Yun Ding
@YunDing_Lab
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Excited to release this new pre-print ( https://t.co/kO7APZiTXw)🎉 In a complex visual environment, how do flies (like below) know what to focus on? We uncovered neuronal pathways through which social states (like aggression🥊 and courtship) modulate visual processing. 1/
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I am thrilled to start an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at @DartmouthCollege in July 2024. We will study genetic & neural basis of behavior evolution & how behavior affects evolution. Recruiting talented & enthusiastic scientists to join the lab!
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Also, this is my first fruit fly paper and the project I spend most of my time during my PhD!
Our preprint of the fruit fly song paper is out! By neurogenetics, single-cell sequencing and behavioral comparison, we tried to answer how some fly species lost a song type. Read the thread and our manuscript🪰🎶
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Excited to share our new preprint on the evolution of Drosophila courtship song, led by @Justin_T_Walsh , Dajia Ye, and Ian Junker:
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How evolutionary changes in genes and neurons encode species variation in complex motor behaviors are largely unknown. Here, we develop genetic tools that permit a neural circuit comparison between...
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Ancestral neural circuits potentiate the origin of a female sexual behavior https://t.co/ubbMDdBgGJ
#biorxiv_evobio
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Happy to share a recent work from my lab, led by @dawnschen and Minhao Li: The origination of a novel social behavior + the function and evolution of female sexual behavior. We had so much fun working on this project with several jaw-dropping moments!
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How do the peripheral and central nervous systems evolve to switch the valence of a sex pheromone, from anti-aphrodisiac to aphrodisiac, in species-specific mate recognition? Check this beautiful work led by Rory Coleman and Vanessa Ruta (honored to make a small contribution)!
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Packing for #Dros23? If you have professional clothes that are unused, or used but clean, #Dros23 is collecting donations for Broadway Youth Center @howardbrownhc an integrated health and social services organization that serves the Chicago LGBTQ+ community
If you're planning to attend @GeneticsGSA #Dros23 this week in Chicago, please consider packing any clean, professional attire you no longer wear for donation to @howardbrownhc Broadway Youth Center.
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Before the 2016 election, I didn't believe that Trump could be elected, and I regret not doing everything I could to ensure it didn't happen. Here's what I'm doing to make sure this doesn't happen again:
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Thank all the team members so much for their excellent work. Also, appreciate the help from the Janelia community @HHMIJanelia . Especially, the help from Janelia Experimental Technology (jET) and histology teams.
In addition to @shengjin_xu, project involved innovative and intensive effort by grad student Hui Yang to develop multiplexed FISH after in vivo imaging. scRNA-Seq by Menon, Lemire, Wang, and Henry. @srinituraga had great advice on data analysis. All terrific to work with!
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Our new study in @ScienceMagazine , led by @shengjin_xu. We report CaRMA imaging-- a method that combines deep-brain in vivo single neuron dynamics in mice with detailed gene co-expression information in the same cells across multiple behavioral states.
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My first, first-author paper is out today from the @JustinMCrocker Lab at @embl with collaboration with @David_L_Stern and @richmann10 and @HHMIJanelia . Hear how we used robotics and automation to mutationally scan a Drosophila developmental enhancer! https://t.co/pPrSJTyKec
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Neural Network Organization for Courtship Song Feature Detection in Drosophila https://t.co/uPvXUUrx9u
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Now out in Neuron:
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Jové et al. characterize specialized blood-feeding sensory neurons in female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and demonstrate that they encode the distinction between blood and floral nectar. Polymodal...
THE TASTE OF BLOOD: This is how the neurons in the syringe-like "tongue" of the mosquito respond to blood.
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Today's headlines: Undead neurons make headless flies walk! Nervous systems evolve by changing which and how many newly-born neurons die! Flightless flies are fly! Read all about it in our paper now out in eLife https://t.co/1x7wHQrory (a thread)
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Developmental cell death plays a key role during insect neurogenesis and is increased in specific neuronal populations in flies that have evolved flightlessness.
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How do sensory systems rapidly evolve to promote speciation? We investigated the evolution of sex pheromone systems of 99 Drosophila species. Super excited to share my paper w/ @RongfengC @darissambaya @hdweck99 @billhansson @mknaden1!! (1/7) https://t.co/ApLRFbX7O8
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Insects use sex pheromones as a reproductive isolating mechanism to attract conspecifics and repel heterospecifics. Despite the profound knowledge of sex pheromones, little is known about the...
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Visceral Mechano-sensing Neurons Control Drosophila Feeding by Using Piezo as a Sensor: Neuron
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Super excited to share my first first-author paper with @pollyp1, out now on @biorxivpreprint. We made male mosquitoes that are attracted to humans!! (1/n)
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While sexual dimorphism in courtship and copulation behavior is common in the animal kingdom, sexual dimorphism in feeding behavior is rare. The Aedes aegypti mosquito provides an example of extreme...
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Drosophila neuroscientists, join the new community at https://t.co/zOWhPy3kh6 to trace your brain circuits! Together with @SebastianSeung and the amazing FlyWire research team, we segmented all the cells in a whole-brain EM stack by AI. 1/n
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