WESLEYAN- FENG LAB

• Porczak AE., Feng NY. 2025. Hibernation as a model for skeletal muscle preservation. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

• Park S#, Curtis G#*, Feng NY. 2025. Food Hoarding, Anxiety, and Stress in a Mammalian Hibernator. Integrative And Comparative Biology

YALE- GRACHEVA LAB

• Junkins MS, Feng NY, Merriman DK, Bagriantsev SN, Gracheva EO. 2024. Suppression of neurons in circumventricular organs enables months-long survival without water in thirteen-lined ground squirrels. Science

• Junkins MS#, Feng NY#‡, Murphy LA, Curtis G*, Merriman DK, Bagriantsev SN, Gracheva EO‡. 2024. Neural control of fluid homeostasis is engaged below 10°C in hibernation. Current Biology

  • ‡Co-Corresponding author

  • Our work has been featured by the Transmitter and Popular Science

• Feng NY, Junkins MS, Bagriantsev SN, Gracheva EO. 2019. Osmolyte depletion and thirst suppression allow hibernators to survive for months without water. Current Biology 29:3053-3058.

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  • Highlighted in dispatch by Dr. Sandra Martin & in Science

CORNELL- BASS LAB

• Tripp JA#, Feng NY#, Bass AH. 2021. To hum or not to hum: Neural transcriptome signature of courtship vocalization in a teleost fish. Genes, Brain and Behavior, e12740.

• Feng NY, Marchaterre MA, Bass, AH. 2019. Melatonin receptor expression in sensory, audio-vocal, and neuroendocrine centers in a highly vocal fish. Journal of Comparative Neurology.

• Bass AH, Rice AN, Feng NY. 2018. Singing Behavior in Fishes: Hormones, Neurons, and Evolution. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior 2nd edition.

• Liao C*, Feng NY, Bass AH. 2018. Antioxidant gene expression in vocal hindbrain of a teleost fish. bioRxiv 354977.

• Tripp JA, Feng NY, Bass AH. 2018. Behavioral tactic predicts preoptic-hypothalamic gene expression more strongly than developmental morph in fish with alternative reproductive tactics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 285: 20172742.

• Feng NY and Bass AH. 2017. Neural, hormonal, and genetic mechanisms of alternative reproductive tactics: vocal fish as model systems. In: Hormones, Brain, and Behavior 3rd Edition (D. Pfaff, M. Joëls, A. Auger, C. Auger, S. Lightman, J. Balthazart, R. de Kloet and G. Gonzalez-Mariscal, Eds.) Elsevier.

• Feng NY, Bass, AH. 2016. ‘Singing’ fish rely on circadian rhythm and melatonin for the timing of nocturnal courtship vocalization. Current Biology 26, 1–9.

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  • Recommended by Faculty of 1000

• Feng NY, Fergus DJ, Bass AH. 2015. Neural transcriptome reveals molecular mechanisms for temporal control of vocalization across multiple timescales. BMC Genomics. 16: 417.

• Fergus DJ, Feng NY, Bass AH. 2015. Gene expression underlying enhanced, steroid-dependent auditory sensitivity of hair cell epithelium in a vocal fish. BMC Genomics. 16:782. 

• Bass AH, Chagnaud BP, Feng NY. 2015. Comparative Neurobiology of Sound Production in Fishes. Sound Communication in Fishes. Animal Signals and Communication. Vienna: Springer Vienna, Vol. 4. pp. 35–75.

• Feng NY, Bass AH. 2014. Melatonin action in a midbrain vocal-acoustic network. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 1046-1057. 

UCLA- SCHLINGER LAB

• Barske J, Fusani L, Wikelski M, Feng NY, Santos M, Schlinger BA. 2014. Energetics of the acrobatic courtship in male golden-collared manakins (Manacus vitellinus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281: 20132482. 

• Fuxjager MJ, Schultz D, Barske J, Feng NY, Fusani L, Mirzatoni A, Day LB, Hau M, Schlinger BA. 2012. Spinal motor and sensory neurons are androgen targets in an acrobatic bird. Endocrinology 153(8): 3780-3791.

• Katz A, Oyama RK, Feng N, Chen X, Schlinger BA. 2010. 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 in zebra finch brain and peripheral tissues. General and Comparative Endocrinology 166(3): 600-605. 

• Feng NY, Katz A, Day LB, Barske J, Schlinger BA. 2010. Limb muscles are androgen targets in an acrobatic tropical bird. Endocrinology 151(3): 1042-1049.

  • Featured in: Endocrine News, “Testosterone Could Fuel Athletic Avian Displays”, Feb 2010.