Ni Feng
@fengni99
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Neurobiologist studying animal behavior and physiology. Assist Prof @Wesleyan_U. Non-model organisms, hormones, brain, & behavior. She/her
New Haven, CT
Joined April 2009
We are recruiting curious and creative students in our Biology PhD program at Wesleyan! Apps due Jan 10th.
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Our lab has been reading up on the evolution of torpor and hibernation, it's nice to see our intuitions supported by this rigorous study. Torpor & hibernation evolved independently multiple times in mammals and birds.
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RT @YaleNeuro: A new @ScienceMagazine study from @Yale's Gracheva Lab (Maddy Junkins, @fengni99, & @SlavBagria) explores the remarkable phy…
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RT @SlavBagria: How to survive without water for months without feeling thirsty? A new manuscript by Maddy Junkins in the Gracheva lab: htt…
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RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in a new Science study show that the thirteen-lined ground squirrel suppresses the need to quench its thir…
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RT @IDsignals: Face cells in a paper wasp!! Really stoked for this result by @PlasticPercep in the new lab pre-print in collaboration with…
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@SlavBagria A huge team effort by the "Drinking Team" in the Gracheva lab @YaleNeuro + @wesleyan_u student Genevieve 'Evie' Curtis ('24). Maddy Junkins (Gracheva lab) was also a Wes student ('16) mentored by the late John Kirn.
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RT @SlavBagria: Cold shuts down the CNS? In ground squirrels the hypothalamic-pituitary axis neurons are active even at 10°C, as we show by…
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