Haolong
Zhu
Haolong Zhu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Science. Prior to this role, he was a Graduate Student with the affiliation to the CMDB graduate program at the Johns Hopkins University. His research centers on the animal foregut, the anterior portion of the animal digestive system. His research capitalizes on the fruit fly model to investigate the cellular and physiological organization of the fly foregut.
Research
The Ludington Lab investigates basic ecological principles in the context of gnotobiotic Drosophila melanogaster microbiomes in order to understand the complicated and often complex relationship between microbiome and host.
The Spradling Lab studies the biology of reproduction, particularly egg cells, which are able to reset the normally irreversible processes of differentiation and aging that govern all somatic cells—those that turn into non-reproductive tissues.