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Wei Zhang
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2021-2026 · peak 3/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
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- GeneticsbioRxivPreprint
Drosophila Arc1 is required for metabolic resilience and developmental timing during dietary challenges
Wei Zhang, Lauren R. Schmitt, Kent A. Riemondy, Tânia Reis
This study shows that Arc1 in Drosophila regulates metabolic resilience and developmental timing in response to dietary changes by linking insulin signaling to metabolic and developmental gene expression.
DOI 10.64898/2026.04.14.718561 - BioinformaticsSciencePeer-reviewed✦ In-depth digest
Deep contrastive learning enables genome-wide virtual screening
Yinjun Jia, Bowen Gao, Jiaxin Tan…·Yanyan Lan
DrugCLIP, a contrastive dense-retrieval model for pockets and molecules, beats docking on DUD-E and LIT-PCBA and screened about 10,000 human AlphaFold2 proteins in 24 hours.
67 citationstop 1% - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
A heart releasing neuropeptide that synchronizes brain-heart regulation during courtship behavior
Hongyu Li, Shenjie Cheng, Yijun Niu…·Wei Zhang
The paper identifies a brain-heart axis that regulates mating states through neuropeptides in flies and mice, and develops a computational framework to decode these states from cardiac physiology.
5 citations - NeuroscienceeLifePeer-reviewed
Pharyngeal Mechanosensory Neurons Control Food Swallow in Drosophila melanogaster
Jierui Qin, Tingting Yang, Kexin Li…·Wei Zhang
This study identifies pharyngeal mechanosensory neurons in Drosophila that regulate food swallowing by coordinating cibarium filling and emptying through mechanotransduction channels.
7 citations - NeuroscienceeLifePeer-reviewed
Selfee: Self-supervised Features Extraction of animal behaviors
Yinjun Jia, Shuaishuai Li, Xuan Guo…·Wei Zhang
Selfee extracts comprehensive and discriminative features from raw animal behavior videos using self-supervised learning, enabling anomaly detection and temporal analysis.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Molecular Mechanisms for Frequency Specificity in a Drosophila Hearing Organ
Yufei Hu, Yinjun Jia, Tuantuan Deng…·Wei Zhang
The paper identifies molecular mechanisms for frequency specificity in Drosophila hearing by showing Brv1 and Pzl in lch5 neurons mediate specific frequency ranges, with Piezo2 function conserved across species.