Mo
@wengflylab.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UNLV, Cell and Developmental Biologist interested in how 3D form arises in biology
My brand new colleague @Joecampanale.bsky.social presenting follower cells doing rear wheel drive in collective cell migration at my favorite fly meeting workshop Development Mechanics organized by @rodrigofg.bsky.social Adam Martin and @tanentzapflab.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
My brand new colleague @Joecampanale.bsky.social presenting follower cells doing rear wheel drive in collective cell migration at my favorite fly meeting workshop Development Mechanics organized by @rodrigofg.bsky.social Adam Martin and @tanentzapflab.bsky.social
Weng lab members are presenting one talk and four posters at #DROS25. Come to see our new research from ventral furrow mechanics, to anterior midgut, to polarity protein Baz, to energid compartment. If you don’t know what “energid” is, come to Chase’ talk Friday 9AM BallroomA/B - because you should😎
March 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Weng lab members are presenting one talk and four posters at #DROS25. Come to see our new research from ventral furrow mechanics, to anterior midgut, to polarity protein Baz, to energid compartment. If you don’t know what “energid” is, come to Chase’ talk Friday 9AM BallroomA/B - because you should😎
Tenure was never the goal. Doing interesting science and raising future scientists are always the goals. Still, receiving a beautiful cake and sharing it with the lab during our energetic lab meeting, is a sweet feeling😌 Thank you everyone who believed in me.
March 18, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Tenure was never the goal. Doing interesting science and raising future scientists are always the goals. Still, receiving a beautiful cake and sharing it with the lab during our energetic lab meeting, is a sweet feeling😌 Thank you everyone who believed in me.
My daughter got the cactus which turned out to be the missing link in our squishmellow gradient. Everything falls into places👏
December 21, 2024 at 9:59 PM
My daughter got the cactus which turned out to be the missing link in our squishmellow gradient. Everything falls into places👏
Had the most hilarious holiday gift exchange thanks to the diverse choices of gifts. After some chaos and crisis, everything, from bathroom wire organizer to resurrection plant, seems to find its rightful owner. Pleasant surprise after crisis is what we scientists strive for😉.
December 21, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Had the most hilarious holiday gift exchange thanks to the diverse choices of gifts. After some chaos and crisis, everything, from bathroom wire organizer to resurrection plant, seems to find its rightful owner. Pleasant surprise after crisis is what we scientists strive for😉.
Brought my younger students Chase, Durlin and Yasong to SCDB to see the “bigger world”. Thank you @scdb2024 for the travel awards and of course the fantastic meeting! So much to learn no matter which stage of career you are in!
December 21, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Brought my younger students Chase, Durlin and Yasong to SCDB to see the “bigger world”. Thank you @scdb2024 for the travel awards and of course the fantastic meeting! So much to learn no matter which stage of career you are in!
Published: our study on a new Drosophila gene Moat shows strong polarity-based junctions allow weak myosin to promote productive apical constriction, leading to ectopic folding of ectodermal anterior midgut (ectoAMG). The ectopic folding requires Baz/Par3.
molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10.10…
molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10.10…
December 21, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Published: our study on a new Drosophila gene Moat shows strong polarity-based junctions allow weak myosin to promote productive apical constriction, leading to ectopic folding of ectodermal anterior midgut (ectoAMG). The ectopic folding requires Baz/Par3.
molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10.10…
molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10.10…
9/n Our model may be a general developmental strategy: embryo could upregulate adherens junctions to promote pronounced shape changes in cells with only low levels of myosin, or downregulate adherens junctions to restrict cell shape changes to cells with strong myosin.
December 21, 2024 at 5:49 PM
9/n Our model may be a general developmental strategy: embryo could upregulate adherens junctions to promote pronounced shape changes in cells with only low levels of myosin, or downregulate adherens junctions to restrict cell shape changes to cells with strong myosin.
Lab lunch on the exact same day as last year! Had to make a figure to highlight the new members. A special star for Chase being the upgrade and wearing the exact same outfit. They keep the lab productive and motivate me to work hard and be their best role model! I’m grateful.
December 21, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Lab lunch on the exact same day as last year! Had to make a figure to highlight the new members. A special star for Chase being the upgrade and wearing the exact same outfit. They keep the lab productive and motivate me to work hard and be their best role model! I’m grateful.
Enjoyed the intense science, met old and new friends, survived Powerpoint crushes during my first Gordon conference talk as a PI😂, walked the peaceful bog, got up at 3 am to be back in the lab before the weekend. Thank you @KrisDemali and @peiferlabunc for this meaningful week!
December 21, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Enjoyed the intense science, met old and new friends, survived Powerpoint crushes during my first Gordon conference talk as a PI😂, walked the peaceful bog, got up at 3 am to be back in the lab before the weekend. Thank you @KrisDemali and @peiferlabunc for this meaningful week!
Thanks @blankenship_lab for the thought provoking seminar! Made me think of springs and friction - I miss that. Then we discovered the scientists’s approach to hiking: we don’t know where we are going, but we have a general idea and we figure out the rest XD
December 21, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Thanks @blankenship_lab for the thought provoking seminar! Made me think of springs and friction - I miss that. Then we discovered the scientists’s approach to hiking: we don’t know where we are going, but we have a general idea and we figure out the rest XD
The first PhD student of your PI, giving your first conference talk at a fly meeting about a newly identified gene/function - this was me and now my student. History repeating itself. I’m not crying - I’m just proud😭 Reina started right in the pandemic’s isolation - proud of her
December 21, 2024 at 5:47 PM
The first PhD student of your PI, giving your first conference talk at a fly meeting about a newly identified gene/function - this was me and now my student. History repeating itself. I’m not crying - I’m just proud😭 Reina started right in the pandemic’s isolation - proud of her
So intrigued by @makotos9208640’s talk today about “to be hexagonal or tetragonal”. Rough eyes are actually very regular but tetragonal?! Voronoi diagram?! Now I want to buy his book for my lab😂.When you are the only one in the lab doing Matlab, it’s… a lot of fun…
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December 21, 2024 at 5:47 PM
So intrigued by @makotos9208640’s talk today about “to be hexagonal or tetragonal”. Rough eyes are actually very regular but tetragonal?! Voronoi diagram?! Now I want to buy his book for my lab😂.When you are the only one in the lab doing Matlab, it’s… a lot of fun…
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First fully in person semester ended with sweetness.
December 21, 2024 at 5:47 PM
First fully in person semester ended with sweetness.
Lab lunch before the holiday to celebrate @reinakoran passing the comprehensive exam and becoming a PhD candidate! Had the best tacos ever at Tacos & Beer. It’s quite a charming restaurant.
December 21, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Lab lunch before the holiday to celebrate @reinakoran passing the comprehensive exam and becoming a PhD candidate! Had the best tacos ever at Tacos & Beer. It’s quite a charming restaurant.
Thank you @ShinuoWeng and Qiuxia for bringing me to see the Texas Capitol building and learn some history. Good luck, @ShinuoWeng , on the job application this year! You are an amazing scientist.
December 21, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Thank you @ShinuoWeng and Qiuxia for bringing me to see the Texas Capitol building and learn some history. Good luck, @ShinuoWeng , on the job application this year! You are an amazing scientist.
Appreciate the opportunity to present our research! Such a great meeting: wonderful talks, amazing audience and beautiful campus!
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December 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Appreciate the opportunity to present our research! Such a great meeting: wonderful talks, amazing audience and beautiful campus!
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Thanks SeYeon for bringing your beautiful science to UNLV! While all guests were impressed by our atrium SeYeon asked an important question: how the palm trees were kept at the perfect heights?🤣
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December 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Thanks SeYeon for bringing your beautiful science to UNLV! While all guests were impressed by our atrium SeYeon asked an important question: how the palm trees were kept at the perfect heights?🤣
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End of summer lab party two weeks ago. Found that “Dixit” is a great multiplayer game for a lab gathering. It’s less known so no one plays better than others. It’s image-based, imagination-opening and hypothesis-driven XD. The key is people of all backgrounds can play and laugh:
December 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
End of summer lab party two weeks ago. Found that “Dixit” is a great multiplayer game for a lab gathering. It’s less known so no one plays better than others. It’s image-based, imagination-opening and hypothesis-driven XD. The key is people of all backgrounds can play and laugh:
I want to put up this quote in the lab I learned from @YanlanMao ’s inspiring talk at #Dros22, hoping that it encourages students to come up with models and protects their sanity when they are overwhelmed by the complexity of biology😂
December 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
I want to put up this quote in the lab I learned from @YanlanMao ’s inspiring talk at #Dros22, hoping that it encourages students to come up with models and protects their sanity when they are overwhelmed by the complexity of biology😂
First time in-person meeting in like forever #Dros22 . We recruit at all ranks! Graduate student, postdoc and technician. Come to our posters to learn more: 608A, 617A and 669B.
Also advertising for a poster from Laurel Raftery’s student Keala: 433C.
Also advertising for a poster from Laurel Raftery’s student Keala: 433C.
December 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
First time in-person meeting in like forever #Dros22 . We recruit at all ranks! Graduate student, postdoc and technician. Come to our posters to learn more: 608A, 617A and 669B.
Also advertising for a poster from Laurel Raftery’s student Keala: 433C.
Also advertising for a poster from Laurel Raftery’s student Keala: 433C.
