The mechanotransduction channel Piezo2 refines axonal projections to the accessory optic system and regulates the optokinetic reflex

Posted by dbos Hopkins, This Week: Neuroscience

Kavli Affiliate: Alex Kolodkin | Authors: Natalie R Hamilton, Victoria N Neckles, Timour Al-Khindi, Nitya Donthi, Shun Mizutori, Renata Fu, James K Kiraly, Bea C Winship, Alex L Kolodkin and Karina Chaudhari | Summary: The optokinetic reflex (OKR) is an evolutionarily conserved reflexive behavior that ensures image stabilization on the retina during global motion. It […]


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Pseudo-superconducting-diode effect in ferroelectric Josephson junctions

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Kavli Affiliate: Mazhar Ali | Summary: The superconducting diode effect (SDE), characterized by unequal critical supercurrents in opposite current directions, enables supercurrent rectification. We propose a magnetic-field-free pseudo-superconducting-diode effect in ferroelectric Josephson junctions with broken inversion symmetry. Using a coupled dynamical model that combines a polarization-dependent RCSJ description with Landau-Khalatnikov-Tani ferroelectric dynamics, we show that […]


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High-Performance Real-Time Implicit Strand-Based Hair Rendering via Software Rasterization

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Kavli Affiliate: Michael Wimmer | Summary:In this work we propose an efficient deferred software rasterization pipeline for real-time rendering of strand-based hair using hair meshes. Hair plays a crucial role in creating expressive 3D characters, yet strand-based approaches are often restricted to high-end hardware and typically applied to only a small number of hero characters. […]


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