Christopher Fang‐Yen

Christopher Fang-Yen's lab studies the tiny roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model to understand sleep, aging, and behavior at the level of neurons and genes. The group develops automated imaging, robotics, and optical tools to track worm movement, feeding, and light-scattering properties, and uses these methods to identify genes and neural circuits that control sleep, lifespan, and locomotion. Their work connects behavioral measurements with underlying molecular and neural mechanisms, often through custom-built technology for high-throughput experiments.

Publication output has declined somewhat from a peak in 2017, settling into a slower but steady pace of roughly 2-5 papers per year in recent years.

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