Lab Events

07/2024, Congratulations, Joohyun Park and Meina Zhu, on your postdoc fellowship grants 07/01/2024 - 06/30/2026

04/2024 Our review paper - regulation of CNS pathology by the immune-related molecule Serpina3n/SERPINA3 - was published.

04/2024 Congratulations, Meina Zhu, on your Best Poster Award at American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN) annual meeting, Portland, Oregon.

04/2024 Congratulations, Joohyun Park, on the fundable score of the postdoctoral fellowship grant of Shriners Hospitals for Children

04/2024 Congratulations, Meina Zhu, on the fundable score of the postdoctoral fellowship grant of Shriners Hospitals for Children

01/2024 Congratulations, Yan Wang, on your promotion to Assistant Professor at UC Davis, SOM.

01/2024  Welcome Huimin Chen, joining us as a visiting graduate student.

11/2023 Lab-sponsored staff appreciation lunch. Thank every lab members for your hardworking and contribution to the lab!

09/2023 Congratulations, Yan Wang, on the fundable score of the R01-like grant of Shriners Hospitals for Children

06/2023 The R01 application (submitted in Feb 2023) received an impact score of 20 and a percentile of 6th at NIH/NINDS

06/2023 Yan Wang submitted her first NIH grant application (R21). It was a great start!

05/2023 Lab-sponsored staff appreciation lunch at the YD Tofu House. Thank every lab members for your hardworking and contribution to the lab!

05/2023 Guo submitted a R01-type grant application to Shriners

05/2023 Yan Wang submitted two grant applications to Shriners, one is R21-type application, the other R01-type application

04/2023 Welcome Joohyun Park, Ph.D. as a senior postdoc and Ritwik Varma as a junior specialist, B. S. (lab manager) to our lab

03/2023 Yan Wang presented a poster at the American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN) annual meeting, Lexington, KY

03/2023 Farewell to Vui Doan for a position at Stanford

02/2023 Meina submitted a postdoc fellowship grant application to Shriners

02/2023 Guo submitted an NIH R01 application studying the role of SOX2 in astrocyte biology and pathology

02/2023 Welcome Shuaishuai Gong, Ph.D. to the lab as a visiting scholar of Neurology at UC Davis School of Medicine

01/2023 Welcome Evelyn Wong to the lab as an undergraduate researcher

12/2022 Lab-sponsored staff appreciation lunch at the Korean BBQ. Thank everyone for your hardworking and contribution to the lab!

12/2022 Welcome Rohini Murali and Evelyn Wong to the Guo lab as undergraduate researchers 

11/2022 Our manuscript (role of SOX2 in astrocyte development and function) has been accepted for publication at Cell Reports (full-text). Congratulations to everyone who contributed to the study

10/2022 Lab-sponsored staff appreciation lunch at the Little Lamb Hotpot. Thank everyone for your hardworking and contribution to the lab!

09/2022 Guo lab received a Letter of Intent stating that R01-type grant application (submitted in May 2022) received a fundable score.

08/2022 Welcome Annlin Titus and Saloni Bhatt to the Guo lab as undergraduate researchers

07/2022 Guo lab proposes the transcription factor TCF7l2 as a useful nuclear maker specifically labeling premyelinating oligodendrocytes in the glial research field in a recently published review paper at GLIA (PDF version)

07/2022 Welcome Sami Rihani to our lab as an undergraduate researcher, starting July 6, 2022

06/2022 Welcome Meina Zhu, M.D./Ph.D. to our lab as a postdoctoral employee, starting July 1, 2022

06/2022 Welcome Vui Doan to our lab as a Staff Research Associate (SRA)

05/2022 Guo submitted a R01-type grant application to Shriners Hospitals for Children

05/2022 Wang submitted a R21-type grant application to Shriners Hospitals for Children

05/2022 Guo lab received an NIH/NINDS R01 grant starting July 1, 2022

05/2022 Guo lab received an NIH/NINDS R21 grant starting July 1, 2022

03/2022 Congratulations Yan on the acceptance of the paper published at STAR Protocols (Cell Press)

02/2022 Guo lab R21 application received a 7th percentile at NINDS after scientific merit review and is pending council review

01/2022 Guo lab received a 3 years R01-like research grant funded by Shriners Hospitals for Children

11/2021 Congratulations Yan on the acceptance of the paper published at Biological Review

10/2021 Guo lab non-modular R01 application received a 3rd percentile at NINDS after scientific merit review and is pending council review.

10/2021 Congratulations Yan on the acceptance of the paper published at Advanced Science

10/2021 Congratulations Yan on your promotion to Assistant Project Scientist, at the same time, holding an Instructor title for teaching.

09/2021 Congratulations Yan on the acceptance of the paper published at Annals of Neurology, entitled: ablating the transporter NaDC3 prevents leukodystrophy in Canavan disease mice

09/2021 Guo lab received a letter of intent for a grant funded by Shriners Hospitals for Children

08/2021 Congratulations Yan on the acceptance of the paper published at Cell Reports, entitled: PARP1-mediated PARylation activity is essential for oligodendroglial differentiation and CNS myelination

05/2021 Guo lab received an NIH R01 grant starting May 1, 2021.

04/2021 Sheng Zhang left the lab for a new position on 04/26/2021 

02/2021 Guo lab non-modular R01 application received a 5th percentile at NINDS after scientific merit review and is pending council review.

01/2021 Congratulations Sheng and Yan on the acceptance of the paper published at Journal of Neuroscience (The Wnt effector TCF7l2 promotes oligodendroglial differentiation by repressing autocrine BMP4-mediated signaling ) 

11/2020 Congratulations Sheng for the acceptance of the paper published at Journal of Neuroscience (HIFα regulates developmental myelination independent of autocrine Wnt signaling)

09/2020 Congratulations Yan for the developmental grant funded by Shriners Hospitals for Children

03/2020 Congratulations Sheng and Bokyung for the acceptance of the paper published at Nature Communications

09/27/2019 Congratulations to Yan Wang on the best oral presentation award at the 11th annual meeting of IPRM Research Symposium!