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We are delighted to congratulate Congrong (Ruby) He for being chosen as a recipient of the 2023 SUDS Research Opportunity. Congrong (Ruby) will be working… Read More »DSI SUDS Scholar 2023

Welcome to our undergraduate students joining Zhen Lab this summer – Congrong (Ruby) He, Danish Islam, Huayin Luo and Shuyu van Kerkwijk. We are thrilled… Read More »Summer Students 2023

Congratulations to Stephan Pless and Mei Zhen for receiving funding from the Lundbeck Foundation. Stephan Pless’ project dives into the role of an evolutionarily conserved… Read More »Sodium leak currents may reveal pathways of disease in the brain

A new preprint at BioRxiv: Two Muscle-Specific and Direct Transcriptional Targets of DAF-16/FOXO Activated by Reduced Insulin/IGF-1 Signaling (PDF) C. elegans insulin/insulin-like growth factor 1 signaling… Read More »Two Muscle-Specific and Direct Transcriptional Targets of DAF-16/FOXO Activated by Reduced Insulin/IGF-1 Signaling

A new preprint at BioRxiv: A tonically active master neuron continuously modulates mutually exclusive motor states at two-time scales. (PDF) Behaviors consist of distinct states… Read More »A tonically active master neuron continuously modulates mutually exclusive motor states at two-time scales

Congratulations to Ben Mulcahy on the arrival of the most adorable little girl, baby Ruth!

Congratulations to Tosif Ahamed for his new position as a Research Fellow at HHMI, Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia (US)!

Welcome to Mohamed Ebsim, Rory Gao, ChengYue Zhang, and Ishaan Chandok, who will be joining Zhen Lab as Research Assistants for the University of Toronto’s… Read More »Fall/Winter Work Study Program Students (2022 – 2023)

Congratulations to William Li for successfully defending his MSc thesis! 

Yi Li has completed her internship as a visiting scholar in Zhen Lab! Good luck to you in your future endeavors!