Cheng Huang

I'm excited to share that our lab has received the Whitehall Foundation Award for our research on predictive learning in Drosophila with novel voltage and dopamine imaging. We are incredibly grateful to the Whitehall Foundation (whitehall.org) for the generous support!

#NextGenSci asked young scientists to write a rule that all principal investigators should be required to follow to improve the experience of young scientists in their lab. Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/3HoP39O

I wrote down my rules on how to Science. I hope you find it useful!

Apply now for a postdoctoral fellows position in the Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (CTCN) at WashU. Learn more and apply: ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fellow…. Deadline for applications is July 1, 2025.

This old, dumb joke is now reality lol 😝

Delighted to see not one, not two, but three papers about astrocytes in Science today! Here's our contribution to that collection. Come follow us on bluesky! Papouin lab twitter/X: over & out... science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Have changes in science over the past 50 years reduced the chances of trainees experiencing the joy of discovery?

Congratulations Rachel I. Wilson of @HarvardMed, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS162 #neurobiology

We built an AI model to simulate how a fruit fly walks, flies and behaves – in partnership with @HHMIJanelia. 🪰 Our computerized insect replicates realistic motion, and can even use its eyes to control its actions. Here’s how we developed it – and what it means for science. 🧵

Why do some neurons say “sleep” while others shout “stay awake!” — inside the same brain? In fruit flies, researchers just mapped the molecular chaos behind this nightly tug-of-war. And it’s wilder than we thought. elifesciences.org/articles/10668…

Our new paper is just online. Congratulations to Junjie and the team.Super Recombinator (SuRe): An in vivo recombination system for scalable and efficient transgene assembly at a single genomic locus | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Read my latest #research at how insect integrate spatial and temporal information, published with @SpringerNature in @NatureComms rdcu.be/eeCVh

Apply to work with me and Paul Riechers to build a science of AI interpretability. Help us extend our work predicting and finding fractals in the minds of transformers! MATS is one of the best ways to get into technical AI Safety!

Our amazing lab manager is off to start his PhD at Rutgers this fall! We are looking for a new lab manager/technician to join our team. If you're interested in exciting research on the neural mechanisms of reward, check out the opportunity! careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job/5…

This is the best in vivo AP propagation movie we got so far. Recorded at 1k Hz from the axonal branches of a fly CNS neuron, using voltage indicator pAce.

1/ Excited to announce our new book, “Genetic Models of Down Syndrome”! This comprehensive guide explores diverse model systems—from invertebrate to vertebrate models—to advance our understanding of Down syndrome. #DownSyndrome #GeneticModels #Genetics @GDSFoundation @t21rs

My PhD work is now out! Here, we set out to formalize the neural manifold hypothesis and explain several experimental phenomena in systems neuroscience with a single theoretical framework. I highly recommend giving it a read, though tweetprint come much later!

Dear All, I believe that this thread will become one of my most important contributions to the fly field (I hope I will make other contributions)! Here, I introduce the Soy Milk Machine Fly Food Method, a.k.a., DeepCook!#Drosophila#NewPI

We welcome individuals who want to learn, grow, and make discoveries to join us in our scientific adventure.

663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#braindynamics🧠 engineering.washu.edu/news/2025/Wash… via @WashUengineers