07/23/2026
Our lab’s first publication is now online—a Neuron paper investigating how midbrain dopamine neurons contribute to interoceptive nutrient learning. Congratulations to our co–first authors, Xiao Yang, Weijie Yan, Weixuan Lu, and Ruijie Wang, and to all collaborators involved!
05/17/2026
Our first student, Linling Huang, successfully defended her Ph.D. in June 2026. Congratulations, Linling!
The lab retreat in 2025
Are reasoning games inherently more challenging than designing experiments?
The Lab Retreat in 2024!
Lab reunion for the current and past lab members in the summer of 2024!
2023/4/17 The first programming workshop was held in the lab! Joint efforts by Gong lab at CIBR and Zhao lab at Tsinghua University.
First photo of Gong lab!
We are hiring now!! Open positions for postdocs, technicians, and graduate students. If you are interested, please check our recruiting advertisements and contact me if you are qualified.
Gong Lab launched in March 2022!
On April 1st, Linling joined our lab as the first graduate student!
Xiao Yang joined us as a new rotation student on 3/2022!
Yonxing majoring in Electrical Engineering joined us as an intern on 4/2022!
Siyuan majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience joined us as a Research Assistant on 5/2022!
We are building the Unity-based virtual reality system for mice, collaborating with Xinyu Zhao and Yao Lu. It is super fun! We can’t wait to test.
2nd round of HCR in situ in expanded 3D tissue
Schematic of our VR setup
Combined with wide-field microscopy or two-photon microscopy, this setup can be used to study in vivo neuronal dynamics in a variety of head-fixed behaviors in mice.
Running wheel with tastants deliver system
Yang Xiao got her behavior rig ready! She is interested to examine food consumption with different flavors.
