2026
2026-05-14 EunJung received a Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant.
2026-03-18 Youjin won the Best Talk Award at the All School Research Consortium.
2026-03-18 Sophia was selected as the Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation (tie) at the All School Research Consortium.
2025
2025-12-14 EunJung presented at the Exploring the Frontiers of Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence meeting in Chinese Institute of Brain Science, Beijing, China.
2025-11-17 Youjin, Sophia, and Nilu presented at the SfN conference in San Diego, CA.
2025-08-11 Sophia began her PhD program at RFU.
2025-05-15 EunJung was selected as one of ISTC’s Researchers to Know for 2025.
2025-05-10 Nilu won a Glassman prize.
2024
2024-10-07 EunJung presented at the SfN conference in Chicago, IL.
2024-05-11 Ama, Taylor(Xianru), and Ying graduated from Lake Forest College.
2024-05-10 Ying won a Carr prize in neuroscience for her research accomplishment and thesis with distinction.
2024-05-06 Nilu received a Nu-Rho-Psi undergraduate research grant.
2024-04-15 Youjin, postdoc, joined the lab.
2024-03-26 Ama presented her poster at the ASBMB annual meeting in San Antonio, TX.
2024-03-07 Sayli's histology image was selected as the poster illustration of "Art from Bench-top" at ASCO.
2024-03-06 EunJung's first senior-author paper was published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
2024-01-14 Lake Forest College student Nilu Imomdodova joined the lab.
2023
2023-11-11 Sayli Korde and Ying Han presented at the annual SfN conference in Washington, DC.
2023-10-23 Research Assistants Sophia Cinquemani and Francis Ongkodjojo joined lab.
2023-10-23 Medical students Justin Yung and Gloria Bae joined lab.
2023-09-05 Lake Forest College student Taylor Yu joined lab.
2023-06-12 DePaul University student Jelani Shadd joined lab.
2023-05-01 EunJung received RFU Board of Trustees Research Award.
2023-04-13 The lab was awarded with NIH R56 Grant.
2023-03-20 The lab received Monica Ply Innovative Research Award for Parkinson's Disease Research.
2023-02-12 Medical students Nadine Pickering, Eric Cho, Adam Schwartz, Sam Begin, Liz Croce, and Ryan Wang joined the lab.
2023-01-16 The lab received AI Biomedical Innovation Pilot Grant.
2022
2022-10-31 Chandu Goli, our new lab tech, joined the lab.
2022-10-03 Medical student Terry Cirrencione joined the lab.
2022-09-15 Megi Disamidze won Bartram Research Scholar Award.
2022-06-21 INSPIRE student Aylin Sanroman joined the lab.
2022-05-31 Medical student Bowen Lian joined the lab.
2022-05-10 Lake Forest College students Ying Han and Ama Owusu-Ofori joined the lab.
2022-04-29 EunJung received CMS junior faculty investigator award.
2022-02-15 EunJung won Sloan Research Fellowship.
2022-01-17 Lake Forest College student Lea Wong joined the lab.
2021
2021-09-21 Dr. Sayli Korde joined the lab.
2021-06-25 EunJung received Schweppe Scholar Award.
2021-06-01 Medical student Jaydeep Sambangi joined the lab.
2021-05-23 Lake Forest College student Megi Diasamidze joined the lab.
2021-03-02 The first in vivo two-photon imaging of mouse cortex in IRP Room 130.
2021-01-18 Medical student Justin Dreyfuss joined the lab as a research technician.
2021-01-03 The first litter of mice born from the breeding colony.
2021-12-22 The International Brain Laboratory task apparatus built and operating in IRP Room 130.
2020
2020-12-04 The first two-photon microscope system installed and operating in IRP Room 130.
2020-10-29 The optical table for the first two-photon system installed in IRP Room 130.
2020-10-26 The first set of mice arrived at BRF.
2020-10-16 The first lab animal protocol approved.
2020-08-17 EunJung joined the faculty at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University as Assistant Professor.