Jiwei Zhang

The paper identifies genes regulating sleep-metabolism interactions in Drosophila LHLK neurons using single-cell sequencing and functional validation.

This study investigates the role of Neurofibromin 1 (Nf1) in regulating sleep depth and metabolic rate in Drosophila, finding that Nf1 deficiency disrupts sleep consolidation and gut homeostasis.

This study shows that loss of functional dpCry1 in monarch butterflies disrupts circadian eclosion and flight activity rhythms, but not temperature entrainment, indicating a unique role for dpCRY1 in light entrainment.

The paper applies a coarse-graining framework to model visual cortical dynamics using reduced-dimensional spatially-coupled ODEs, capturing a range of spatiotemporal neural activities without introducing new parameters.