#  News 

 



  [### How does infection change social behavior?

 ](/news/can-you-smell-smell) March 03, 2023 

 Work led by Yun Zhang, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, provides some insight into how pathogens change animal social behaviors. Harvard Gazette ... 

 

 

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   [### Taihong's paper in Nature.

 ](/news/taihongs-paper-nature-rbriefing-b) January 04, 2023 

 Congratulations to Taihong Wu for his paper on Worms exposed to virulent bacteria show changes in social behaviour. 

 

 

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   [### Forgetting, fast and slow

 ](/news/forgetting-fast-and-slow) April 13, 2022 

 Work led by Yun Zhang, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, shows C. elegans worms, a model organism for brain research, found that forgetting doesn’t reverse changes in the brain resulting from learning or erase them, as some theories... 

 

 

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   [### Congratulations to Taihong for his paper being accepted by Neuron!

 ](/news/congratulations-taihong-his-paper-being-accepted-neuron) September 21, 2019 

 Taihong's paper "Pheromones modulate learning by regulating the balanced signals of two insulin-like peptides" is out in Neuron. 

 

 

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   [### Welcome to Jingting!

 ](/news/welcome-jingting) September 21, 2019 

 Jingting Liang started as a first year graduate student in OEB. Welcome! 

 

 

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   [### Ana awarded the 2018 Dean's Competitive Fund 

 ](/news/ana-awarded-2018-deans-competitive-fund) August 06, 2018 

 Congrats to Ana Pereira for receiving the 2018 Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship. 

 

 

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   [### Xico's paper in Cell Reports

 ](/news/xicos-paper-cell) January 03, 2018 

 Congratulations to Xico Gracida for his paper on An Elongin-Cullin-SOCS Box Complex Regulates Stress-Induced Serotonergic Neuromodulation! 

 

 

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   [### He's Paper in Neuron

 ](/news/hes-paper-accepted-neuron) January 03, 2018 

 Congratulations to He Liu for his paper on Cholinergic Sensorimotor Integration Regulates Olfactory Steering! 

 

 

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   [### Congratulations Yun!

 ](/news/congratulations-yun) July 01, 2014 

 Congratulations to Prof. Yun Zhang for receiving tenure! 

 

 

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   [### Linking insulin to learning

 ](/news/linking-insulin-learning) February 26, 2013 

 Work led by Yun Zhang, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, shows how the pathway of insulin and insulinlike peptides plays a critical role in helping to regulate learning and memory. Full story in the Harvard Gazette here. 

 

 

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   [### Following the worm

 ](/news/following-worm) May 21, 2012 

 Harvard research examining the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans -- tiny, transparent worms -- suggest a path for investigations that may shed light on disorders such as schizophrenia. Full story in the Harvard Gazette here. 

 

 

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   [### Circuits of sense and sensibility

 ](/news/circuits-sense-and-sensibility%E2%80%99) January 01, 2012 

 A Harvard biologist succeeds in mapping a neural network for learned olfactory behavior, using a roundworm model to trace the dislike of a particular smell to the reaction that avoids it. Full story in the Harvard Gazette here. 

 

 

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##  Zhang Lab Spotlight 

 



  [### Meri Petollari

 ](/people/shuli-bigelow) <meripetollari@fas.harvard.edu>Faculty Administrator 

 

 

 

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