Liming Wang
Rm 599 Nanosci Bldg, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058
Office: +86- Mobile: +86-**
E-Mail: lmwang83@zju.edu.cn


Education
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Sep, 2006 - Jun, 2011
PhD, Division of Biology
Thesis: the genetic and neural regulation of aggressive behavior in Drosophila
Peking University, Beijing, China Sep, 2001- Jul, 2005
BS, College of Life Sciences
Professional Experience
Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Jul, 2014 - Present
Professor and investigator (tenure-track)
Neural regulation of energy homeostasis
Lipid metabolism and disease models
Boston Consulting Group, Shanghai, China Aug, 2013 – Jul, 2014
Consultant for major local and multinational pharmaceutical companies
University of California, Berkeley, CA Jan, 2012 – Dec, 2013
Bowes Research Fellow (Principal Investigator) in the Dept. of Mol Cell Biol.
Investigating the neural regulation of energy homeostasis in fruit flies
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Jul, 2011- Dec, 2011
Visiting scholar
Developing zebrafish models of human metabolic disorders, including obesity and eating disorders
Academic Awards
The recruitment program of global youth experts (”1000-youth-talent” plan) 2014
The recruitment program of global experts, Zhejiang province (”Zhejiang 1000-talent” plan) 2014
Lawrence L. and Audrey W. Ferguson prize for outstanding doctoral thesis in biology 2011
Chinese government award for outstanding self-financed student abroad 2011
Li-Ming scholarship 2007
Shu-Juan scholarship 2004
President award for undergraduate research 2003
Publications (*corresponding authors)
1. Yang, Z., Yu, Y., Zhang, V. , Tian, Y., Qi, W. , and Wang, L.* Octopamine mediates starvation-induced
hyperactivity in adult Drosophila. Under revision in PNAS
2. Wang, L.* (2012). How sex prevents violence: the magic of caress (and GABA). Nature Neurosci. 17, 4-6
3. 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
4. Wang, L.* and Anderson, D. J.* (2010). Identification of an aggression-promoting pheromone and its
receptor neurons in Drosophila. Nature 463, 227-231
5. 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