About Me
Dr. Bridget (Jie) Wu joined the Roy lab as a postdoctoral research associate in May 2025. She earned her PhD in Physiology and Developmental Biology from Brigham Young University, where she trained in the laboratory of Dr. Jeff Edwards. Her doctoral research focused on how drugs of addition modify synaptic plasticity of GABAergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area, using single-cell electrophysiology and optogenetics.
During her previous postdoctoral training in Dr. Keran Ma’s lab at UTHealth Houston, she used Neuropixels recordings and in vivo two-photon imaging to study how microglia modulate neuronal function in Alzheimer’s disease models.
In her current role in Dr. Suva Roy’s lab, she’s interested in using new animal models to study the morphology and functions of different ganglion cell types in the retina and map retinal projections to subcortical targets that are involved in visually guided behaviors.
