Liang Liang
Biography
Research & Publications
Biography
Liang Liang received her B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Tsinghua University in China. She then moved to the United States and completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Stanford University under the supervision of Drs. Liqun Luo and Mark Schnitzer. During her graduate work, Liang identified a novel circuit motif that recruited excitatory and inhibitory channels in parallel to shape odor processing in the fruit fly, using two-photon imaging, laser dissection and optogenetics. She was supported by a Stanford Graduate Fellowship and a Lubert Stryer Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship. Liang joined the groups of Drs. Chinfei Chen and Mark Andermann at Harvard Medical School for her postdoctoral training, where she studied functional organization and state-dependent modulation of retinal axons in the early visual system of awake behaving mice. She was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB). Liang joined the Department of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine in 2020.
Education & Training
- Research FellowBoston Children's Hospital (2019)
- PhDStanford University, Applied Physics (2013)
- BSTsinghua University, Mathematics and Physics (2006)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience | The Klingenstein Fund and the Simons Foundation | 2020 |
Yale Scholar in Neuroscience | Yale School of Medicine | 2020 |
Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Postdoctoral Fellowship | Simons Foundation | 2015 |
Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship | Stanford University | 2009 |
Stanford Graduate Fellowship | Stanford University | 2006 |
Departments & Organizations
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Neuroscience
- Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale University