Bin Qi

Sep 5, 2024 | elifesciences.org | Pengfei Liu |Xinyi Liu |Bin Qi |Juan Gomez |Juan Gómez

eLife assessment This valuable work uses unbiased approaches to discover critical molecules in C. elegans and its bacterial food for nutrition sensing and food choice, providing a framework for other studies. The data convincingly support their model that C. elegans uses UPRER and immune response pathways to evaluate sugar contents in the bacteria to change their behaviors.

Apr 15, 2024 | nature.com | Bin Qi

AbstractFood availability and usage is a major adaptive force for the successful survival of animals in nature, yet little is known about the specific signals that activate the host digestive system to allow for the consumption of varied foods. Here, by using a food digestion system in C. elegans, we discover that bacterial peptidoglycan (PGN) is a unique food signal that activates animals to digest inedible food.