News
6/2025: Welcome new lab technician Ashley Kim and new undergraduate students Lily Tian and Anika Sen to the lab!
6/2025: Farewell lunch for fantastic lab manager Elly Keum and M.S. student Huizhong Tan. Wish them both the best of luck for their PhD study and work in the industry!
6/2025: Congratulations to Kathryn Reynolds for receiving the Zucker Research Award!
5/2025: Welcome James Kwak, a Tufts undergraduate student, to the lab!
5/2025: Carly Reynolds presented her work at the Annual Vascular Contributions to Impaired Cognition and Dementia (VCID) conference.
5/2025: Dr. Yang was invited to give a seminar on Glial mechanisms in modulating disease pathogenesis in ALS at Van Andel Institute.
5/2025: Congratulations to Marcela Bertolio, Francesca Mowry, Rashed Alananzeh, Kathryn Reynolds, and Elly Keum for their manuscript “Glutamatergic Regulation of miRNA‐Containing Intraluminal Vesicle Trafficking and Extracellular Vesicle Secretion From Cortical Neurons” to be published in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles!
5/2025: Congratulations to Huizhong Tan on graduating with an MS in the PDD program and successfully finding a job at Biocytogen!
5/2025: Kathryn Reynolds presented an oral abstract outlining her recent FXS research at the ASGCT Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
5/2025: Carly Reynolds, Xuan Chen, and Jon Hacker presented their research work in the Boston Interactive Glia Group (BiGG) meeting at UMass Chan Medical School.
4/2025: Congratulations to Carly Reynolds for winning the neuroscience service and research poster awards at the neuroscience retreat!
4/2025: Dr. Yang was invited to give a talk on Human FMR1 isoforms in the Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) workshop at Boston Children’s Hospital.
3/2025: Dr. Yang was invited to give a seminar on Myeloid cell receptor Clec7a in regulating microglial activation and ALS pathogenesis in the Biology Department at Boston University.
3/2025: Dr. Yang was invited to give a talk on Cell Biology and In vivo Dynamics of Astrocyte-secreted Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) in the CNS in the Gordon Research Conference on Glia Biology.
2/2025: Congratulations to Elly Keum for being admitted into the PhD in Genetics program at Baylor College of Medicine!
12/2024: Welcome Vin Vasconcellos, a Tufts undergraduate student, to join the lab!
11/2024: Dr. Yang was invited to be the keynote speaker to give a seminar on Exosome microRNA (miRNA) and surface adhesion molecule in neuron to astroglial functional regulation at the XI Symposium of Graduate Program of Neuroscience of Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and VI UFF/FIOCRUZ Neuroscience Symposium.
10/2024: Dr. Yang was invited to give a talk in the Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Neuron-Glia Communications in the Central Nervous System at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience in Chicago.
10/2024: Congratulations to Shijie Jin, Xuan Chen, Jon Hacker, and Carly Reynolds for their manuscript “Inflammatory cytokines disrupt astrocyte exosomal HepaCAM-mediated protection against neuronal excitotoxicity in the SOD1G93A ALS model” to be published in Science Advances.
8/2024: Dr. Yang served as the Chair of the organizing committee for the 2nd research meeting of the American Society for Chinese Neuroscientists (ASCN) in August 2024. The whole Yang lab helped tremendously with a fantastic meeting!
8/2024: The Yang lab went on a very enjoyable whale watching trip in Boston Harbor.
6/2024: Congratulations to John Hacker for successfully passing the PhD qualification exam!
5/2024: PDD MS student Huizhong Tan joined the Yang lab. Welcome, Huizhong!
4/2024: Farewell to long-term research associate Dr. Shijie Jin, who has made significant contributions in understanding astrocyte exosome signaling in the Yang lab. Shijie will join Keio University as a Project Assistant Professor in May 2024.
4/2024: Dr. Yang was invited to give a talk in the symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN) in Portland.
4/2024: Congratulations to Kathryn Reynolds for winning the neuroscience research award at the neuroscience retreat.
3/2024: Dr. Yang was invited to give a seminar on developmental astroglia to neuron exosome signaling in the CNS in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Rutgers University.
3/2024: Jingwen Hu will be joining the Yang Lab for her Ph.D. studies. Welcome back, Jingwen!
2/2024: CONGRATULATIONS to our M.S. student Huilan Yan for her acceptance to the Ph.D. program at the University of Florida!
6/2023: Jon Hacker will be joining the Yang Lab for his Ph.D. studies. Welcome, Jon!
Kathryn Reynolds was awarded the 2022 Neuroscience Chair’s Award for Post-Doctoral Research. She also placed 3rd in the Tufts Neuroscience Retreat Poster Contest.
5/2023: Elly Keum joined the Yang Lab as Senior Research Technician. Welcome, Elly!
3/2023: CONGRATULATIONS to our M.S. student Jingwen Hu for her acceptance to the GMCB Ph.D. program at Tufts University!
1/2023: CONGRATULATIONS to our lab manager, Rashed Alananzeh, and our M.S. student Maria Majid, who have been accepted into UCLA and Tufts MD programs, respectively.
9/2022: Rashed Alananzeh has been promoted to lab manager.
7/2022: Our lab technician, Rashed Alananzeh, was awarded an NIH NINDS supplement to conduct his project titled: Comparison of exosome release and uptake into astrocytes between neuronal soma and neuronal axons. Congratulations Rashed!!
Kathryn Reynolds was awarded a FRAXA Fellowship. Congrats Kathryn!
9/2020: Yuqin’s paper “Astroglial FMRP deficiency cell-autonomously up-regulates miR-128 and disrupts developmental astroglial mGluR5 signaling” is published online ahead of print. Congratulations, Yuqin and Vanessa!
1/2020: First paper of the year on how Cocaine alters Neuron to Glia Exosome dynamics in the Nucleus Accumbens is published now on ‘Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience’!
10/2019: Society of Neuroscience: Dr. Yang and Lab members will travel to Chicago for the 2019 Neuroscience meeting.
8/16/19: Last day with Andy and Leona before they go back to School. We wish them all the best!
7/2019: Paper Published in Neuron Communication!
5/2019: Boston Interactive Glia Group (BIGG) Meeting