I received my undergraduate degree in neurobiology from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). During my time there, I participated in two different research labs. One studied the fate of messenger RNA in the cerebellum, and the other investigated various addiction behaviors and their impact on the upper cortical area of the brain. Last year, I joined Dr. Jonathan Horton's lab at UCSF, where we investigated the visual pathway in non-human primates using electrophysiology and various visual tasks. In the Ingraham lab, I aim to investigate how estrogen promotes spontaneous activity and brain health in females by utilizing molecular techniques. I will be starting my graduate studies at Yale University in the Neuroscience Graduate Program in Fall 2025.
Zheng YJ, Dilbeck MD, Economides JR, Horton JC. Permanent transduction of retinal ganglion cells by rAAV2-retro. Exp Eye Res. 2024 Mar;240:109793. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2024.109793. Epub 2024 Jan 19. PMID: 38246331.
• Zheng YJ, Adams DL, Gentry TN, Dilbeck MD, Economides JR, Horton JC. Retinal input to macaque superior colliculus is supplied by branching axons from ganglion cells projecting to the lateral geniculate nucleus. (In Press Journal of Neuroscience)
Manuscripts in Preparation
• Zheng YJ, Gentry TN, Economides JR, Horton JC Distribution of Gaze and Vergence Angles Recorded with Eye Tracking Glasses in Ambulatory Subjects Engaged in Their Normal Daily Activities (In Review at Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science)
Preprints: (bioRxiv)
• Kallupi, M., de Guglielmo, G., Carrette, L. L. G., Simpson, S., Kononoff, J., Kimbrough, A., … Zheng, YJ., Vang, A., Woods, L.C. S., Palmer, A. A., George, O. (2022). Individual differences in oxycodone addiction-like behaviors in a large cohort of heterogeneous stock (HS) rats. bioRxiv, 2022.07.26.501618. doi:10.1101/2022.07.26.501618