Sept. 2025 Boxuan is awarded the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation grant to study neuron-cancer interactions, and the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation grant to study connectome changes in Alzheimer’s disease.

Aug. 2025 Welcome Chaoran to join the lab as part of the neuroscience graduate program.

Apr. 2025 Congrats to Ruchi for winning a Jenner Family Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!

Nov. 2024 Congrats to William for winning a poster award at the annual CDB retreat!

Sept. 2024 Boxuan is now affiliated with the Gene Networks in Neural and Developmental Plasticity (GNDP) research theme at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB).

Aug. 2024 Welcome Peter and Joe to join the lab as part of the neuroscience graduate program, and welcome April, Aditi, and Dehao to join the lab as undergraduate researchers.

May. 2024 Congrats to Amy who is graduating with Academic Distinction from MCB, and congrats to Ruchi for winning an MCB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!

Apr. 2024 Our first review paper is published in the Israel Journal of Chemistry, part of a special issue focusing on the chemical biology of nucleic acid modifications. Congratulations Shengyi and William!

Mar. 2024 Danping officially joins the lab as the first postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Danping!

Feb. 2024 Boxuan is now affiliated with the Neuroscience Program, and gave a talk at Beckman on the research visions of the lab.

Jan. 2024 Welcome Manaswini, Ruchi, and Amy to join the lab as undergraduate researchers. And congratulations to Amy who received a Get Experience scholarship from the College!

Dec. 2023 Shengyi and William officially join the lab as the first graduate students.

Nov. 2023 The Zhao lab opens its door to the world! And welcome first-year MCB graduate students Shengyi Fei and William Zheng Fang for rotations in the lab.