Assistant Professor @hkust. Animal behavior, the visual system, zebrafish.
Joined June 2013
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20 Nov 2025
It was an honor to do a Q&A for Current Biology. And, as a bonus, I got to find out their policy on profanity. Turns out, they are cool with it! 😂sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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27 Jun 2025
Latest from my lab: we identify and characterize the function of binocular neurons zebrafish larvae use to hunt prey; sciencedirect.com/science/ar…. Congrats to Richard Tian, Gewei Yan and Tommy Lam @tkclam!
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Qing Wang and I wrote a little commentary on a new paper by @JulieSemmelhack and her team.
Eat, flee, freeze: Division of labor in the larval zebrafish visuomotor system | PNAS pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…
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26 Mar 2025
Excited to share new work from my lab, where we image visual brain areas in behaving zebrafish larvae to see how sensory information is converted into hunting, freezing, or escape behaviors; pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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17 Jul 2023
Very happy to share the first paper from my lab, lead by @BiswadeepKhan. We show that we can evoke strikes, the final phase of hunting, in head-fixed zebrafish larvae, and use this new assay to study how they estimate distance to prey; sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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17 Jul 2023
Thanks to @NeuroFishh for convincing us to try UV stimuli, which was a gamechanger for this project, and @MJY_Zimmermann and @Chagas_AM for helping @iplazarte set it up in my lab!
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26 Jan 2023
We are hiring a #Postdoc and a ResTech in our new lab @WustlDOVS @WUSTLmed
1. Do you like vision research👀?
2. Do you like #zebrafish🐟?
3. Do you like lizard🦎?
4. Do you HATE mouse🐭🙈?
5. Do you love Ramen🍜😍?
If any applies to you, check the ads in the thread!
Pls RT!
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9 Feb 2022
Thrilled to share our new work, led by postdoc Hui-Hao Lin #hao, and 5 years in the making. Lin, HH., Kuang, M.C., Hossain, I. et al. A nutrient-specific gut hormone arbitrates between courtship and feeding. Nature (2022). disq.us/t/4522kh9
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31 Jan 2020
Fresh on @bioRxiv: What the zebrafish’s eye tells the zebrafish’s brain. We used 2P imaging and photolabeling to systematically chart the structure and function of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells in the live eye. bit.ly/36Nm2wl. 👇
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Courtship behaviour in wild zebrafish, North Bengal, India.
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10 Jan 2017
2p imaging in zebrafish and mice: Open postdoc position between our lab and that of Miguel Maravall. Please RT: m.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/…
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29 Nov 2016
Fish in space. Why are they favoring an orientation? iss.jaxa.jp/kiboexp/theme/se…
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15 Nov 2016
Great points, especially David Anderson's on the need for tools to analyze behavior. x.com/NeuroCellPress/status/…
15 Nov 2016
Voices by Alice Ting, David Anderson, Rosalind Segal and more: Opportunities for Technology & Tool Development bit.ly/2eXBVFt
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11 Nov 2016
Dear @FENSorg,
Not all neuroscientists are men. Words matter. Being able to see yourself as a PI matters.
Fix this. x.com/FENSorg/status/7966121…
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9 Nov 2016
I felt like I had to do something today, so I donated to the ACLU. Their work is going to be more important than ever. x.com/ACLU/status/7962417783…
The ACLU is here to fight for everyone's rights, no matter who our next president is.
aclu.org/donatenow
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13 Sep 2016
Interesting, wide-ranging interview, and an unexpected shout-out to "Time, Love, Memory", one of my favorite books: x.com/eboyden3/status/775652…
Fun little interview I did, on topics from aggression to Fritz Zwicky to rebooting failure, for the Huffington Post: huffingtonpost.com/entry/ed-…
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Which optogenetic tools are best at driving axonal projections? A study from the Glickfeld lab: jn.physiology.org/content/ea…
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13 Jul 2016
Great new primer on #zebrafish #genetics in the most recent @GeneticsGSA issue! genetics.org/content/203/3/1…
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7 Jul 2016
An even clearer zebrafish; could be great for imaging, especially in the retina. nature.com/articles/srep2949…
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