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Ruibao Zhu

Tsinghua University

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Organism:Drosophila· 4 Approach:experimental assay· 4 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:CRISPR screen· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1 Assay:imaging· 1

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Embryonic dopaminergic neuron activity sustains lifelong locomotion in Drosophila

Aishwarya Padmanabhan, Daniel Rahman, Ruibao Zhu, Salah Khorbtli, Sarugan Sathianathan, Bastien Le Flohic, Lauren Assanga Bisse, Bertrand Mollereau, Cheng Huang, Nikolaos Konstantinides, Abdul-Raouf Issa

The paper shows embryonic dopamine neurons in Drosophila are essential for lifelong locomotion, maintaining function through structural remodeling and transcription factor expression.

Cell Reports · Jun 19, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Saline-free preparation for chronic in vivo imaging in adult Drosophila

Ruibao Zhu, Salah Khorbtli, Jingmin Zhang, Zhuchen Fu, Cheng Huang

This paper introduces a saline-free method for chronic in vivo brain imaging in adult Drosophila, enabling long-term tracking of neuronal activity over 7-10 days.

bioRxiv · Feb 19, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Large-scale transgenic Drosophila resource collections for loss- and gain-of-function studies

Jonathan D. Zirin, Yanhui Hu, Luping Liu, Donghui Yang‐Zhou, Ryan Colbeth, Dong Yan, Ben Ewen‐Campen, Rong Tao, Eric Vogt, Sara VanNest, Cooper Cavers, Christians Villalta, Aram Comjean, Jin Sun, Xia Wang, , Norbert Perrimon

The paper updates TRiP's RNAi and CRISPR fly stocks, presenting over 5,000 CRISPR-OE and -KO stocks for gene activation and knockout studies in Drosophila.

Genetics · Feb 18, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics

Next generation CRISPR/Cas9 transcriptional activation in Drosophila using flySAM

Yu Jia, Rong‐Gang Xu, Xingjie Ren, Ben Ewen‐Campen, Rajendhran Rajakumar, Jonathan D. Zirin, Donghui Yang‐Zhou, Ruibao Zhu, Fang Wang, Decai Mao, Ping Peng, Huanhuan Qiao, Xia Wang, Luping Liu, Bowen Xu, , Jian‐Quan Ni

This paper introduces flySAM, a CRISPRa tool for Drosophila that improves effectiveness, scalability, and ease-of-use compared to existing methods.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Apr 16, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics