Shun-Fat (Kevin) Lau
@ksflau.bsky.social
Peripheral glia-immune interactions | Postdoc at Richard Flavell lab (Yale) | PhD at Nancy Ip lab (HKUST)
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Shun-Fat (Kevin) Lau
@ksflau.bsky.social
· Apr 27
Thrilled to share that I have been awarded the 2025 Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award to support our research on the role of enteric glia in regulating intestinal inflammation and ENS damage!
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CNS Myelin Sheath Lengths Locally Scale to Axon Diameter via Piezo1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.18.689045v1
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
CNS Myelin Sheath Lengths Locally Scale to Axon Diameter via Piezo1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.18.689045v1
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Nature research paper: Functional amyloid proteins confer defence against predatory bacteria
https://go.nature.com/44RUndV
https://go.nature.com/44RUndV
Functional amyloid proteins confer defence against predatory bacteria - Nature
Escherichia coli uses curli fibres, oligomers of the functional amyloid CsgA, as a barrier to protect against the predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Myxococcus xanthus in a mechanism that is independent of genes required for biofilm formation.
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July 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Nature research paper: Functional amyloid proteins confer defence against predatory bacteria
https://go.nature.com/44RUndV
https://go.nature.com/44RUndV
Thrilled to share that I have been awarded the 2025 Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award to support our research on the role of enteric glia in regulating intestinal inflammation and ENS damage!
April 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thrilled to share that I have been awarded the 2025 Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award to support our research on the role of enteric glia in regulating intestinal inflammation and ENS damage!
Reposted by Shun-Fat (Kevin) Lau
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics
https://go.nature.com/42Zryw1
https://go.nature.com/42Zryw1
Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Nature - Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
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April 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics
https://go.nature.com/42Zryw1
https://go.nature.com/42Zryw1
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We've known social disadvantage was linked to adverse health outcomes. A @NatureMedicine study used high- throughput proteomics to show there is accelerated aging, increased risk of 66 age-related diseases, and unfavorable changes in the immune system, ⬆️ inflammation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
We've known social disadvantage was linked to adverse health outcomes. A @NatureMedicine study used high- throughput proteomics to show there is accelerated aging, increased risk of 66 age-related diseases, and unfavorable changes in the immune system, ⬆️ inflammation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New @science.org
Hedonic eating (eating for pleasure, not need) is mediated by dopamine neurons (in the brain ventral segmental area, VTA) and they are antagonized by GLP-1 drugs, such as semaglutide, leading to weight loss
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hedonic eating (eating for pleasure, not need) is mediated by dopamine neurons (in the brain ventral segmental area, VTA) and they are antagonized by GLP-1 drugs, such as semaglutide, leading to weight loss
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hedonic eating is controlled by dopamine neurons that oppose GLP-1R satiety
Hedonic eating is defined as food consumption driven by palatability without physiological need. However, neural control of palatable food intake is poorly understood. We discovered that hedonic eatin...
www.science.org
March 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
New @science.org
Hedonic eating (eating for pleasure, not need) is mediated by dopamine neurons (in the brain ventral segmental area, VTA) and they are antagonized by GLP-1 drugs, such as semaglutide, leading to weight loss
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hedonic eating (eating for pleasure, not need) is mediated by dopamine neurons (in the brain ventral segmental area, VTA) and they are antagonized by GLP-1 drugs, such as semaglutide, leading to weight loss
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Look, I’m a glass-half-full kind of person. So, on the bright side, if we survive this, you’ll get to look back one day and tell the younger generation:
“You think this is tough? Ha! Try doing science in 2025.”
“You think this is tough? Ha! Try doing science in 2025.”
February 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Look, I’m a glass-half-full kind of person. So, on the bright side, if we survive this, you’ll get to look back one day and tell the younger generation:
“You think this is tough? Ha! Try doing science in 2025.”
“You think this is tough? Ha! Try doing science in 2025.”
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Slippery proteins in the brain’s blood vessels form a protective barrier that breaks down with age
https://go.nature.com/3Xm6v3R
https://go.nature.com/3Xm6v3R
‘Slime’ keeps the brain safe ― and could guard against ageing
Nature - Slippery proteins in the brain’s blood vessels form a protective barrier that breaks down with age, studies in mice show.
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March 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Slippery proteins in the brain’s blood vessels form a protective barrier that breaks down with age
https://go.nature.com/3Xm6v3R
https://go.nature.com/3Xm6v3R