SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB lineage spike structures, conformations, antigenicity, and receptor recognition

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Qianyi E Zhang, Jared Lindenberger, Ruth Parsons, Bhishem Thakur, Rob Parks, Chan Soo Park, Xiao Huang, Salam Sammour, Katarzyna Janowska, Taylor N Spence, Robert J. Edwards, Mitchell Martin, Wilton B Williams, Sophie Gobeil, David C Montefiori, Bette Korber, Kevin O’Neil Saunders, Barton F Haynes, Barton F. Haynes, Rory Henderson […]


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Non-uniform contextual interactions in the visual cortex place fundamental limits on spatial vision

Kavli Affiliate: Anirvan Nandy | Authors: Mitchell P Morton, Sachira Denagamage, Nyomi V Hudson and Anirvan S Nandy | Summary: A prevailing assumption in our understanding of how neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1) integrate contextual information is that such processes are spatially uniform. Conversely, perceptual phenomena such as visual crowding, the impaired ability […]


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Hypothalamic hormone deficiency enables physiological anorexia

Kavli Affiliate: Elena Gracheva | Authors: Sarah M Mohr, Rafael Dai Pra, Maryann P Platt, Viktor V Feketa, Marya Shanabrough, Luis Varela, Ashley Kristant, Haoran Cao, Dana K Merriman, Tamas L Horvath, Sviatoslav N Bagriantsev and Elena O Gracheva | Summary: Mammalian hibernators survive prolonged periods of cold and resource scarcity by temporarily modulating normal […]


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Cell type-specific dynamics of prefrontal gamma synchrony during flexible behavior

Kavli Affiliate: Vikaas Sohal | Authors: Aarron Justin Phensy, Lara Louise Hagopian and Vikaas Singh Sohal | Summary: The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is required for many cognitive processes that are disrupted in conditions such as schizophrenia. The PFC is composed of neuronal networks which are organized by both local microcircuitry and inter-regional projections, within which […]


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How low can you go? Short-read polishing of Oxford Nanopore bacterial genome assemblies

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: George Bouras, Louise M Judd, Robert A Edwards, Sarah Vreugde, Timothy P. Stinear and Ryan R Wick | Summary: It is now possible to assemble near-perfect bacterial genomes using Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) long reads, but short-read polishing is still required for perfection. However, the effect of short-read depth […]


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Developmental trajectory of cortical somatostatin interneuron function

Kavli Affiliate: Michael J Higley | Authors: Alex Wang, Katie A. Ferguson, Jyoti Gupta, Michael J. Higley and Jessica A. Cardin | Summary: GABAergic inhibition is critical to the proper development of neocortical circuits. However, GABAergic interneurons are highly diverse and the developmental roles of distinct inhibitory subpopulations remain largely unclear. Dendrite-targeting, somatostatin-expressing interneurons (SST-INs) […]


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Human Anterior Insular Cortex Encodes Multiple Electrophysiological Representations of Anxiety-Related Behaviors

Kavli Affiliate: Edward Chang | Authors: Andrew Moses Lee, Virginia Sturm, Heather Dawes, Andrew D Krystal and Edward Chang | Summary: Anxiety is a common symptom across psychiatric disorders, but the neurophysiological underpinnings of these symptoms remain unclear. This knowledge gap has prevented the development of circuit-based treatments that can target the neural substrates underlying […]


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Whole-brain neural substrates of behavioral variability in the larval zebrafish

Kavli Affiliate: Alipasha Vaziri | Authors: Jason Manley and Alipasha Vaziri | Summary: Animals engaged in naturalistic behavior can exhibit a large degree of behavioral variability even under sensory invariant conditions. Such behavioral variability can include not only variations of the same behavior, but also variability across qualitatively different behaviors driven by divergent cognitive states, […]


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Gene count normalization in single-cell imaging-based spatially resolved transcriptomics

Kavli Affiliate: Jean Fan | Authors: Lyla Atta, Kalen Clifton, Manjari Anant and Jean Fan | Summary: Recent advances in imaging-based spatially resolved transcriptomics (im-SRT) technologies now enable high-throughput profiling of targeted genes and their locations in fixed tissues. Normalization of gene expression data is often needed to account for technical factors that may confound […]


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Next Generation Neuropeptide Y Receptor Small Molecule Agonists Inhibit Mosquito Biting Behavior

Kavli Affiliate: Leslie B. Vosshall and Michael Miller | Authors: Emely V. Zeledon, Leigh A. Baxt, Tanweer A. Khan, Mayako Michino, Michael Miller, David J. Huggins, Caroline S. Jiang, Leslie B. Vosshall and Laura B. Duvall | Summary: Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can spread disease-causing pathogens when they bite humans to obtain blood nutrients required […]


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