Kavli Affiliate: Sreekanth Chalasani | Authors: Amy Pribadi, Michael A Rieger, Kaila Rosales, Kirthi C Reddy and Sreekanth H Chalasani | Summary: Prey respond to predators by altering their behavior to optimize their own fitness and survival. Specifically, prey are known to avoid predator-occupied territories to reduce their risk of harm or injury to themselves […]
Kavli Affiliate: Douglas Nitz | Authors: Yanjun Sun, Douglas A Nitz, Xiangmin Xu and Lisa M Giocomo | Summary: Corners are a cardinal feature of many of the complex environmental geometries found in the natural world but the neural substrates that could underlie the perception of corners remain elusive. Here we show that the dorsal […]
Kavli Affiliate: Marcelo Mattar | Authors: Li Ji-An, Marcus K Benna and Marcelo G Mattar | Summary: Normative frameworks such as Bayesian inference and reward-based learning are useful tools for explaining the fundamental principles of adaptive behavior. However, their ability to describe realistic animal behavior is limited by the often small number of parameters that […]
Kavli Affiliate: Edward Callaway | Authors: Jingtian Zhou, Zhuzhu Zhang, May Wu, Hanqing Liu, Yan Pang, Anna Bartlett, Angeline C. Rivkin, Will N. Lagos, Elora Williams, Cheng-Ta Lee, Paula Assakura Miyazaki, Andrew I. Aldridge, Qiurui Zeng, J.L. Angelo Salinda, Naomi Claffey, Michelle Liem, Conor Fitzpatrick, Lara Boggeman, Zizhen Yao, Kimberly A. Smith, Bosiljka Tasic, Jordan […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wesley Thompson, Anders Dale | Authors: Pravesh Parekh, Chun Chieh Fan, Oleksandr Frei, Clare E Palmer, Diana M. Smith, Carolina Makowski, John Iverson, Diliana Pecheva, Dominic Holland, Robert Loughnan, Pierre Nedelec, Wesley K Thompson, Donald J. Hagler, Jr., Ole A. Andreassen, Terry L Jernigan, Thomas Nichols and Anders M. Dale | Summary: The […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Ellisman | Authors: Sumin Kim, Sebastien Phan, Thomas R Shaw, Mark H Ellisman, Sarah L Veatch, Sami J Barmada, Samuel S Pappas and William T Dauer | Summary: Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) regulate information transfer between the nucleus and cytoplasm. NPC defects are linked to several neurological diseases, but the processes governing […]
Kavli Affiliate: Angela Yu | Authors: Liang Liu, Angela M Yu, Xiuye Wang, Lindsey V. Soles, Yiling Chen, Yoseop Yoon, Kristianna S.K. Sarkan, Marielle Cárdenas Valdez, Johannes Linder, Ivan Marazzi, Zhaoxia Yu, Feng Qiao, Wei Li, Georg Seelig and Yongsheng Shi | Summary: JTE-607 is a small molecule compound with anti-inflammation and anti-cancer activities. Upon […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Ellisman | Authors: Varda Lev-Ram, Sakina Palida, Thomas J Deerinck, Eric A Bushong, Brandon H Toyoma, Alex Perez, Daniel B McClatchy, Denise R Prichard, Jeffrey N Savas, Mark H Ellisman, John Robert Yates III and Roger Y Tsien | Summary: Perineuronal nets (PNN), a specialized form of ECM, surround numerous neurons in […]
Kavli Affiliate: V. S. Ramachandran | Authors: Abhishek Gopal, Sartaj Ghuman, Navendu Page, Vivek Ramachandran and Rohit Naniwadekar | Summary: Oceanic islands, due to their evolutionary history and isolation, hold a disproportionately high proportion of endemic species. However, their evolutionary history also makes them vulnerable to extinctions, with most known extinctions occurring on islands. Plant-animal […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Ellisman | Authors: Tylor R Lewis, Sebastien Phan, Carson M Castillo, Keun-Young Kim, Kelsey Coppenrath, William Thomas, Ying Hao, Nikolai P Skiba, Marko E Horb, Mark H Ellisman and Vadim Y Arshavsky | Summary: The first steps of vision take place within a stack of tightly packed disc-shaped membranes, or “discs”, located […]