Synaptic Neurobiology
News & Events
2024
March 20
Ice cream at Nam Shan Chuen.
March 9
Congratulation to Dr. Lai for being ranked third (the Staff Category) in the CityU Half-marathon delegation team!
March 7
Dr Lai has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience! The whole lab celebrated his success at Mou Mou Club.
February 2
Lab lunch at Sen-Ryo!
January 21
A fantastic experience for running the half-marathon race as part of the CityU team. Took a picture after finishing with our former President!
January 17
Our first Progress Meeting for the CRF project was held. Everyone learned something new from each other!
January 2
Welcome, Jiahao Lin and Jiaxing Song (Jason), to the lab as new PhD students!
2023
December 21
Lab lunch at the CityU Chinese Restaurant!
December 3
Joint-lab outing with other CityU Neuroscience members at Lamma Island!
November 11-15
Well done Joy in your poster presentation at the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) 2023 at Washington DC!
Excited to catch up with Kelsey at the SFN!!
November 3
Congratulations Eurus for receiving the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 16th USTC-CityU PhD Student Workshop!
November 1
Hotpot lunch with the lab at Mou Mou Club!
October 26
Well done Joy and Eurus in your presentation at the Neuroscience Research Seminar!
August 21
We are happy to welcome Lin Jiahao, a new research assistant to our Lab!
July 11
Our paper on the mechanism of G3BP1 in dendritic spine development is now in-press in J. Biol. Chem. Well-done, Daisy, Joy, and Angelo!
June 21
A great reunion with some of Kelsey Martin's lab alumni at Singapore.
June 19
Dr. Lai presented in the symposium "Mechanisms and Role of Dendritic Organelle and Membrane Trafficking in Synaptic Plasticity" during the 17th Meeting of the Asian-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry (APSN) in Singapore on June 19.
January 6
We are delighted to welcome a new Research Assistant to our Lab, Alex Lui!
January 5
We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2022/23 for our project! (Link)
C1024-22GF: "Molecular mechanism of RNA transport and specificity of their spatial distribution in neuron"
2022
September 2
Dr. Lai has been promoted from Review Editor to Associate Editor of Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. Congratulations!
August 31
Dr. Lai chaired and presented in the symposium “Towards an understanding of how the cytoskeleton and intracellular transport are regulated for synapse development and plasticity” during the International Society for Neurochemistry–Asian Pacific Society for Neurochemistry (ISN-APSN) 2022-23 meeting at Honolulu, USA.
August 30
We are excited to announce a new Ph.D student in our lab. Welcome, Xiaojie Wang!
She is currently in a joint-Ph.D program with Sichuan University and will be staying with us for 3 years.
July 28
We hosted a laboratory visit for the Hong Kong Brain Bee Competition finalists in CityU. After introducing our latest neuroscience research, the students had the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in operating both live-cell and confocal microscopes to image neuronal synapses. They also performed kymograph analyses to analyze dendritic mRNA molecule movements using ImageJ/FIJI.
We hope to have fostered their interest in pursuing neuroscience-related careers in the near future.
July 1
We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded the General Research Fund (GRF) 2022-23 for our project!
June 1
We are happy to welcome Angelo D. Flores, a new Research Assistant, to our lab!
February 1
Xuejun (Joy) Li has joined our lab as a Ph.D student. Welcome, Joy!
January 31
Farewell to Daisy. All the Best for your postdoc training at Stanford!
2021
November 24
Dr. Lai gave a lecture––"RNA Transport in Neuron and Why It Matters?"––at the HKIAS Rising Star Lecture - Life Sciences. Click on the link to watch the lecture!
October 28
Congratulations to Quanwei for getting his Ph.D degree at HKU!!
Well-done!!
October 1
Tian Wang has joined our lab for his Ph.D studies. Welcome, Tian!
2020
December 28
Read our news feature at Croucher Science Week:
"Unlocking the role of TBC1D24 protein in the brain"
September 25
Read our news feature in Croucher Foundation HK:
"How connections in the brain change over time"
Link: https://projects.croucher.org.hk/news/how-connections-in-the-brain-change-over-time
February 18
Read our editorial feature in eLife Science Digests:
"Going the distance"
Link: https://elifesciences.org/digests/53456/going-the-distance
