User:Wang

Yong Wang is a participant of the EMBO practical course Light sheet microscopy 2014.

Yong Wang obtained his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California at Los Angles (UCLA) and then moved to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for a postdoc position. Early this year, he got an HFSP Postdoc Fellowship and moved to the University of Toronto (UofT) for a second postdoc. In the past,he focused on single-molecule and super-resolution techniques to resolve the 3D distribution of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) molecules at the membrane of (fixed) resting basal breast cancer cells and to investigate the distribution and trafficking of receptors on neurons. Currently at UofT, he starts to work on 1) plasmid dynamics in bacteria using super-resolution micrsocpy and 2) (hopefully) investigating frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with zebrafish embryos using SPIM with the capability of super-resolution imaging.

He would apply what he learns from the course to build an SPIM with the capability of super-resolution imaging to investigate frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which is associated with behavioral impairment such as disinhibition, loss of initiative or apathy, severe loss in judgment and insight, with zebrafish embryos as animal model systems.