Wendy Yue, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
[email protected]
Primary Thematic Area: 
Neurobiology
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Tissue / Organ Biology & Endocrinology
Research Summary: 
We study signaling between neural tissues and bodily fluids, with a focus on specialized interfaces near brain ventricles to uncover their roles in health, disease, and therapeutic applications.
Publications: 

Endogenous opioid signalling regulates spinal ependymal cell proliferation.

Nature

Yue WWS, Touhara KK, Toma K, Duan X, Julius D

Side- and similarity-biases during confidence conformity.

PloS one

Yue WWY, Miyoshi K, Yue WWS

Dark noise and retinal degeneration from D190N-rhodopsin.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Silverman D, Chai Z, Yue WWS, Ramisetty SK, Bekshe Lokappa S, Sakai K, Frederiksen R, Bina P, Tsang SH, Yamashita T, Chen J, Yau KW

Reply to Heck et al.: Signal amplification at the rhodopsin-to-transducin·phosphodiesterase step in rod phototransduction.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Yau KW, Yue WWS, Silverman D