Publications
Preprints/Submissions
Sunkavalli, P.S., Madara, J.C., Christenson, L.F., Diaz, A., Chen, C., Ravotto, L., Patriarchi, T., Andermann, M.L.†, Zhang, S.X.†, Slow-timescale regulation of dopamine release and mating drive over days, Biorxiv and in revision.
Liu, Z., Zhang, S.X., Rogulja, D., Behavioral thermoadaptation through acceleration of neuronal clocks, in post-revision review.
Pornice, M., Baker, J., Ausfahl, C.D., Zhang, S.X., Andermann, M.L., Obesity dysregulates feeding-evoked response dynamics in hypothalamic satiety neurons, submitted.
2025
Zhang, S.X.*†, Kim, A.*, Madara, J.C., Zhu, P.K., Christenson, L.F., Lutas, A., Kalugin, P.N., Sunkavalli, P.S., Jin, Y., Pal, A., Tian, L., Lowell, B.B., Andermann, M.L.† (2025) Stochastic neuropeptide signals compete to calibrate the rate of satiation, Nature. *Co-first authors; †Co-corresponding authors.
2022
Lutas, A., Fernando, K., Zhang, S.X., Sambangi, A., Andermann, M.L. (2022) History-dependent dopamine release increases cAMP levels in most basal amygdala glutamatergic neurons to control learning, Cell Reports, 38, 110297.
2021
Zhang, S.X., Lutas, A., Yang, S., Diaz, A., Fluhr, H., Nagel, G., Gao, S., Andermann, M.L. (2021) Hypothalamic dopamine neurons motivate mating through persistent cAMP signalling, Nature, 597, 245-249.
Zhang, S.X., Glantz, E.H., Miner, L.E., Rogulja, D., Crickmore, M.A. (2021) Hormonal control of motivational circuitry orchestrates the transition to sexuality in Drosophila, Science Advances, 7, abg6926.
Zhang, S.X., Marzluff, E.M., Lindgren, C.A. (2021) Quantitative Determination of Nitric Oxide from Tissue Samples Using Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry, MethodsX, 101412
2020
Thornquist, S.C., Langer, K., Zhang, S.X., Rogulja, D., Crickmore, M.A. (2020) CaMKII measures the passage of time to coordinate behavior and motivational state, Neuron, 105, 334-345.
2019
Zhang, S.X., Rogulja, D., Crickmore, M.A. (2019) Recurrent activity simultaneously sustains motivation and prepares for satiety, Current Biology, 29, 3216-3228.
2018
Zhang, S.X., Miner, L.E., Boutros, C.L., Rogulja, D, Crickmore, M.A. (2018) Motivation, perception, and chance converge to make a binary decision, Neuron, 99, 376-388.
2017
Boutros, C.L.*, Miner, L.E.*, Mazor, O., Zhang, S.X. (2017) Measuring and altering mating drive in male Drosophila melanogaster, Journal of Visualized Experiments, e55291-e55291. *Co-first authors
2016
Zhang, S.X., Rogulja, D., Crickmore, M.A. (2016) Dopaminergic circuitry underlying mating drive. Neuron, 91, 168-181.
2014
Bussell, J.J., Yapici, N., Zhang, S.X., Dickson, B.J., Vosshall, L.B. (2014) Abdominal-B Neurons Control Drosophila Virgin Female Receptivity. Current Biology, 24, 1584-1595.
“Near the surface of the star… we should expect to have a local observer see matter falling inward with a velocity very close to that of light; to a distant observer this motion will be slowed up by a factor (1—r0/rb).”
The two-observer narrative from this landmark paper is still used to teach black holes — they got the science and the writing right at the same time.
Oppenheimer J.R. and Snyder H. (1939) On Continued Gravitational Contraction. Phys. Rev. 56, 455-459.