Dr. Miou Zhou is an Associate Professor at the Biomedical Sciences, College of Dental Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences. He graduated from the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2000, earning a B.S. degree, and subsequently completed his M.S. degree in 2003. From 2003 to 2008, Dr. Zhou completed his Ph.D. in the Neuroscience Program at the University of Southern California (USC), California. Subsequently, he served as a Postdoc & Assistant Project Scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2008 to 2018. His laboratory is interested in studying the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity and learning, and memory. They focus on a brain structure called the hippocampus, which is important for spatial and episodic learning and memory.