Lab News


January 23, 2023: Our ASAP Team has an abstract accepted for the 2023 ASAP Collaborative Meeting in San Diego!


January 9, 2023: Ghada, CNUP Graduate Student, joins the lab for a rotation.


December 21, 2022: Tao's paper was accepted at Nature Neuroscience!!!


December 14-15, 2022: Bill, Jing, Aydin, and Willa attend the NIMH Genetic Technologies for Systems Neuroscience in Non-Human Primates conference in Baltimore.


December 1, 2022: Bill speaks at the TEDxPittsburgh Lineage event.


November 28, 2022: Kati successfully defended her dissertation!! 


November 12-16, 2022: Aydin, Jing, Kati, Tao, and Willa present posters at SfN in San Diego.


October 14, 2022: Tao completes his second year milestone presentation.


August 2022: The lab had 4 posters accepted for SfN.


August 9, 2022: Ny joins the lab as a Research Technician.


June 1, 2022: Xiangting joins the lab as an Undergraduate Student Researcher.


May 20, 2022: Jordan joins the lab as a Research Technician.


May 16, 2022: Olivia B. joins the lab as an Undergraduate Student Researcher.


May 9, 2022: Tao's preprint is available on Research Square.


March 17, 2022: Bill and Tao attend the COSYNE conference.


February 2022: Bill and Jing attend a conference.


January 28, 2022: Tao’s poster was accepted at COSYNE!


November 29, 2021: UPMC article, "Molecular Fingerprinting of Individual Neurons Paves Way for Cell-Type-Specific Therapies," featuring Jing's paper is published.


October 26, 2021: PittWire article, "Placebo-inspired project wins $12 million grant to help Parkinson’s patients," featuring the ASAP Project collaboration is published.


June 14, 2021: Olivia W. joins the lab as a Research Technician.


April 18, 2021: Bill is a part of a Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences publication on neuronal correlates of rational choice in primate reward signals.


March 24, 2021: Jing publishes Transcriptional Diversity of Medium Spiny Neurons in the Primate Striatum on bioRxiv.


March 16, 2021: UPMC article, "Pitt Neurobiologists Take an Unexpected Detour to Decode Decision-Making," featuring Kati's paper is published.


March 8, 2021: Kati publishes Rare Rewards Amplify Dopamine Responses in Nature Neuroscience.


December 23, 2020: Bill is a part of a publication with open resources for non-human primate optogenetics.


August 2020: Willa joins the lab as a PhD student in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh.


August 2020: Tao is accepted as a PhD student in the Program in Neural Computation at Carnegie Mellon.


August 2020: Aydin is accepted as a PhD student in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh.


April 8, 2020: Kati publishes a preview in Neuron about novelty, conditioned responses, and dopamine signals.


January 2020: Jianjiao joins the lab as a Data Scientist.


November 22, 2019: Kati publishes Rare Rewards Amplify Dopamine Learning Responses on bioRxiv.


May 2019: Tao joins the lab as a summer student.


January 13, 2019: Kati’s abstract is accepted as a poster presentation for COSYNE 2019.









Bill speaking at the NIMH Conference


Lab Christmas Party 2022


Bill's TEDxPittsburgh Talk


Celebrating Kati's defense!


Tao, Willa, Kati, & Aydin presenting at SfN