Yang Tan Collective
@yangtancollective.bsky.social
The Yang Tan Collective accelerates collaboration in basic science, research, and engineering to realize translative strategies and technologies that achieve a healthy mind in a healthy body and improve human wellbeing at a global scale. yangtan.mit.edu
A new cross-species atlas created by Yang Tan researchers reveals how astrocytes—star-shaped cells and the brain’s most abundant non-neuronal cells—change across space and time. This resource gives scientists an essential lens for probing brain development, function, and disease.
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A new cross-species atlas created by Yang Tan researchers reveals how astrocytes—star-shaped cells and the brain’s most abundant non-neuronal cells—change across space and time. This resource gives scientists an essential lens for probing brain development, function, and disease.
(1/3) Read about Jinyoung Kang and Margaret Schroeder (@meschro.bsky.social)'s collaboration in developing a new imaging technique that can provide scientists across many fields with “clearer pictures of biological machinery”, originally featured in the Summer 2025 Newsletter.
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
(1/3) Read about Jinyoung Kang and Margaret Schroeder (@meschro.bsky.social)'s collaboration in developing a new imaging technique that can provide scientists across many fields with “clearer pictures of biological machinery”, originally featured in the Summer 2025 Newsletter.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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#yangtancollective
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(1/3) Kyla Nichols, in her Yang Tan Collective Summer 2025 Newsletter feature, gives us an overview of her research on the gut-brain connection and what she wants to uncover about “why there might be strong sex-based differences in mental health disorders,”
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
(1/3) Kyla Nichols, in her Yang Tan Collective Summer 2025 Newsletter feature, gives us an overview of her research on the gut-brain connection and what she wants to uncover about “why there might be strong sex-based differences in mental health disorders,”
(1/4) A new Tan-Yang Center for Autism Research study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders from researchers identifies the top ways workplaces can be made more inclusive for autistic employees.
Nonprofit org Neurodiversity in the Workplace also supported the study.
Nonprofit org Neurodiversity in the Workplace also supported the study.
October 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
(1/4) A new Tan-Yang Center for Autism Research study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders from researchers identifies the top ways workplaces can be made more inclusive for autistic employees.
Nonprofit org Neurodiversity in the Workplace also supported the study.
Nonprofit org Neurodiversity in the Workplace also supported the study.
(1/2) Congratulations to the Yang Tan Collective faculty for winning inaugural MIT Health and Life Sciences (HEALS) Seed Grants!
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
(1/2) Congratulations to the Yang Tan Collective faculty for winning inaugural MIT Health and Life Sciences (HEALS) Seed Grants!
(1/2) @sarthakc.bsky.social, from the lab of Ila Fiete, studies grid cells – “the GPS of the brain”.
Explore his research & findings with this snapshot of the work and papers he and his team worked on:
Explore his research & findings with this snapshot of the work and papers he and his team worked on:
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
(1/2) @sarthakc.bsky.social, from the lab of Ila Fiete, studies grid cells – “the GPS of the brain”.
Explore his research & findings with this snapshot of the work and papers he and his team worked on:
Explore his research & findings with this snapshot of the work and papers he and his team worked on:
Full house at @harvardmed.bsky.social for today’s Brain Body Dialogues symposium — exploring connections between brain and body in health & disease.
September 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Full house at @harvardmed.bsky.social for today’s Brain Body Dialogues symposium — exploring connections between brain and body in health & disease.
Congratulations to Chris Shallal, PhD student at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology & Yang Center for Bionics, for being named an inaugural MIT Health and Life Sciences (HEALS) Graduate Fellow!
Image Credit: MIT Media Lab
Image Credit: MIT Media Lab
September 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Congratulations to Chris Shallal, PhD student at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology & Yang Center for Bionics, for being named an inaugural MIT Health and Life Sciences (HEALS) Graduate Fellow!
Image Credit: MIT Media Lab
Image Credit: MIT Media Lab
Meet Emily Robinson, our newest Yang Brain-Body Fellow. An MIT Biology PhD student, she’s decoding how the vagus nerve senses inflammation.
In this image from her research, vagus neurons (blue) light up the carotid sinus—your body’s hypoxia alarm system.
In this image from her research, vagus neurons (blue) light up the carotid sinus—your body’s hypoxia alarm system.
September 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Meet Emily Robinson, our newest Yang Brain-Body Fellow. An MIT Biology PhD student, she’s decoding how the vagus nerve senses inflammation.
In this image from her research, vagus neurons (blue) light up the carotid sinus—your body’s hypoxia alarm system.
In this image from her research, vagus neurons (blue) light up the carotid sinus—your body’s hypoxia alarm system.
Big congrats to Yang GEAR Center grad student Jon Bessette—just named a 2025 @activatefellows.bsky.social 🌍🔧 Turning bold ideas into real-world impact.
🔗 www.activate.org/news/introdu...
🔗 www.activate.org/news/introdu...
September 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Big congrats to Yang GEAR Center grad student Jon Bessette—just named a 2025 @activatefellows.bsky.social 🌍🔧 Turning bold ideas into real-world impact.
🔗 www.activate.org/news/introdu...
🔗 www.activate.org/news/introdu...