Associate Professor @ UNLV, cell and developmental biologist, cell shape change, mechanosensing, EMT, membraneless cell compartment!
Las Vegas, Nevada
Joined April 2022
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The official debut of MoJo labs at #2026SDB @SocDevBio Together we are growing fresh developmental biologists in the desert!
Developmental biologists are artistic biologists. Project arts from MoJo lab by Jade, Brandon and Jackie #2026SDB @SocDevBio should we have a tag art competition?
The Weng Lab, their agenda and faces 😎 at #2026SDB @SocDevBio. Also presenting is the high school teacher collaborator for my CAREER award. Come to our talks and posters to learn our cool science!
Student helpers from Weng lab: Reina, Yasong, Chase, Ming and Jade. I hope they help you enjoy the meeting while enjoying the meeting themselves. Thanks @SocDevBio for the opportunity!
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So much fun at the last dinner of #Dros25 @GeneticsGSA with @WengFlyLab and @JosephCampanale and our trainees. It was such a great meeting!
A very energetic talk about energid from my second year student Chase Yezzi 😎#DROS25
My brand new colleague @JosephCampanale presenting follower cells doing rear wheel drive in collective cell migration at my favorite fly meeting workshop Development Mechanics organized by Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @MartinLabMIT @TanentzapfLab
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Fly Bayou groups at #Dros25 @GeneticsGSA! Great to see many people in person. From a small, local joint lab meeting, we've grown to >30 labs in 11 states. Amazing fly community!
Weng lab members are presenting one talk and four posters at #DROS25. Come to see our new research from ventral furrow mechanics, to anterior midgut, to polarity protein Baz, to energid compartment. If you don’t know what “energid” is, come to Chase’ talk Friday 9AM Ballroom A/B.
Tenure was never the goal. Doing interesting science and raising future scientists are always the goals. Still, receiving a beautiful cake and sharing it with the lab during our energetic lab meeting, is a sweet feeling😌 Thank you everyone who believed in me.
It’s a great opportunity! I’ve been to DU for a seminar and was thoroughly impressed by the great scientists, interesting science, motivated students, and supportive environment. Don’t miss out!
Had the most hilarious holiday gift exchange thanks to the diverse choices of gifts. After some chaos and crisis, everything, from bathroom wire organizer to resurrection plant, seems to find its rightful owner. Pleasant surprise after crisis is what we scientists strive for😉.
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From MBoC
@WengFlyLab demonstrates that not only the presence but the level of adherens junctions is critical for apical constriction, and establishing specific patterns of junction levels promotes proper shape and boundary of epithelial folding.
doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E24-04-0…
Brought my younger students Chase, Durlin and Yasong to SCDB to see the “bigger world”. Thank you @scdb2024 for the travel awards and of course the fantastic meeting! So much to learn no matter which stage of career you are in!
Published: our study on a new Drosophila gene Moat shows strong polarity-based junctions allow weak myosin to promote productive apical constriction, leading to ectopic folding of ectodermal anterior midgut (ectoAMG). The ectopic folding requires Baz/Par3.
molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10.…
Very proud of this work. Many lab members worked on it including undergrads and postbac technicians, and postdoc Kun @gu_lingkun2024 brought it to a new direction and the eventual publication.