First photo of Gong lab!
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Gong Lab launched in March 2022!
On April 1st, Linling joined our lab as the first graduate student!
Xiao Yang joined us as a new rotation student on 3/2022!
Yonxing majoring in Electrical Engineering joined us as an intern on 4/2022!
Siyuan majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience joined us as a Research Assistant on 5/2022!
We are building the Unity-based virtual reality system for mice, collaborating with Xinyu Zhao and Yao Lu. It is super fun! We can’t wait to test.
VR system on its way ……
GUI for the VR system
Schematic of our VR setup
Combined with wide-field microscopy or two-photon microscopy, this setup can be used to study in vivo neuronal dynamics in a variety of head-fixed behaviors in mice.
Running wheel with tastants deliver system
Yang Xiao got her behavior rig ready! She is interested to examine food consumption with different flavors.
2nd round of HCR in situ in expanded 3D tissue
2022/7 The biggest team ever! One PI, one lab manager, two students, two research assistants, one mice manager, and three interns.
Lab Photos! 2022/7
2023/4/17 The first programming workshop was held in the lab! Joint efforts by Gong lab at CIBR and Zhao lab at Tsinghua University.
Lab reunion for the current and past lab members in the summer of 2024!
The Lab Retreat in 2024!
Are reasoning games inherently more challenging than designing experiments?