Lab News
Congratulations to Dr Wenxi Xiao for a successful PhD defense!
A banner year for Wang lab members getting academic positions.
Research scientist Jun Takatoh will start his own lab at SUNY-Stony Brook University in early 2025.
Jaehong Park, recent PhD student, skipped postdoc, got an offer for an assistant professor position to start his lab in Yonsei University in Korea.
Former student Li-Feng Jiang-Xie, will start as an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in January 2025.
Fan was elected to the National Academy of Medicine!
From the Academy announcement:
Fan Wang, PhD, professor of brain and cognitive sciences and investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. For discoveries of brain circuits important for anesthesia and analgesia, and circuits for generating rhythmic and coordinated orofacial movements. Her research provided foundational knowledge for developing new therapies to treat chronic pain and movement disorders.
See also the MIT News release.
The related News article in Science:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.z1ldgjc
The News release from the McGovern Institute:
The companion Perspective article:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado2114
The News release from the McGovern Institute:
Zoë got into Harvard Medical School Medical program!
The Pioneer Award will support research on Unraveling the Neural Bases of Body Schema
The Jane Coffin Childs Fund for Medical Research’s award will support Nitsan’s research on the central and peripheral causes of chronic pain and anxiety.
A fun day at the beach for BCS/MIBR/PILM Retreat 2023
The article is called “Somatosensory cortical signature of facial nociception and vibrotactile touch–induced analgesia”. The press release is available here.
This paper presents a “Theory of hierarchically organized neuronal oscillator dynamics that mediate rodent rhythmic whisking.”
The press release is available here.
Constructing an adult orofacial premotor atlas in Allen mouse CCF
Geometric deep learning enables 3D kinematic profiling across species and environments
Vertebrate Evolution Conserves Hindbrain Circuits Despite Diverse Feeding and Breathing Modes