代表性论文（*Corresponding author; #equal contribution）：
First author papers
1. Sun, Qingtao#; Li, Xiangning#; Ren, Miao; Zhao, Mengting; Zhong, Qiuyuan; Ren, Yuqi; Luo, Pan; Ni, Hong; Zhang, Xiaoyu; Zhang, Chen; Yuan Jing; Li Anan; Luo Minmin; Gong Hui; Luo Qingming*; A whole-brain map of long-range inputs to GABAergic interneurons in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex. Nature neuroscience, 22, 8, 1357-1370, 2019.
2. Sun, Qingtao#*; Liu, Mingzhe#; Guan, Wuqiang; Xiao, Xiong; Dong, Chunyang; Bruchas, Michael; Zweifel, Larry; Li, Yulong; Tian, Lin; Li, Bo; Dynorphin modulates motivation through a pallido-amygdala cholinergic circuit. Neuron, 113, 11, 1823 - 1840.e8, 2025.
3. Sun, Qingtao#; Zhang, Jianping#; Li, Anan; Yao, Mei; Liu, Guangcai; Chen, Siqi; Luo, Yue; Wang, Zhi; Gong, Hui; Li, Xiangning*; Luo Qingming*; Acetylcholine deficiency disrupts extratelencephalic projection neurons in the prefrontal cortex in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Nature Communications, 13, 1, 998, 2022
4. Sun, Qingtao#; van de Lisdonk, Daniëlle#; Ferrer, Miriam#; Gegenhuber, Bruno; Wu, Melody; Park, Youngkyu; Tuveson, David; Tollkuhn, Jessica; Janowitz, Tobias; Li, Bo*; Area postrema neurons mediate interleukin-6 function in cancer cachexia. Nature Communications, 15, 4628, 2024.
5. Sun, Qingtao#; Li, Xiangning#; Li, Anan; Zhang, Jianping; Ding, Zhangheng; Gong, Hui; Luo, Qingming*; Ventral hippocampal-prefrontal interaction affects social behavior via parvalbumin positive neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex. iScience, 23, 3, 100894, 2020
6. Wang, Yuanyuan#;
Sun, Qingtao#; Zheng, Wenqiang; Han, Lijie; Zhang, Qian; Krainer, R Adrian*; Li, Bo*; Antisense oligonucleotides against Il6ra ameliorate cancer cachexia in mice. Molecular Therapy,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymthe.2026.08.028, 2026.
# Co-first author; *Correspondence author
Co-author papers
1. Li, Xiangning#; Yu, Bin#; Sun, Qingtao; Zhang, Yalun; Ren, Miao; Zhang, Xiaoyan; Li, Anan; Yuan, Jing; Madisen, Linda; Luo, Qingming; Zeng, Hongkui; Gong, Hui*; Qiu, Zilong*; Generation of a whole-brain atlas for the cholinergic system and mesoscopic projectome analysis of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. 115, 2, 415-420, 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2. Zhang, Jianping#; Long, Ben#; Li, Anan;
Sun, Qingtao; Tian, Jiaojiao; Luo, Ting; Ding, Zhangheng; Gong, Hui*; Li, Xiangning*;
Whole-brain three-dimensional profiling reveals brain region specific axon vulnerability in 5xFAD mouse model. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 14 608177, 2020
3. Gong, Hui#; Xu, Dongli#; Yuan, Jing; Li, Xiangning; Guo, Congdi; Peng, Jie; Li, Yuxin; Schwarz, Lindsay; Li, Anan; Hu, Bihe; Xiong Benyi; Sun Qingtao; Zhang Yalun; Liu Jiepeng; Zhong Qiuyuan; Xu Tonghui; Zeng Shaoqun; Luo Qingming*; High-throughput dual-colour precision imaging for brain-wide connectome with cytoarchitectonic landmarks at the cellular level. Nature communications, 7, 1, 12142, 2016
4. Luo, Ting#; Deng, Lei#; Li, Anan; Zhou, Can; Shao, Shuai;
Sun, Qingtao; Gong, Hui; Yang, Xiaoquan*; Li, Xiangning*;
Scalable resin embedding method for large-volume brain tissues with high fluorescence preservation capacity. iScience, 23, 11, 101717, 2020
5. Chen, Xiao; Zhang, Xiaoyu; Zhong, Qiuyuan; Sun, Qingtao; Peng, Jie; Gong, Hui; Yuan, Jing*; Dual-mode Micro-Optical Sectioning Tomography for simultaneously acquiring Golgi-stained neuronal morphology with co-located cytoarchitecture in the same brain International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine, W3A. 32, 2017, Optica Publishing Group
6. Chen, Xiao; Zhang, Xiaoyu; Zhong, Qiuyuan; Sun, Qingtao; Peng, Jie; Gong, Hui; Yuan, Jing*; Simultaneous acquisition of neuronal morphology and cytoarchitecture in the same Golgi-stained brain. Biomedical Optics Express, 9, 1,230-244, 2018
7. Yu, Tingting; Zhu, Jingtan; Li, Yusha; Ma, Yilin; Wang, Jianru; Cheng, Xinran; Jin, Sen; Sun, Qingtao; Li, Xiangning; Gong, Hui; Luo, Qingming; Xu, Fuqiang; Zhao, Shanting; Zhu Dan*; RTF: a rapid and versatile tissue optical clearing method. Scientific reports , 8, 1, 1964, 2018
8. Zhou, Can#; Zheng, Ting#; Luo, Ting; Yan, Cheng; Sun, Qingtao; Ren, Miao; Zhao, Peilin; Chen, Wu; Ji, Bingqing; Wang, Zhi; Li, Anan; Gong, Hui*; Li, Xiangning*; Continuous imaging of large-volume tissues with a machinable optical clearing method at subcellular resolution. Biomedical Optics Express, 11, 127, 132-7149, 2020
9. Xu, Zhengchao; Feng, Zhao; Zhao, Mengting; Sun, Qingtao; Deng, Lei; Jia, Xueyan; Jiang, Tao; Luo, Pan; Chen, Wu; Tudi, Ayizuohere; Yuan, Jing; Li, Xiangning; Gong, Hui; Luo, Qingming, Li, Anan*; Whole-brain connectivity atlas of glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons in the mouse dorsal and median raphe nuclei. Elife, 10, e65502, 2021, eLife Sciences
10. He, Yong; Gong, Hui; Xiong, Benyi; Xu, Xiaofeng; Li, Anan; Jiang, Tao; Sun, Qingtao; Wang, Simin; Luo, Qingming; Chen, Shangbin*; iCut: an integrative cut algorithm enables accurate segmentation of touching cells. Scientific reports, 5, 1, 12089, 2015
11. Li, Yuxin; Gong, Hui; Yang, Xiaoquan; Yuan, Jing; Jiang, Tao; Li, Xiangning; Sun, Qingtao; Zhu, Dan; Wang, Zhenyu; Luo, Qingming; Li, Anan*; TDat: an efficient platform for processing petabyte-scale whole-brain volumetric images. Frontiers in neural circuits, 11, 51, 2017
12. Zhou, Can#; Yang, Xiaoquan#; Wu, Shihao#; Zhong, Qiuyuan; Luo, Ting; Li, Anan; Liu, Guangcai; Sun, Qingtao; Luo, Pan; Deng, Lei; Ni Hong; Tan Chaozhen; Yuan Jing; Luo Qingming; Hu Xintian*; Li Xiangning*; Gong Hui*; Continuous subcellular resolution three-dimensional imaging on intact macaque brain. Science Bulletin, 67, 1, 85-96, 2022
13. Ren, Miao#; Tian, Jiaojiao#; Sun, Qingtao; Chen, Siqi; Luo, Ting; Jia, Xueyan; Jiang, Tao; Luo, Qingming; Gong, Hui*; Li, Xiangning*; Plastic embedding for precise imaging of large-scale biological tissues labeled with multiple fluorescent dyes and proteins. Biomedical Optics Express, 12, 11, 6730-6745, 2021
14. Zhao, Peilin; Wang, Huading; Li, Anan; Sun, Qingtao, Jiang, Tao; Li, Xiangning*; Gong, Hui*; The mesoscopic connectome of the cholinergic pontomesencephalic tegmentum. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 16, 31, 2022
15. Tian, Jiaojiao#; Ren, Miao#; Zhao, Peilin#; Luo, Shukang; Chen, Yingying; Xu, Xiaofeng; Jiang, Tao; Sun, Qingtao; Li, Anan; Gong, Hui*; Li, Xiangning*; Luo, Qingming*;Dissection of the long-range projections of specific neurons at the synaptic level in the whole mouse brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 119, 2022
16. Ding, Zhangheng; Zhao, Jiangjiang; Luo, Tianpeng; Lu, Bolin; Zhang, Xiaoyu; Chen, Siqi; Li, Anan; Jia, Xueyan; Zhang, Jianmin; Chen, Wu; Chen, Jianwei; Sun, Qingtao; Li, Xiangning; Gong, Hui; Yuan, Jing;*; Multicolor high-resolution whole-brain imaging for acquiring and comparing the brain-wide distributions of type-specific and projection-specific neurons with anatomical annotation in the same brain.Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 1033880, 2022
17. Yao, Mei#; Tudi, Ayizuohere#; Jiang, Tao; An, Xu; Sun, Qingtao; Li, Anan; Huang, Z Josh; Gong, Hui; Li, Xiangning*; Long-range connectome of pyramidal neurons in the sensorimotor cortex. iScience, 26, 4, 2023
18. Dong, Chunyang#; Gowrishankar, Raajaram#; Jin, Yihan; He, Xinyi; Gupta, Achla; Wang, Huikun; Sayar-Atasoy, Nilufer; Flores, Rodolfo; Mahe, Karan; Tjahjono, Nikki; Liang, Ruqiang; Marley, Aaron; Mizuno Or Grace; Lo, K, Darren; Sun, Qingtao; Whistler, Jennifer; Li, Bo; Gomes, Ivone; Von Zastrow, Mark; Tejeda, Hugo; Atasoy, Deniz; Devi, A, Lakshmi; Bruchas, R, Michael*; Banghart, R, Matthew*; Tian, Lin*. Unlocking opioid neuropeptide dynamics with genetically encoded biosensors. Nature Neuroscience, 27, 1844-1857, 2024.
19. Chen, Aixiao#; Li, Yunjing#; Zhu, Hangfei#; Cui, Xiao#; Gu, Hanmei; Pan, Yanni; Weng, Yanhong; Ye, Qinyong; Guan, Wuqiang; Sun, Qingtao; Li, Bo; Xiao, Lei*; Xu, Fuqiang*; Deng, Hanfei*; Xiao, Xiong*; Striatal control of amygdalar acetylcholine release during salience-associated processing. Nature Neuroscience, 29, 1894–1904, 2026.
