September 2026 – Kavli Institute Pre-Print Publications

Multi-Omic, Multi-Tissue Responses to Acute Exercise in Sedentary Adults: Findings from the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium

Posted by dbos September 30, 2026October 12, 2026Hopkins

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Miller | Authors: MoTrPAC Study Group, Daniel H. Katz, Christopher A. Jin, Gina M. Many, Gregory R. Smith, Hasmik Keshishian, Natalie M. Clark, Gayatri Iyer, Cheehoon Ahn, Malene E. Lindholm, Tyler J. Sagendorf, David Amar, Jacob L. Barber, Anna R. Brandt, Paul M. Coen, Yongchao Ge, Patrick Hart, Fang-Chi Hsu, Byron C. […]

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Hypoxia Disrupts Multiple Processes Supporting Spatial Navigation

Posted by dbos September 30, 2026October 12, 2026Rockefeller

Kavli Affiliate: Michael W. Young | Authors: Daniel J McKeown, Heiki M Bahnson-Wright, Trinity Caldwell, Madeliene Marks, Georgia R Marshall, Holly Newton, Dylan Stenholm, Michael Young, Douglas J Angus and Victor R Schinazi | Summary: Hypoxia impairs cognitive function, yet its effects on navigation and intrinsic brain activity remain poorly understood. This study investigated whether […]

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Adversity severity shapes caregiving predictors and neural correlates of infant social behavior

Posted by dbos September 30, 2026October 12, 2026Hopkins

Kavli Affiliate: Maya Opendak | Authors: Allison Su, Elaina Regier, Chloe Lim, Isaac McKie, Ben Perez-Flesler, Vishal Win, Isabellah Nikitah, Damaris Chacon, Brianna C. Bullock, Lucy Sparks Mendez, Keita Fogus, Kellie L.K. Tamashiro, Patrese A. Robinson and Maya Opendak | Summary: Early-life adversity is associated with highly variable developmental outcomes, but identifying sources of this […]

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Pervasive Somatic Mutations in NF1 Drive Cell Type and Spatially Specific Clonal Selection in Neurofibromatosis

Posted by dbos September 30, 2026October 12, 2026Hopkins

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Miller | Authors: Daniel A Snellings, Kow Essuman, Benjamin Finander, Eitan Goodman, Christie Cambridge, Jannis Buecking, Brian Chhouk, Chunhui Cai, Liang Sun, Urmi Ghosh, Michael B. Miller and Christopher A. Walsh | Summary: Tumorigenesis is a multi-step process shaped by the accumulation of somatic driver mutations, but identifying the earliest steps and […]

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Sugarcane’s drought memory legacy: how past stress shapes future resilience

Posted by dbos September 30, 2026October 12, 2026UCSD / Salk

Kavli Affiliate: Gabriel Silva | Authors: Maria Dolores Pissolato, Tamires Silva Martins, Marcela Trevenzoli Miranda, Gabriel Silva Pires, Rafael L. Almeida, Larissa Prado Cruz, Leonardo Perez Sousa, Adilson P. Domingues-Jr, Eduardo Caruso Machado, Alisdair R Fernie and Rafael Ribeiro | Summary: Plants frequently experience recurrent drought events separated by periods of rehydration. Although drought […]

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Strongly coupled ultracompressed self-cavity plasmon polaritons at millikelvin temperatures

Posted by klaurent September 30, 2026October 12, 2026Cornell

Kavli Affiliate: Debanjan Chowdhury | Summary:Van der Waals heterostructures exhibit self-cavity resonances from sub-terahertz to terahertz frequencies and thus offer an attractive route toward realizing cavity-modified phases of matter. Spectroscopy of such systems calls for high frequency resolution at millikelvin temperatures, which is extremely challenging with existing methods. Here we demonstrate a new platform for […]

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Which Milky Way Streams Make the Best Dark Matter Detectors?

Posted by klaurent September 30, 2026October 12, 2026Stanford

Kavli Affiliate: Risa Wechsler | Summary:The abundance and properties of low-mass dark matter subhalos can be inferred by measuring the density and velocity structure of stellar streams, testing physical models of dark matter. Which streams make the most promising dark matter detectors, and which subhalos would they encounter? We use the semi-analytic model galacticus to […]

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Design of Mechanically Compliant Membrane Reflectors for Giant Optical Phase Nonlinearity

Posted by klaurent September 30, 2026October 12, 2026Caltech

Kavli Affiliate: Harry Atwater | Summary:Optical nonlinearities arise when the response of a photonic system depends on light intensity. Radiation pressure can create such a nonlinearity by moving a mechanically compliant reflector, thereby shifting the phase of the reflected light. Based on measured properties, we predict a giant phase responsivity of 263 rad W$^-1$ and […]

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Interpreting the High-Recoil LUX-ZEPLIN Event with Bino-/Singlino-like and Higgsino Dark Matter

Posted by klaurent September 30, 2026October 12, 2026Chicago

Kavli Affiliate: Carlos Wagner | Summary:The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has recently reported a nuclear-recoil candidate at $E_Rsimeq248$ keV. We study two supersymmetric interpretations based on distinct neutralino couplings to the $Z$ boson. In the elastic case, a bino- or singlino-like neutralino scatters through a diagonal axial $Z$ coupling set by the Higgsino asymmetry $X=|N_13|^2-|N_14|^2$ rather […]

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Improved Constraints on Cosmic Microwave Background Circular Polarization with CLASS

Posted by klaurent September 30, 2026October 12, 2026Chicago

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey McMahon | Summary:We present improved constraints on circular polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) experiment using data at 90, 150, and 220 GHz to complement previous results based on 40 GHz data alone. We extend constraints on circular polarization from the atmosphere to […]

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