News

August 2014 - Warm welcome to our new PhD student, Bicheng Han.

August 2014 - Congratulations to Yu for her paper on the function of EOL-1 in learning being accepted by Journal of Neuroscience.

July 2014 - Congratulations to Yun for receiving tenure.

June 2014 - Our undergraduate Alexandra (Lexi) Ding obtained HCRP scholarship to conduct summer research with us. She will work with Adam on neural basis of hermaphrodiate mating. 

June 2014 - The review that Erika and Jing helped to write will soon appear on Neuroscience. It talks about how sensory experience modulates different physiological traits important for survival.

May 2014 - Congratulations to Gareth for his paper on food odor recognition and preference being accepted by Journal of Neuroscience.

April 2014 - Congratulations to Linjiao, Quan, Jing, Michael and Yuqi for their salt chemotaxis paper being accepted by Neuron.

April 2014 - Myung-Kyu Choi has accepted our offer of a postdoc position and will join us in the fall.

March 2014 - Bicheng Han will join us in the summer as a PhD student in OEB.

March 2014 - Congratulations to Yu and Zhunan for their collaborative project on insulin-like peptides being published on PLoS Genetics.

March 2014 - Congratulations to Connie, Julia and Sam for successfully finishing their senior theses.

February 2014 - Congratulations to Linjiao and Xiaodong for their paper on neural circuits underlying temperature response being published on PNAS.

January 2014 - Warm welcome to our new postdoc scholar, Konstatinos.

December 2013 - Farewell to Linjiao. Best luck with everything, Professor Luo!

November 2013 - Yun and Villu's proposal for a new Gordon Conference Series on Neuromodulation is approved. Hope to meet with everyone in Hong Kong 2015.

November 2013 - Michael and Yun published a review on compartmentalization in Worm.

October 2013 - Congratulations to Adam for his paper on C. elegans hermaphrodite reproductive choice being published on G3.

September 2013 - Farewell to Yuqi. Best luck with everything in your postdoc life!

August 2013 - Congratulations to Yuqi for successfully defending her PhD thesis. Dr. Qin now!

August 2013 - Farewell to Michael. Best luck with everything, professor Hendricks!

June 2013 - The Zhang laboratory attended The 19th International C. elegans Meeting at UCLA. Yu Shen gave a talk on her project that studies a new gene EOL-1 in learning; Michael Hendricks gave a talk on surprisingly complex temporal activity patterns in salt-sensing neuron ASE; Gareth presented a poster on molecular understanding of odor preference; Adam presented a poster on hermaphrodite mating choice; Julia and Shane presented a poster on sex differences in olfactory learning.

May 2013 - Congratulations to Zhunan for successfully defending her PhD thesis. Dr. Chen now!

May 2013 - Warm welcome to our new postdoc scholar Jing.

April 2013 - Congratulations to Yuqi for getting a prestigious postdoc fellowship from Biogen.

February 2013 - Congratulations to Zhunan for publishing her work on insulin signaling in learning on Neuron! 

January 2013 - Congratulations to Yuqi for publishing her work on regulation of tph-1 transcription on Journal of Neuroscience!