2022
March 4: Andrew McKinney passed his dissertation defense on “Intrinsic and Circuit Mechanisms Regulating the Excitability of the Locus Coeruleus.” Congratulations to Dr. Andrew McKinney!
Feb. 16: Collaborating with Wu Lab, an NIH/NEI R01 research grant (No. R01EY033492) was awarded for the project ‘Multi-Cellular Analysis of the Retinal Network.’
Jan 31.: Qiongling Wang joined our lab as an instructor.
2021
Dec. 4: During the 27th Annual Neuroscience Poster Session, Dr. Siyuan Song presented his poster on his study “Layer- and Pathway- Specific Disruption of Perisomatic Inhibition in the Somatosensory Cortex of the Stargazer Model of Absence Epilepsy”.
Aug. 26: Partnering with Dr. Jun Wang at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, we have been awarded a prize from the 2021 John S. Dunn Collaborative Research Award.
Aug. 2 : Joseph Cambell and Stephen Kyranakis, 1st-year Ph.D. students, join our lab for their first rotation.
June 21: Noura Hakam joined our lab as a student helper.
April 5: Si-yuan Song joined our lab as a post-doc associate.
April 1: The lab was awarded a DOD research grant.
Jan 11: Qianqian Ma promoted to research associate.
2020
Dec. 9: A new paper was published on BioRxiv. “Removal of KCNQ2 from Parvalbumin-expressing Interneurons Improves Anti-Seizure Efficacy of Retigabine”
Oct. 5: Ray Wong started a position in the lab as a staff scientist
June 29: Natalie Lau started a position in the lab as a technician.
June 15: The lab was awarded another NIH/NIMH R01 research grant.
April 20: Ming Hu started a position in the lab as an instructor.
April: The lab was awarded an NIH/NIMH R01 research grant.
Jan. 23: A new eLife paper is published. Cell type composition and circuit organization of neocortical radial clones.
2019
Oct. 1: Natalie Lau started an internship in the lab.
Sept. 25: Qianqian Ma started a position in the lab as a technician.
Sept. 16: A new eLife paper is published. Neurexophilin4 is a selectively expressed α-neurexin ligand that modulates specific cerebellar synapses and motor functions
Sept 13: A new Nature Communication paper is published. Layer 4 of mouse neocortex differs in cell types and circuit organization between sensory areas
Aug. 7: The lab was awarded an NIH/NIMH R01 research grant.
April 6: The lab was awarded a DOD research grant.
