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Jun-Liszt Li

@poppingjun

👨‍🔬Postdoc at @DMSabatini lab, @IOCBPrague, PhD at @PKU1898, Tool dev🔑; Cell growth control (vascular, neuron), Signal transduction🧬⌬; 🎶/art.
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Jun-Liszt Li @poppingjun
Discovery of ChR2 and development of Optogenetics! Can’t be more familiar with the history that made a big change in neuroscience field!
The Nobel Prize Verified account @NobelPrize Oct 5
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Jun-Liszt Li @poppingjun
Thrilled to see Dr. Yanagisawa awarded the Lasker Prize! 🏆
Back in late 2018, as a PhD student, I had the privilege of picking him up at the airport. I still vividly remember our chat about his landmark work in the late 90s/2000s—using HPLC tissue fractions to deorphan GPCRs.
Lasker Foundation Verified account @LaskerFDN Sep 19
Masashi Yanasigawa shares moments from early on in his career—and the power of friendly competition with the late David Mangelsdorf at UT Southwestern.

🎬 Watch a clip from Yanagisawa’s #Lasker2026 acceptance speech:
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Jun-Liszt Li @poppingjun
Congrats! There are two alumni from Peking University @PKU1898 !
Simons Foundation Verified account @SimonsFdn Jul 23
During today's #ICM2026 opening ceremonies, the IMU announced the 2026 Fields Medals recipients:

@UChicago's Yu Deng, @stonybrooku's John Pardon, @UofT's Jacob Tsimerman, and Hong Wang of @nyuniversity and @Institut_IHES.

Read more: bit.ly/4psOJbU
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