In our lab, we study how learning and gaining memories alters how brain cells signal to each other. We find that learning triggers the release of neurochemical signals that can have wide-ranging impacts on brain regions that control movement, or the ability to sense the environment. We use the worm brain to understand these chemical changes, hoping that we can translate our research on the tiny worm brain to the much bigger brain of humans, which may change the way we manage and treat conditions like neurodegeneration and chronic pain.
Yee Lian is a worm-wrangler, geneticist, neuroscientist and baker of weird cakes. Motivated to learn more about the brain using the worm model. Passionate about equity, diversity and inclusion. Always learning, always reflecting.
BSc (U Sydney) 2010, PhD (U Sydney) 2015, EMBO fellow/postdoc (MRC LMB, UK) 2015-2018, Lecturer/Research Fellow 2019-2020 (University of Wollongong)
Ericka is our lab manager, research assistant, keeper of the lab strain/plasmid collection and builder of fun toys for the worms in our lab.
Aelon is a budding neuroscientist, an advocate for diversity in STEM, and worm compadre. In 2020, he graduated with a B. Bionanotechnology (Honours) from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Aelon’s current project involves using C. elegans to study the biological process of learning.
Anna is a developing scientist with a love for genetics, neuroscience, and all things in between. She emphasizes the importance that interdisciplinary and multicultural exposure has played in her journey of scientific discovery. Her academic career has taken her across the globe with a BS from North Carolina State University in the US, an MSc from the University of Glasgow in the UK, and now Australia.
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