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Yu-Young Wesley Tsai

Howard Hughes Medical InstituteORCID 0000-0002-3690-9609Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Neuroscience· 2 Animal Behavior & Cognition· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Assay:imaging· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:mouse· 1

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Amanda Arnold· 2 shared Ishmail Abdus-SabooriD· 2 shared Phalaen Chang· 2 shared Ryan SchwarkiD· 2 shared Simon OgundareiD· 2 shared William FosteriD· 2 shared Andrew J. DworkiD· 1 shared Caleb WeinrebiD· 1 shared

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Spontaneous behavior predicts colony membership, individual identity, and rank in naked mole-rat societies

Yuki Haba, Ryan Schwark, Caleb Weinreb, Simon Ogundare, William Foster, Yu-Young Wesley Tsai, Jerry Lyu, Mayssam Mohamed, Phalaen Chang, Amanda Arnold, Evan Schaffer, Kanaka Rajan, Sandeep Robert Datta, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

bioRxiv · Oct 2, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition

Scalable projected Light Sheet Microscopy for high-resolution imaging of living and cleared samples

Yannan Chen, Shradha Chauhan, Cheng Gong, Hannah T. Dayton, Cong Xu, Estanislao Daniel De La Cruz, Yu-Young Wesley Tsai, Malika S. Datta, Gorazd B. Rosoklija, Andrew J. Dwork, Joseph John Mann, Maura Boldrini, Kam W. Leong, Lars E. P. Dietrich, Raju Tomer

This paper introduces a cost-effective, scalable light sheet microscopy framework for high-resolution imaging of living and cleared samples, demonstrating its application on various biological samples.

Nature Biomedical Engineering · Aug 29, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Social touch shapes communication and animal recognition in naked mole-rats

Ryan Schwark, Simon Ogundare, Preston Sheng, William Foster, Phalaen Chang, Yu-Young Wesley Tsai, Amanda Arnold, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

This study shows that face touch is a key social behavior in naked mole-rats linked to social recognition, with molecular and behavioral evidence supporting its importance.

bioRxiv · Feb 21, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience