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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.
Congrats David!
We’re thrilled to announce that our undergraduate student, David Kim, has been selected as the winner of the 2024-2025 COBRAS Feldman Fellowship!We’re incredibly proud of you, David!
Welcome summer students!
Chen lab welcomes all our summer students; David Kim, Lindsey Christinger, Drake Gorecki, Fapianey Alexandre and Hanna Jachna. We are very fortunate to have you all, and wishing you a productive summer!
INSPIRE Symposium
Lizzie and Waleed showcased their research at the INSPIRE Symposium recently, displaying their poster presentations.
Recent achievements by our students.
Congratulations to our undergrad David Kim for receiving a BioSURF Summer Fellowship! And congrats for our grad students, Lizzie for receiving the Outstanding Service and commitment to St. Louis Award , Pingchuan for receiving the Excellence in Research Award, and Waleed for receiving the Student Group Member of the Year Award. Way to go!
Paper published
The paper “Fast and slow: Recording neuromodulator dynamics across both transient and chronic time scales” has now been published in the journal Science Advances.
