Jingru Sun

The paper compares sodium azide and cooling methods for immobilizing C. elegans in chemotaxis assays and finds both methods yield similar behavioral responses.

This study identifies AIA interneurons in C. elegans as critical for resolving infections by limiting ER stress and tissue damage after pathogen clearance.

The paper identifies cell-type-specific regulators of host defense in C. elegans neurons using single-type neuron transcriptomics, revealing genes critical for immune response that are missed in bulk RNA-seq.

This study shows that NMUR-1 in C. elegans neurons controls energy homeostasis and innate immune specificity through ATP regulation in response to bacterial pathogens.