Long Cai receives NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

Long Cai receives NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

NIH has announced Long Cai is a recipient of its prestigious Pioneer Award. This award from the High-Risk, High Reward Research Program supports individual scientists “with outstanding records of creativity pursuing new research directions to develop pioneering...
Cai Lab BBQ 2022

Cai Lab BBQ 2022

Spring is in full swing on the Caltech campus and Cai Lab is celebrating! Leaving our bench work behind, the whole team had a much needed break beneath the trees at Tournament Park. Our resident amateur chef-scientists cooked up an impressive and massive BBQ feast...
Cai Lab has a new home!

Cai Lab has a new home!

We’re thrilled to make the move to the brand new Chen Neuroscience Research Building. We’re already feeling at home in this beautiful, modern lab space. The new research hub brings together labs from across 6 divisions at Caltech. Read about the new...
Congratulations to the new Dr. Yandong Zhang!

Congratulations to the new Dr. Yandong Zhang!

Congratulations Dr. Yandong Zhang for a successful PhD defense! His thesis work titled “Highly Multiplexed Imaging of E. Coli Chromosome and Sensitive Detection of Single-Cell Protein” details novel procedures for antibody-free protein barcoding and imaging in...
Lab Retreat 2019: Ojai, California

Lab Retreat 2019: Ojai, California

This May, the Cai Lab headed out to beautiful Ojai for a weekend of hiking, delicious food, and discussing our science! A fantastic time for all, can’t wait till the next one!