Lab News

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.
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!