2024

New Lab Member

October 4th, 2024

Ramin Khajeh joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Ramin!

Award

September 18, 2024

Wei receives a 2024 Gill Institute Transformative Investigator Award. Transformative Investigator Awards are “…presented to individuals whose scientific contributions to date have made a remarkable impact on their field.” Congratulations to all the awardees!

New Lab Member

September 02, 2024

Dong Zhang joined the lab as postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Dong!

Yervand gets accepted into Princeton University’s PhD Program

July 02, 2024

Congrats, Yervand! Wishing you best of luck in your next endeavors!

New Lab Member

May 20, 2024

Xuewei Song joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Xuewei!

Conference

April 28 - June 1, 2024

Wei visits the The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France.

New Lab Members

April 29, 2024

Jim Petrillo joined the lab as a senior systems engineer. Welcome Jim!

April 9, 2024

Adrian Holtrop joined the lab as a visiting Master’s student. Welcome Adrian!

Conference

March 20-23, 2024

Wangchu attended the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Neuronal Circuits Conference and presents his work, “Spinal circuit motifs that support sensory neuron convergence and modulation.”

New Lab Member

February 29, 2024

Kevin Delgado joined the lab as a research assistant. Welcome Kevin!

2023

Conference

February 29- March 5th, 2024

Aaron presented his work, “Synaptic wiring motifs in posterior parietal cortex support decision making”, in Lisbon, Portugal.

PAPER PUBLISHED

February 21, 2024

Our paper uncovering connectivity motifs in posterior parietal cortex is published in Nature. Congrats Aaron, Giulio, and team PPC!

HMS News piece about this work.

Conference

February 12-16, 2024

Wei presents the lab’s work “Synaptic wiring motifs in posterior parietal cortex support decision making”, at Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA.

Thesis defenses

October 19, 2023

Congratulations to Jeff on his thesis defense! Good luck at Janelia!

October 18, 2023

Congratulations to Jialu on her thesis defense! Good luck and safe travels!

New Lab Members

August 2023

Emily Ye and Tianzhi Lambus Li join the lab as graduate students. Welcome Emily and Lambus!

Lecture

July 16, 2023

Presenting from EM Basics to Connectomics at the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology Course

Conference

June 20-23, 2023

Jasper presents at Motor Control: Spinal Circuits and Beyond in St. Andrews, Scotland

New Job

June 1, 2023

Jeff accepts new position as Machine Learning Operations Lead Engineer with the HHMI Janelia CellMap Project Team starting in July. Congrats Jeff, and good luck!

New Jobs

May 1, 2023

Aaron accepts an Assistant Professor position in the Neuroscience Department at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, and will start his lab in August. Congrats Aaron, and good luck!

Tri accepts a Research Scientist position at Zetta.ai, where he will develop and deploy algorithms for automated analysis of connectomes. Congrats Tri, and good luck!

CONFERENCE

April 18-21, 2023

Jeff and Tri attend the IEEE ISBI conference in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Jeff presents a talk on his paper “Unpaired image and segmentation enhancement of X-ray Holographic Nanotomography via modified cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks”, and Tri leads a workshop on the XPRESS challenge results. Congrats Jeff and Tri!

Wei jointly appointed as Associate Professor of Neurobiology

April 1, 2023

Conference

March 26-31, 2023

Presenting Synaptic Wiring Motifs at Supporting Decision-Making at the Dendrites GRC in Lucca, Italy.

Data Challenge

February 6, 2023

The XPRESS challenge dataset is released. We invite participants to develop algorithms to accurately trace white matter axons - which comprise long-range connections in the mammalian brain - from X-ray nano-holography data.

2022

holiday skate

December 9, 2022

Paper Published

November 23, 2022

Our paper revealing structured connectivity in the cerebellum is published in Nature. Congrats Tri, Logan, and team cerebellum!

HMS News piece about this work.

Wei promoted to Associate Professor of Neurology

November 1, 2022

Apple Picking!

October 2, 2022

NEW LAB MEMBER

September 20, 2022

Mohd joins the lab as a Research Technician. Welcome, Mohd!

Lab retreat to cape cod

June 10, 2022

The lab escapes to Chatham!

Conference

May 29, 2022

Our lab attends the Berlin Connectomics Conference

new lab member

June 1, 2022

Kris joins as a mechanical engineer. Welcome Kris!

new lab member

March 1, 2022

Yervand joins as a data scientist. Welcome Yervand!

2021

new lab members

November 29, 2021

Wangchu joins the lab as a PhD student in the BBS program. Mukul joins the lab as a Data Scientist. Welcome Wangchu and Mukul! We’re excited to work with you!

Society for Neuroscience Early Career Award

November 3, 2021

Wei is a co-recipient of the inaugural 2021 Jennifer N. Bourne Prize from the Society for Neuroscience.

Celebration picnic at dana square park

April 13, 2021

Jasper passed his dissertation defense – congratulations Dr. Phelps!

gridtape & vnc dataset paper published

January 4, 2021

Ringing in the new year with the publication of our paper describing GridTape, the core technology driving many projects in our lab, and the adult Drosophila ventral nerve cord EM dataset, a new public resource and an example of kinds of projects that can be powered by GridTape.

Click here for links to the paper in Cell, a Twitter summary thread, and more.

2020

X-ray imaging paper highlighted

October 29, 2020

Nina Vogt at Nature Methods writes a Research Highlight on our work. Read it here: “X-ray connectomics”

Two papers published on the same day!

September 14, 2020

Our X-ray imaging paper is published in Nature Neuroscience.
Paper link | HMS press release | Twitter summary thread

Our collaboration with the Greenberg lab is published in Neuron. Paper link

Congrats to everyone involved in these projects!

New lab member

June 11, 2020

Jeff joins the lab as a PhD student in the Program in Neuroscience. Welcome to our lab Jeff, we’re excited to work with you!

New lab member

March 9, 2020

Already having done a co-op with us, Mingguan returns to join the lab as a research assistant. We’re glad to have you back!