Cheng Lab

Official twitter feed of Cheng Lab (PI: @kcheng76 ) at Penn State Hershey (@PennStHershey). We are zebrafish and microCT evangelists!

[𝕶𝖍𝖆𝖎 𝕮𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖌 @khaichung]

Press release for our Kalinago skin color paper @ChengLab @hifromtiff #skinpigmentation #admixture #kalinago
https://t.co/DZy7695jNX

[Cheng Lab @ChengLab]

Led by @khaichung, more than 10 years of work, and it’s now published! Found Kalinago to be among the populations with highest Native American ancestry in the Caribbeans, and effect size of single OCA2 NW273KV allele of -8 melanin units! https://t.co/t4vUNtopSB

[𝕶𝖍𝖆𝖎 𝕮𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖌 @khaichung]

Finally, our latest work on the genetic ancestry of the Kalinago population in Dominica is on eLife. Before the fieldwork begins, we must apply for approval from 3 IRB committees (Penn State, Ross U, and MOH Dominica).
https://t.co/J66P6oeIat

[Cheng Lab @ChengLab]

@MathiThiru95 Amazing! Is it for sale?

[Cheng Lab @ChengLab]

@NIH_ORIP @AquaticModels Congratulations, Rachelle!

[NIH ORIP @NIH_ORIP]

CONGRATULATIONS: Rachelle Saint-Fort, Penn State, for 2nd place ‘Best Poster’ in the graduate student category at 10th Aquatic Models for Human Diseases (AQMHD) Conference. (ORIP Diversity Supplement support through R24 OD018559) @ChengLab @AquaticModels https://t.co/n5kkK8QJvQ

[Cheng Lab @ChengLab]

A new phase for the lab! Breakfast before the start of permanent install of our lens and camera at #BerkeleyALS! #microCt https://t.co/LnE5hZccxy

[NIH ORIP @NIH_ORIP]

Read: A wide-field micro-computed tomography detector: micron resolution at half-centimetre scale. (ORIP support through R24OD18559) @ChengLab @PennStHershey #microCT #histotomography https://t.co/tKCB0INnzd

[Cheng Lab @ChengLab]

We made the front page of @JSynchrotronRad!

Check out our high-resolution, wide-field #micro-CT detector paper, which is one of the most read of this journal!

[𝕶𝖍𝖆𝖎 𝕮𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖌 @khaichung]

The Daphnia atlas preprint is finally out. Great work by MeeSiing and team @ChengLab @DanVanselow

[Cheng Lab @ChengLab]

Check out our new #MicroCT paper, out today in @JSynchrotronRad and featuring a new high-resolution, large field-of-view #X-ray detector!

[J Synchrotron Rad @JSynchrotronRad]

M​aksim A. Yakovlev et al.: A wide-field micro-computed tomography detector: micron resolution at half-centimetre scale #SynchrotronMicroCT #HighResolution #LargeFieldOfView ... #IUCr https://t.co/NKRMwTa9M7

[Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab]

#SCIENCESNAPSHOT: A new technique using silver to stain melanin for micro-CT imaging combined with @advlightsource X-rays could help scientists understand melanin’s role in human skin pigmentation and skin #cancer @ChengLab @PennStHershey https://t.co/SrmqN7xGla

[Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab]

#SCIENCESNAPSHOT: A new technique using silver to stain melanin for micro-CT imaging combined with @advlightsource X-rays could help scientists understand melanin’s role in human skin pigmentation and skin #cancer @ChengLab @PennStHershey https://t.co/SrmqN7xGla

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

A new technique using silver to stain melanin for micro-CT imaging lets researchers analyse zebrafish pigmentation in 3D, finding subtleties missed by light microscopy https://t.co/bpgEWLAK42

[Zebrafish Rock! @ZebrafishRock]

Micro-CT of the gill structure in a juvenile zebrafish. Credit to @ChengLab. #ZebrafishZunday

[𝕶𝖍𝖆𝖎 𝕮𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖌 @khaichung]

@biorxivpreprint We also detected the #albino allele, NV273KV in #OCA2 contributed towards -8 melanin unit in skin #hypopigmentation. #genomics

[𝕶𝖍𝖆𝖎 𝕮𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖌 @khaichung]

@biorxivpreprint Our latest work on hypopigmentation and the #Kalinago ancestry is up on BioRXiv. 55% Native American ancestry detected, highest among the Caribbean islanders, and Native American ancestry contributed to about -22 melanin index in skin pigmentation.

[Cheng Lab @ChengLab]

@biorxivpreprint @khaichung Check out the work by @khaichung in the lab, after a grueling fieldwork in #Dominica to collect #Kalinago samples.

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

Effects of Hypopigmentation Alleles and Ancestry on Skin Color in the Kalinago of Dominica https://t.co/yqX3yb4OSp #bioRxiv

[RRID Robot @RobotRrid]

.@ZFINmod, https://t.co/qOOj7dZvn4 was used by the authors of the eLife paper "Whole-organism 3D quantitative characterization of…": https://t.co/MOwm1qmkyZ (https://t.co/MlA9P2S6Q2). RRIDs like this improve reproducibility in scientific research. #reproducibility #STMpublishing

[Cheng Lab @ChengLab]

Proud to have our work highlighted as the Biomedical Picture of the Day! #BPoD

[Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @BPoD_s]

Whole body view enables analysis of the effect of #genes and disease on #melanin. Image and research by @SpencerRKatz et al @ChengLab @PennStHershey in @eLife. Read more on https://t.co/tB7dBThzFU with @MRC_LMS and @DrJohnAnkers