2023
Sept. 19: Qianqian Ma presented with the Vicky H. Whittmore Travel Award to attend the 2023 International TSC Research Conference
Aug. 28: Armin Shirzadian joined our lab as a Research Assistant
Aug. 14: Doan Tran joined our lab as Research Technician
June 4: Published "Comprehensively defining cellular specializations for initiating parallel auditory pathways in the mouse cochlear nucleus" in BioRxiv
May 12: Jiang Lab joins Cain Foundation Research Labs
May 6: Si-Yuan Song presented "Single-cell multimodal profiling of novel cell types mediating disynaptic inhibition in primate cortex" at the 36th Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America, and he received the 3rd place award.
2022
July 5: Welcome Ryan McCormack, M.D., Ph.D., a PGY 4 from McGovern Medical School joining us for his research project.
July 5: Welcome Dylan Zisman to join us as a research technician.
June 24: Noura Hakam, our student intern, is now a matriculating class 2022 of the Neuroscience Program. We look forward to her continued growth and success!
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.