All-optical closed-loop voltage clamp for precise control of muscles and neurons in live animals

Kavli Affiliate: Cori Bargmann | Authors: Amelie CF Bergs, Jana F Liewald, Silvia Rodriguez-Rozada, Qiang Liu, Christin Wirt, Artur Bessel, Nadja Zeitzschel, Hilal Durmaz, Adrianna Nozownik, Johannes Vierock, Cori Bargmann, Peter Hegemann, J. Simon Wiegert and Alexander Gottschalk | Summary: Optogenetics are used to stimulate or inhibit neurons. Because optogenetic stimulation is typically static, neurons […]


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A developmental pathway for epithelial-to-motoneuron transformation in C. elegans

Kavli Affiliate: Shai Shaham | Authors: Alina Rashid, Maya Tevlin, Yun Lu and Shai Shaham | Summary: Motoneurons and motoneuron-like pancreatic beta cells arise from radial glia and ductal cells, both tube-lining progenitors that share molecular regulators. To uncover programs underlying motoneuron formation, we studied a similar, cell-division-independent transformation of the C. elegans tube-lining Y […]


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The swan genome and transcriptome: its not all black and white

Kavli Affiliate: Erich Jarvis | Authors: Anjana C. Karawita, Yuanyuan Cheng, Keng Yih Chew, Arjun Challgula, Robert Kraus, Ralf C. Mueller, Marcus Z. W. Tong, Katina D. Hulme, Helle Beielefeldt-Ohmann, Lauren E. Steele, Melanie Wu, Julian DJ Sng, Ellesandra Noye, Timothy J. Bruxner, Gough G. Au, Suzanne Lowthe, Julie Blommaert, Alexander Suh, Alexander J. McCauley, […]


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Parallel systems for social and spatial reasoning within the cortical apex

Kavli Affiliate: Winrich Freiwald | Authors: Ben Deen and Winrich A Freiwald | Summary: What is the cognitive and neural architecture for high-level reasoning? We hypothesize that systems for understanding people and places remain separate throughout the brain, but share a parallel organization. We test this hypothesis using deep neuroimaging of individual human brains on […]


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Genome-wide detection of human variants that disrupt intronic branchpoints

Kavli Affiliate: Jean Laurent Casanova | Authors: Peng Zhang, Quentin Philippot, Weicheng Ren, Wei-Te Lei, Juan Li, Peter D. Stenson, Pere Soler PalacĂ­n, Roger Colobran, Bertrand Boisson, Shen-Ying Zhang, Anne Puel, Qiang Pan-Hammarström, Qian Zhang, David N. Cooper, Laurent Abel and Jean-Laurent Casanova | Summary: Pre-mRNA splicing is initiated with the recognition of a single-nucleotide […]


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Peptidergic signaling controls the dynamics of sickness behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans

Kavli Affiliate: Cori Bargmann | Authors: Javier Marquina-Solis, Elke Vandewyver, Josh Hawk, Daniel Colon-Ramos, Isabel Beets and Cori Bargmann | Summary: Pathogenic infection elicits sickness behaviors that promote recovery and survival of the host. For example, following infection with the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans modifies its sensory preferences to avoid […]


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Mechanisms Underlying WNT-mediated Priming of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Kavli Affiliate: Ali Brivanlou, Eric Siggia | Authors: Anna Yoney, Lu Bai, Ali H. Brivanlou and Eric D Siggia | Summary: Embryogenesis is guided by a limited set of signaling pathways dynamically expressed in different places. How a context dependent signaling response is generated has been a central question of developmental biology, which can now […]


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Systematic identification of unannotated ORFs in Drosophila reveals evolutionary heterogeneity

Kavli Affiliate: Li Zhao | Authors: Eric B Zheng and Li Zhao | Summary: De novo gene origination, where a previously non-genic genomic sequence becomes genic through evolution, has been increasingly recognized as an important source of evolutionary novelty across diverse taxa. Many de novo genes have been proposed to be protein-coding, and in several […]


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Impact of prior infection on SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses in vaccinated long-term care facility staff

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Young | Authors: Emily N Gallichotte, Mary Nehring, Sophia Stromberg, Michael C Young, Ashley Snell, Joshua B Daniels, Kristy L. Pabilonia, Sue Vandewoude, Nicole Ehrhart and Gregory D Ebel | Summary: SARS-CoV-2 emerged in 2019 and has resulted in millions of deaths worldwide. Certain populations are at higher risk for infection, especially […]


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Protein evidence of unannotated ORFs in Drosophila reveals unappreciated diversity in the evolution of young proteins

Kavli Affiliate: Li Zhao | Authors: Eric B Zheng and Li Zhao | Summary: Abstract De novo gene origination, where a previously non-genic genomic sequence becomes genic through evolution, has been increasingly recognized as an important source of evolutionary novelty across diverse taxa. Many de novo genes have been proposed to be protein-coding, and in […]


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