Dr. Luo grew up in Shanghai, China, and earned his bachelor's degree in molecular biology from the University of Science and Technology of China. After obtaining his PhD in Brandeis University, and postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Luo started his own lab in the Department of Biology, Stanford University in late 1996. Together with his postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, Dr. Luo studies the logic of brain wiring using genetic tools. They have developed mosaic marking systems in flies and mice and used them to study how signals are transduced from cell surface receptors to the cytoskeleton, how neuronal processes are pruned, and how neural circuits are organized and built. Dr. Luo is currently the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Biology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He teaches neurobiology to Stanford undergraduate and graduate students. He recently published a single-author neuroscience textbook “Principles of Neurobiology” (Garland Science 2015). Dr. Luo has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including Neuron, eLife, and Annual Review of Neuroscience. He has also served on the Pew Scholar National Committee and Scientific Advisory Committee of Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. He is recipient of the Guo Mo-Ruo Prize, Sloan Award, McKnight Technological Innovation in Neuroscience Award, the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award, the Jacob Javits Award from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, HW Mossman Award from American Association of Anatomists, the Lawrence Katz Prize, and the Pradel Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Luo is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.