It's taken a while, but finally here is our lab website! 🧠 🕸️ www.cuhk.edu.hk/gcni/hovywong/

We'll be hosting Prof. Simon Chen @schenlabottawa.bsky.social from UOttawa at The Chinese Uni. of Hong Kong. He'll share with us his fascinating work on inhibitory neuron in motor learning. Please come & join us, all are welcome! 📅 23 Sep 2025 (Tue) ⏰ 16:00–17:30 🚏Room 211, C. W. Chu College, CUHK

These lovely neurons made it to the journal cover! www.nature.com/nprot/volume... With @alannawatt.bsky.social and @pjsjostrom.bsky.social in @natprot.nature.com.

Delighted to share that I'm awarded the @ibroorg.bsky.social (IBRO) Rising Stars Award 2025! Look forward to bridging Asia-Pacific and international neuroscience, with the common goals of demystifying the brain & targeting brain disorders! 🧠 Thank you IBRO for the recognition and all my colleagues!

Now out in @elife.bsky.social with an excellent Insight preview commentry by Ikuko Smith! Enjoy🙂 Commentary: elifesciences.org/articles/107... Article: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

The Handbook of Ephys is out!! Thanks to the editors! doi.org/10.1142/14331 "How to Patch a Cell"- we provide a quick-start guide for people who are fresh to whole-cell patching. "Multiple Whole-Cell Recordings"- we go into details of obtaining quality recordings of dual- to 4-cell patch. Enjoy!😃

We still have open Research Assistant positions in the lab! If you are interested, please get in touch.

"Long-Term Depression (LTD)" weakens the strength of brain connections and is a cellular mechanism involved in memory removal. In our new preprint, we found that the "memory receptor" (NMDAR) signals through the JNK2/STX1a pathway to mediate LTD! Check out our paper: t.co/84pP49WvfZ (1/4)

Our latest paper (@alannawatt.bsky.social & @pjsjostrom.bsky.social) is out in Nature Protocols! (rdcu.be/d9f3v) When a conversation goes wrong, do we always blame the listener? But then when a brain connection goes wrong, doesn't it seem unfair to always blame the "listener" neuron? (1/3)

My lab at CUHK (QS: 36th) is hiring! We are looking for motivated Research Assistants, PhD students (urgent🚨) and Postdocs who love solving problems. To understand the mysterious brain, we use a range of fun techniques. Please spread the word and get in touch if you are interested!

Excited to share that I'll be starting my own lab at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (www.cuhk.edu.hk). What a journey! 🇭🇰 -> 🇬🇧 -> 🇭🇰 -> 🇬🇧 -> 🇨🇦 -> 🇭🇰 Will recruit keen RAs, students & postdocs to do fun 🧠science tgt, involving lots of lasers, electrophysiology & imaging methods. Ads coming soon!

We recently launched a new Frontiers Research Topic called "The Diversity of the Plasticitome", please check it out! By 'we', I mean myself, Christina Chou, Hyungju Park, Serena Dudek, and Clive Bramham. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Finding brain connections is slow. So we present Optomapping! With laser-activation of single inputs + postsynaptic patch, 100s of connections can be rapidly examined. Led by @pjsjostrom.bsky.social‘s long vision, spearheaded by the talented & persistent @christina-c.bsky.social. 🥂to the PJS team!

Visited Yellowknife and the Rockies on our last trip before leaving Canada - absolutely stunning!