Kavli Affiliate: Scott Small | Authors: Scott T Small, Carlo Costantini, N’Fale Sagnon, Moussa W Guelbeogo, Scott J Emrich, Andrew D Kern, Michael C Fontaine and Nora J Besansky | Summary: Abstract Local adaptation results in the formation of ecotypes–conspecific groups with heritable differences that increase fitness to distinct environments. The adaptive significance of ecotypes […]

Kavli Affiliate: Ann McDermott | Authors: Xu Yi, Keith Fritzsching, Rivkah Rogawski, Yunyao Xu and Ann E McDermott | Summary: While low temperature NMR holds great promise for the analysis of unstable samples and for sensitizing NMR detection, spectral broadening in frozen protein samples is a common experimental challenge. One hypothesis explaining the additional linewidth […]

Kavli Affiliate: Ann McDermott | Authors: Xu Yi, Lichirui Zhang, Richard Friesner and Ann E McDermott | Summary: NMR chemical shifts provide a sensitive probe of protein structure and dynamics. Prediction of shifts, and therefore interpretation of shifts, particularly for the frequently measured amidic 15N sites, remains a tall challenge. We demonstrate that protein 15N […]

Kavli Affiliate: Ann McDermott | Authors: Yizhuo Yang, Keith Fritzsching, Sasha He and Ann E McDermott | Summary: T-Cell Intracellular Antigen-1 (TIA1) is a 43 kDa multi-domain RNA-binding protein involved in stress granule formation during eukaryotic stress response, and has been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases including Welander distal myopathy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. TIA1 contains […]

Kavli Affiliate: Kenneth Miller | Authors: Agostina Palmigiano, Francesco Fumarola, Daniel P. Mossing, Nataliya Kraynyukova, Hillel Adesnik and Kenneth Miller | Summary: The visual cortex receives non-sensory inputs containing behavioral and brain state information. Here we propose a parallel between optogenetic and behavioral modulations of activity and characterize their impact on cell-type-specific V1 processing under […]

Kavli Affiliate: Steven Siegelbaum | Authors: Christos Panagiotis Lisgaras, Azahara Oliva, Sam Mckenzie, John LaFrancois, Steven A. Siegelbaum and Helen E. Scharman | Summary: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is characterized by spontaneous recurrent seizures, abnormal activity between seizures, and impaired behavior. CA2 pyramidal neurons (PNs) are potentially important because inhibiting them with a chemogenetic approach […]

Kavli Affiliate: Rene Hen | Authors: Sebnem N. Tuncdemir, Andres D. Grosmark, Hannah Chung, Victor M. Luna, Clay O. Lacefield, Attila Losonczy and Rene Hen | Summary: Abstract The hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) exhibits a unique form of neural plasticity that results from continuous integration of adult born neurons, referred to as ‘adult neurogenesis’. Recent […]

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Hawkins | Authors: Wenchao Gu, Sijin Luozhong, Ketaki Londhe, Nadine Elkasri, Simian Cai, Robert Hawkins, Zhefan Yuan, Kai Su-Greene, Margaret Cruz, Yu-Wei Chang, Patrick McMullen, Chunyan Wu, Changwoo Seo, Akash Guru, Wenting Gao, Tara Sarmiento, Chris Schaffer, Nozomi Nishimura, Richard Cerione, Melissa Warden, Robert Langer and Shaoyi Jiang | Summary: Abstract Systemic […]

Kavli Affiliate: Attila Losonczy | Authors: John C Bowler and Attila Losonczy | Summary: Summary The entorhinal cortex (EC) is central to the brain’s navigation system. Its subregions are conventionally thought to compute dichotomous representations for spatial processing: medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) provides a global spatial map, while lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) encodes specific sensory […]

Kavli Affiliate: Steven Siegelbaum | Authors: Tobias Bock, Eric W Buss, Olivia M Lofaro, Felix W Leroy, Bina Santoro and Steven A Siegelbaum | Summary: Abstract Hyperpolarization-activated, cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels generate the cationic Ih current in neurons and regulate the excitability of neuronal networks. The function of HCN channels depends, in part, on their […]