Ching On Wong

How do astrocytes receive orders from neurons? As we continue to elucidate the function of an understudied protein, called Tweety Homolog 1 (TTYH1), we have recently uncovered its role in … Read More

Our first glial-cell study has been published online in the journal Glia. During the investigation of the enigmatic Tweety homologs, we found that endolysosomal process and autophagy determine bioenergetic balance … Read More

We thank the National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences and the Office of The Director of the NIH for their support.

We are grateful for the support from the National Institute on Aging.

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow! More info here: <https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/198013>

We welcome Ben joining us as visiting scholar! He will be doing some flywork to study metabolism, neurodegeneration, and aging.

Andy is taking a scientist position at SAHMRI Australia. We had a little sendoff for him today. Andy, bon voyage!

Loss of Activity-Induced Mitochondrial ATP Production Underlies the Synaptic Defects in a Drosophila Model of ALS Nicholas E. Karagas, Richa Gupta, Elham Rastegari, Kai Li Tan, Ho Hang Leung, Hugo J. Bellen, Kartik Venkatachalam and Ching-On Wong Journal of Neuroscience 8 … Read More

Way to go, Yohana!

After a brief pause, we are all back to the bench!