Apr-May 2023
Two graduate students in the lab – Yexin Yang and Meiling Zhao – successfully defended the PhD thesis. Big congratulations to you, Dr. Yang and Dr. Zhao!! I was privileged to see you guys become card-carrying neuroscientists. Yexin has been accepted into a competitive Fellows Program at the UMich Innovation Partnership. Meiling has joined the lab of Joanna Mattis (Dept. of Neurology, Michigan Medicine) as a postdoctoral fellow.
Sep. 2022
Sam presented at ASCONA meeting on neuronal circuits.
Rafael de Gouvea joined Kwon lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
Jul. 2022
Sam presented a poster at GRC meeting on Neurobiology of Cognition.
Apr. 2022
Sam presented a poster at SFARI Investigator Meeting in NYC. First in-person meeting since COVID-19 outbreak!
Avery Heo successfully completed her undergraduate honors thesis in Neuroscience while working closely with Meiling Zhao. Wishing the best for your new adventure, Avery!
Mar. 2022
Both Yexin Yang and Meiling Zhao win Rackham Dissertation Fellowship! Link
Jan. 2022
Sam wins Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Research Award! Link
Nov. 2021
Sam gave a talk on the role of S1 at the 34th Barrels Meeting (virtual). Link
Oct. 2021
Chia-wei’s paper on the mouse S2 to S1 cortico-cortical circuit has been accepted at the Journal of Neuroscience-!
May. 2021
Kayla Jones and Avery Heo joined Kwon lab as undergraduate researchers-!
Jan. 2021
Everyone hopes this year will be a better one.
Presented at the MCDB departmental retreat (virtual): 1 talk, 1 poster.
Feb. 2020 – Dec. 2020
COVID-19. Not much to say except that science continued.
Some good news-
Meiling Zhao and Kathy Yang successfully became dissertation candidates.
They won another Rackham Graduate Research Award.
Johnny Shen joined Kwon lab as an undergrad researcher. Welcome-!
Jan. 2020
Hong Yu joined Kwon lab as an undergraduate research student. Welcome-!
Kwon lab participated in Dress Like a Bee day to support GRIN2B foundation.
October. 2019
Meiling Zhao and Kathy Yang won pre-candidate Rackham Graduate Research Award! Congratulations-
Kwon lab attended SfN in Chicago with 2 poster presentations.
September. 2019
Nicole Pham joined Kwon lab as a UROP student. Exciting!
Summer. 2019
New talents in the lab! Bre Miller (research student), Jasvin Kauer (visiting student from Cambridge University) and Alec Bayoneto (research student). Welcome, folks!
GRIN2B Foundation visited Kwon lab!
Apr. 2019
Meiling Zhao and Kathy Yang joined Kwon lab as PhD students. I am thrilled to have you guys in my lab!
Kwon lab gathering @Sava for Brenna’s farewell and welcoming new students.
Jan. 2019
Samantha Grudzien joined as a research student. Welcome aboard!
Sep. 2018
Morteda Alaamiri joined as a research student. Welcome to Kwon lab!
Aug. 2018
Data acquisition mode is on.
Everyone is doing experiments now.
July. 2018
Started training mice for tactile perceptual learning. First ‘data’ lab meeting with beautiful behavioral data!
Jun. 2018
SFARI Bridge to Independence Award has been activated at UMich.
Kwon Lab is moving to Biological Sciences Building!
http://www.ennead.com/work/bsb
May. 2018
Chia-wei Chang joined Kwon lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome aboard!
Two-photon microscopy, a slice physiology rig and a surgery rig have been set up. Ready to roll.
Apr. 2018
Max Oginsky joined Kwon lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Max!
Feb. 2018
Brenna joined Kwon lab as a lab assistant. Welcome!
Jan. 2018
Lab Opened!