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
UPMC article, "Molecular Fingerprinting of Individual Neurons Paves Way for Cell-Type-Specific Therapies," featuring Jing's paper is published
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
03/24/21
Jing publishes Transcriptional Diversity of Medium Spiny Neurons in the Primate Striatum on bioRxiv
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