Yifan Wu

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Thomas Papouin, PhD

Undergraduate university: Southern University of Science and Technolog, 2019

Enrollment year: 2019

Research summary
The roles of astrocytes in neuromodulation and cognitive functions.

Graduate publications
Lefton KB, Wu Y, Dai Y, Okuda T, Zhan. 2025 Norepinephrine signals through astrocytes to modulate synapses. Science, 388(6748):776-83. PMCID: PMC12309572

Wu Y, Dai Y, Lefton KB, Holy TE, Papouin T. 2024 STARDUST: A pipeline for the unbiased analysis of astrocyte regional calcium dynamics. STAR Protocols, 5(3):103305. PMCID: PMC11417172