
Andy Quaen Chen
@AndyQuaen
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We are hiring a lab manager! Come join us – you'll get to learn anything from mosquito olfaction to cryoEM while working closely with a fantastic group of scientists in a young lab. Interested? Apply below, or spread the word! https://t.co/r1Dmh1PU5h
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I am beyond excited that our story where we address the modalities of membrane tension propagation in cells is out @CellCellPress ! https://t.co/DJFSX5KYuX This is the fruit of an amazing collaboration with @OWeinerLab @BustamanteLab @virtual_embryo
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The actin cytoskeleton plays multiple roles in structural color formation in butterfly wing scales https://t.co/ICsGAix9sa
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Now online: Raquel Alvarez-Ocana's (@2Raqel9) main PhD work, with key contributions from @MShahand, @tomtom_auer, and @RayVijayaditya in Nicolas Gompel's lab! https://t.co/ttZKXFziBl
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Nature Communications - There is much interest in how animals adapt behaviorally to their ecological niche. Here, the authors demonstrate a role for olfaction in the oviposition preference of the...
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Very happy to share my first paper: Gap junctions desynchronize a neural circuit to stabilize insect flight @Nature @uni_mainz @HumboldtUni
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Nature - In the Drosophila central-pattern-generating neural network, a mechanism for network desynchronization relying on weak electrical synapses and specific excitability dynamics of the coupled...
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A little late on this, but our paper on seven genomes inside one single cell is out! This endosymbiosis involves two bacterial endosymbionts, a phage and a single celled alga. https://t.co/6jniW6LJ8u
#phage #endosymbiosis #protists (artwork by Ben Darby)
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We are celebrating the election of Don Rio and Marla Feller to the National Academy of Sciences. @berkeleyMCB @FellerMarla
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Congrats to MCB's @FellerMarla for being elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences @americanacad! 👏🎉 https://t.co/eJja8aZ0bP
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Thrilled to be part of this elegant piece of work led by the Kobilka lab. smFRET, MD sims, and NMR to unveil the key role of the intrinsically disordered carboxyl terminus of GPCRs. Finally, out @NatureComms
https://t.co/voTX9RWNwM Congrats to all authors! More to come...
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New paper out in PNAS about how the ability of vertebrates to see is in part due to a gene we acquired from bacteria. https://t.co/56X8TsdpVN Huge congratulations and thanks to authors @ChinmayK98 @AlexJohnWeitzel, and @BriBerryTea! More below: 1/
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The vertebrate eye was described by Charles Darwin as one of the greatest potential challenges to a theory of natural selection by stepwise evoluti...
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The retina contains numerous cell types. To what extent are retinal cell types conserved across species that greatly differ in visual needs? Our new preprint attempts to shed light on this question by integrating single-cell transcriptomic data from 17 vertebrate species.
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Very excited to share our new preprint on visual processing in the octopus! Led by Judit Pungor @traceofpink, together with @jsongco_ and @climbing_octo, we measured the functional organization of visual responses in the octopus brain. 🐙👁️ https://t.co/J99W57NoOl 1/n
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It’s finally out!! My first first author paper has been published on eLife! I’m very proud of the work I’ve done with @atiriac1 @FellerMarla and @AndyQuaen. Special thanks to Ben Smith and @Rongshan_Yan for the added support! https://t.co/GDsVFoe8xc
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Calcium imaging reveals spatiotemporal properties of correlated spontaneous activity in the embryonic retina and implicates a role for electrical and chemical synapses in generating the activity.
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Embryonic retinal waves! In new study led by superstar student @CVoufo, @AndyQuaen and Ben Smith, a team led by @atiriac1, we describe waves at early stages of development – long before proper neural circuits are present in the retina. https://t.co/3K0MsoB3re
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How many neurons do you really need for invariant visual representations? Not many! Read more from my thesis work, out now in the latest issue of Current Biology: https://t.co/AeS8HharKb
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Feature detectors in the retina construct visual representations with limited neural resources. Summers and Feller show that ON and ON-OFF DSGCs, which have distinct velocity preferences, share an...
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Why would you ever think of looking at that!? Very creative work from Rosenberg and colleagues. Definitely worth a read! https://t.co/Zzk03BRyRj
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Nature Communications - Genetic code redundancies are considered inconsequential to protein structure. This study uncovers a dependence between local amino acid conformation in folded proteins and...
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We are thrilled to share our latest work of the atomic structure of the central apparatus (CA) within the famous "9+2" architecture of motile #cilia. https://t.co/wvJpcfOLE5
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(1/10) Excited to share our cryo-EM structure of gas vesicles, providing buoyancy to microbes (and recently also genetically encoded ultrasound contrast to scientists)! https://t.co/eDagsHkeOO Congrats to everone involved: @CryoTUD, Wiel Evers, Dion Terwiel, @DMarescalab.
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A review on retinal feature representations and their uses in the brain. Hopefully, it is useful to some. https://t.co/AmOMcZRW3c
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