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

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

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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. 

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

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

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

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

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Nov 2020  Zahra joined as a postdoc. Big applause!

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

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

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

                   setting a lab record that can be hardly beaten ever.

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Jun  2020  Hongdian and Dan's work is online.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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Jun 2018    Hongdian was awarded an UC Regents Faculty Fellowship. 

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Jul  2017     Hongdian was awarded an UC Omnibus travel award. 

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

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

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Nov 2016    Grand opening!