Jiaxin Cindy Tu

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Muriah Wheelock, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Cambridge, 2017

Enrollment year: 2019

Research summary
Characterization of the functional modular organization in the developing infant brain across topological and temporal scales

Graduate publications
Tu JC, Wang Y, Wang X, Dierker D, Sobolewski CM, Day TKM, Kardan O, Miranda-Domínguez Ó, Moore LA, Feczko E, Fair DA, Elison JT, Gordon EM, Laumann TO, Eggebrecht AT, Wheelock MD. 2025 A subset of cortical areas exhibit adult-like functional network patterns in early childhood. Dev Cogn Neurosci, 7(3):101551. PMCID:

Kardan O, Jones N, Wheelock MD, Angstadt M, Michael C, Molloy MF, Tu JC, Cope LM, Martz ME, McCurry KL, Hardee JE, Rosenberg MD, Weigard AS, Hyde LW, Sripada CS, Heitzeg MM. 2025 Assessing neurocognitive maturation in early adolescence based on baby and adult functional brain landscapes. Dev Cogn Neurosci, 73():10154. PMCID: PMC11953962

Tu JC, Myers MJ, Li W, Li J, Wang X, Dierker D, Day TKM, Snyder A, Latham A, Kenley JK, Sobolewski CM, Wang Y, Labonte AK, Feczko E, Kardan O, Moore LA, Sylvester CM, Fair DA, Elison JT, Warner BB, Barch DM, Rogers CE, Luby JL, Smyser CD, Gordon EM, Laumann TO, Eggebrecht AT, Wheelock MD. 2025 The generalizability of cortical area parcellations across early childhood. Cereb Cortex, 35(5):bhaf116. PMCID:

Myers MJ, Labonte AK, Gordon EM, Laumann TO, Tu JC, Wheelock MD, Nielsen AN, Schwarzlose RF, Camacho MC, Alexopoulos D, Warner BB, Raghuraman N, Luby JL, Barch DM, Fair DA, Petersen SE, Rogers CE, Smyser CD, Sylvester CM. 2024 Functional parcellation of the neonatal cortical surface. Cereb Cortex, 34(2):bhae047. PMCID: PMC10875653

Li J, Segel A, Feng X, Tu JC, Eck A, King KT, Adeyemo B, Karcher NR, Chen L, Eggebrecht AT, Wheelock MD. 2024 Network-level enrichment provides a framework for biological interpretation of machine learning results. Netw Neurosci, 8(3):762-90. PMCID: PMC11349033

Tu JC, Millar PR, Strain JF, Eck A, Adeyemo B, Snyder AZ, Daniels A, Karch C, Huey ED, McDade E, Day GS, Yakushev I, Hassenstab J, Morris J, Llibre-Guerra JJ, Ibanez L, Jucker M, Mendez PC, Perrin RJ, Benzinger TLS, Jack CR Jr, Betzel R, Ances BM, Eggebrecht AT, Gordon BA, Wheelock MD; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network. 2024 Increasing hub disruption parallels dementia severity in autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease. Netw Neurosci, 8(4):1265-90. PMCID: PMC11674321

Wheelock MD, Strain JF, Mansfield P, Tu JC, Tanenbaum A, Preische O, Chhatwal JP, Cash DM, Cruchaga C, Fagan AM, Fox NC, Graff-Radford NR, Hassenstab J, Jack CR, Karch CM, Levin J, McDade EM, Perrin RJ, Schofield PR, Xiong C, Morris JC, Bateman RJ, Jucker M, Benzinger TLS, Ances BM, Eggebrecht AT, Gordon BA; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network.. 2023 Brain network decoupling with increased serum neurofilament and reduced cognitive function in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain, 146(7):2928-43. PMCID: PMC10316768