Lab News

November 23rd 2025: Our story on Piezo regulators and axon regeneration has finally been accepted by PLOS Genetics! Congrats to Qin, Lilly and Leann! The first time it was submitted was 2.5 years ago.
October 3rd 2025: Aarya Rajashekara (Penn FERBS program) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Welcome!
September 15th 2025: Our first real tumor paper has finally been accepted by npj Precision Oncology! Congrats to the tumor team! It is a milestone of the lab!
August 25th 2025: Zhayle Piurque (Biotechnology @ Penn) joins the lab for her intern. Welcome!
July 24th 2025: Emily Cha (DSRB) has officially joined our lab, and she is co-mentored by Dr. Guo-li Ming. Welcome!
July 9th 2025: Tristan passed his prelim. Well done!
June 12th 2025: Pratyusha Katiyar (Biology @ Haverford) joins the lab for her undergraduate research. Welcome!
May 21st 2025: Emily Cha (DSRB) joins the lab for her rotation. Welcome!
May 19th 2025: Akarsh Gandagari (Neuroscience @ Penn) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Welcome!
January 23rd 2025: Ayesha Mallick (Biology and Biochemistry @ Penn) joins the lab for her undergraduate research. Welcome!
December 2nd 2024: Dr. Joon Park joins the lab. Welcome!
November 7th 2024: Our NSUN2 story (led by the Kathy Liu lab) has been accepted by Nucleic Acid Research. Good job, Christian!
October 1st 2024: Guru Patel (Holy Ghost Preparatory School) starts his internship in the lab. Welcome!
September 24th 2024: Navneeth Murali (Neuroscience @ Penn) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Welcome!
September 3rd 2024: Elgin Tawiah (Neuroscience @ Penn) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Alan Gu (Biotechnology @ Penn) starts his Master's research work in the lab. Welcome!
August 26th 2024: George Jejelava and Fiona Moore (Neuroscience @ Penn) join the lab for their undergraduate research. Jize Sui (Bioengineering @ Penn) starts his Master's thesis work in the lab. Welcome!
July 29th 2024: Yuki Sun (SJTU) joins the lab for her undergraduate thesis. Welcome!
July 17th 2024: Tristan got the Neuroscience Sleep/Circadian training grant! Congratulations!
June 18th 2024: Tristan has officially joined the lab, co-mentored by Dr. Aalim Weljie. Welcome!
June 14th 2024: Lilly got the T32 Developmental Biology training grant! Well done!
June 10th 2024: Michael Samuel (Neuroscience @ MIT) starts his undergraduate summer internship. Welcome!
April 6th 2024: Alina has got the F32 postdoctoral award! Well done!
April 1st 2024: Tristan (Biology) starts his rotation in the lab. Welcome back!
March 14th 2024: Jackson has nailed the Stanford MD-PhD program. Big congrats!
March 5th 2024: Shibo is admitted to the USC Bioengineering PhD program. Congrats!
January 3rd 2024: We thank the CHOP Omics Initiative (Omics Workstream Initiative) for supporting our work on modeling human neurodevelopmental disorders and tumorigenesis.
December 13th 2023: Tammy Ray (NGG) joins our lab for her rotation. Welcome!
October 30th 2023: : Shibo officially starts in the lab. Welcome!
October 25th 2023: The Song lab Workshop series organized by Josiah officially kicks off today!
October 16th 2023: Matthew Wang (Biology @ Penn) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Welcome!
October 11th 2023: Great news! Our paper on spliceosome mutations in a neurodevelopmental disorder has been provisionally accepted by JCI. Well done, Qin!
September 11th 2023: Mahir Sudad (Cognitive Science @ Penn) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Welcome!
September 1st 2023: Our story on the ternary glial regulation of axon regeneration has been accepted by Nature Communications. Congrats, channel team!
August 23rd 2023: Jacob Kim (Science Biology @ Penn) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Welcome!
August 12th 2023: Sophia Liu (Neuroscience @ Penn) joins the lab for her undergraduate research. Welcome!
August 10th 2023: Rose will officially join Dr. Kacy Cullen and our lab! She will help bridge the mechanistic studies from our side and the engineering/translational work from the Cullen lab!
August 5th 2023: Lilly has been awarded one of the four NGG Hearst Foundation Fellowships for 2023! Congratulations!
July 21st 2023: Jackson received the Vagelos Challenge Award! Congrats!
June 1st 2023: Diana Benedicto-Jimenez (Vagelos Life Sciences And Management Program @ Penn) starts her internship in the lab. Welcome!
May 30th 2023: Hannah officially joined the lab for her thesis! Welcome!
May 30th 2023: Bluma Hammarhead (Amherst ) starts her summer internship in the lab. Welcome!
May 24th 2023: Kayla passed her prelim! Well done!
May 22nd 2023: Christian passed his prelim! Well done!
May 15th 2023: Rose Horowitz (NGG) joins our lab for her rotation. Adeeba Allimulla (Penn State) starts her summer internship in the lab. Welcome!
May 9th 2023: Lilly passed her prelim! Well done!
April 6th 2023: Eddy Tian (Montgomery High School) started his internship in the lab. Welcome!
March 24th 2023: Yuanquan is tenured! Thanks everyone for all the support! We will work towards our next bigger goal!
March 7th 2023: Alina is selected as a postdoctoral fellow in the Training Program in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. Congrats!
March 2nd 2023: Vicky is starting her new career, in pursuit of her passion and art!
February 15th 2023: Tristan is starting his graduate school at Penn Biology! Big congrats!
February 6th 2023: Dr. Josiah Zoodsma starts his postdoc in the lab. Welcome, Josiah!
January 13th 2023: Leanne starts her new adventure as a postdoc at Stanford. Best luck!
November 29th 2022: Jackson received the Fall 2022 Louis H Castor, M.D., C'48 Undergraduate Research Grant. Congrats!
November 10th 2022: Lilly Ryll officially joined the Song and Akizu labs. Welcome!
October 10th 2022: Dr. Yuanhua Chen officially starts in the lab. Welcome, Yuanhua!
September 12th 2022: Lilly Ryll (NGG) joins our lab for her rotation. Welcome Lilly!
September 9th 2022: Caitlyn Chen (Vagelos Scholars Program @ Penn) joins the lab for her undergraduate research. Welcome!
September 6th 2022: Dr. Alina Rashid officially starts in the lab. Welcome, Alina!
August 23 2022: Serena Chen (NGG) joins our lab for her rotation. Welcome Serena!
August 19 2022: Christian officially joined the lab for his thesis! Welcome!
June 24 2022: Emily successfully defended her thesis today! Big congrats, Dr. Lo!
June 20 2022: Mira Ramachandran (Independence High School) starts her summer research in the lab. Welcome!
June 16 2022: Christian Tirrito (Biology) joins our lab for her rotation. Welcome Christian!
May 23 2022: Leann successfully defended her thesis today! Huge congrats, Dr. Miles!
May 20 2022: Kayla officially joined the lab for her thesis! Welcome!
May 18 2022: Vicky passed her prelim today! Well done and congrats!
April 23 2022: Josh received the Samuel Huntington Public Service Award. Very proud of you!
April 11 2022: Anushree received the Fluharty Award for outstanding poster presentation at the Neuroscience Student Research Symposium!
April 11th 2022: Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/domnicsong) and Linkedin (www.linkedin.com/in/yuanquan-song-00126a13)!
March 30rd 2022: Kayla Purdy (DSRB) joins our lab for her rotation. Welcome Kayla!
March 3rd 2022: Our review on mechanosensation and neuroregeneration will come out in The Neuroscientist!
February 25th 2022: Our Celldiscoverer 7 is in action, marking a new chapter of the lab!
February 10th 2022: Check out Jackson's reflection of his summer research experience in the lab! https://careerservices.upenn.edu/blog/2022/01/19/puzzling-topics-in-neuroscience/
January 31st 2022: Tobias Steinschaden (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine @ UAS Technikum Vienna) joins the lab for his thesis research. Welcome!
January 24th 2022: Anna Chen (Vagelos Program in Life Sciences & Management @ Penn) joins the lab for her undergraduate research. Welcome!
November 24th 2021: Anushree received The Louis H Castor, M.D., C’48 Undergraduate Research Grant. Congrats, Anushree!
October 28th 2021: Our perspective on the Atr pathway in regeneration will come out in Neural Regeneration Research.
October 4th 2021: Kalen Truong (Engineering @ Penn) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Welcome!
September 7th 2021: Tristan officially starts in the lab. Welcome!
August 24th 2021: Aaryan Pugazendhi (Millburn High School) starts his internship in the lab. Welcome!
July 6th 2021: Qin received the Alavi-Dabiri Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. Congrats, Qin!
June 28th 2021: Andrew starts his new job as a Scientist at Passage Bio. Congrats and we will miss you!
June 11th 2021: Vicky officially joined the lab for her graduate thesis research!
June 3rd 2021: Jackson Powell (Vagelos Scholars Program @ Penn) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Welcome!
May 13th 2021: Our paper on Atr and regeneration has finally been accepted by Nature Communications! 5 years of work. Well done, team!
April 18th 2021: Feng will start his own lab at Fudan University China. We will miss you, Professor Li!
April 15th 2021: Anushree received the Ruth Marcus Kanter College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant. Congrats, Anushree!
March 30th 2021: Joseph Yano (DSRB) and Victoria Yanouskiy (DSRB) join our lab for their rotation. Welcome Joe and Vicky!
February 18th 2021: Joshua Kim (Vagelos Scholars Program @ Penn) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Welcome!
February 2nd 2021: The SMARCA5 story that we contributed to has been accepted by Science Advances! Well done, Qin!
February 2nd 2021: Helen Downes (Neuroscience @ Penn) joins the lab for her undergraduate research. Welcome!
January 18th 2021: Anushree Aneja (Neuroscience @ Penn), Casey Kozak (Penn) and Kevin Bryan (Penn) join the lab for their undergraduate research. Welcome!
December 7th 2020: Geena received the Goldfeder Family Undergraduate Research Grant. Congrats, Jeena!
October 7th 2020: Ernest successfully defended his thesis, well done! It's now official, Dr. Monahan!
Septermber 28th 2020: Sophia Villiere (NGG @ Penn) joins our lab for her rotation. Welcome!
Spetember 15th 2020: Our work on promoting and guiding axon regeneration via optogenetics has been accepted by eLife. Well done, Qin!
July 29th 2020: Our work on glial metabolic reprogramming to promote axon regeneration has been accepted by Cell Metabolism. Well done, Feng!
July 14th 2020: Thank CHOP Foerderer Grant for supporting our microfluidics project!
June 13th 2020: John Zhou (Strath Haven High School) starts his summer internship in the lab. Welcome!
May 22nd 2020: Mahdi Rashidzadai (Neuroscience @ Penn) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Welcome, Mahdi!
April 30th 2020: Pavi just received the John C. Makris Award for outstanding academic and research performance, and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society! Big congrats, Pavi!
April 17th 2020: Geena just won the BBB Eliot Stellar Prize for best oral presentation of an honors thesis! Congrats and well done, Geena!
March 4th 2020: The Nup188 story that we contributed to has been accepted by the American Journal of Human Genetics! Well done, Pavi and Emily!
December 10th 2019: Our ringer paper just got accepted in Genes & Development. Well done everyone!
October 11th 2019: Emily passed her Proposal! Well done!
June 3rd 2019: Samantha Fallacaro (Neuroscience@Carnegie Mellon) joins the lab for the Penn SUIP, welcome!
March 18th 2019: Another support from the Roberts Functional Genomics Rapid Grant!
March 4th 2019: Shuchao Wang, a visiting student from Xiangya Medical School Central South University, joins the lab. Welcome!
February 22nd 2019: Thank the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation for supporting our SCIRTS grant!
February 13th 2019: Geena Jung (BBB @ Penn) starts her intern in the lab. Welcome!
January 16th 2019: Our Piezo and regeneration paper is finally accepted by Neuron!
November 12th 2018: Kamran Elahi (BBB @ Penn) starts his independent study in the lab. Welcome!
November 5th 2018: Dr. Qin Wang officially starts in the lab. Welcome!
September 4th 2018: Dr. Andrew Matamoros officially starts in the lab. Welcome!
July 23rd 2018: Zizhuo Liang (Dock Mennonite Academy) starts his summer internship in the lab. Welcome!
July 15th 2018: Our regeneration project gets funded by the NINDS!
July 9th 2018: Xiyu (Steven) Zhou (Strath Haven High School) starts his summer internship in the lab. Welcome!
June 25th 2018: Jingyun Qiu joins the lab today. Welcome!
May 30th 2018: Luis Felipe Carvao (BBB @ Penn) starts his summer internship in the lab. Welcome!
May 7th 2018: Shannon Trombley (University of Pittsburgh) starts her summer internship in the lab. Welcome!
March 26th 2018: Our work on fly models of human neurodevelopmental disorders is supported by the Genomic Forefront Award from Roberts Collaborative for Genetics and Individualized Medicine.
March 15th 2018: Thank Wings for Life - Spinal Cord Research Foundation for supporting our work on axon regeneration!
Dec 1st 2017: Thank the Roberts Functional Genomics Rapid Grant for supporting our fly models of human neurodevelopmental disorders!
Nov 10th 2017: Leann won the Kate Ferguson First Place in Poster Award in Biochemistry. Congrats!
Oct 16th 2017: Ernest received the T32 Predoctoral Training Program Award in Developmental Biology. Congrats!
Aug 29th 2017: Chuxi Wang (Biotechnology @ Penn) joins the lab for her independent study. Welcome, Chuxi!
Aug 25th 2017: Lilian Zhang (Grier School) starts her summer internship in the lab. Welcome!
May 19th 2017: Leann and Ernest successfully defended their prelim. Well done!
May 17th 2017: Carolyn Chow (BBB @ Penn) joins the lab for her undergraduate research. Welcome, Carolyn!
December 27th 2016: Thank CHOP Pilot Grant for the generous support!
December 6th 2016: Leann officially joined the lab for her graduate thesis research!
December 5th 2016: Dr. Feng Li officially starts in the lab. Welcome, Feng!
November 25th 2016: Dr. Ang Li, faculty from Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration (GHMICR), Jinan University, China, is visiting us. Welcome, Ang!
November 23rd 2016: Pavithran Guttipatti (Biochemistry @ Penn) joins the lab for his undergraduate research. Welcome, Pavi!
October 17th 2016: Leann Miles (BMB @ Penn) starts her rotation in the lab. Welcome!
September 6th 2016: Dr. Dan Li officially starts in the lab. Welcome!
September 1st 2016: Ernest officially joined the lab for his graduate thesis research!
August 15th 2016: Emily and Jessica officially start today!
August 1st 2016: Dr. Dan Li is joining the lab in August. Welcome, Dan!
July 30th 2016: Emily Lo (Bioengineering @ Temple) will be joining the lab for her graduate thesis in August. Welcome, Emily!
July 29th 2016: Jessica Goldshteyn will be joining the lab in August. Welcome onboard, Jessica!
July 28th 2016: Our two photon/confocal system is finally up and running!
July 11th 2016: Welcome Ernest Monahan (CAMB @ Penn) for the rotation, the first lab member of the Song Lab!
July 1st 2016: Thank Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC) at CHOP and Penn for their generous support!
June 27th 2016: First animal protocol approved!
May 2nd 2016: The Song Lab is officially launched!