February 12, 2025
The lab welcomes our new graduate student, Alex Hiroto, new postdoc, Yuqi Hang, and new rotation student, Rebecca Han!
November 1-4, 2024
Catherine visited the lab, and the lab went to the San Diego Zoo with our new rotation student, Alex Hiroto.
October 5-9, 2024
Tianxiao and Chen attended SfN 2024 in Chicago and had a reunion with Chen’s previous mentee, Yandan Wang (current PhD student at Stanford).
September, 2024
Congratulations on Shiqi for her presentations at the Janelia Conference on the Development and Function of Brain-Body Communication and Scripps Graduate Symposium.
June 16, 2024
Our lab bids farewell to Catherine as she begins her MD-PhD study at UCSF this fall. We’re glad she will stay relatively close by and continue her role in the lab as an external graduate student.
May 16, 2024
Another big day for the Ran Lab: our first postdoctoral associate, Zahraa Chorghay, formally started in the lab. New research intern, Tianxiao Huang, will join us this summer. Catherine Gallori just accepted her MD-PhD offer from UCSF. Congratulations to all!
April 11, 2024
Group lunch welcoming Shiqi Wang and Amanda Lin as the first graduate and undergraduate student, respectively!
April, 2024
Chen will present the lab’s recent research at AChemS annual meeting on April 20 and the NIH NIDDK workshop Gut Feelings: Interoceptive Contributions to Obesity and Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction on April 30.
February 27, 2024
The lab welcomes the first rotation student, Shiqi Wang, to the lab. Earlier today, our research assistant, Catherine Gallori, got another MD/PhD offer (her fifth offer!!), and Zahraa Chorghay, decided to join the lab as a postdoc associate. A day of celebration!
November 22, 2023
We officially joined the UCSD Neuroscience Graduate Program. Graduate students who want to join the lab should apply through Scripps Graduate Program or UCSD Neuroscience Program.
November 11-15, 2023
Catherine, Chen, and incoming rotation student, Shiqi Wang, attended SfN 2023. It was Catherine’s and Shiqi’s first in-person conference!
July 11, 2023
Chen presented the work on brainstem representations of visceral signals at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior in Portland, Oregon. Chen looks forward to joining the next SSIB meeting in Chicago in 2024!
June 24, 2023
A mini-reunion of Chen and some of his previous mentees. Catherine Gallori and Jack Boettcher both graduated summa cum laude (highest honor) from Harvard. Catherine additionally won the Hoopes Prize for her undergraduate thesis on brainstem pathways for interoception. Together in the photo is Yandan Wang, a previous research assistant working with Chen, who is now in PhD program at Stanford University. Congratulations to Yandan, Catherine, and Jack!!!