The tree shrew is an emerging model in visual neuroscience, offering a bridge between rodent and primate systems. In this study, Chuiwen systematically characterized how neurons in the tree shrew...

The lab is well represented at this year's neuroscience meeting, with 4 posters and 2 minisymposium talks! Also wonderful to see many former lab members. Good times! 

The visual system encodes large amounts of information about the physical world with limited resources. Encoding is more efficient when the responses of neurons are less correlated with each other...

Another great collaboration with the Campbell lab to study the molecular and cellular evolution of the superior colliculus. Ming spearheaded the study and revealed conserved and species-specific cell...

Christina Lagas joins the lab for her PhD research. Welcome aboard!

Congratulations to Jenny, Chuiwen, and Ming on successfully defending their PhD thesis! We wish you all the best at the next stage of your careers!

Chen performed a careful and thorough characterization of many mouse lines to access genetically defined cell types in the Superior Colliculus, with help from Yuanming. The results support a...

We hosted Tree Shrew Discovery conference at UVA. Excellent talks and great discussions. A wonderful community that is growing and connecting!

The Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Jefferson Scholars Foundation recognizes UVA faculty who have demonstrated both excellence in teaching and exceeding care for their students. This award...

Chuiwen designed and performed this very interesting study, titled "Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus", with excellent support from...