Bio:

Wan-Qing Yu is a Scientist in the Neural Coding group, working with both the EM Connectome and Axonal Connectomics teams. She joined the Allen Institute in 2023. Prior to this, Wan-Qing studied retinal circuit assembly and maintenance using both light microscopy and serial block-face EM in Rachel Wong’s lab at the University of Washington. Wan-Qing received her undergraduate degree in Physics from Nanjing University and earned her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California, where she investigated functional degeneration in rat models of retinitis pigmentosa using high-density multi-electrode arrays.b