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News Updates

10/06/24

Megan, Willa, Tao, each present a poster at SfN Chicago 2024

09/07/24

Entire lab attends SIMCO 2024. Tao presents a poster

09/04/24

Iris (Mengna) Yao joins the lab as a Post-Doc.

08/27/24

Tao proposed his thesis and passes - Becoming a PhD Candidate

07/22/24

Bill, Willa, and Tao present at GRC in New Hampshire.

07/15/24

Stormy joins the lab as a Research Technician

06/13/24

Nili joins the lab as a Research Technician

06/04/24

Alexandra and Collin, both MD/PhD students, join the lab for summer rotation

05/10/24

Tao wins Outstanding Research Award from CMU Neuroscience Institute

02/29/24

Willa and Bill attend COSYNE

01/08/24

Rebecca, a Graduate Student, joins lab for rotation.

11/10/23

Aydin, Jing, Olivia, Willa and Tao present posters at SfN in Washington DC

09/20/23

Baylie, Megan, Tao and Bill attend SimCo in Chicago

08/21/23

Rachel joins lab as a Senior Research Scientist

07/24/23

Bill and Olivia attend ASAP meeting in San Diego

05/23/23

Tao attends Curiosity, Creativity, and Complexity conference in NYC

05/04/23

Megan joins the lab as a Staff Scientist

04/24/23

Tao publishes paper in Nature Neuroscience - READ NOW

01/09/23

Ghada, a CNUP Graduate Student, joins lab for a rotation

12/14/22

Bill, Jing, Aydin and Willa attend the NIMH Genetic Technologies for Systems Neuroscience in Non-Human Primates conference in Baltimore

12/02/22

Bill speaks at the TEDxPittsburgh Lineage event

11/28/22

Kati successfully defended her dissertation

11/12/22

The lab has four posters at SfN San Diego - Aydin, Jing, Kati, Tao, and Willa present

08/09/22

Ny joins the lab as a Research Technician

06/01/22

Xiangting joins the lab as an Undergraduate Student Researcher

05/20/22

Jordan joins the lab as a Research Technician

05/16/22

Olivia B. Joins the lab as an Undergraduate Student

05/09/22

Tao's preprint available on Research Square

03/17/22

Bill and Tao attend COSYNE

02/15/22

Bill and Tao attend Winter Conference on Brain Research WCBR

11/29/21

10/26/21

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

06/14/21

Olivia W. joins the lab as a Research Technician

04/18/21

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences publication on neuronal correlates of rational choice in primate reward signals feat. Bill

03/16/21

UPMC article, "Pitt Neurobiologists Take an Unexpected Detour to Decode Decision-Making," feat. Kati's paper is published

03/08/21

Kati publishes Rare Rewards Amplify Dopamine Responses in Nature Neuroscience

12/23/20

Bill is a part of a publication with open resources for non-human primate optogenetics

08/01/20

Tao is accepted as a PhD student in the Program in Neural Computation at Carnegie Mellon

08/01/20

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

04/08/20

Kati publishes a preview in Neuron about novelty, conditioned responses, and dopamine signals

01/01/20

JianJiao joins lab as Data Scientist

11/22/19

Kati publishes Rare Rewards Amplify Dopamine Learning Responses on bioRxiv

05/01/19

Tao joins lab as summer student

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