Education experience

California Institute of Technology, 2006-2011

• Ph.D. (Ph.D.), department of Biology. Genetic and neurobiological mechanisms of social behavior in Drosophila

Peking University 2001-2005

• Bachelor of Science, College of Life Sciences

Work experience

Institute of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, 2014-present

• Professor, researcher, independent leadership Laboratory

• Research direction: neurobiological mechanism of metabolic regulation and metabolic diseases, disease model of lipid metabolism and drug screening

Boston Consulting Group Shanghai Office 2013-2014

• Consultant, specializing in strategic consulting services for local and multinational pharmaceutical companies

University of California, Berkeley (2011-2013

• Bowes is an independent laboratory leader who studies the neurobiological mechanisms of metabolic regulation and metabolic diseases

California Institute of Technology, 2011

• Visiting scholar, using zebrafish to build disease models of obesity and eating disorders in humans

Academic honor

• Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of National Natural Science Foundation of China 2015

• Hong Kong Qiushi Foundation Qiushi Outstanding Young Scholar Award 2015

• Wu Rui Foundation Gu Xiao-cheng Lecture Award 2015

• Zhejiang Science and Technology Association, Pineapple Shell Network Chemistry Award 2015

• Selected one of the 1,000 Young Professionals of organization Department of the CPC Central Committee 2014

• Zhejiang Thousand Talents Plan 2014, Organization Department of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee

• Lawrence L. and Audrey W. Ferguson, Caltech, For Best Thesis 2011

• Outstanding Self-funded International Student Award of China Scholarship Council 2011

Some invited academic reports

• Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore 2016

• Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (ASTAR), Singapore 2016

• Ludwig-Maximillans-Universitat, Munchen, Germany 2015

• Chinese Neuroscience Society Annual Conference, Wuzhen, China 2015

• Ray Wu Memorial Symposium, Wuhan, China 2015

• Circuth-international Conference for Neurons and Brain Diseases, Xian, China 2015

• Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 2015

• Novo Nordisk, Beijing, China 2015

• Peking University, Beijing, China 2015

• Frontiers in Neural Science and Metabolism, Shanghai, China 2014

Entomology Society of America Annual Conference, Portland, OR, USA 2014

Research Paper (* corresponding author)

• Ye, J., Chen, D., Yu., Y., and Wang, L.* (2017) Neuronal insulin receptor Mediates a positive feedback regulation of insulin biosynthesis in Drosophila

Yu, Y., Huang, R., Ye, J., Zhang, V., Wu, C., Cheng, G., Jia, J., and Wang, l. * (2016) Regulation of starvation - induced hyperactivity by insulin and glucagon signaling in adult Drosophila. ELife 5, e15693

• Qi, W., Yang, Z., Lin, Z., Park, JY., Suh, GBS., and Wang, L.* (2015) A quantitative feeding in adult

Drosophila reveals rapid modulation of food ingestion by its nutritional value. Mol. Brain 8, 1

Yang, Z., Yu, Y., Zhang, V., Tian, Y., Qi, W., and Wang, l. * (2015) Octopamine mediates starvation - induced hyperactivity in adult Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad tools. Sci. USA 112, 5219-5224

• Wang, L.* (2014). How sex Violence: the Magic of Caress (and GABA). Nature Neurosci. 17, 4-6

• Wang, L.*, Han, X., Mehren, J., Hiroi, M., Billeter, J-C., Miyamoto, T., Amrein, H., Levine, J. D. and Anderson, D. J.* (2011). Hierarchical chemosensory regulation of male-male social interactions in Drosophila. Nature Neurosci. 14, 757-762

• Wang, L.* and Anderson, D. J.* (2010). Identification of an Trivia-Promoting Pheromone and its receptor neurons in Drosophila. Nature 463, 227-231

• Dankert, H., Wang, L., Hoopfer, E. D., Anderson, D. J. * and Perona, P. * (2009). Automated Monitoring and Analysis of Social Behavior in Drosophila. Nature Methods 6, 297-303

• Wang, L., Dankert, H., Perona, P. and Anderson, D. J. * (2008). A  common  genetic  target for  environmental and heritable i nfluences on aggressiveness in Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 5657-5663

Science communication activities

Books: "The Biological Culture of Foodies: The Scientific Legend of Fat, Sugar, and Metabolic Diseases"

• Published in September 2016

• Introduce the scientific stories behind human health and disease, basic research and drug development in the context of major scientific discoveries in the study of fat, sugar and cholesterol metabolism

• 2016 National Library of China wenjin Book Award (one of the three popular Science works)

• 2016 CCTV "Good Books of China" finalists (one of the six popular Science works)

Books: God's Scalpel: A Brief History of Gene Editing

• Published in April 2017

• Open the hard shell of genetic science to reveal the historical process of human exploration of genetic secrets. Thinking about the past, present and future of humans at the molecular level

Public Science Lectures (Part)

• 5-episode short film series "The Scientific Legend of Diabetes" (major video websites)

• "One Seat" lecture "The Biology of Interstellar Voyage"

• Held more than 10 scientific lectures in middle schools, primary schools, libraries and science and technology museums

• Keynote speaker for "Captain Science", a children's science audio program (biology in cartoons)