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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.
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.
Paper published
The paper “A Cre-dependent reporter mouse for quantitative real-time imaging of protein kinase A activity dynamics” has now been published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Congrats!
We congratulate Aditi Ashwin and Drake Gorecki, both of whom will begin their PhD programs at Wash U and Northwestern respectively! Additionally, we welcome Drake back this summer as part of ENDURE before sending him off on his PhD journey!
Scialog Awards
It is with great pleasure that we announce we received two Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards. Read more at Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition Funding Awarded to 7 Research Teams and Kavli Foundation: Molecular Mechanisms of Memory
