How do changes in genes and neurons encode behavioral variation? D. melanogaster sings two types of courtship song, pulse and sine song, but other closely related species lost the ability to sing sine song. How? Dajia (Krisa) Ye, Yun Ding, Ian Junker, and I investigate! 🧵

So thankful to have been awarded a #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship with Nikos Konstantinides lab at Institut Jacques Monod CNRS 🌍!🤩🥳

This is so well deserved and well done! Congratulations 🎉

Amazing talk by Jennifer Malin from Desplan Lab sharing her work on spatial patterning as a mechanism to regulate neuronal number in fly visual system. #TAGC24

Wonderful experience connecting with excellent peers. Can't wait to see all the great things this group of future PIs will do!!

So grateful to be awarded the 2024 NYU College of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award! Big thanks to all the students for their nominations. Their valuable feedbacks definitely improve my future teaching. This framed certificate is a fantastic bonus! #TeachingExcellence

Excited to share that my postdoctoral work is officially in press at Developmental Cell! I spent my postdoc answering a simple, but often unanswered question: how are cells generated in the correct proportions? 1/x

What a joy to see my undergrad Gustave @li_gustave highlighted by NYU Shanghai! 🎉 Lovely article filled with great memories of you in the lab. Congrats! Wishing you all the best for your PhD at Caltech. #ProudMentor shanghai.nyu.edu/stories/gustav…

This is so well deserved! Very happy for you and congratulations!

Very happy to be receiving the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship. On an unrelated note, our lab is always looking for motivated postdocs. And we recently raised our salaries to $72k; yes, in Kansas City.

It's that time of year when new Assistant Professor colleagues get started! Our Resources for Researchers site offers guides etc to help you build out your psych/neuro lab, check them out! Please RT! plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesforre…

Thrilled to see my advisor’s Desplan Lab opening keynote at #SCDB24. Having both his postdoc advisor (Pat O’Ferrell) and myself in the audience is a truly incredible experience—showing the power of mentorship and inspiration across generations. Grateful to be part of this legacy!

Thrilled to announce that I'm joining the Dept of Biomedical Science & the Translational Hearing Center at Creighton University University as an Assistant Professor in Dec 2024! I'm deeply grateful to my mentors, friends, & family for their unwavering support & encouragement along the way.

Thrilled to have been invited by Syed Syed, Mübarak Hussain to speak at the Univ. of New Mexico Biology Departmental Seminar! Had an amazing time engaging with such brilliant students. The outreach and undergrad education initiatives there are truly inspiring!