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!

Neuronal architecture of the mouse insular cortex underlying its diverse functions.
↗ 10.1101/2025.10.23.68369

Congrats Sophia!

Congrats James!

A high-performance genetically encoded sensor for cellular imaging of PKC activity in vivo.
↗ 10.1038/s41467-025-61729-7

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!

Welcome Sophia!

Congrats to Kayla for getting into this competitive program!

Thalamic integration of basal ganglia and cerebellar circuits during motor learning.
↗ 10.1101/2024.10.31.621388

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”.

A high-performance genetically encoded sensor for cellular imaging of PKC activity in vivo.
↗ 10.1101/2024.07.19.604387

Tianyi Mao has been promoted to Senior Scientist / Professor!

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

Congrats Landon!

Locomotion activates PKA through dopamine and adenosine in striatal neurons.
↗ 10.1038/s41586-022-05407-4
↗ OHSU News

Sensitive genetically encoded sensors for population and subcellular imaging of cAMP in vivo.
↗ 10.1038/s41592-022-01646-5

Genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for imaging neuronal dynamics in vivo.
↗ 10.1111/jnc.15608