Bella Xu Ying
Neuroscience MSc @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Interested in motor control! Currently recording 🐸🧠 they/them
- New preprint! 📃 Here, we examine dopamine’s role in modulating fictive and real locomotion and find it acutely shifts the network towards tunneling motor programs in larval Drosophila.
- Dopamine promotes motor programs underlying substrate tunneling in larval Drosophila biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Very grateful to co-first author Jamie MacLeod, my usual suspects @maartenzwart.bsky.social and Stefan Pulver, and all the input we got at the recent Motor Control Meeting. Link to paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Recently gave a talk and presented a poster at the Motor Circuits Meeting 2025 in St Andrews! Must thank the committee for letting me help organise (+ attend for free...!). Great science, great people and great impatience to see everyone again
- Reposted by Bella Xu YingThank you @maartenzwart.bsky.social for sharing your experience of publishing with @bellaxuying.bsky.social in @jexpbiol.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with University of St Andrews. Read & Publish participating institutions: www.biologists.com/library-hub/... #OpenAccess
- Reposted by Bella Xu Ying🎙Hear about the experiences of our past IBRO/FUN travel awardees at #Neuroscience2024, and explore the 3 open #grants for #Neuroscience2025. Apply now! t.co/F26b6agvPi #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope @sfn.org
- Reposted by Bella Xu YingNow also covered by #FarmingToday on BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Beetles on the radio!
- Out today! A lovely story on how the larva of the red flour beetle moves - and infests stored food @jexpbiol.bsky.social
