Dr. Yi Gu, Postdoctoral fellow, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
On Feb. 26, 2018, a research team led by Professor Minmin Luo from the School of Life Sciences and IDG/McGovern Institute at Tsinghua University published a research article entitled A hybridization chain-reaction-based method for amplifying immunosignals in Nature Methods.
On February 5th, 2018, the Yao lab’s new paper, entitled ‘CRISPR interference-based specific and efficient gene inactivation in the brain’, was published online in Nature Neuroscience. In this paper, Dr. Yao and colleagues reported their latest progress in establishing a dCas9/CRISPR-based gene silencing platform to achieve highly specific multiplex and conditional gene knockdown in the mammalian brain.
On Feb. 1, 2018, a research team led by Professor Minmin Luo from the School of Life Sciences and IDG/McGovern Institute at Tsinghua University published a research article entitled ’Hypothalamic Circuits for Predation and Evasion’ in Neuron.
On January 22, 2018, the research groups led by Prof. Bailong Xiao published ’Structure and Mechanogating Mechanism of the Piezo1 Channel’ in Nature.
Dr. Baohua Liu Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga
On Jan. 12, 2018, a research team led by Professor Bo Hong and Xiaoqin Wang from the School of Medicine and IDG/McGovern Institute at Tsinghua University published a research article entitled ’The Roles of Subdivisions of Human Insula in Emotion Perception and Auditory Processing’ in Cerebral Cortex.