PhD Student, Neurobiology & Behavior Program

Xinyue (Tracy) is from Guangzhou, China, and she received her B.S. in neuroscience from University of California, San Diego in 2019. While she was in San Diego, she was an undergraduate researcher studying circadian rhythms in Dr. Satchin Panda’s lab at the Salk Institute, from which she was able to continue her interests in sleep. As she joins the co-mentorship between Liu Lab and Peng Lab in 2020, she determines to proceed her journey in exploring the sleep phenomenon together with her growing interests in epigenetics.

Outside of the lab, Xinyue loves running (e.g. half-marathon), singing, swimming, cycling, yoga (she has two teacher certificates for Hatha and Vinyasa), hiking, and writing/painting (e.g. self-published a child’s book).

 

Research Experience

2017-2019          Undergraduate Researcher, Salk Institute, La Jolla
Reconstructing the cellular morphology of the melanopsin-expressing ganglion cells and
map the mice suprachiasmatic nucleus by developing methods in using IMOD