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William Allen
@weallen1
Biology of homeostasis & resilience. New tools to map + control cells. Asst prof @StanfordDevBio. @Harvard Junior Fellow, neuro Ph.D. @Stanford, MPhil @MRC_LMB
Stanford, CA
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    William Allen
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    Mar 8, 2024
    Very excited to announce that I'll be starting a laboratory studying the biology of homeostasis as an assistant professor in the Department of Developmental Biology (@DevBioStanford) at @Stanford in July! allenlabstanford.org
    http://www.allenlabstanford.org
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    William Allen
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    Nov 21, 2024
    In collaboration with Reuben Saunders, @JswLab, and Xiaowei Zhuang, we are very excited to release Perturb-Multi: a platform for pooled multimodal genetic screens in intact mammalian tissue. Check it out!
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    A platform for multimodal in vivo pooled genetic screens reveals regulators of liver function
    Organ function requires coordinated activities of thousands of genes in distinct, spatially organized cell types. Understanding the basis of emergent tissue function requires approaches to dissect...
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    William Allen
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    Nov 19, 2020
    Honored to be awarded the @ScienceMagazine and @scilifelab Prize for Young Scientists in Cell & Molecular Biology for my PhD work! Thanks to my my incomparable advisors @KarlDeisseroth and Liqun Luo science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65… 1/2
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    William Allen
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    Apr 4, 2019
    New paper out early today -- brainwide recording & optogenetic manipulation of how thirst regulates motivated behavior: science.sciencemag.org/content/early/… Thanks to a great team, and Liqun Luo + @KarlDeisseroth!
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    William Allen
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    Nov 8, 2023
    Excited to see Ethan Richman's tour de force study of homeostatic drive competition come out! Brain-wide Neuropixels + exciting new approaches for modeling internal states. With Liqun Luo and @KarlDeisseroth nature.com/articles/s4158…
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    William Allen
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    Jun 21, 2018
    New paper in Science today in collaboration with @XiaoWan38018817 : new sequencing technique for spatially resolved, three dimensional in situ measurements of >1000 genes' expression simultaneously, in mm-scale volumes of mouse brain science.sciencemag.org/content/early/…
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    William Allen
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    Nov 2, 2018
    Two awesome new integrative single-cell methods from labs of @satijalab and @macosko that find correspondences between different types of single-cell data: biorxiv.org/content/early/… … biorxiv.org/content/early/… … Beautiful use of our published 1k gene STARmap data!
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    William Allen
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    Sep 14, 2017
    New paper, first tweet: why do thirsty mice drink water? Collab with Michael Chen and Laura Wilke. #ThirstTRAP? science.sciencemag.org/content/357/63…
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    William Allen
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    Oct 28, 2020
    Thank you to @SfNtweets @MartyNemko and my amazing advisors @KarlDeisseroth and Liqun Luo!
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    Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
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    Oct 28, 2020
    Congratulations to Ashley E. Lepack (@ael04005) from @IcahnMountSinai and William Edward Allen (@weallen1) from @Harvard on winning the Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience! The Nemko Prize is supported by @MartyNemko. #SfNAwards20
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    William Allen
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    Mar 27, 2019
    Beautiful study of single-neuron homeostatic integration in MnPO during thirst satiation by Chris Zimmerman and @zaknight :
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    A gut-to-brain signal of fluid osmolarity controls thirst satiation
    Nature - Drinking behaviour in mice is regulated by a signal derived from the water and salt content of the gastrointestinal tract that is transmitted to forebrain neurons that control thirst via...
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    William Allen
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    Apr 2, 2020
    Super excited that an app for self-reported COVID-19 symptoms I've worked on for the past 3 weeks w/ @zhangf @8en @XihongLin @kinggary is now released! Please RT and try at howwefeel.org
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    Feng Zhang
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    Apr 2, 2020
    Excited to announce HowWeFeel, an open platform for helping us fight the pandemic. Grateful for collaboration w/ @8en @XihongLin @kinggary @ophirshalem @GreeneScientist @bitdrift @rpjb and many other great colleagues. Visit howwefeel.org. #COVID19Pandemic #coronavirus
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    William Allen
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    Feb 26, 2018
    Come to our #cosyne18 workshop on brain-wide activity dynamics and inter-area communication! Large-scale ephys, imaging, analysis, and theory: sites.google.com/view/cosyne-gl… Please RT!
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    William Allen
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    Oct 26, 2017
    21 years in the making, anterograde transsynaptic tracing in flies f/ Mustafa Talay, Ethan Richman, and Gilad Barnea cell.com/neuron/fulltex…
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    William Allen
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    Jun 14, 2018
    Spotted driving away from the Stanford CS department.