Kavli Affiliate: Kira Poskanzer | Authors: Silvia Pittolo, Sae Yokoyama, Drew Willoughby, Charlotte Taylor, Michael Reitman, Vincent Tse, Zhaofa Wu, Roberto Etchenique, Yulong Li and Kira E Poskanzer | Summary: The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a hub for cognitive control, and dopamine profoundly influences its functions. In other brain regions, astrocytes sense diverse neurotransmitters and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Costa, Rui | Authors: Riccardo Avvisati, Anna-Kristin Kaufmann, Callum J Young, Gabriella E Portlock, Sophie Cancemi, Rui Ponte Costa, Peter J Magill and Paul D Dodson | Summary: Midbrain dopamine neurons are thought to play key roles in learning by conveying the difference between expected and actual outcomes. While this teaching signal is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Denis Wirtz | Authors: Alexander T.F. Bell, Jacob T. Mitchell, Ashley L. Kiemen, Kohei Fujikura, Helen Fedor, Bonnie Gambichler, Atul Deshpande, Pei-Hsun Wu, Dimitrios N Sidiropoulos, Rossin Erbe, Jacob Stern, Rena Chan, Stephen Williams, James M. Chell, Jacquelyn W Zimmerman, Denis Wirtz, Elizabeth M. Jaffee, Laura D. Wood, Elana J. Fertig and Luciane […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Young | Authors: Michael N Young, Michael J Sindoni, Amanda H Lewis, Stefan Zauscher and Jorg Grandl | Summary: Cells throughout the human body detect mechanical forces. While it is known that the rapid (millisecond) detection of mechanical forces is mediated by force-gated ion channels, a detailed quantitative understanding of cells as […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kay Tye | Authors: Chris A Leppla, Laurel Keyes, Gordon Glober, Gillian A Matthews, Kanha Batra, Maya Jay, Yu Feng, Hannah S Chen, Fergil Mills, Jeremy Delahanty, Jake Olsen, Edward H Nieh, Praneeth Namburi, Craig Wildes, Romy Wichmann, Anna Beyelar, Eyal Y Kimchi and Kay M. Tye | Summary: Rationale The basolateral amygdala […]
Kavli Affiliate: Denis Wirtz | Authors: Alexander T.F. Bell, Jacob T. Mitchell, Ashley L. Kiemen, Kohei Fujikura, Helen Fedor, Bonnie Gambichler, Atul Deshpande, Pei-Hsun Wu, Dimitrios N Sidiropoulos, Rossin Erbe, Jacob Stern, Rena Chan, Stephen Williams, James M. Chell, Jacquelyn W Zimmerman, Denis Wirtz, Elizabeth M. Jaffee, Laura D. Wood, Elana J. Fertig and Luciane […]
Kavli Affiliate: Richard Huganir | Authors: William Dylan Hale, Thomas C. Sudhof and Richard L. Huganir | Summary: In multicellular organisms, cell-adhesion molecules connect cells into tissues and mediate intercellular signaling between these cells. In vertebrate brains, synaptic cell-adhesion molecules (SAMs) guide the formation, specification, and plasticity of synapses. Some SAMs, when overexpressed in cultured […]
Kavli Affiliate: John Reynolds, Kenneth Miller | Authors: Alessandro Sanzeni, Agostina Palmigiano, Tuan H Nguyen, Junxiang Luo, Jonathan J Nassi, John H Reynolds, Mark H Histed, Kenneth D Miller and Nicolas Brunel | Summary: The ability to observe the response of neural circuits to controlled optogenetic perturbations opens an unprecedented window into the mechanisms governing […]
Kavli Affiliate: John Carlson | Authors: Wanyue Wang, Hany K M Dweck, Gaëlle J.S. Talross, Ali Zaidi, Joshua M Gendron and John R Carlson | Summary: The agricultural pest Drosophila suzukii differs from most other Drosophila species in that it lays eggs in ripe, rather than overripe, fruit. Previously we showed that changes in bitter […]
Kavli Affiliate: Takaki Komiyama | Authors: Saber Meamardoost, Eunjung Hwang, Mahasweta Bhattacharya, Chi Ren, Linbing Wang, Claudia Mewes, Ying Zhang, Takaki Komiyama and Rudiyanto Gunawan | Summary: The brain’s connectome continually rewires throughout the life of an organism. In this study, we sought to elucidate the operational principles of such rewiring by analyzing the functional […]