Yuchun Tang
M.D. /Associate professor/ Tutor for Ph.D. graduate
Assistant Dean
School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University
44 Wenhua Xi Road, Jinan, Shandong 250012, P.R.China
tyc@sdu.edu.cn,yuchuntang@gmail.com
Room: 1206, Building 1
Phone: (0531)88382277 , 15165099794,
DOB: 23rd January, 1979
Education
2004– 2009 M.D. in Sectional and Imaging Anatomy, Human Anatomy and Histology Embryology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
1997 – 2002 B.S. in Clinical Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Experience
2017-Present Associate Professor, Tutor for graduate, Department of Human Anatomy and Histology Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University
2015－2017 Postdoctoral Fellow & Research Associate, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), Keck School of Medicine of USC
2010 – 2016 Lecturer, Tutor for graduate,Department of Human Anatomy and Histology Embryology, Shandong University School of Medicine
2010 – 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurosurgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University
2008 – 2009 Visiting Scholar, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), Department of Neurology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
2002 – 2004 Manager, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University
Honors and Prizes
2018Second Prize of National Teaching Achievement Award
2018 Special Prize of Shandong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award
2018 Second Prize of Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award
2018 Qilu Outstanding Young Anatomy Scholar of Shandong Anatomy Society
2018 Deputy Chairman of the Sectional and Imaging Anatomy branch of Chinese Society for Anatomical Sciences
2018 Vice Present and Secretary General of Shandong Anatomical Society
2014 Symposium Speaker, 18th Congress of International Federation of Association of Anatomists (IFAA2014), Beijing, China
2014 Young Teaching Expert of Shandong University
2013 Oral Speaker, 19th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM2013), Seattle, USA
2012 Member of Youth Committee, Chinese Society of Digital Medicine
2012 Young Investigator Award, 2012 Annual Meeting of the Shandong Society for Anatomical Sciences, Qingdao, China
2011 Outstanding Paper Award, 2011 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Anatomical Sciences, Guiyang, China
2010 Young Investigator Award, 2010 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Anatomical Sciences, Shanghai, China
2006 - 2008 Outstanding graduate scholarship of Shandong University, China
2006 Outstanding student leader of Shandong Province, China
Research
Develop brain atlases for special populations.
Explore human brain structures using multimodal imaging data correlated with cognitive functions.
Investigate correlations between neuroimaging differences, genes and cognitive functions of different populations.
Brainstem atlas
Projects
Brainstem Project
Human brain atlas
Sexual dimorphism of the Chinese brain white matter and its correlation with the cognitive function
Publications
1. Yunxia Lou, Lu Zhao, Shui Yu, Bo Sun, Zhongyu Hou, Zhonghe Zhang,Yuchun Tang*,Shuwei Liu. Brain Asymmetry differences between Chinese and Caucasian populations: a surface-based morphometric comparison study. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2019,https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-019-00184-7.
2.Tang Yuchun, Zhao Lu, Lou Yunxia, Shi Yonggang, Fang Rui, Lin Xiangtao, Liu Shuwei, Arthur Toga.Brain structure differences between Chinese and Caucasian cohorts: A comprehensive morphometry study.Human Brain Mapping,2018, 39: 2147-2155.
3.Tang Yuchun,Sun Wei, Arthur Toga, Ringman JM, Shi Yonggang.A probabilistic atlas of human brainstem pathways based on connectome imaging data. Neuroimage, 2018, 169: 227~239.
4. Siyiti A,Tang Y (Co-first author), Wu S, Liu L, Huang L, Zhang H, Li H, Jiang F, Wang G, Liu X, Yuan Q. Neuroplastin 65 mediates cognitive functions via excitatory/inhibitory synapse imbalance and ERK signal pathway. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2016. 127: 72-83.
5.Tang Y, Hojatkashani C., Dinov I.D., Sun B, Fang L, Lin X, Qi H, Hua X, Liu S, Toga A.W..The construction of a Chinese MRI brain atlas: A morphometric comparison study between Chinese and Caucasian cohorts. Neuroimage . 2010.51:33-41
6.Tang Y, Zhao Z, Lin X, Sun B, Fan L, Hou Z，Qi H, Li Z, Liu S. The thin sectional anatomy of the sellar region with MRI correlation. Surg Radiol Anat. 2010,32 (6):573-80
7.Tang Y, Bai X, Yang X，Lin L, Liu S, Latecki, L.J.. Skeletonization with particle filters. Int J Pattern Recogn. 2010,24(4):619-34.
8. Feifei Xu, Xinting Ge, Yonggang Shi, Zhonghe Zhang, Yuchun Tang, Xiangtao Lin, Gaojun Teng, Fengchao Zang, Nuonan Gao, Haihong Liu, Arthur W. Toga, Shuwei Liu. Morphometri development of the human fetal cerebellum during the early second trimester. NeuroImage, 2019.
9. Ge X, Shi Y, Li J, Zhang Z, Lin X, Zhan J, Ge H, Xu J, Yu Q, Leng Y, Teng G, Feng L, Meng H,Tang Y, Zang F, Toga A.W., Liu S. Development of human fetal hippocampal formation during early second trimester. Neuroimage. 2015.119:33-43.
10. Xu J, Yin X, Ge H, Han Y, Pang Z,Tang Y, Liu B, Liu S. Attention performance is correlated with the local regional efficiency of intrinsic brain networks. Front Behav Neurosci. 2015. 9:200.
11.Sun B, Ge H, Tang Y, Hou Z, Xu J, Lin X, Liu S. Asymmetries of the central sulcus in young adults: Effects of gender, age and sulcal pattern.Int J Dev Neurosci. 2015. 44: 65-74.
12. Xu J, Rees G, Yin X, Song C, Han Y, Ge H, Pang Z, Xu W,Tang Y, Friston K, Liu S.Spontaneous neuronal activity predicts intersubject variations in executive control of attention. Neuroscience, 2014; 263:181-92.
13. Liu C,Tang Y, Ge H, Wang F, Sun H, Meng H, Wang S, Xu J, Fan R, Fan L, Zhang Z, Shan T, Yuan H, Zhan J, Yu Q, Ge X, Tang H, Leng Y, Ding S, Liu S.Increasing breadth of the frontal lobe but decreasing height of the human brain between two Chinese samples from a Neolithic site and from living humans. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2014; 154(1):94-103.
14. Ge H, Yin X, Xu J,Tang Y, Han Y, Xu W, Pang Z, Meng H, Liu S.Fiber pathways of attention subnetworks revealed with tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) and probabilistic tractography. PloS One, 2013; 8(11): e78831.
15. Zhan J, Dinov ID, Li J, Zhang ZH, Hobel S, Shi YG, Lin XT, Zamanyan, Feng L, Teng GJ, Fang F,Tang YC, Zang FC, Toga AW, Liu SW. Spatial-temporal atlas of human fetal brain development during the early second trimester.Neuroimage,2013;82:115-126
16. Zhang ZH, Meng HW, Hou ZY, Ma J, Feng L, Lin XT,Tang YC, Zhang XL, Liu QW, Liu SW. Fetal Adrenal Gland in the Second Half of Gestation: Morphometrical Assessment with 3.0T Post-Mortem MRI.PLOS ONE,October 2013. 8(10): e75511.
17. Lou L, Liu SW, Zhao ZM,Tang YC, Lin XT. Acquisition of thin coronal sectional dataset of cadaveric liver.Surg Radiol Anat,2013.
18. Yin X, Zhao L, Xu J, Evans AC, Fan L, Ge H,Tang Y, Khundrakpam B, Wang J, Liu S. Anatomical substrates of the alerting, orienting and executive control components of attention: focus on the posterior parietal lobe. Plos One, 2012,7 (11):e50590.
19. Liu J, Liu S, Heng X, Fei C, Wei Y, Zhang J, Zhang Z,Tang Y. The Values of thin sections and three-dimensional reconstruction in the sellar region. World Neurosurgery, 2012, 78(5): 510-515
20. Fang L,Tang Y, Sun B,Gong G, Zhang J, Lin X, Yu T, Li Z, Alan C.Evans,Liu S.Sexual dimorphism and asymmetry in human cerebellum: A MRI-based morphometric study. Brain Res. 2010, 1353:60-73
21. Lin X,Tang Y, Sun B, Hou Z, Meng H, Li Z, Liu Q, Liu S. Cerebral glucose metabolism: Influence on perihematomal edema formation after intracerebral hemorrhage in cat models. Acta Radiol, 2010, 51(5):549-54
22. Sun B, Wang D,Tang Y, Fan L, Lin X, Yu T, Qi H, Li Z, Liu S. The pineal volume: a three-dimensional volumetric study in healthy young adults using 3.0T MR data. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2009, 27(7):655-560
23. Sun B,Tang Y, Fan L, Lin X, Li Z, Qi H, Liu S. The pineal region: thin sectional anatomy with MR correlation in the coronal plane. Surg Radiol Anat. 2008, 30 (7):575-582
24. Ma G, Liu S, Zhao Z, Lin X, Lou L, Li Z,Tang Y, Zhong S. Sectional anatomy of the adrenal gland in the coronal plane. Surg Radiol Anat. 2008, 30(3):271-280
25. Lou L, Liu S, Zhao Z, Heng P,Tang Y, Li Z, Xie Y, Chui Y. Segmentation and reconstruction of hepatic veins and intrahepatic portal vein based on the coronal sectional anatomic dataset. Surg Radiol Anat. 2009 May 29, Online
26.Tang Y, Liu S, Sun B, Fan L, Lin X. Research progress of the digital human brain atlas. China Digital Medicine, 2012, 7(1):21-24
27. Wang H, Ding J, Sun B, Lin X, Ge H,Tang Y, Li Z, Liu S. Three-dimensional MRI study on the morphology and lateral asymmetry of Chinese female calcarine sulcus. ACTA ANATOMICA SINICA, 2010, 41(2): 285-290
28.Tang Y, Liu S, Zhao Z, Lin X, Li Z, Yin Q. Thin transverse sectional anatomy of the sellar region with corresponding MRI. ACTA ANATOMICA SINICA, 2009, 40(1): 159-161
29. Sun B, Liu S,Tang Y, Fan L, Lin X, Li Z, Qi H. Contrasted study between thin coronal sectional anatomy of the pineal region and MRI image. ACTA ANATOMICA SINICA, 2009, 40(4): 679-684
30. Fan L, Liu S,Tang Y, Sun B, Lin X, Li Z, Qi H. Comparative study between thin transverse sectional anatomy and magnetic resonance imaging of deep nuclei in human cerebellum. ACTA ANATOMICA SINICA, 2009, 40(2): 317-322.
31. Chen C, Liu S, Lin X,Tang Y, Hou Z, Wang Z, Li Z, Yin Q. Sectional anatomy of human optic pathways on the coronal plane. ACTA ANATOMICA SINICA, 2009, 40(2): 323-327
Teaching andCourse:
Systematic Anatomy
Topographic Anatomy
Sectional and Imaging Anatomy
Human Anatomy for MBBS students
Neuroanatomy for MBBS students
