Sensational astrocytes: a preview w/ Kevin H Chen for Bailong Xiao Lab Tsinghua University exciting Neuron paper on Piezo1 channel in adult neurogenesis sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Bailong just won ~$0.5 million Xplorer Prize for his work on the mechanism of Piezos, huge congrats 🎉

Excited to share my recent first-author publication! We found that a small proportion of pancreatic beta cells expressing overactive glucokinase is sufficient to cause hypoglycemia in mice. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share a preprint co-led by dream team James O-Owusu Physiology Department JHMI & Zheng Ruan DuLuLabs! We find the proton-activated chloride channel PAC desensitizes or inactivates upon long acid exposure, w/ its ECD-TMD interface as a molecular switch. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share my work from Zhaozhu Qiu Lab at #SfN2023! If you are interested in ion channels, synaptic plasticity, and endosome biology check out my poster D19 on November 15 8AM-12PM!

Another festive lab holiday party to wrap up the year, featuring games, white elephant gift exchange, and delicious food! 🎁🎄🀄🥂

Congrats XDBio PhD student Nicholas Koylass for winning a travel award from #BPS2024! Check out his platform talk on a surprising role of the PAC channel in SARS CoV viral entry on Wed 9:30am in Room 103. #ProudMentor

Love how the colors turned out in this primary hippocampal neuron! Happy #FluorescenceFriday