Home Department: Radiology and Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Characterization of inter-detector effects in a 3-D position-sensitive dual-CZT detector modules for PET
Event: IEEE Medical Imaging Conference 2012

Awarded in 2008
Talk Title: Study of a High Resolution, 3-D Positioning Cross-Strip Cadmium Zinc Telluride Detector for PET
Event: 2008 Nuclear Science Symposium

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Christina Smolke
Talk Title: An RNA-based, Generalizable Synthetic Genetic System for Dynamic Regulation
Event: The 14th International Summer School on Biocomplexity, Biodesign and Bioinnovation

Awarded in 2013
Home Department: Structural Biology
Faculty Advisors: Wing Wong (Statistics, Biostatistics), Michael Levitt (Structural Biology), Garry Nolan (Microbiology & Immunology), and Chiara Sabatti (Biostatistics and Statistics)

The Yang lab's major focus is to elucidate biological functions of cytoskeletal associated proteins in neurons and to define the cellular and molecular basis for how these proteins contribute to the structure and function of neurons.