Ying Wang

Conducted over six years of research on engram allocation and memory manipulation, and accumulated more than ten years of experience on neuroscience research.

04/26/24

• 09/2023, Doctoral Completion Award, University of Toronto, $4,000
• 09/2023, SGS Travel Grant, University of Toronto, $800
• 06/2023, IBRO Travel Grant, Government of Spain, $2,700
• 09/2022, E. Fidlar Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario,
• $15,000
• 09/2021, Mary Gertrude I'Anson Scholarship, Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund, $4,000
• 09/2021, Doctoral Completion Award, University of Toronto, $1,000
• 09/2021, E. Fidlar Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario, $15,000
• 09/2020, Hayden Hantho Award, Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund, $2,500
• 09/2020, Dr. Jesse Keshin Graduate Student Award, Dalton Whitebread Scholarship Fund, $1,200
• 09/2019, 08/2023, Restracomp Award, SickKids Foundation, $104,000
• 09/2019, Dr. Jesse Keshin Graduate Student Award, Dalton Whitebread Scholarship Fund, $1,200
• 09/2017, 08/2021, Ontario Trillium Scholarship, Government of Ontario, $160,000
• 11/2014, Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Manitoba, $1,200
• 06/2014, Honorable Mention of Poster Competition, Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• 09/2012, 05/2015, Graduate Enhancement of Tri-Council Stipends, University of Manitoba, $36,000
• 09/2012, International Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship, University of Manitoba, $4,000
• 06/2011, The Excellent Intern of Soochow University, Soochow University

• Ying Wang, Jung Hoon Jung, Chen Yan, Adam I Ramsaran, Andrew J Mocle, Meijia Li, Asim J Rashid, Duncan, Katherine, Paul W Frankland and Sheena A Josselyn, Probing the neural basis of spatial memory integration, Cell, Submitted, 2024
• Adam I Ramsaran, Ying Wang, Ali Golbabaei, Stepan Aleshin, Mitchell L de Snoo, Bi-Ru Amy Yeung, Asim J Rashid, Ankit Awasthi, Jocelyn Lau, Lina M Tran, Sangyoon Y Ko, Andrin Abegg, Lana Chunan Duan, Cory McKenzie, Julia Gallucci, Moriam Ahmed, Rahul Kaushik, Alexander Dityatev, Sheena A Josselyn and Paul W Frankland, A shift in the mechanisms controlling hippocampal engram formation during brain maturation, Science, 380, 6644, 543-551, 2023
• Jung Hoon Jung, Ying Wang, Asim J Rashid, Tao Zhang, Paul W Frankland and Sheena A Josselyn, Examining memory linking and generalization using scFLARE2, a temporally precise neuronal activity tagging system, Cell reports, 42, 12, 113592, 2023
• Jung Hoon Jung, Ying Wang, Andrew J Mocle, Tao Zhang, Stefan Köhler, Paul W Frankland and Sheena A Josselyn, Examining the engram encoding specificity hypothesis in mice, Neuron, 111, 11, 1830-1845.e5, 2023
• Xiaoping Fang, Benjamin Alsbury-Nealy, Ying Wang, Paul W Frankland, Sheena A Josselyn, Margaret L Schlichting and Katherine D Duncan, Time separating spatial memories does not influence their integration in humans, PloS one, 18, 8, e0289649, 2023
• Erik A. Larson, Michael V. Accardi, Ying Wang, Martina D’Antoni, Benyamin Karimi, Tabrez J. Siddiqui and Derek Bowie, Nitric oxide signaling strengthens inhibitory synapses of cerebellar molecular layer interneurons through a GABARAP-dependent mechanism, Journal of Neuroscience, 2020
• Yiran Wang, Ying Wang, Veni Bharti, Hong Zhou, Vanessa Hoi, Hua Tan, Zijian Wu, Pandian Nagakannan, Eftekhar Eftekharpour and Jun-Feng Wang, Upregulation of Thioredoxin-Interacting Protein in Brain of Amyloid-β Protein Precursor/Presenilin 1 Transgenic Mice and Amyloid-β Treated Neuronal Cells, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 72, 1, 139-150, 2019
• Ying Wang, Zhu Zhou, Hua Tan, Shenghua Zhu, Yiran Wang, Yingxia Sun, Xin-Min Li and Jun-FengWang, Nitrosylation of Vesicular Transporters in Brain of Amyloid Precursor Protein/Presenilin 1 Double Transgenic Mice, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 55, 4, 1683-92, 2017
• Ying Wang, Zhu Zhou, Tarik Leylek, Hua Tan, Yingxia Sun, Fiona E. Parkinson and Jun-Feng Wang, Protein cysteine S-nitrosylation inhibits vesicular uptake of neurotransmitters, Neuroscience, 311, 374-81, 2015
• Ying Wang and Jun-Feng Wang, The Role of Protein S-nitrosylationin Alzheimer’s disease and its Treatment, Journal of Pharmaceutics & Pharmacology, 3, 1, 6, 2015
• Zhu Zhou, Ying Wang, Hua Tan, Veni Bharti, Yi Che and Jun-Feng Wang, Chronic treatment with mood stabilizer lithium inhibits amphetamine-induced risk-taking manic-like behaviors, Neuroscience Letters, 603, 84-8, 2015
• Xu Xu, Meng Wang, Ying Wang, Juan Li, Dayan Zhang, Yanghu Sima, Weimin Yin and Shiqing Xu, Green cocoons in silkworm Bombyx mori resulting from the quercetin 5-O-glucosyltransferase of UGT86, is an evolved response to dietary toxins, Molecular Biology Reports, 40, 5, 3631-9, 2013
• Liping Gan, Weiwei Zhuo, Juan Li, Ying Wang, Yanghu Sima and Shiqing Xu, A novel Cph-like gene involved in histogenesis and maintenance of midgut in Bombyx mori, Pest Management Science, 69, 1298–306, 2013
• Li-ping Gan, Ying Wang, Jian Xi, Yan-shan Niu, Hong-You Qin, Yang-hu Sima and Shi-qing Xu, Long SAGE analysis of differentially expressed genes in the midgut and silkgland between the sexes of silkworm, Bombyx mori, African Journal of Biotechnology, 11, 49, 10994-1012, 2012
• Li Xu, Hui Liang, Yanshan Niu, Ying Wang, Yanghu Sima and Shiqing Xu, Differential expression of the Bombyx mori Diapause-Termination Timer gene EA4 in Diapause-Inducing temperature and photoperiod, Archives of Insect Biochemistry & Physiology, 79, 3, 182-94, 2011

• International Brain Research Organization, Granada, Spain, 09/2024, Identifying and manipulating a hippocampal engram supporting memory integration
• Canadian Association for Neuroscience, Toronto, Canada, 05/2022, Identifying and manipulating a hippocampal engram supporting a spatial rewarding memory
• Manitoba Neuroscience Network, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 06/2015, Nitrosylation of vesicular neurotransmitter transporters in amyloid precursor protein / presenilin 1 double transgenic mice
• Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, US, 11/2014, Nitrosylation of Vesicular Neurotransmitter Transporters
• Canadian Society for Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 06/2014, Oxidative modification of vesicular neurotransmitter transporters

07/2021, Mentorship program, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto 

03/2020, Volunteering for Lab Tour of Neuroscience Research Program, SickKids hospital 

07/2018, Mentorship for undergraduate student, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

09/2014, Volunteering for Lab Tour of Neuroscience Research Program, University of Manitoba 

05/2013, Volunteering for Teddy Bear Festival, Winnipeg