Bing Zhang
@Goodflies
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A neuroscientist, fly geneticist, & professor trying to solve the mysteries of the brain in health and disease. Cornell Alum Go BigRed Views & RT are mine.
Columbia MO
Joined December 2010
From my limited interactions they both are amazingly wonderful.
I photographed @KarlDeisseroth and @michelle_monje in Michelle’s office at @Stanford. Between them on the table is her PhD notebook, opened to a page from the period when they were actively collaborating on her doctoral research. It is an artifact in the truest sense. A working
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And not paid for the summer work. How glorious can it be.
Tenured academia is really not "just a job." - can't be fired. - get a 5-month summer break. - complete flexibility on schedule/wfh - study what interests you -get paid more than enough to live comfortably. It's completely rational to work insanely hard to get this!
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Sadly and ironically she has been denied to be an academy member of China.
Tu Youyou discovered a substance called artemisinin, which can be used to treat malaria. Tu not only found a way to extract artemisinin from a traditional Chinese medicine, she also tested the new drug on herself to speed up the time needed for development. Her discovery led to
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Congrats as a former Sooners faculty but I had hoped a ln upset win for #Mizzou because I’m now a #Tigers professor. Proud of #mizzoutigers
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BTHOT!
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Congrats David, very nice work. In my #Bio4500 #neurobiology class I ask students to do a research poster on cutting-edge therapy for brain dis. The result? They all chose diff papers from your lab, including PERT. So this has turned into a David Liu poster session!
This work was co-led by @Sarah_E_Pierce and @stevenerwood, with key contributions from @KeyedeOye, @meirui_an, @NicholasKrasnow, @emilyzhang326, @AdityaRaguram, Davis Seelig and Mark Osborn. Congratulations to the team! (15/15) https://t.co/LaRi2AwAeM
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Very interesting. I have not heard of such co release of opposite NTs before. Will read it and share with my #Bio4500 #neurobiology #Brainytigers
This is very cool 😊
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Happy early Thanksgiving lunch with my small fly group! Thank you Carlos, Lilli and Anna.
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Xolair is god sent for asthma patients!! Immunotherapy at its best.
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I would strongly advise every American leader and policymaker to listen carefully to @davidrliu - the most important scientist and innovator of our lifetime and the person who invented both Base editing & Prime editing - the 2 top leading modalities of Gene editing, when he
Tonight’s episode of @60Minutes will include a segment on the impact of federally funded science and recent cuts to science funding. Our lab’s development of base editing and prime editing and their clinical applications will be among the work described in the episode.
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My PhD paper is out! We imaged gut neuron activity in living, eating flies (first time in history!), and found a Gut-Brain-Gut neural circuit loop that allows fruit flies to adjust their ingestion bouts based on the sucrose concentration of the food! (1/n
biorxiv.org
The communication between the brain and digestive tract is critical for optimising nutrient preference and food intake, yet the underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood[1][1]–[7][2]....
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Indeed! Ask William Blake about The Fly Little fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. ……….
@LocasaleLab Bitch, model organisms gave you the foundational knowledge on cell cycle, growth pathways, innate immunity, the existence of chromosomes, circadian rhythms, metabolism, and much more. Fruit flies research won 6 Nobel Prizes. The fucking ignorance.
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Sounds like Sarah Palin. What is wrong with fruit flies? They are my beloved model organisms. Seriously, she is paid as a President of the institute and that is an agreement between her and her boss.
@LocasaleLab "... fruit fly research." Common minimization strategy. She actually studies germ cells. Saying she studies "fruit flies" because she uses that organism is just silly! It's like saying you study mice because you used a mouse model. https://t.co/YUYArfbhdN
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Science friends, how are funding opportunities lately? Any luck with Drosophila neuroscience grants? Thanks
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Jason, I don’t know you or her but what you did here is not cool. Do you have some personal disagreements with her? You essentially trashed your own research and set a bad example for your mentees who one day would be like you to post “I’m the key authors ….”
I am actually the lead and corresponding author on the most cited research paper of this person's career. Someone told me that today, and I verified it. The claim that her work has had any substantial effect on breast cancer is a dramatic overstatement. Like much of what’s
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I would like to share one story about #JamesWatson. During the #DrosophilaNeurobiology course Jim clicked well with my grad student Chris and asked him to bypass the elite organization for Nobel laureates & directly invite him to give a talk at UT Austin. This saved us over $15K
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Thanks for sharing this personal story. Our #DrosophilaNeurobiology course @CSHL has a lab next door to Jim’s office. He would chat with our students during coffee breaks and often asked sharp questions. I noticed that he worked all the time, including weekends.
On a cold morning in April 2007, I found myself standing in a freezing morning on the north shore of the Long Island Sound, wearing a human-sized custom of a bunny, a giant carrot stuck from my lips like a cigar, trying to entertain kids as the world's first Jewish Easter Bunny,
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A few years ago I asked Jim to write “DNA Rocks” and he did it with a big smile :)
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