Ding Liu

My Own Lab at Westlake University is OPEN! We are recruiting cool people at all levels NOW! By tinkering behaviors and neural circuits in distinct animal species (mouse, sugar glider, etc), we are exploring new ways of doing social neuroscience in vivo, in silico and at home!

(1/3) Excited to introduce our new GRAB sensors for a series of steroid hormones! These tools enable real-time detection of steroid hormone dynamics in vivo🐭🧠.Happy to share these sensors and welcome any feedback!Please contact yulonglilab2018@gmail.com for information.

@yulonglilab Very useful tools!!!

@HaoSheng265720 Awesome work! Congrats Hao!!

🎉 Excited to share that my PhD work is now published in Nature! We used embryonic development to implant ultrasoft electronics into the brain—enabling non-invasive, stable, high-res neural recording throughout development. 📄 nature.com/articles/s4158… (Fig. 1-4 posted here)

1/ Doing bioinformatics is not just crunching numbers. It’s running experiments—just like a wet lab scientist does. But with code.

1\ 🧠How do dynamic processes shape behavior in a changing world? Join our #cosyne2025 workshop, The Dynamic Brain: Modeling Time-Varying Computations Underlying Natural and Innate Behaviors! Co-organized with @neuronair @BaselessPursuit @scott_linderman and David Anderson

Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the Trump administration Are you thinking about leaving? go.nature.com/41sQ470

@Ella_Maru @DulacLab Thank you, Ella! Oxytocin is indeed important, but not the whole story. There might be other parallel pathways.

@dingliuabc @DulacLab Congratulations Ding! Is oxytocin the master switch between social craving and satiety?

I'm really excited to introduce our new paper @DulacLab on the neurobiological original of "sociality" (the need of being together), recently published in Nature (see detailed digest below). nature.com/articles/s4158…

@Jess_Osterhout @DulacLab Thank you, Jessica! 🥰

@dingliuabc @DulacLab Congratulations Ding!!!!

Dulac Lab Identifies “Loneliness” Neurons in the Hypothalamus @DulacLab @dingliuabc @Harvard @harvardbrainsci @MMostafizur_R @zurisullivan @mztalay @brandon_logeman @LechenQ @naoshigeuchida @HHMINEWS @RachelleGaudet mcb.harvard.edu/department/new…

And the colleagues from the Dulac lab: @ Mostafizur Rahman, @ Autumn Johnson, @ Zuri Sullivan, @ Nicolai Pena, @ Mustafa Talay, @ Brandon Logeman, @ Samantha Finkbeiner, @ Lechen Qian, @ Athena Capo-Battaglia.

Thank all the collaborators and lab members for their contribution and superb teamwork: @naoshigeuchida, @ Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida, @ Ryunosuke Amo, @ Iku Tsutsui-Kimura, @ David Ginty, @SSebastianChoi, @IshmailSaboor.

@neurobenjamin @WashUNeurology @jonykipnis @kipnislab @PennMedicine Well deserved!! Congratulations!

I feel extremely honored to receive this award from @WashUNeurology. Very thankful for all the support from @jonykipnis and @kipnislab, and excited to start my lab at @PennMedicine. I am also looking forward to visiting WashU again soon!

663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…