Kavli Affiliate: Vikram Chib | Authors: Salma Khatib, Vikram S. Chib and Firas Mawase | Summary: Motivational state plays a critical role in our ability to learn new motor skills; however, the mechanisms by which motivation influences motor learning are poorly understood. Using a motor learning paradigm in which motivation was varied in a trial-by-trial […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Miller | Authors: Jamil Mahmud, Brittany W Geiler, Juthi Biswas, Michael J Miller, Julia E Myers, Stephen M Matthews, Amanda B Wass, Christine M O’Connor and Gary C Chan | Summary: Establishing a non-productive quiescent/silent infection within monocytes is essential for spread of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). Yet, how HCMV establishes a quiescent […]
Kavli Affiliate: Keri Martinowich | Authors: Lukas M Weber, Heena R Divecha, Matthew N Tran, Sang Ho Kwon, Abby Spangler, Kelsey D Montgomery, Madhavi Tippani, Rahul Bharadwaj, Joel E Kleinman, Stephanie C Page, Thomas M Hyde, Leonardo Collado-Torres, Kristen R Maynard, Keri Martinowich and Stephanie C Hicks | Summary: Norepinephrine (NE) neurons in the locus […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Miller | Authors: Michael E Miller, Susan Sidell and Elizabeth A Ostrowski | Summary: Cooperative groups are susceptible to invasion by cheaters that reap the benefits but fail to pay the costs. Both theory and experimental work have shown that cheating can select for counter-adaptations to resist cheating. But then why is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Reza Shadmehr | Authors: Erik M. Summerside, Robert J Courter, Reza Shadmehr and Alaa A. Ahmed | Summary: As people age, they move slower. Is age-related reduction in vigor a reflection of a reduced valuation of reward by the brain, or a consequence of increased effort costs by the muscles? Here, we quantified […]
Kavli Affiliate: Cynthia F. Moss | Authors: Michael A Pardo, Kurt Fristrup, David S Lolchuragi, Joyce Poole, Petter Granli, Cynthia Moss, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and George Wittemyer | Summary: Personal names are a universal feature of human language, yet few analogs exist in other species. While dolphins and parrots address conspecifics by imitating the calls of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Justus M Kebschull, Michael Miller, Jean Fan | Authors: Kalen Clifton, Manjari Anant, Gohta Aihara, Lyla Atta, Osagie K Aimiuwu, Justus M Kebschull, Michael I Miller, Daniel Tward and Jean Fan | Summary: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies enable high throughput gene expression characterization within thin tissue sections. However, comparing spatial observations across sections, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Seth Blackshaw | Authors: WPin Lyu, Maria Iribarne, Dmitri Serjanov, Yijie Zhai, Thanh Hoang, Leah J. Campbell, Patrick Boyd, Isabella Palazzo, Mikiko Nagashima, Nicholas J. Silva, Peter F. HItchcock, Jiang Qian, David R. Hyde and Seth Blackshaw | Summary: Following acute retinal damage, zebrafish possess the ability to regenerate all neuronal subtypes. This […]
Kavli Affiliate: Alex Kolodkin | Authors: James Kenneth Kiraly, Scott C Harris, Timour Al-Khindi, Felice Dunn and Alex L Kolodkin | Summary: The study of murine behavioral responses to visual stimuli is a key component of understanding mammalian visual circuitry. One notable response is the optokinetic reflex (OKR), a highly conserved innate behavior necessary for […]
Kavli Affiliate: Richard Huganir | Authors: Yoichi Araki, Kacey E Rajkovich, Elizabeth E Gerber, Timothy R Gamache, Richard C Johnson, Thanh Hai Tran, Bian Liu, Ingie Hong, Alfredo Kirkwood and Richard L Huganir | Summary: SynGAP is an abundant synaptic GTPase-activating protein (GAP) critical for synaptic plasticity, learning, memory, and cognition. Mutations in SYNGAP1 in […]