Lab News

Aug 2026

• “Topographic CA1 input shapes subicular spatial coding” is published in Current Biology.

• Dr. Pingping Zhao joined the lab as a Research Assistant Professor. Dr. Zhao received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Neuroscience (ION), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and completed her postdoctoral training at UCLA with Dr. Peyman Golshani. During her postdoctoral work, she conducted pioneering research on the neural circuit mechanisms underlying social behavior and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She was also a key member of the UCLA Miniscope team, contributing to the development and advancement of multiple generations of miniscopes for large-scale neural activity imaging in freely behaving animals. Welcome Pingping!

• Justin Pierce joined the lab as a Research Assistant. Justin received his Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from UT Austin. His research interests focus on understanding how drugs influence the neural mechanisms underlying learning and memory. Welcome Justin!

Jan 2026

• Dr. Siqi Yuan joined the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Yuan received her Ph.D. from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she carried out pioneering work on the neural circuit mechanisms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using dog models. Welcome, Siqi!

Dec 2025

• Qingying (Cathy) Jiang joined the lab as a Research Assistant. Cathy received her M.S. degree from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Welcome, Cathy!

Sept 2025

• Dr. Yingjun Dong joined the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Dong is a machine learning scientist who received her Ph.D. from Binghamton University, SUNY. Welcome, Yingjun!