Welcome to the Wu Lab of Social Decision-Making!
Many of our most important decisions are made in the social context. These decisions frequently involve reciprocal interactions between social agents and incorporate both innate and learned behavioral circuits. The capacity to make these decisions is, however, particularly vulnerable in many neuropsychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative disorders. We aim to elucidate the circuits and computation underlying social decision-making and understand how they might go awry. Drawing on our expertise in circuit and systems neuroscience, we are forging new links between social behavior and cognition. Read more about our research.
We are actively recruiting postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and research associates (technicians). Please join us!
We and the Ma Lab are recruiting a joint postdoctoral fellow! We will use cutting-edge spatial-omics technologies to study how molecularly-defined cell types contribute to the neural dynamics supporting cognition. Please join us!
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We welcome students, postdoctoral fellows, research assistants, and staff members regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability status, socioeconomic status, cultural background, upbringing, citizenship, and immigration status. Our lab is committed to building and sustaining an equitable and inclusive environment, where diversity is valued and celebrated. We stand firmly against racism and discrimination in any form.
News
July 2024: Herbert is awarded a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neuroscience
Jun 2024: Nate returns as a summer intern!
Jun 2024: Jasmine joins the lab as a joint Associate Researcher with the Schaffer lab!
Jun 2024: Jie joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow!
Jun 2024: Runqi joins the lab as an Associate Researcher!
Apr 2024: Herbert is awarded a Klaudiusz Weiss Outstanding Junior Faculty Award!
Apr 2024: Myungji joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow!
Mar 2024: The lab is awarded a SFARI Pilot Award from the Simons Foundation to study social decision-making in autism mouse models!
Mar 2024: Alvi is accepted into Mount Sinai’s competitive SURP4US program, congrats Alvi!
Feb 2024: The lab is awarded a Collaborative Pairs Pilot Award with Joseph Castellano by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative!
Jan 2024: The lab is awarded a pilot grant studying social decision-making in AD mouse models by the Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC) and Friedman Brain Institute!
Oct 2023: Nate leaves to return to college. Bye Nate, it was fun working with you! Cintia and Emma join the lab as new volunteers.
May 2023: The lab is awarded an NIMH Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS)! Herbert even got a note from the Senator :)
Feb 2023: Herbert is awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship!
Jan 2023: Yuan is awarded a Seaver Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Nov 14, 2022: Yuan joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow!
Aug 15, 2022: Tessa joins the lab as an Associate Researcher!
Apr - Aug 2022: Herbert bought a lot of things and got set up…
Apr 15, 2022: New lab website is online!
The headplated mouse in the banner is adapted from doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925907 & scidraw.io
