Chuyue Yu
Graduate Student
Chuyue received her B.S. in Life Science in 2018 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. She studied erythropoietin ‘s role in treating Retinopathy of Premature in Dr. Shigang He’s lab. She also worked at Yale in the lab of Jimmy Zhou to study the function of vGluT3 cells and the W3 ganglion cells in motion detection. Chuyue started her Ph.D. in the fall of 2018 and joined the Chang lab in June 2019. She is interested in the neural mechanisms that underlie the regulation of internal organs’ physiological functions by using calcium imaging and optogenetics. Fun facts: I like my PI!!! I’ve never ever got drunk. Pig brain is my favorite while eating hotpot. I enjoy performing cardiac surgeries.