Extracellular matrix proteolysis maintains synapse plasticity during brain development

Kavli Affiliate: Anna Molofsky and Christoph Kirst | Authors: Haruna Nakajo, Ran Cao, Supriya A. Mula, Justin McKetney, Nicholas J. Silva, Muskaan Shah, Indigo V.L. Rose, Martin Kampmann, Danielle L. Swaney, Christoph Kirst and Anna V. Molofsky | Summary: Maintaining a dynamic neuronal synapse pool is critical to brain development. The extracellular matrix (ECM) regulates […]


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Data-driven fine-grained region discovery in the mouse brain with transformers

Kavli Affiliate: Reza Abbasi Asl | Authors: Alex Jihun Lee, Shenqin Yao, Nicholas Lusk, Hongkui Zeng, Bosiljka Tasic and Reza Abbasi-Asl | Summary: Spatial transcriptomics offers unique opportunities to define the spatial organization of tissues and organs, such as the mouse brain. We address a key bottleneck in the analysis of organ-scale spatial transcriptomic data […]


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Dopamine D1 receptor expression in prefrontal parvalbumin neurons influences distractibility across species

Kavli Affiliate: Anirvan Nandy | Authors: Mary Kate P Joyce, Tsvetoslav G Ivanov, Fenna Krienen, Jude Mitchell, Shaojie Ma, Wataru Inoue, Anirvan P Nandy, Dibyadeep Datta, Alvaro Duque, Jon I Arellano, Rahul Gupta, Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos, David A Lewis, Nenad Sestan, Steven A McCarroll, Julio C Martinez-Trujillo, Seán Froudist-Walsh and Amy FT Arnsten | Summary: Marmosets […]


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Lysosome damage triggers acute formation of ER to lysosomes membrane tethers mediated by the bridge-like lipid transport protein VPS13C

Kavli Affiliate: Pietro De Camilli and Shawn Ferguson | Authors: Xinbo Wang, Peng Xu, Amanda Bentley-DeSousa, William Hancock-Cerutti, Shujun Cai, Benjamin T Johnson, Francesca Tonelli, Lin Shao, Gabriel Talaia, Dario R Alessi, Shawn M Ferguson and Pietro De Camilli | Summary: Based on genetic studies, lysosome dysfunction is thought to play a pathogenetic role in […]


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A distinctive subset of microglia positioned at the paraventricular zone are dedicated to cleaning the cerebrospinal fluid

Kavli Affiliate: Li Zhao | Authors: Guoyang Zhou, Jian He, Baojie Mao, Guo Cheng, Rui Zhang, Qiang Wang, Xiaoli Liu, Jiaxin Zheng, Ming Wang, Li Zhao, Peng Shi, Xiao Z Shen and Shu Wan | Summary: The interconnected ventricles in the central nervous system are filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) which serves multifaceted roles including […]


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Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito

Kavli Affiliate: Leslie B. Vosshall | Authors: Olivia V. Goldman, Alexandra E. DeFoe, Yanyan Qi, Yaoyu Jiao, Shih-Che Weng, Leah Houri-Zeevi, Priyanka Lakhiani, Takeshi Morita, Jacopo Razzauti, Adriana Rosas-Villegas, Yael N. Tsitohay, Madison M. Walker, Ben R. Hopkins, Mosquito Cell Atlas Consortium, Omar S. Akbari, Laura B. Duvall, Helen White-Cooper, Trevor R. Sorrells, Roshan Sharma, […]


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Structural and Antigenic Characterization of Novel and Diverse Henipavirus Glycoproteins

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Aaron J. May, Muralikrishna Lella, Jared Lindenberger, Alex Berkman, Ujjwal Kumar, Moumita Dutta, Maggie Barr, Rob Parks, Amanda Newman, Xiao Huang, Kijun Song, Victor Ilevbare, Salam Sammour, Chan Soo Park, Radha Devkota Adhikari, Priyanka Devkota, Katarzyna Janowska, Yanshun Liu, Garrett Scapellato, Taylor N. Spence, Katayoun Mansouri, Robert J Edwards, […]


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Single Objective Light Sheet Microscopy allows high-resolution in vivo brain imaging of Drosophila.

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Ellisman | Authors: Francisco Joaquín Tassara, Mariano Barella, Lourdes Simó, Mailen Folgueira, Micaela Rodríguez-Caron, Juan Ignacio Ispizua, Mark H. Ellisman, Horacio O. de la Iglesia, M. Fernanda Ceriani and Julián Gargiulo | Summary: In vivo imaging of dynamic sub-cellular brain structures in Drosophila melanogaster is key to understanding several phenomena in neuroscience. […]


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An evolutionarily conserved role for separase in the regulation of nuclear lamins

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Goldberg | Authors: Francesca Cipressa, Gaelle Pennarun, Giuseppe Bosso, Serena Rosignoli, Liliana Tullo, Nadia Schiralli, Chiara Borghi, Alessandro Paiardini, Michael L Goldberg, Pascale Bertrand and Giovanni Cenci | Summary: Separase is a well conserved endopeptidase that facilitates sister chromatid separation at the metaphase-anaphase transition by cleaving cohesins. Beyond its role in chromosome […]


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Human precentral gyrus neurons link speech sequences from listening to speaking

Kavli Affiliate: Edward Chang | Authors: Duo Xu, Jason E Chung, Alexander B Silva, Quinn R Greicius, Sean L Metzger, Yizhen Zhang, Matthew K Leonard, Manish K Aghi, Shawn L Hervey-Jumper and Edward F Chang | Summary: Speech perception and production are interconnected processes, but the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. We investigated this relationship […]


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