I'm excited to share that I will be joining the @UBBiology as a TT Assistant Professor, starting in January 2027!
My lab will study the neural circuit mechanisms underlying internal states, with a particular focus on sleep, circuit plasticity, and behavioral regulation.
Excited to share our latest work with @xiaoxiong2n in @NatureNeuro! 🧠⚡🐭
We uncover how vagus nerve stimulation alleviates pain and modulates pain-related negative affect via a cNTS–PAG–VTA–NAc dopamine circuit.
https://t.co/Kn3INjSG9X
I got to spend all day today with Jensen in Taiwan: talking with thousands of engineers and eating street food at a night market. Jensen is received as a rockstar in Taiwan, like it's Beatles in the 60's. It's mind-blowing and fun to watch. But most importantly, through all the interactions and all my conversations with him, he remained the same humble, kind, thoughtful, funny guy he always was, even as a kid who went to these same night markets many years ago.
Btw, we tried a crazy amount of different street food. It's legit some of the most delicious food I've ever had. I can't wait to share video of it, including a ton of our conversations and hangout. When I can pause for a moment from all the travel to edit the video, I'll post it.
Can't wait to continue talking to Jensen and engineers at Computex this week, and exploring more of Taiwan, and of course roaming the night markets for some more delicious street food.
Days like these, even more than usual, I feel like the luckiest kid in the world.
Love you all! ❤️
Excited to share my first postdoc work co-led with Yuichi Chayama, from @andcyang lab - now out in @CellCellPress! We created a genetic system to trace how the brain clears waste, uncovering surprising new biology about waste clearance pathways. 🧵1/9
🔗 https://t.co/1s7AcXZcv4
Congratulations to everyone at Setpoint Medical, present and past, who worked for 18 years to bring a brand new idea for the first time into a clinical reality. This begins a new era for millions of patients needing new options.
https://t.co/kKfveTu54t
Can synapses in the brain switch their signs between excitatory and inhibitory during learning🚦?
Can they act more like weights in artificial neural networks, able to switch signs based on experience 🔃?
Excited to share my thesis work in @blsabatini lab!
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1/ 🚨 Our new paper is online in @Nature !
As its first author, I’m enthusiastic to finally share it with you all!🎉
🧠 We discovered a mechanistic link between cellular energy metabolism and the control of the need to sleep 💤
👉 https://t.co/eBUKpM3zJa
@OxfordDPAG 🧵👇
It’s been a rewarding journey studying sleep as a postdoc, and I’m now exploring faculty positions in neuroscience.
My latest work uncovers a neural circuit mechanism for homeostatic sleep.
Open to opportunities and always happy to chat!
🔗 https://t.co/vnWq8vfDhJ
Our review, led by @SamanthaKeilPhD , providing a critical and up-to-date assessment of the role that glymphatic dysfunction plays in the development of clinical Alzheimer's disease, was published in @ScienceMagazine today: https://t.co/O0YHceueZT
My lab at Penn is actively seeking motivated and creative Postdoctoral researchers to join our team. Candidates with strong experience in electrophysiology, imaging, proteomics, or molecular biology are especially encouraged to apply.
https://t.co/daYUjyCXST
Our new paper with Applied Cognition in @natBME . Using a wearable device that captures different determinants of glymphatic activity to define sleep-related features of glymphatic function in the human brain. https://t.co/VIxAO5VG6t
David Liu wins the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing gene-editing technologies, including a "molecular word processor" that can find and replace whole sequences of DNA. His tools are already impacting diseases including cancer. https://t.co/OSDzo6jeS7
@broadinstitute @HHMINEWS @Harvard