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Our research interests
NEUROMODULATION
How do chemicals in our brain make us behave differently?
SLEEP
How does sleep do so many wonders to our body and mind?
LEARNING
How do plasticity signals act and function during animal learning?
Recent News
Open Positions in Chen Lab
We would like to grow bigger! Positions available: Staff Scientist, Senior Scientist, Postdoc, Research Tech, Programmer.
Hope Center Pilot Award
We are grateful for being awarded a Hope Center Pilot Award to study “Sleep regulation of the brain-gut axis throughout lifespan” in collaboration with the lab of Meng Wu.
Published paper
The paper, “The promise and peril of comparing fluorescence lifetime in biology revealed by simulations” has been published in eLife.
Poster presentation
Our undergraduate, David Kim, presented his work in the lab at the Fall 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Society for Neuroscience meeting
At Neuroscience 2024, SfN‘s annual meeting, Chen Lab was represented by Dr. Chen and our summer student from the last two summers, Drake Gorecki, who presented at the poster session.
Published paper
The paper, “A modular chemigenetic calcium indicatorfor multiplexed in vivo functional imaging” has been published in Nature Methods. Congratulations to all the authors!
