Mengyu Liu 刘孟宇
@MengyuLiu96
female neuroscientist studying female brain; current postdoc at Deisseroth lab @Stanford; former PhD student at Anderson lab @Caltech
ICYMI: Highlights from yesterday’s expert panel on menopause and HRT for women. “Women deserve policy that reflects the current evidence and not outdated risks.” @heatherhirschMD
A EXTREMELY useful tool
(1/3) Excited to introduce our new GRAB sensors for a series of steroid hormones! These tools enable real-time detection of steroid hormone dynamics in vivo🐭🧠.Happy to share these sensors and welcome any feedback!Please contact [email protected] for information.
Happy to announce that I will be starting my lab at UTSW!!! Let’s go💪!
Research reveals women take ‘substantial’ earnings hit during menopause | Stanford Report news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/0…
Another story of “love”
I'm really excited to introduce our new paper @DulacLab on the neurobiological original of "sociality" (the need of being together), recently published in Nature (see detailed digest below). nature.com/articles/s4158…
nature.com/articles/d4158… Forbidden words…. What a world now?
Just had found out that estrogen has apparent impact on urination and drinking in female mice these days … and saw this work
Scientists identify brain cell type as a master controller of urination. elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…
Super excited to share that my thesis work is out @Nature today. How does brain control visceral organs through brain-to-body sympathetic signals? 👇 nature.com/articles/s4158… Best Thanksgiving gift! Very grateful for my amazing advisor, colleagues and collaborators.
A line attractor encoding a persistent internal state requires neuropeptide signaling - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
1.nature.com/articles/s4158… 2.nature.com/articles/s4158… Just read two groundbreaking studies in Nature! 📚 from the lab @scott_linderman and David Anderson @AmitVinograd @MengyuLiu96 It is the achievement following the work published in Cell in 2022
Monitoring opioid during freely moving social interaction is something that I have been thinking about doing for several years. Very useful tool and congrats to my friend @JasonCDong1 and the team!
A paper in @NatureNeuro presents a suite of genetically encoded opioid peptide sensors for probing opioid drugs and brain-region/circuit-specific opioid release in behaving animals. go.nature.com/4bJ2j2d
Excited to share my first paper from Inagaki Lab @MPFNeuro! How does the “timer” in our brain control movement? We discovered specialized computational roles of the frontal cortex and striatum that implement such an action timer⏱️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
I'm thrilled to share that I will join @Caltech @CaltechEAS as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Engineering in March 2025!
Sexual and reproductive health is extremely important. It would be interesting to see if the density of corpuscles is regulated by physiological states in females. Congratulations to the authors!
Excited to share our paper on the specialized sensory structures of the genitalia for sexual touch. It was a collective efforts with the co-first author Michael Iskols @MIskols and other authors @RSegalGreenberg @AnnieHandler and others not on X.
Wonder if the same difference of collectivist vs. individualistic exists between women and men subjects, regardless of culture…
First hire for my team at the Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute! Please apply if you're interested in using cryo-ET and other imaging modalities to study axo-ciliary synapses! @czbiohub @czi boards.greenhouse.io/czimaginginsti…
Only 0.5% of neuroscience studies look at women’s health. nature.com/articles/d4158…
Recently in @CellCellPress, Dr. Yuki Oka and colleagues from @Caltech revealed the bimodal regulation of appetitive and tolerance signals 📶 toward salt, which together dictate the amount of sodium consumption under different internal states. 🔗 bit.ly/3sKMmbC
First-Ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health 🔬Research “Every woman I know has a story about leaving her doctor’s office with more questions than answers. Not because our doctors are withholding information but … JB With 💰 we can change this! whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…