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The Sun Lab Team
// University of Wyoming, Department of Zoology & Physiology
// An interdisciplinary group of researchers passionate about exploring // the inner workings of the brain.
// University of Wyoming, Department of Zoology & Physiology
// The scientists and trainees driving our research forward.
$ Lab Manager
Coordinates day-to-day lab operations, animal colony management, and histology and imaging workflows, supporting the team across experimental pipelines and data organization.
$ Graduate Student
Graduate student investigating cortical circuits underlying behavior, using in vivo electrophysiology and optogenetics in awake mice.
$ Graduate Student
Graduate student studying the circuit basis of persistent behavior; co-author on the lab's 2026 multidimensional framework for behavioral persistence.
$ Graduate Student
Graduate student exploring inhibitory interneuron circuits and cortical plasticity through electrophysiological and imaging approaches.
$ Statistician
Provides statistical and computational expertise for experimental design, data analysis, and modeling of neural circuit dynamics. First author on the lab's 2026 framework for behavioral persistence.
$ Undergraduate Research Assistant
Undergraduate researcher gaining hands-on experience in systems neuroscience; co-author on the lab's 2026 behavioral persistence preprint, assisting with experiments and data collection.
$ Research Assistant
Contributes to the lab's behavioral and analysis work; co-author on the 2026 multidimensional framework for behavioral persistence.
// Former members whose work continues to shape the lab's research.
Former Graduate Student
Led the lab's prefrontal-motor circuit program — first author on A prefrontal motor circuit initiates persistent movement (Nat Commun, 2024) and the long-range emotion–motor network study (Cell Reports, 2021).
Former Graduate Student
First author on the lab's trace-eyeblink interneuron study (iScience, 2025) and the learning-induced neuronal identity-switch preprint (bioRxiv, 2023).
// Alumni placements can be added on request — share current affiliations to display them here.
// We are always looking for motivated graduate students, postdocs, and research assistants // interested in neural circuits and behavior. If you are passionate about neuroscience, // we would love to hear from you.
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