Automatic monitoring of whole-body neural activity in behaving Hydra

Kavli Affiliate: Rafael Yuste | Authors: Alison Hanson, Raphael Reme, Noah Telerman, Wataru Yamamoto, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin, Thibault Lagache and Rafael Yuste | Summary: The ability to record every spike from every neuron in a behaving animal is one of the holy grails of neuroscience. Here, we report coming one step closer towards this goal with […]


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Bypassing spike sorting: Density-based decoding using spike localization from dense multielectrode probes

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Churchland, Liam Paninski | Authors: Yizi Zhang, Tianxiao He, Julien Boussard, Charlie Windolf, Olivier Winter, Eric Trautmann, Noam Roth, Hailey Barrell, Mark M Churchland, Nicholas A Steinmetz, The International Brain Laboratory, Erdem Varol, Cole Hurwitz and Liam Paninski | Summary: Neural decoding and its applications to brain computer interfaces (BCI) are essential […]


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Dissociable roles of thalamic nuclei in the refinement of reaches to spatial targets

Kavli Affiliate: Rui Costa | Authors: Leslie J Sibener, Alice C Mosberger, Tiffany X Chen, Vivek R Athalye, James M Murray and Rui M Costa | Summary: Reaches are complex movements that are critical for survival, and encompass the control of different aspects such as direction, speed, and endpoint precision. Complex movements have been postulated […]


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Opposing, spatially-determined epigenetic forces impose restrictions on stochastic olfactory receptor choice

Kavli Affiliate: Stavros Lomvardas | Authors: Elizaveta Bashkirova, Nell Klimpert, Kevin Monahan, Christine Campbell, Jason Osinski, Longzhi Tan, Ira Schieren, Ariel Pourmorady, Rebecca Stecky, Gilad Barnea, Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Benjamin Shykind, Bianca Jones Marlin, Richard Gronostajski, Alexander Fleischmann and Stavros Lomvardas | Summary: Olfactory receptor (OR) choice represents an example of genetically hardwired […]


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Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording

Kavli Affiliate: Eiman Azim, Rui Costa | Authors: Bryce Chung, Muneeb Zia, Kyle A. Thomas, Jonathan A. Michaels, Amanda Jacob, Andrea Pack, Matthew J. Williams, Kailash Nagapudi, Lay Heng Teng, Eduardo Arrambide, Logan Ouellette, Nicole Oey, Rhuna Gibbs, Philip Anschutz, Jiaao Lu, Yu Wu, Mehrdad Kashefi, Tomomichi Oya, Rhonda Kersten, Alice C Mosberger, Sean O`Connell, […]


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maskNMF: A denoise-sparsen-detect approach for extracting neural signals from dense imaging data

Kavli Affiliate: Liam Paninski, Darcy Peterka | Authors: Amol Pasarkar, Ian Kinsella, Pengcheng Zhou, Melissa Wu, Daisong Pan, Jiang Lan Fan, Zhen Wang, Lamiae Abdeladim, Darcy S. Peterka, Hillel Adesnik, Na Ji and Liam Paninski | Summary: A number of calcium imaging methods have been developed to monitor the activity of large populations of neurons. […]


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Cell arrangement impacts metabolic activity and antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Min | Authors: Hannah Dayton, Julie Kiss, Mian Wei, Shradha Chauhan, Emily LaMarre, William Cole Cornell, Chase J. Morgan, Anuradha Janakiraman, Wei Min, Raju Tomer, Alexa Price-Whelan, Jasmine A Nirody and Lars E.P. Dietrich | Summary: Cells must access resources to survive, and the anatomy of multicellular structures influences this access. In […]


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Ultra-high density electrodes improve detection, yield, and cell type specificity of brain recordings

Kavli Affiliate: Nathaniel Sawtell, Liam Paninski | Authors: Zhiwen Ye, Andrew M. Shelton, Jordan R. Shaker, Julien Boussard, Jennifer Colonell, Sahar Manavi, Susu Chen, Charlie Windolf, Cole Hurwitz, Tomoyuki Namima, Federico Pedraja, Shahaf Weiss, Bogdan Raducanu, Torbjørn V. Ness, Gaute T. Einevoll, Gilles Laurent, Nathaniel B. Sawtell, Wyeth Bair, Anitha Pasupathy, Carolina Mora Lopez, Barun […]


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Neuromuscular Basis of Drosophila larval escape behavior

Kavli Affiliate: Elizabeth Hillman | Authors: Patricia C. Cooney, Yuhan Huang, Wenze Li, Dulanjana M. Perera, Richard Hormigo, Tanya Tabachnik, Isuru S. Godage, Elizabeth M.C. Hillman, Wesley B. Grueber and Aref A. Zarin | Summary: When threatened by dangerous or harmful stimuli, animals engage in diverse forms of rapid escape behaviors. In Drosophila larvae, one […]


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Mitochondrial protein FKBP8 captures PDZD8 to form mitochondria-ER contacts

Kavli Affiliate: Franck Polleux | Authors: Koki Nakamura, Saeko Aoyama-Ishiwatari, Takahiro Nagao, Mohammadreza Paaran, Christopher J. Obara, Yui Sakurai-Saito, Jake Johnston, Yudan Du, Shogo Suga, Masafumi Tsuboi, Makoto Nakakido, Kouhei Tsumoto, Yusuke Kishi, Yukiko Gotoh, Chulhwan Kwak, Hyun-Woo Rhee, Jeong Kon Seo, Hidetaka Kosako, Clint Potter, Bridget Carragher, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Franck Polleux and Yusuke Hirabayashi […]


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