#  Events 

 



********************************December 2014 -******************************** Warm welcome to our new post doc scholar, Wenxing Yang .

********************************Octobor 2014 -******************************** Warm welcome to our new post doc scholar, He Liu.

********************************September 2014 -******************************** Congratulations to Yu for successfully defending her PhD thesis.

********************************August 2014** -****************************** Warm welcome to our new PhD student, Bicheng Han.

****************August 2014** -************** Congratulations to Yu for her paper on the function of EOL-1 in learning being accepted by Journal of Neuroscience.

****************July 2014** -************** Congratulations to Yun for receiving tenure.

****************June 2014** -************** Our undergraduate Alexandra (Lexi) Ding obtained HCRP scholarship to conduct summer research with us. She will work with Adam on neural basis of hermaphrodiate mating.

********June 2014** -****** The review that Erika and Jing helped to write will soon appear on Neuroscience. It talks about how sensory experience modulates different physiological traits important for survival.

****May 2014** -** Congratulations to Gareth for his paper on food odor recognition and preference being accepted by Journal of Neuroscience.

**April 2014** - Congratulations to Linjiao, Quan, Jing, Michael and Yuqi for their salt chemotaxis paper being accepted by Neuron.

**April 2014** - Myung-Kyu Choi has accepted our offer of a postdoc position and will join us in the fall.

**March 2014** - Bicheng Han will join us in the summer as a PhD student in OEB.

**March 2014** - Congratulations to Yu and Zhunan for their collaborative project on insulin-like peptides being published on PLoS Genetics.

**March 2014** - Congratulations to Connie, Julia and Sam for successfully finishing their senior theses.

**February 2014** - Congratulations to Linjiao and Xiaodong for their paper on neural circuits underlying temperature response being published on PNAS.

**January 2014** - Warm welcome to our new postdoc scholar, Konstatinos.

**December 2013** - Farewell to Linjiao. Best luck with everything, Professor Luo!

**November 2013** - Yun and Villu's proposal for a new Gordon Conference Series on Neuromodulation is approved. Hope to meet with everyone in Hong Kong 2015.

**November** 2013 - Michael and Yun published a review on compartmentalization in Worm.

**October 2013** - Congratulations to Adam for his paper on C. elegans hermaphrodite reproductive choice being published on G3.

**September 2013** - Farewell to Yuqi. Best luck with everything in your postdoc life!

**August 2013** - Congratulations to Yuqi for successfully defending her PhD thesis. Dr. Qin now!

**August 2013** - Farewell to Michael. Best luck with everything, professor Hendricks!

**June 2013** - The Zhang laboratory attended The 19th International C. elegans Meeting at UCLA. Yu Shen gave a talk on her project that studies a new gene EOL-1 in learning; Michael Hendricks gave a talk on surprisingly complex temporal activity patterns in salt-sensing neuron ASE; Gareth presented a poster on molecular understanding of odor preference; Adam presented a poster on hermaphrodite mating choice; Julia and Shane presented a poster on sex differences in olfactory learning.

**May 2013** - Congratulations to Zhunan for successfully defending her PhD thesis. Dr. Chen now!

**May 2013** - Warm welcome to our new postdoc scholar Jing.

**April 2013** - Congratulations to Yuqi for getting a prestigious postdoc fellowship from Biogen.

**February 2013** - Congratulations to Zhunan for publishing her work on insulin signaling in learning on Neuron!

**January 2013** - Congratulations to Yuqi for publishing her work on regulation of tph-1 transcription on Journal of Neuroscience!