. Chai, B.C. Shyu. 6. Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Pain Society, Taipei, 2003, Application of nonlinear time series analysis on multichannel EEG in rats under halothane anesthesia, Ming-Hua Chang, Jyh-Jang Sun, Zi-Hao Wang, Bai-Chuang Shyu. 7. Program No Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, 2002, The Influence of peripheral stimulation on the paired-pulse facilitation in the anterior cingulate cortex of the rat, J.J. Sun, S.Y. Cheng, S.L. Chen, S.C. Chai, B.C. Shyu. 8. Abstracts of Taiwan Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, Taipei, 2002, Electrophysiological study of the nociceptive responses in the anterior cingulate cortex in rats, Chen, Wei-Fan; Sun, Jyh-Jang; Chen, Yen-Jung; Shyu, Bai-Chuang. 9. Abstracts of 10th World Congress on Pain, San Diego, 2002, A fmri study of the anterior cingulate cortex activations during direct electrical stimulation of the medial thalamus in rats, C. Lin, J. Sun, S. Chen, C. Chang, W. Hou, B. Shyu. 10. Abstracts of Taiwan Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, Taipei, 2001, Field potentials and multiple unit activities mapping of the paired-pulse facilitation in the anterior cingulate cortex of the rat following stimulation in the medial thalamus, J.J. Sun, S.Y. Cheng, S.L. Chen, C.C. Wang and B.C. Shyu. Master Thesis The modulation of zinc ion on the NMDA receptor of the pyramidal neuron of rats.

10 Talk The talk was held in the Institute of Life Science of National Taiwan University with Dr. Yen's lab. The title is 'Laminar Analysis of Laser-evoked Potentials in the Somatosensory Cortex of Rats". Program Download Matlab associated programs in electrophysiology. 1. intra4.5.m Download For the analysis of intracellular recording using sharp electrode. Directly read the binary file created by 1202 data acquisition program. Detect the spikes and do the poststimulus-time histogram automatically. The amplitude of spikes and the resting membrane potential could be calculated automatically. Frequency distribution are programming now. 2. EKG02.m Download This program is for the matlab to acquire the EKG signals from the audio card. Automatically detect the EKG spikes and calculate the heart rate. 3. Peak04.m Download This program can get the maximum value of peaks automatically in the data acquired from sp2.bas in Quick Basic. 4. Plotter04a.m Download This program can plot the data acquired from sp2.bas in Quick Basic. 5. EMG04.m Download For EMG signals processing. The program can import the ASCII file exported from 1202

11 data acquisition program. Rectify and classify the signals.