Wenlei

Born in Shanghai; Living in California; Working in Science; Shining in Life. Reweeting or like = finding it funny ~~~

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

My great honor to be admitted to @GordonConf “mechanism of membrane transport” session! Catching up with our beloved scientists and meeting new friends, listening to cutting-edge research at a picturesque site. It’s invaluable opportunity for communication and inspiration.

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

Great advancement in scientists' capability of studying the dynamics of neuronal circuits in behaviors. Congratulations to Don and the team and collaborators!

[Don B. Arnold @Don_B_Arnold]

ATLAS, a rationally designed transsynaptic tracer is out today! Plasmids will soon be available on @Addgene addgene https://t.co/HjAKxof6eo

Many thanks to first authors Jackie Rivera and Haoyang Huang, and to collaborators, @blsabatini @Kanoski_Lab @vincentw_weng @beherring

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

Very cool. Bitter sensation and airway protective reflexes are actually mediated by cell types that despite different tissue distribution, share developmental trajectory (pou2f3) and sensory signaling pathway (T2R-TRPM5-Calhm).

[Akiyuki Taruno @AkiyukiTaruno]

✨New paper from my lab out now in @CellCellPress !
We identified pathways for airway protective reflexes—swallowing and coughing—in mice, driven by rare throat chemosensory cells that signal vagal nerves via channel synapses.
https://t.co/MeIl4Tbi5E

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

Congratulations to Huanghe!

[Society of General Physiologists @sgpweb]

SGP congratulates Dr. Huanghe Yang on receiving the 2025 Paul F. Cranefield Award for his outstanding paper, “Niclosamide potentiates TMEM16A and induces vasoconstriction” https://t.co/Z21VWvCk0B

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

Alignment between heat activation and agonist activation of an ion channel!! (This study represents one step further in understanding the structural basis for TRP channels’ temperature regulation, from the previous one done with TRPM4, published a year ago also by Juan/Wei labs)!

[Alexander Sobolevsky @AlexanderSobol6]

Convergent Agonist and Heat Activation of Nociceptor TRPM3! Congrats to Juan and Wei and their team! @rigbylab
https://t.co/DHj6L90itT

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

Holy Moly! Incredibly amazing research!

[Alexander Sobolevsky @AlexanderSobol6]

Native GABAA receptor structures from the human brain! Amazing work! Huge congrats to Ryan Hibbs and his team!
https://t.co/XoQ3RQRTCX

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

Wow!

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

It's my great honor to contribute a group of data to the work!
It is always exciting to see the long-sought-after findings that perfectly explain the phenomenon as we hypothesized, but then find something novel that points to the hidden unknown about the new channel.

[Emily Liman @emily_liman]

Epitope tagging with genome editing in mice reveals that the proton channel OTOP1 is apically localized and not restricted to Type III “sour” taste receptor cells https://t.co/aHJwWIBsSK

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

Congratulations!!!

[Scripps Research @scrippsresearch]

The @CIRMnews has awarded over $28M to Stuart Lipton and @xinjin for studies on pollution’s role in autism & psychiatric risk genes. Using S-nitrosylation pathways & advanced genomic screens, the projects seek new insights into neuropsychiatric disorders. https://t.co/y0lejpxOSx

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

@ThompsonPeerLab Congratulations to you for completing the mentorship of your first PhD student!

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

So my Venus fly trapper is blooming!

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

A little touched to see the silver medalist from my country gave Imane such a warm embrace!

[Scot @scotwithat]

After all the transphobia, witch-hunting, and the despicable and unsportsmanlike disrespect shown by a handful of athletes - let THIS image be the one that stays with you:

After Imane Khelif won her gold medal bout her opponent, Yang Liu of China, embraced her with a smile.

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

I remembered as a kid reading about Jesse Owens, who won the gold medal in track-and-field at 1936 Olympics, crushing Hitler's propaganda of “Aryan supremacy”.
Now 2024 Paris witnessed Pan make history too!

[Orikron 🇵🇹 骆培思 @orikron]

Pan Zhanle: "Before the 4x100 relay on the first day, I greeted Chalmers [Australian swimmer] and he simply ignored me. Alexy of the US team, when we were training, splashed water on my coach; it just felt like they looked down on us."

This man let the hate flow through him.

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

@alexmsci Yes! Join us in 2026! Ion channel and transporter scientists should cross-communicate with each others and spark new ideas~

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

Visited Acadia National Park after Gordon conference, as I did 8 years ago. The same view at different time and in different weathers (2024 vs 2016) is like the same protein structure of different conformations: You see the dynamics! :P sorry for my nerdy joke…

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

As an ion channel person, I've found myself learn a lot during this GRC, which is focused on transporters! The conference covers many disciplines in the membrane protein field, engages a variety of new technologies, bridges academia and industry. Thanks Prof Ryan for your hosting

[Prof Renae Ryan @renaemryan1]

Last day of a fantastic week of science and networking at the #MembraneTransportProteins @GordonConf Huge thanks to my superstar co-chair @DrSusieLIngram1 Love this supportive community including our past, present and future chairs👇@madamscientist

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

@renaemryan1 @GordonConf @DrSusieLIngram1 @madamscientist @GallivantLab @SitteHarald @JavitchLab @Khoshbouei_lab @zfreyberg Thank all of you for organizing this fantastic conference!

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

@xinjin @liye_tsri Exploring mountains, trying new food, growing peaches and doing biological science are several ways of deeply understanding nature and must have some correlation. @liye_tsri is an expertise in all!

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

@scrippsresearch @xinjin @pewtrusts @McKnightFdn Congratulations!

[Wenlei @peter_leaf]

@xinduan @CellCellPress @UCSFNSGrad @UCSF @Stanford @genentech Congratulations!!!!!