Emily Wu

Emily Wu, Ph.D., is currently an Assistant Project Scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Weizhe Hong in the Department of Biological Chemistry at UCLA. Her current research interest focuses on applying and developing single-cell RNA sequencing methods and circuit manipulation for the molecular and functional dissection of neural circuitry underlying animal behaviors. She received her B.S. in Biology from Peking University, China. She then earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University, where her graduate research focused on molecular and cellular mechanisms governing synapse formation and axonal transport in neurons. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Daniel Geschwind’s lab at UCLA where she investigated the neural mechanisms of autism spectrum disorders through functional genomic and animal behavioral studies.