Waylin Yu, Ph.D

Waylin Yu, Ph.D has worked in various roles in the neuroscience field since 2012. From 2012-2014, they were a Research Assistant at the Glenn Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory at Colby College, where they acquired fundamental laboratory skills such as transgenic rat models of depression and schizophrenia, behavioral testing, and immunohistochemistry. During this time, they also constructed a novel apparatus to establish a model of traumatic brain injury. From 2014-2015, they were a Research Assistant at the Yung & Ke Neurodegenerative Disease Lab at CUHK School of Biomedical Sciences, where they shadowed graduate students and practiced electrophysiology to monitor LTP in iron-deficient mice. Waylin also learned stereotaxic surgery and paraffin-based processing techniques for tissue preservation and preparation. From 2015-2020, Waylin Yu, Ph.D was a Pharmacology PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Waylin'sresearch focused on neural circuitry of pain, aversion, and addiction. Waylin established a successful surgical method for GCaMP6s virus infusion and microendoscopic lens implant and programmatically analyzed spatial and temporal characteristics of neuronal activity using PCA-ICA, CNMF-E, and Python. Waylin was also the recipient of the Neurobiology T32 Predoctoral Grant (2015-2016), Pharmacology T32 Predoctoral Grant (2016-2018), and a NIH/NIAAA F31 NRSA (2018-2020). Currently, they work as a Field Scientific Consultant at Inscopix, Inc., where they apply their neuroscience expertise towards training Inscopix users and providing scientific consultation on experimental design & data analysis in the US South. Waylin'sprimary responsibilities are to accelerate project success and progression to publication, and offer technical advice to assist in proliferation of technology within academic institutions and industry.

Waylin Yu, Ph.D. completed their Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2015 to 2020. Prior to that, they earned a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology/Neuroscience with a minor in Creative Writing from Colby College from 2011 to 2015.