News

Jan 18th, 2026

First lab retreat in Healdsburg! We teamed up with the Blackman lab for a joint lab retreat and found out everyone is a great cook!

Jan 1st, 2026

We welcome Hongtao, Jacob, Fitz, Casey, and Quinn to our lab. The Gong lab is growing!

July 1st, 2025

Welcome China Shaw to our lab! China will bring decades of research experiences in plant biology at Berkeley to our lab and she will also take on the role as the lab manager.

May 1st, 2025

Our lab will open this July 1st at the Plant & Microbial Biology Department at UC Berkeley. We are actively recruiting postdocs, graduate students, and technicians! Please contact Yan (yangong@berkeley.edu) if you are interested.

April 1st, 2025

Yan is awarded the Jewett Prize from the Arnold Arboretum to study how nectaries have changed through evolution and domestication in Rosaceae plants.