SEPTEMBER 2026
Yaren joins the lab as a research technician! Yaren will be working jointly between the Xin and Roth labs. Welcome Yaren!
JULY 2026
Lucas joins the lab as a research technician! Lucas will be working jointly between the Xin and Roth labs. Welcome Lucas!
JULY 2026
Wendy receives a Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Freedman Prize Honorable Mention - sincerest thanks to BBRF for supporting our research!
JULY 2026
Our review on glial orchestration of neurodevelopment is online at Developmental Cell! Great fun working with Krissy Sakers and Pat Sheehan from the Eroglu and Schafer labs, and special thanks to first author Krissy for her tremendous work bringing this to fruition!
https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(26)00232-7
JULY 2026
If you are attending FENS in Barcelona, please check out our symposium on Friday morning, entitled "Regulation of circuit function and cognition by oligodendroglia"!
JULY 2026
The Xin lab opens at DKJEI / KBI @ UHN and the University of Toronto! If you are interested in exploring how oligodendrocytes and myelin change neuronal function and plasticity, please get in touch! We are keen to chat with potential lab members at all stages of training.
EARLIER UPDATES
MAY 2026 - If you are attending the Canadian Association for Neuroscience meeting in Montreal, please check out our symposium on Wednesday afternoon, entitled "Glial-neuron and glial-immune interactions in nervous system development and repair"!
DECEMBER 2024 - Wendy joins the Allen Institute Next Generation Leaders Program!
AUGUST 2023 - Wendy reflects with JHU's #100 Alumni Voices on the role of luck in science, what it's like to balance a postdoc and a family, and how Hopkins shaped my scientific journey.
APRIL 2020 - Wendy chatted with Once A Scientist host Nick Edwards to discuss grad school, academic research, glia, and Science Twitter. Tune in here, or find the Once a Scientist podcast on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify.