Our collaboration with Kang Shen’s lab is online at Nature Neuroscience!
Stochastic growth and ligand–receptor interaction-mediated stabilization generate stereotyped dendritic arbors.
↗ [10.1038/s41593-026-02278-0]
Our collaboration with Marc Fuccillo’s lab has been published at Frontiers!
Comprehensive 3D mapping reveals distinct spatial gradients of genetically-identified SST, PV, and TH interneurons across the mouse caudoputamen.
↗ 10.3389/fncel.2026.1795921
Our manuscript on the insular cortex has been accepted at Nature Neuroscience!
We are thrilled that our manuscript detailing the neuronal architecture of the mouse insular cortex has found a home at Nature Neuroscience. A huge congrats to Bart, Yang, and the rest of the crew! The paper is currently in press—watch this space for a link to the published edition.
The lab has been awarded a collaborative UM1 grant from NIH’s BRAIN Initiative!
A massive congratulations to project lead, Dr Haining Zhong, and the rest of the project investigators—Drs Tianyi Mao, Isabelle Baconguis, Jun Ding, and Emad Tajkhorshid—on securing a massive UM1 grant from the BRAIN Initiative to optimize cAMP and PKA sensors for cell-specific dissection of neuronal circuits in vivo!
Landon defends her PhD!
Many congratulations to Landon for successfully defending her PhD thesis, “Opposing Modulation of Striatal Projection Neurons by Opioids”! We wish her all the best as she migrates from bench back to bedside to complete the other half of her MD/PhD!
Our preprint on the neuronal architecture of the insular cortex is now available!
Neuronal architecture of the mouse insular cortex underlying its diverse functions.
↗ 10.1101/2025.10.23.68369
Our paper on in vivo PKC imaging is out in Nature Communications!
A high-performance genetically encoded sensor for cellular imaging of PKC activity in vivo.
↗ 10.1038/s41467-025-61729-7
Yang defends her PhD!
A huge congratulations to Yang for successfully defending her PhD thesis, “Excitatory and Inhibitory Circuitry of the Insular Cortex”! Her years of hard work have paid off, and we all look forward to working with Dr. Chen!
Kayla will be attending the Cold Spring Harbor summer course on synaptic physiology!
Congrats to Kayla for getting into this competitive program!
New on bioRxiv: Our collaboration with Jun Ding’s lab at Stanford on thalamic integration during motor learning!
Thalamic integration of basal ganglia and cerebellar circuits during motor learning.
↗ 10.1101/2024.10.31.621388
Come see Landon speak at SfN 2024!
Landon will be speaking at the Development and Application of Fluorescence Lifetime Based Biosensors for In Vivo Imaging of Neuronal Function minisymposium on the topic of “Lifetime imaging of neuromodulatory signaling in vivo”.
PKC sensor preprint is now available!
A high-performance genetically encoded sensor for cellular imaging of PKC activity in vivo.
↗ 10.1101/2024.07.19.604387
Dr. Mao has been promoted to Senior Scientist / Professor!
Tianyi Mao has been promoted to Senior Scientist / Professor!
Our collaborative effort with PNNL on deep learning in axon segmentation is out!
Fine-tuning TrailMap: The utility of transfer learning to improve the performance of deep learning in axon segmentation of light-sheet microscopy images.
↗ 10.1371/journal.pone.0293856
