Bill Jia
Assistant Researcher
Physiology
School of Medicine

Publications (11)

Top publication keywords:
ZebrafishCell DivisionLuminescent ProteinsHeartHeart RateNodal ProteinSingle-Cell AnalysisElectrophysiologyEmbryo, NonmammalianEmbryonic DevelopmentCalciumProteinsZebrafish ProteinsOptogeneticsAction Potentials

• Optogenetic control of Nodal signaling patterns.
  Development (Cambridge, England) 2025 McNamara HM, Guyer AM, Jia BZ, Parot VJ, Dobbs CD, Schier AF, Cohen AE, Lord ND
• Far-red fluorescent genetically encoded calcium ion indicators.
  Nature communications 2025 Dalangin R, Jia BZ, Qi Y, Aggarwal A, Sakoi K, Drobizhev M, Molina RS, Patel R, Abdelfattah AS, Zheng J, Reep D, Hasseman JP, GENIE Project Team, Zhao Y, Wu J, Podgorski K, Tebo AG, Schreiter ER, …
• Luminos: open-source software for bidirectional microscopy.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Itkis DG, Brooks FP, Davis HC, Hotter R, Wong-Campos JD, Qi Y, Jia BZ, Howell M, Xiong M, Hayward RF, Lee BH, Wang Y, Perelman RT, Cohen AE
• Swimming motions evoke Ca2+ events in vascular endothelial cells of larval zebrafish via mechanical activation of Piezo1.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Jia BZ, Tang X, Rossmann MP, Zon LI, Engert F, Cohen AE
• Neural plate pre-patterning enables specification of intermediate neural progenitors in the spinal cord.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Nandagopal S, Cha A, Jia BZ, Liao H, Comenho C, Lahav G, Wagner DE, Tsai TY, Megason SG

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• Zebrafish glial-vascular interactions progressively expand over the course of brain development.
  iScience 2024 Gall LG, Stains CM, Freitas-Andrade M, Jia BZ, Patel N, Megason SG, Lacoste B, O'Brown NM
• Cell state transitions are decoupled from cell division during early embryo development.
  Nature cell biology 2024 Kukreja K, Jia BZ, McGeary SE, Patel N, Megason SG, Klein AM
• Optogenetic control of Nodal signaling patterns.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 McNamara HM, Jia BZ, Guyer A, Parot VJ, Dobbs C, Schier AF, Cohen AE, Lord ND
• A bioelectrical phase transition patterns the first vertebrate heartbeats.
  Nature 2023 Jia BZ, Qi Y, Wong-Campos JD, Megason SG, Cohen AE
• Time-tagged ticker tapes for intracellular recordings.
  Nature biotechnology 2023 Lin D, Li X, Moult E, Park P, Tang B, Shen H, Grimm JB, Falco N, Jia BZ, Baker D, Lavis LD, Cohen AE
• Spatial heterogeneity of cell-matrix adhesive forces predicts human glioblastoma migration.
  Neuro-oncology advances 2020 Rezk R, Jia BZ, Wendler A, Dimov I, Watts C, Markaki AE, Franze K, Kabla AJ