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Oct 2022 Jim and Greta's paper is published in Cell Reports.

Feb 2022 Marine and Jim's paper is published in eLife.

Jan 2022  Our perspective article is published in Journal of Neuroscience, a collaboration with Edward Zagha, Jeffery Erlich, Soohyun Lee, Gyorgy Lur, Daniel O'Connor, Nick Steinmetz and Carsen Stringer. 

Oct 2021  Machhindra joined the lab as a postdoc, welcome!

Jun 2021  Jennifer joined the Pharmaceutical and Translational Sciences Graduate Program at USC, congrats!

Mar 2021  Hongdian and Dan's work is published in eLife.

Jan 2020   Jim was awarded the James & Margaret Lesley Annual Prize! Congrats!

Nov 2020  Zahra joined as a postdoc. Big applause!

Like many other labs, virtual meetings have become a norm in this COVID era. 

Oct  2020  Jim talked about our recent work at Barrels XXXIII.

Aug  2020  Congratulate Marco on passing the CA driving test on the 3rd attempt,

                   setting a lab record that can be hardly beaten ever.

Jun  2020  Hongdian and Dan's work is online.

May  2020  Jim and Yina's work is published in Neuropharmacology.  

Apr  2020  First research manuscript by Jim and Yina is online!

Mar  2020  Marine joined as a p​ostdoc, welcome to the team!

Feb  2020  Gréta joined as a p​ostdoc, hooray!

Nov 2019  Two-photon microscope was installed. Another toy to play with.

Sep  2019  Marco joined as a p​ostdoc, going strong!

Sep  2019  Jennifer joined the lab as a junior specialist, yay!

June 2019  First paper from our lab is published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. Great start!

May 2019  The Yang lab was awarded an R01 grant from NINDS! This is a 5-year award with anticipated costs of $1.6M. The focus of this project is to understand the role of LC activity in decision making.

May 2019  Jim passed his qualifier exam! A step closer to Ph.D.!

Mar 2019  The Yang lab was awarded an R01 grant from NINDS! This is a 5-year award with anticipated costs of $1.6M. The focus of this project is to understand how LC modulates cortical sensory processing.

Jun 2018    Lucas joined our lab as a postdoc, smart choice and welcome aboard! 

Jun 2018    Hongdian was awarded a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience.  UCR News

Jun 2018    Hongdian was awarded an UC Regents Faculty Fellowship. 

Jul  2017     Hongdian was awarded an UC Omnibus travel award. 

Jun 2017    Jim joined our lab as a Ph.D. student, welcome aboard!

Feb 2017    Yina joined our lab as a postdoc fellow, welcome aboard!

Nov 2016    Grand opening!

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