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MSTP students in the Sahoo lab

Medical Scientist Training Program

Garret Wang

Phase 1 First Year Student

Locations

Medical Scientist Training Program

Contact Information

gawang@mcw.edu

Education

BS, Cell & Molecular Biology, University of California San Diego, 2022

Research Interests

Neuroanatomy, cognition and behavior, pathology, translational research

Research Experience

National Institutes of Health, June 2022-June 2024
Advisor: Dr. Yi Gu
Project: In-vivo two-photon imaging of the Medial Entorhinal Cortex in the context of spatial navigation, memory, learning, and object recognition

Scripps Research Institute, March 2022 -June 2022
Advisor: Gabriel Lander, PhD
Project: Determining the N-terminal structure of the mitochondrial protease LONP1

Scripps Research Institute, June 2021-September 2021
Advisor: Marisa Roberto, PhD
Project: How stress, trauma, and alcohol affects the rodent brain

Publications

Malone TJ, Tien NW, Ma Y, Cui L, Lyu S, Wang G, Nguyen D, Zhang K, Myroshnychenko MV, Tyan J, Gordon JA, Kupferschmidt DA, Gu Y. A consistent map in the medial entorhinal cortex supports spatial memory. Nat Commun. 2024 Feb 17;15(1):1457. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45853-4. PMID: 38368457; PMCID: PMC10874432.

Nguyen D, Wang G, Gu Y. The medial entorhinal cortex encodes multisensory spatial information. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jan 17:2024.01.09.574924. doi: 10.1101/2024.01.09.574924. PMID: 38313299; PMCID: PMC10836072.

General Interests

Creative writing, reading, music, hiking, film, longboarding, snowboarding, and competitive napping