Dr. Xiaoke Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. He received his PhD in 2005 from the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2006-2012, Xiaoke did his postdoctoral work with Dr. Charles Zuker in UC San Diego and Columbia University, where he studied the neurobiology of taste. Currently, his lab at Stanford is studying brain circuits underlying motivated behaviors and how malada ptive change in these circuits leads to chronic pain, addiction, and depression. His findings have been published in internationally renowned academic journals such as Nature, Science, and Nature Neuroscience.

Title: Circuitry and molecular mechanisms for chronic mechanical pain