Congratulations to Dr. Joselyn Ramirez-Gutierrez. She publicly defended her thesis, Sympathetic innervation as a negative regulator in islet plasticity during pregnancy in mice.

Congratulations to Dr. Xiangning Chen. She publicly defended her thesis, Light modulates glucose and lipid metabolism via the sympathetic nervous system.

Jieying was awarded the prestigious Ben Barres Junior Investigator Award in Scientific Excellence at the 2025 Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Brain Barriers.

Jieying was awarded the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship for her project “Defining a blood-ganglion barrier in the peripheral nervous system.” It starts from January 1, 2025.