Linlin Fan

Assistant Professor @MIT, Recruiting, Postdoc @Stanford, PhD @Harvard, feminist, all-optical physiology, learning and memory

[Linlin Fan @LinlinZFan]

1. 1. I am thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting my lab (https://t.co/JSAE2zs1KT) @MIT_Picower @mitbrainandcog @MIT in Jan 2024! We will be innovating high-precision all-optical technologies and making discoveries of brain mechanisms that give rise to learning and memory.

[Ian Antón Oldenburg @ianOldenburg]

SLB is back in the bay area for its 10 Year anniversary! Can you believe it?

[Linlin Fan @LinlinZFan]

Cool new tool for mRNA delivery to the brain! Congrats, Ritchie and Krisco!

[Ritchie Chen @ritchie_chen]

We used tissue lipidomics to identify nervonoyl sphingomyelin (C24:1) as a helper lipid that improves LNP mRNA delivery to the brain via increased cholesterol-dependent uptake. Led by Krisco Cheung, now out in @CellBiomat: https://t.co/YLAciCAQM2

[Linlin Fan @LinlinZFan]

Congratulations, @KarlDeisseroth! Proud mentee🎉

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Congratulations to our first #NobelPrize laureate of 2026 🎉

Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

He seems very happy with the news!

[Linlin Fan @LinlinZFan]

@anne_churchland @MIT_Picower Thank you so much, Anne! 🙏🤓

[Linlin Fan @LinlinZFan]

Honored to join the Sloan fellow community. Big thanks to my mentors, @MIT_Picower, and my lab for the support. We are recruiting new team members to join us: https://t.co/ccqAvAx85m Please reach out if you are interested in all-optical physiology, plasticity, or learning/memory.

[MIT Picower Institute @MIT_Picower]

Congratulations @LinlinZFan, a new @SloanFoundation research fellow! Fan uses innovative optical tools to investigate how connections change among neurons during memory formation. The fellowship will help her give the technology a big upgrade https://t.co/Fbk5HOqcI2 #Neuroscience

[Linlin Fan @LinlinZFan]

@SergeyStavisky @MIT_Picower @SloanFoundation Thank you, Sergey!

[Karl Deisseroth @KarlDeisseroth]

Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; https://t.co/aGD7OacNs8 publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & for myself, expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry work to the service of basic discovery:
https://t.co/4czK1YK2YV

I’m grateful for the opportunity to work with the amazing lead authors Isaac Kauvar @ikauvar, Ethan Richman, and Tony Liu @liutony66, and with equally brilliant faculty colleagues in our HNC program: Carolyn Rodriguez @CRodriguezMDPhD, Paul Nuyujukian, and Vivek Buch @VivekBuchMD, along with many other key collaborators spanning hospital and laboratory. https://t.co/qohlvNuQYF

[MIT Picower Institute @MIT_Picower]

Congratulations to @LinlinZFan on being named a Searle Scholar! Fan plans to study how serotonin might influence plasticity in memory, and whether psychedelics affect that. https://t.co/pjZghRdbuK #neuroscience #serotonin #memory @mitscience @mitbrainandcog

[tina kim @tinakim_neuro]

And it’s out! Our lab’s very first paper is published today @naturemethods!

Our calcium-activated split-TurboID (CaST) can biochemically tag activated neurons within 10 minutes, enabling a molecular handle on functionally relevant cell ensembles: https://t.co/756cfr1zkw

[Ismail Ahmed @iaahmed123]

1/3 Exciting News! We're hiring at all levels immediately for our lab @UUNeurobiology Join us in cutting-edge research at the intersection of neuroscience and chemical biology! We aim to explore how neuropeptides modulate behavior and physiology.

Pls RT!

[Linlin Fan @LinlinZFan]

@AndrewSLee10 Thank you, Andrew!

[Linlin Fan @LinlinZFan]

@KathPomer @klingensteinorg @SimonsFdn Thank you!

[Linlin Fan @LinlinZFan]

@iaahmed123 @klingensteinorg @SimonsFdn Thank you, Ismail! It was great to catch up recently~

[MIT Picower Institute @MIT_Picower]

🎉Congratulations to @LinlinZFan, on being named a Klingenstein-Simons Fellow in #Neuroscience! Fan is studying endocannabinoid-mediated inhibitory synaptic plasticity in learning and memory. https://t.co/rh0ZVoevuj @klingensteinorg @SimonsFdn @mitbrainandcog

[SLB @SLBconference]

Closing proceedings with Michael Hausser sharing his SLB ‘wish list’ #SLB2024

[Jonas Berzinš @JonasBerzins]

What an amazing conference @SLBconference!

Kudos to the organisers: @LamiaeAdm, @JacquesCarolan, @LinlinZFan, @GHandy50, @muratti1983, @ianOldenburg, and of course #Eirini!

Some moments below. 😊

[tina kim @tinakim_neuro]

Had a blast at #MMiN catching up with old friends @iaahmed123 & @LinlinZFan, and meeting new ones @julieta__lis. Both Linlin and Julieta started new labs at MIT and NIH - check them out if you’re looking for exciting labs with amazing mentors! (and @iaahmed123 soon to follow 😛)

[Ismail Ahmed @iaahmed123]

Excited to co-chair this symposium with @tinakim_neuro at #MMIN2024

We will survey cutting-edge approaches to monitoring and manipulating neural activity from some of the field's rising stars!

[Linlin Fan @LinlinZFan]

@J_S_Farrell @SolteszLab @EHwaun @Nature Congratulations, Jordan!!

[Linlin Fan @LinlinZFan]

Hear from pioneers on advanced optical techniques to crack neural codes at SLB2024 in Paris! Deadline Coming Soon. Register at https://t.co/eWdwfQ7Kup

[SLB @SLBconference]

🚨We've now extended our early bird registration deadline until April 15th!! 🚨
Register and submit your abstracts before then for:
- Early bird pricing
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