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Yang Dan is a Professor of Neurobiology. Her research lab aims to elucidate (1) what circuits in the mammalian brain control sleep, and (2) mechanisms by which the frontal cortex exerts top-down executive control.
Yang Dan (Chinese: 丹扬; pinyin: Dān Yáng) is a Chinese-American neuroscientist. She is the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator.
2012. Basal forebrain activation enhances cortical coding of natural scenes. M Goard, Y Dan. Nature neuroscience 12 (11), 1444-1449. , 2009. 633. 2009. Efficient coding of natural scenes in the lateral geniculate nucleus: experimental test of a computational theory. Y Dan, JJ Atick, RC Reid.
Sep 12, 2020 · Yang Dan. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Neurobiology* *Nan Fung Life Sciences Chancellor's Chair in Neuroscience. Full Directory Information. Research Interests.
Yang Dan is a professor of visual neurophysiology and computational neurosciences at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on how visual information is encoded and processed in the brain, and how neural circuits are shaped by visual experience.
Home. Yang Dan. Job title: Professor, Pivotal Life Sciences Chancellor's Chair in Neuroscience. Department: Neuroscience. Research interests: Neural circuits controlling sleep and mechanisms of executive control. Role: Faculty. ydan@berkeley.edu.
Mar 23, 2023 · " The McGovern Institute announced today that the 2023 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience will be awarded to neurobiologist Yang Dan. Dan holds the Nan Fung Life Sciences Chancellor’s Chair in Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a Howard Hughes Investigator since 2008. . . ."
