Kavli Affiliate: Sarah Woolley | Authors: Mila Bertolo, Daniel Müllensiefen, Isabelle Peretz, Sarah C. Woolley, Jon T. Sakata and Samuel A. Mehr | Summary: Since Darwin1, researchers have proposed that human musicality evolved in a reproductive context in which males produce music to signal their mate quality to females. Sexually selected traits involve tradeoffs in […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gabriel Silva | Authors: Marcela Trevenzoli Miranda, Luciano Pereira, Gabriel Silva Pires, Xinyi Guan, Luciano Melo Silva, Swetlana Kreinert, Eduardo Caruso Machado, Steven Jansen and Rafael Ribeiro | Summary: Considerable progress has been made in understanding the mechanisms of embolism formation based on the pneumatic method, which relies on gas discharge measurements. Here, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Alexandra Nelson, Robert Edwards | Authors: Shweta Jain, Andrew G Yee, James Maas, Sarah Gierok, Hongfei Xu, Jasmine Stansil, Jacob Eriksen, Alexandra Nelson, Katlin Silm, Christopher P Ford and Robert H Edwards | Summary: The burst firing of midbrain dopamine neurons releases a phasic dopamine signal that mediates reinforcement learning. At many synapses, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Seth Shipman | Authors: Manuel Peter, Seth Shipman, Jeffrey D. Macklis | Summary: Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) into distinct neuronal populations holds substantial potential for disease modeling in vitro, toward both elucidation of pathobiological mechanisms and screening of potential therapeutic agents. For successful differentiation of hPSCs into subtype-specific neurons using […]
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 […]
Kavli Affiliate: Patricia Janak | Authors: Robin Magnard, Maxime Fouyssac, Yvan M Vachez, Yifeng Cheng, Thibault Dufourd, Carole Carcenac, sabrina Boulet, Patricia H Janak, Marc Savasta, David Belin and Sebastien Carnicella | Summary: Impulse control disorders (ICDs), a wide spectrum of maladaptive behavior which includes pathological gambling, hypersexuality and compulsive buying, have been recently suggested […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Beer | Authors: Jessica D. Resnick, Jo L. Wilson, Eddy Anaya, Abigail Conte, Maggie Li, William Zhong, Michael A. Beer and Andrew Pekosz | Summary: Primary differentiated human epithelial cell cultures have been widely used by researchers to study viral fitness and virus-host interactions, especially during the COVID19 pandemic. These cultures recapitulate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Brian Caffo, Joshua Vogelstein | Authors: Eric W. Bridgeford, Michael Powell, Gregory Kiar, Stephanie Noble, Jaewon Chung, Sambit Panda, Ross Lawrence, Ting Xu, Michael Milham, Brian Caffo and Joshua T. Vogelstein | Summary: Batch effects, undesirable sources of variance across multiple experiments, present significant challenges for scientific and clinical discoveries. Specifically, batch effects […]