Wendy Xueyi Wang

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

Enhanced axonal transport in large vertebrates: KIF5A adaptations in giraffes and pythons Efficient axonal transport is essential for neuronal function, particularly in species with exceptionally long axons. The Kinesin-1 motor protein KIF5A plays a key role in this process, but whether an...

Finally! (remember the famous 2022 ASCB poster and Twitter discussion) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really cool work by @don-b-arnold.bsky.social‬ - excited for the next generation of transsynaptic tracers and look forward to more intersections of synthetic biology and neuroscience

Same scope, same cells, same field of view. A different story, and very different me.

#FluorescenceFriday

The smallest red carpet ever. And it’s in a puddle.🤣🤣🤣

Bravo Canada 👏🏽

🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️

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Most days, I love the high-throughput nature of our work. Some days, I miss the low-throughput, qualitative nature of a past life.

#FluorescenceFriday #SciArt

As a student, I was perplexed by a field that dismissed qualitative, classical studies—the foundation we build upon—in favor of 'sexy' techniques. I first learnt about axonal beads through Cajal's drawings. I wonder what else we've forgotten. Cross-posting some images to bsky. #FluorescenceFriday

Learnt this #FluorescenceFriday about the original IHC paper—somehow only 1200 citations! Favorite quote this year “These studies have been interrupted by the war, but the..great utility of the method..urge us to record the experimental data so far accumulated." With my fav IHC image

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