Yuan Cai is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics doctoral program mentored by and in the lab of Dr. Christopher Ford, formerly an associate professor in the Department and now a professor at the University of Colorado - Denver and an adjunct here, publicly defended his doctoral dissertation via Zoom at 12:00 noon EDT/10:00 a.m. MDT on Friday, October 30, 2020.
Yuan's dissertation is titled "Striatal acetylcholine-dopamine interactions in physiology and pathophysiology".
Yuan transferred from Dr. Ford's lab at Case to his new lab at UC-Denver when Dr. Ford moved to Denver in September 2017.
He is heading to a postdoc position at MIT.