We are excited to announce that Drs. Sam Wang and Esra Sefik have been awarded a pilot grant from the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) for their project, "A Testing Platform for Probing the Role of Dendritic Structural Plasticity in Neuropsychiatric Disorders." This study will develop an innovative in vivo…
Neuroscience and democracy student researchers, at a summit meeting at Winberie’s…
Class of 2024 seniors Katelyn Ryu, Rachel Tam, Anurag Pratap and Thussenthan Walter-Angelo, are preparing for their oral exams with Prof. Sam Wang, joined by Betty Wang.
Congratulations to Dr. Broussard for winning the Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award! Sensorimotor deficits commonly occur in neurodevelopmental disorders like autism spectrum disorders and frequently coincide with cerebellar abnormalities. Yet, the exact connections between sensorimotor deficits and cerebellar abnormalities in these…
Congratulations to Dr. Joey Broussard for winning the NARSAD Young Investigator Award! Dr. Broussard's proposed study will elucidate the cerebellar circuit mechanisms for inhibiting reflexive responses to irrelevant stimuli during learning of a sensory-association task. The inability to inhibit impulsive responses to stimuli is a hallmark…
The 2023 Cerebellum Gordon Research Conference celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the meeting in Lewiston, Maine, featuring a diverse array of sessions, encompassing topics such as evolutionary developmental biology of the cerebellum, cellular and functional diversity within the…
Congratulations to Dafna Yavetz '23, who received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, and successfully completed her senior thesis with high honors in the Wang Lab. Dafna was supervised by Dr. Gerard Joey Broussard and Dr. Sam Wang. We wish her all the best in her future endeavors!
The Wang Lab presented seven different posters and talks at SfN's 52nd annual meeting in San Diego this year. Alumni and current members of the lab enjoyed a reunion dinner after the conference to celebrate their hard work and strengthen the ties between multiple generations of neuroscientists trained at the Wang Lab. Looking forward to seeing…
Wang Lab members will be presenting their new and exciting research findings at the 2022 Society for Neuroscience meeting, in San Diego, CA, between Nov. 12-16th. Make sure to drop by the following posters and talks!
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Congratulations to Dr. Esra Sefik, who recently joined our laboratory as a postdoctoral research associate and has been selected to receive the C.V. Starr Fellowship in Neuroscience through the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Under the mentorship of Dr. Wang, this award will allow her to kick-start her research on cerebellar contributions to…