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, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert B. Darnell and Nathaniel Heintz | Authors: Ruth A Singer, Veronika Rajchin, Kwanghoon Park, Nathaniel Heintz and Robert B Darnell | Summary: Neuronal diversity and function are intricately linked to the dynamic regulation of RNA metabolism, including splicing, localization, and translation. Electrophysiologic studies of synaptic plasticity, models for learning and memory, are […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jeremy Willsey | Authors: Elina Kostyanovskaya, Micaela C. Lasser, Belinda Wang, James Schmidt, Ethel Bader, Chad Buteo, Juan Arbelaez, Aria Rani Sindledecker, Kate E. McCluskey, Octavio Castillo, Sheng Wang, Jeanselle Dea, Kathryn A. Helde, J. Michael Graglia, Elise Brimble, David B. Kastner, Aliza T. Ehrlich, Matthew W. State, A. Jeremy Willsey and Helen […]
Kavli Affiliate: Li Zhao | Authors: Qing Zhao, William de Nardo, Ruoyu Wang, Yi Zhong, Umur Keles, Li Na Zhao, Huiyi Tay, Sonia Youhanna, Mengchao Yan, Ye Xie, Youngrae Kim, Sungdong Lee, Rachel Liyu Lim, Guoshou Teo, Pradeep Naraya, Paul R Burton, Volker M Lauschke, Hyungwon Choi, Matthew J Watt and Philipp Kaldis | Summary: […]
Kavli Affiliate: Shai Shaham | Authors: Rashna Sharmin, Aladin Elkhalil, Sara Pena, Pranya Gaddipati, Ginger Clark, Pavak K Shah, Mark W Pellegrino, Shai Shaham and Piya Ghose | Summary: Polarized cells (such as neurons), defined by distinct compartments are, like many cell types, subject to developmental elimination, as in neurite pruning. The molecular mechanism behind […]
Kavli Affiliate: Shai Shaham | Authors: Nikolaos Stefanakis, Jasmine Xi, Jessica Jiang and Shai Shaham | Summary: Endothelial cells form the inner layer of blood vessels and play key roles in circulatory system development and function. A variety of endothelial cell types have been described through gene expression and transcriptome studies; nonetheless, the transcriptional programs […]
Kavli Affiliate: Li Zhao | Authors: Junhui Peng, Bing-Jun Wang, Nicolas Svetec and Li Zhao | Summary: The regulation of gene expression is crucial for the functional integration of evolutionarily young genes, particularly those that emerge de novo. However, the regulatory programs governing the expression of de novo genes remain unknown. To address this, we […]
Kavli Affiliate: Roderick MacKinnon | Authors: Venkata Shiva Mandala and Roderick MacKinnon | Summary: Gating in voltage-dependent ion channels is regulated by the transmembrane voltage. This form of regulation is enabled by voltage sensing domains (VSDs) that respond to transmembrane voltage differences by changing their conformation and exerting force on the pore to open or […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert B. Darnell | Authors: Krithi Irmady, Claudia Scheckel, Ruth A Singer, Thomas Carroll and Robert B Darnell | Summary: The neuronal RNA-binding protein (RBP) family nELAVL regulates key neuronal processes by binding directly to target RNA transcripts. In this study, we demonstrate that ELAVL3 is the predominant nELAVL paralog expressed in D1 […]
Kavli Affiliate: Eric D. Siggia | Authors: Ismail Hajji, Eric D Siggia, Francis Corson and Wolfgang Keil | Summary: During development, cells gradually assume specialized fates via changes of transcriptional dynamics in thousands of genes. Terminal cell identities are then stabilized through the convergence of gene regulatory network dynamics and the accumulation of epigenetic DNA […]