Lab Members
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Rong Gong
Principal Investigator
Rong received her Ph.D. from the National Institute of Biological Science, Beijing. Before joining CIBR, she was a research scientist with Scott Sternson at Janelia Research Campus, HHMI. Google Scholar ORCiD
Mom, runner, brain lover.
Email: gongr[at]cibr.ac.cn
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Lu Chen
Lab Manager
Have a great gift for keeping us from being lost! A fantastic organizer! A lovely Corgi dog’s Mom! And a cool jazz dancer!
Email: chenlu[at]cibr.ac.cn
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Jianan Yu
Postdoc
Jianan got her doctoral training at Capital Medical University. Fascinated by neuroscience, now she is a postdoc fellow in CIBR, investigating the link between internal state, neural activity, and foraging behavior.
Aside from work, she is fully occupied by her daughter and cat.
Email: yujianan[at]cibr.ac.cn
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Weijie Yan
Postdoc
Weijie received a Ph.D. degree from Capital Medical University, and now he is a postdoc fellow at CIBR. He focused on the regulation of consumption behavior.
Email: yanweijie[at]cibr.ac.cn
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Xiao Yang
Graduate student
Graduated from Lanzhou University with a Bachelor's degree, Yang xiao is now a Ph.D. candidate at Peking University & CIBR. She focuses on how food palatability regulates consumption behavior.
Love science, love talking. Xiao wants to be a thinker who can act.
Email: yangxiao21[at]cibr.ac.cn
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Ruiheng Song
Graduate Student
Ruiheng graduated from Shandong university with a master’s degree. Now he is a doctoral student at Capital Medical University & CIBR. He is working on the virtual reality-based foraging behavior.
Focus on the question and keep humble.
Email: songruiheng[at]cibr.ac.cn
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Weixuan Lu
Graduate Student
Weixuan graduated from China Pharmaceutical University with a Bachelor's Degree, he is now a Ph.D. candidate at China Agricultural University & CIBR.
“Science needs all one’s life.”
Email: luweixuan[at]cibr.ac.cn
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Hui Li
Animal Manager
Li Hui graduated from the Beijing University Of Agriculture and received her master’s degree in veterinary medicine. Now she is trying to get along well with the mice in the laboratory.
“There is not only one world, and there is not only one code of life. The path of life is inclusive. It's exciting to discover and create your own ‘answers’ from there.”
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Ruijie Wang
Research Assistant
Ruijie graduated from China Agricultural University with a master’s degree majoring in Entomology. Now she hopes to explore the secrets of neuroscience.
" To make each day count."
Email: wangruijie[at]cibr.ac.cn
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Huaxing Han
Graduate Student
Huaxing graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Capital Medical University and is now embarking on her PhD journey at Peking University & CIBR. Her research focuses on interoceptive learning, with an aim to uncover its underlying mechanisms.
Outside the lab, she is a volleyball enthusiast and enjoys theatre and music.
Email: hanhuaxing [at] cibr.ac.cn
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Weixiang Zhong
Graduate Student
Weixiang graduated from Nanchang University with a bachelor' s degree. Now he is a doctoral student at China Agricultural University & CIBR. He focuses on how the brain is involved in interoceptive perception.
Science, art, travel.
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Yanxin Luan
Graduate Student
Yanxin graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Capital Medical University and is now a PhD student at Peking Union Medical College & CIBR. She hopes to understand how the brain works.
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
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Jiena Liu
Graduate student
Jiena graduated from Guangzhou Medical University and received her master’s degree in neurology. Now she turns a new page as a graduate student at Peking Union Medical College & CIBR.
Email: liujiena@cibr.ac.cn
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Dingning Li
Research Assistant
Dingning graduated from Xidian University with a master's degree in biomedical engineering. Now she hopes to expand and pursue her research interests in neuroscience.
Life motto: "There must be a use for my talent"
Email: lidingning[at]cibr.ac.cn
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Xuetao Zhou
Research Assistant
Xuetao received her master's degree from Hebei University and currently works as a research assistant in the lab.
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Lingwei Tang
Graduate Student
Lingwei graduated from Southern Medical University and received her master's degree in biology. She is currently a Ph.D. student at Beijing Normal University.
"Always be updating."
Email: tanglingwei[at] cibr.ac.cn
Alumni
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Xiaowen Zeng
Intern
Xiao Wen is an undergraduate student at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. She worked on Unity programming from 4/2022 to 9/2022.
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Letian Zhu
Intern
Letian is going to be an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, majoring in Neuroscience.
She joined Gong Lab as an intern during Sept.2022 ~ Jan.2023.
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Yongxin Li
Intern
Yongxin worked on image processing. He joined Gong lab during 2022.5-2023.5
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Yujia Zhang
Intern
Yujia investigated flavor-based food consumption behavior. He joined the lab during 2023.1 -2023.6. He is pursuing his master's degree at Harvard University afterward.
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Linling Huang
Graduate Student
Lingling stayed in the lab during 2022. 3-2006.7
