Hui-Chen Lu, Ph.D.

Phone:

(812) 856-9663

Email:

hclu@indiana.edu

Biography

Dr. Hui-Chen Lu, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (IUB). She is also a Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience and the current Director of the Gill Institute for Neuroscience at IUB. Dr. Lu was one of three initial students to enroll in the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston's first developmental biology Ph.D. program. She diversified her training through a postdoctoral under neuroscientist Michael Crair, where she became increasingly interested in brain development. She took on an assistant professorship in the same department. She was recruited to join the Linda and Jack Gill Institute in 2015, and became the director of the Institute in 2018, superceding Dr. Mackie.

Dr. Lu's research focuses on the signaling cascades underlying neural circuit connections during brain development, to understand how sensory experiences affect neural circuit wiring, and to identify novel factors required to maintain the health of neural circuits during aging.