Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky)

Neuroscience MSc → @univofstandrews
Interested in motor control! Currently recording 🐸🧠

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

Our paper (w/ @maartenfzwart and twitter-less Stefan Pulver) is now out in @J_Exp_Biol! Come learn about how little beetle larvae walk around and infest flour
https://t.co/iWCTGwQtPm

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

Today at 2pm!!

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

For those in Barcelona next week attending #FENS2026 @FENSorg, I'm presenting a poster on Thursday! Swing by to hear me yap about some cool 🐸 brainstem neurons and their potential roles in motor control :)

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

For those in Barcelona next week attending #FENS2026 @FENSorg, I'm presenting a poster on Thursday! Swing by to hear me yap about some cool 🐸 brainstem neurons and their potential roles in motor control :)

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

We look at using Ca2+ loading and Ca2+ imaging for revealing #xenopus cells coupled by #gapjunctions. Although our cell type's limitations produced negative results, we thought it important to publish + encourage people to try in more amenable systems!
🔗https://t.co/C29k17P7Jk

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

New paper: my undergraduate thesis project was recently published in #eNeuro! 🔬🐸🧠

@univofstandrews #neuroscience

[SfN Journals @SfNJournals]

#eNeuro | Simultaneous Whole-Cell Recording and Calcium Imaging Does Not Reveal Electrically Coupled Neurons in Xenopus Tadpoles
https://t.co/lVhLr2OcDO

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

Very grateful to co-first author @JMacLeodNeuro, my usual suspects @maartenfzwart and Stefan Pulver, and all the input we got at the recent Motor Control Meeting.
Link to paper: https://t.co/LBvzBGGugw

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

New preprint! 📃
Here, we examine dopamine’s role in modulating fictive and real locomotion and find it acutely shifts the network towards tunneling motor programs in larval Drosophila.

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

Recently gave a talk and presented a poster at the Motor Circuits Meeting 2025 in St Andrews! Must thank the committee for letting me help organise (+ attend for free...!). Great science, great people and great impatience to see everyone again

[The Company of Biologists @Co_Biologists]

Thank you Maarten Zwart @maartenfzwart for sharing your experience of fee-free #OApublishing with @bellaxuying in @J_Exp_Biol via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with @univofstandrews @StAndrewsUniLib. Read the paper https://t.co/vkiDmaY8sN

See institutions https://t.co/WpJcxTt3x8

[International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) @IBROorg]

🎙Hear about the experiences of our past IBRO/FUN travel awardees at #Neuroscience2024, and explore the 3 open #grants for #Neuroscience2025. Apply now! https://t.co/F26b6agvPi

#IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope
@SfNtweets @FUNfaculty

[That’s TV Tayside @ThatsTVTayside]

The study was funded by The Institute for Behavioural and Neural Sciences, an organisation that supports interdisciplinary research at St Andrews.

Dr Stefan Pulver from the School of Psychology and Neuroscience explained why this funding matters.

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“This project has been collaborative from the start”.

One of the labs heading up the project is run by Dr Maarten Zwart. He explained to That’s TV why the project has demanded so much collaboration.

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Mapping a beetle’s wiggle could help battle global food security issues

That’s TV spoke to Bella Xu Ying, a fourth year undergraduate student at The University of St Andrews who has spearheaded the research.

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

And although far less interesting, feel free to learn a lil about me too, in this ECR interview :)
https://t.co/1OldJ1NtJj

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

Our paper (w/ @maartenfzwart and twitter-less Stefan Pulver) is now out in @J_Exp_Biol! Come learn about how little beetle larvae walk around and infest flour
https://t.co/iWCTGwQtPm

[Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience @FUNfaculty]

We honored this year’s awardees at the FUN social last night: Kurt Illig (service award), Kelly Lambert (educator award), Corina Bondi (mentor award), Jennifer Honeycutt (DEI award). JUNE awards were given to Amy Jo Stavnezer, Andrea Nicholas, Alo Basu, Bruce Johnson. Congrats!

[International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) @IBROorg]

Congratulations to our Travel Grant awardee @bellaxuying! It was great meeting you at booth #1725 at #SfN24!

If you are an awardee as well, pass by to say hi and pick up your alumni pin! 😄

[Prof Tara Spires-Jones @TSpiresJones]

Come see ⁦@bellaxuying⁩ a ⁦@BritishNeuro⁩ undergraduate member raising funding for student travel awards #sfn24 booth 1778

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

here right now :)

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Uh oh! Guess who's on American soil for the first time! Come by my poster tomorrow if you're around :) #SfN24 @SfNtweets

[Beck Xu Ying (@beckxuying.bsky) @beckxuying]

Uh oh! Guess who's on American soil for the first time! Come by my poster tomorrow if you're around :) #SfN24 @SfNtweets

[Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience @FUNfaculty]

Check out the FUN schedule at SfN. Looking forward to seeing you all this weekend.