Kavli Affiliate: Elaine Fuchs | Authors: Katherine S Stewart, Kevin AU Gonzales, Shaopeng Yuan, Matthew T Tierney, Alain R Bonny, Yihao Yang, Nicole R Infarinato, Christopher J Cowley, John M Levorse, H Amalia Pasolli, Sourav Ghosh, Carla V Rothlin and Elaine Fuchs | Summary: Macrophages and dendritic cells have long been appreciated for their ability […]
Kavli Affiliate: Joshua Vogelstein | Authors: Jaewon Chung, Eric W Bridgeford, Michael Powell, Derek Pisner and Joshua T Vogelstein | Summary: The heritability of human connectomes is crucial for understanding the influence of genetic and environmental factors on variability in connectomes, and their implications for behavior and disease. However, current methods for studying heritability assume […]
Kavli Affiliate: Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Nenad Sestan, Alex Pollen, Arnold Kriegstein | Authors: Li Wang, Kaifang Pang, Li Zhou, Arantxa Cebrian-Silla, Susana Gonzalez-Granero, Shaohui Wang, Qiuli Bi, Matthew L. White, Brandon Ho, Jiani Li, Tao Li, Yonatan Perez, Eric J. Huang, Ethan A Winkler, Mercedes F Paredes, Rothem Kovner, Nenad Sestan, Alex A. Pollen, Pengyuan Liu, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jin Kang, Dwight Bergles | Authors: Yung-Tian A. Gau, Eric Hsu, Jaepyeong Cha, Rebecca W. Pak, Loren L. Looger, Jin U. Kang and Dwight E. Bergles | Summary: Astrocytes are a direct target of neuromodulators and can influence neuronal activity on broad spatial and temporal scales through their close proximity to synapses. However, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Vincent Ferrera, Daphna Shohamy, Larry Abbott | Authors: Kenneth Kay, Natalie Biderman, Ramin Khajeh, Manuel Beiran, Christopher J Cueva, Daphna Shohamy, Greg Jensen, Xue-Xin Wei, Vincent P Ferrera and L F Abbott | Summary: Relational cognition — the ability to infer relationships that generalize to novel combinations of objects — is fundamental to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Rui Costa | Authors: Zena K Chatila, Archana Yadav, Jason Mares, Xena E Flowers, Taekyung D Yun, Mamunur Rashid, Ryan Talcoff, Zoe Pelly, Ya Zhang, Philip L De Jager, Andrew F Teich, Rui M Costa, Estela Area Gomez, Gabriela J Martins, Roy N Alcalay, Jean Paul Vonsattel, Vilas Menon, Elizabeth M Bradshaw and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ali H. Brivanlou | Authors: Riccardo De Santis, Eleni Rice, Gist Croft, Min Yang, Edwin A. Rosado-Olivieri and Ali H. Brivanlou | Summary: While studied extensively in model systems, human gastrulation remains obscure. This process starts upon blastocyst implantation into the uterine wall, which is assumed to occur after 14 days post-fertilization. The […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Joel E Brame, Craig Liddicoat, Catherine A Abbott, Robert A Edwards, Jake M Robinson, Nicolas E Gauthier and Martin F Breed | Summary: Butyrate-producing bacteria are found in many ecosystems and organisms, including humans, and are vital to ecosystem functionality and human health. These bacteria ferment organic matter, producing […]
Kavli Affiliate: Erich Jarvis | Authors: Matthew Davenport, Ha Na Choe, Hiroaki Matsunami and Erich D Jarvis | Summary: Zebra finches are sexually dimorphic vocal learners. Males learn to sing by imitating mature conspecifics, but females do not. Absence of song in females is associated with atrophy and apparent repression of several vocal learning brain […]
Kavli Affiliate: Rui Costa | Authors: Vivek Ravindra Athalye, Preeya Khanna, Suraj Gowda, Amy L Orsborn, Rui M Costa and Jose M Carmena | Summary: It has been proposed that the nervous system has the capacity to generate a wide variety of movements because it re-uses some invariant code. Previous work has identified that dynamics […]