News – Yang Lab

- - - 2025
      - Gus successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Lowry! 11/25
        
        Pengfei’s paper about PIEZO1-TMEM16F coupling-mediated PS exposure in sickle cell disease complications was accepted by Am. J. Hematol. Congratulations! 09/25
        
        Megha Seri starts her 1st rotation in the lab. Welcome! 08/25
        
        Our discovery of PIEZO1 in controlling trophoblast fusion and placental development was published in Nature Communications. Congrats, Yang, Zoe and Pengfei! Research Highlight at Duke and Biomedical Picture of the Day. 07/25
        
        Pengfei won the best poster award during the 2nd Gateway Ion Channel Symposium in Chicago. Congrats, Pengfei! 07/25
        
        Claudia Disbrow from Roanoke College completed her 8-week Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) in the lab. Good job, Claudia! 07/25
        
        Huanghe gave an invited talk about the new roles of the calcium-activated ion channels in neuronal excitability and diseases during the 10th IICC. 07/25
        
        Our collaborative work with Drs. Jeff Holt and Zheng Wang advanced the understanding of TMEM63B channelopathy. It was published in Neuron. 06/25.
        
        Huanghe Yang received the School of Medicine Research Mentoring Awards. 05/25
        
        Welcome Ale Gonzales Torres, a first year graduate student, joined our team! 05/25
        
        Takafumi and Ping’s study on a new neuronal inhibitory mechanism in medial habenula neurons was published in Science Advances. Research Highlight here. Congrats! 03/25
        
        Gus received the 2025 Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE). Congratulations! 03/25
        
        Huanghe received the 2025 Paul F. Cranefield award. 02/25
        
        Pengfei secured a faculty offer as an assistant professor at Ohio State University. 2nd faculty from our lab. Congratulations! 01/25
        
        2024
        
        Congratulations to Gus, Pengfei and Yang for their excellent finding about the evolutionary conserved lipid scrambling potential for the TCS super-family! It is published in eLife. 11/24
        
        Zoe received 2024 Gridley McKim-Smith Women’s Health Fellowship Award. Congrats! 10/24
        
        Dr. Neslihan Cilek joined the lab. Welcome! 09/24
        
        Huda Hashash starts her rotation. Welcome! 09/24
        
        Zoe received the Duke Genomics Travel Award via the Duke Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies (CAGT). Congratulations! 08/24
        
        Serena, Zoe and Penfei gave great oral/poster presentations in the Hemostasis GRC. Great job! 08/24
        
        Hematology Fellow Chris Hahn MD. joined the lab. Welcome! 07/24
        
        Coco Liu starts her rotation. Welcome! 07/24
        
        Zoe and Trieu’s First Person Interview by J. Cell Sci. is online. Congratulations! 07/24
        
        Zoe and Trieu’s paper about TMEM16F’s intracellular signaling role in angiogenesis was accepted by J. Cell Sci. Congratulations! 07/24
        
        J. Gen. Physiol. chose our niclosamide paper as the cover of their July issue. Many thanks to Dr. Criss Hartzell! 07/24
        
        Chris Hahn starts his hematology fellow research in the lab. Welcome! 07/24
        
        Our discovery of the midline thalamus in absence epilepsy is accepted in PNAS. 06/24
        
        Pengfei won the 2nd place of the best poster prize during the 1st Gateway Ion Channel Symposium. Congratulations! 06/24
        
        Pengfei’s mechanistic study of niclosamide effect on TMEM16A was published in J. Gen. Physiol. Congratulations! 05/24
        
        Ryan Chou joined the lab to conduct his undergraduate independent study. Welcome! 05/24
        
        Welcome exchange student Wenxuan Zhen from Zhejiang university! 03/24
        
        Pengfei won the American Society of Hematology postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations! 01/24
        
        Aiza Akhtar joined the lab to conduct her undergraduate independent study. Welcome! 01/24
        
        Sophia Link starts her rotation in the lab. Welcome! 01/24
        
        2023
        
        Our first red blood cell manuscript got accepted by Blood. Congratulations Yang, Pengfei and other authors! See commentary. 11/2023
        
        Huanghe won the Duke SPARK Award. 11/2023
        
        Serena passed prelim. Official PhD candidate. Congratulations! 10/2023
        
        Gus won the best poster award in our department retreat. Congrats! 10/2023
        
        Luna Chen, a rising high school junior, starts her summer intern in the lab. Welcome! 07/24
        
        Serena received the American Hematology Society predoctoral fellowship. Congrats! 06/2023