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- 2025
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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