To laugh often and much; to win
the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children; to earn the appreciation
of honest critics and endure
the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate
beauty; to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better, whether
by a healthy child, a garden patch or a
redeemed social condition; to know
even one life has breathed easier because
you have lived. This is to have succeeded

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live content with small means; to seek
elegance rather than luxury, and refinement
rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable
and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly,
talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and
birds, to babes and sages with open heart;
to bear all cheerfully, await occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and
unconscious, grow up through common.
This is to be my symphony.

-William Henry Channing



Currently, I'm a postdoctoral fellow with Clay Reid in Harvard Medical School's Department of Neurboiology.

Formerly, I was a grad student in Elly Nedivi's lab in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.

A publication list follows:

Lee WCA and Nedivi E. (2002) Extended plasticity of visual cortex in dark-reared animals may result from prolonged expression of cpg15-like genes. J. Neurosci. 22(5): 1807-15. (pdf)

Fujino T, Lee WCA, and Nedivi E. (2003) Regulation of cpg15 by signaling pathways that mediate synaptic plasticity. Mol. Cell. Neurosci. 24(3): 538-54. (pdf)

Lee WCA, Huang H, Feng G, Sanes JR, Brown EN, So PT, Nedivi E. (2006) Dynamic Remodeling of Dendritic Arbors in GABAergic Interneurons of Adult Visual Cortex. PLoS Biol. 4(2):e29. (pdf)

Kim KH, Buehler C, Bahlmann K, Ragan T, Lee WCA, Nedivi E, Heffer EL, Fantini S, So PTC (2007) Multifocal multiphoton microscopy based on multianode photomultiplier tubes. Optics Express, 15, 11658-78. (pdf)

Lee WCA, Chen JL, Huang H, Leslie JH, Amitai Y, So PT, Nedivi E. (2008) A dynamic zone defines interneuron remodeling in the adult neocortex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105(50), 19968-73. (pdf)

Holtmaat A, Bonhoeffer T, Chow D, Chuckowree J, De Paola V, Hofer S, Hubener M, Keck T, Lee WCA, Knott G, Mrsic-Flogel T, Mostany R, Nedivi E, Portera-Cailliau C, Svoboda K, Trachtenberg J, Wilbrecht L. (2009) Long-term, high-resolution imaging in the mouse neocortex through an imaging window. Nat. Protoc. 4(8): 1128-44. (pdf)

Bock DD, Lee WCA, Kerlin AM, Andermann ML, Hood G, Wetzel AW, Yurgenson S, Soucy ER, Kim H, Reid RC. (2011) Network anatomy and in vivo physiology of visual cortical neurons. Nature 471(7337): 177-82. (pdf)

Chen JL, Flanders GH, Lee WCA, Lin WC, Nedivi E. Inhibitory dendrite dynamics as a general feature of the adult cortical microcircuit. (2011) J. Neurosci. 31(35): 12437-12443. (pdf)

Lee WCA and Reid RC. Specificity and randomness: structure–function relationships in neural circuits. (2011) Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. doi:10.1016/j.conb.2011.07.004. Review. (pdf)


Wei-Chung Allen Lee
darbly[at]alum.mit.edu