The cover art, designed by Hechen Bao (Postdoc, Song lab), Mengting Dai (Lab Technician, Song Lab), and Andrew Crowther (Graduate Student, Song lab), accompanied a paper that Andrew and Szu-Aun Lim (Song Lab alumni) are co-first authors on.
Stem Cell Report selected the cover art of Hechen Bao, postdoc in the , Mengting Dai, lab technician in the Song lab, and Andrew Crowther, graduate student in the , for the March 2018 issue.
Stem Cell Reports Cover Description:
“Cover In this issue, Crowther et al. (pp. 1146–1159) report a rAAV4-based toolkit for preferential targeting and manipulating quiescent NSCs in the adult hippocampus. The cover image is an artistic modification of the confocal image showing doublecortin+ cells (in green) and qNSCs that specifically labeled by rAAV4 at 3dpi (in red). Cover credit: Cover credit: Hechen Bao, Mengting Dai, and Andrew Crowther.” ~from Stem Cell Reports website cover description, March 13, 2018 issue.
Congratulations to Hechen, Andrew and Mengting!
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Hechen Bao | Andrew Crowther* | Mengting Dai |
The cover accompanied a paper published by the Song Lab on which Andrew Crowther* and Szu-Aun Lim* (Song Lab undergraduate researcher), are co-first authors*: “Crowther, A. et al., , Stem Cell Reports, 10(3): 1146–1159, 2018.
Along with Andrew and Szu-Aun, other authors on the paper include: Brent African (Res. Assistant Professor, Song Lab), Blake H. Albright, Josh Wooten (graduate student, Song Lab), Chia-Yu Yeh (Postdoc, Song Lab), Hechen Bao (Postdoc, Song Lab), Domenic H. Cerri, Jessica Hu (Undergruate researcher, Song Lab), Yen-Yu Ian Shih, Aravind Asokan, and Juan Song, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and senior author.
Other authors besides Andrew and Hechen from the Song Lab:
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Szu-Aun Lim* | Brent Asrican | Josh Wooton | Chia-Yu Yeh | Jessica Hu | Juan Song |