Amanda Xu
manduh21.bsky.social
Amanda Xu
@manduh21.bsky.social
Undergraduate researcher in Bing Ye lab at U-M 💙💛 Drosophilist, mouse and worm enthusiast, aspiring scientist 👩🏻‍🔬
Reposted by Amanda Xu
Beautiful new work by @manduh21.bsky.social and our team! Clumsy, a kainate-type glutamate receptor, mediates noxious cold sensation and cold behavioral avoidance in fruit flies. This expands our prior work demonstrating this class of receptors also functions as a cold receptor in worms and mammals.
Cold sensing by a glutamate receptor drives avoidance behavior in Drosophila larvae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.05.680544v1
October 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by Amanda Xu
New preprint with @manduh21.bsky.social ! 🎉 We introduce LabGym, an open-source AI platform for analyzing C. elegans behavior.🪱

LabGym makes worm behavior analysis accurate, customizable, and accessible, no coding or costly setup required.
Automated analysis of C. elegans behavior by LabGym: an open-source, AI-powered platform https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.28.672961v1
September 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Reposted by Amanda Xu
Worm meeting bucketlist:
✅ Photo with Nobel laureate (and @manduh21.bsky.social)

Thank you Dr. Ambros, for spending time with early stage scientists!

I love this community 🪱 #Worm25
July 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM