Kavli Affiliate: David Kleinfeld | Authors: Harish Kannan, Paul Sun, Tolga Çağlar, Pantong Yao, Brian R Taylor, Kinshuk Sahu, Daotong Ge, Matteo Mori, Mya Warren, David Kleinfeld, JiaJia Dong, Bo Li and Terence Hwa | Summary: Bacterial colony growth on hard agar is commonplace in microbiology; yet, what occurs inside a growing colony is complex […]
Kavli Affiliate: Timothy Brown | Authors: Richard J McDowell, Altug Didikoglu, Tom Woelders, Mazie J Gatt, Roelof A. Hut, Timothy M Brown and Robert J Lucas | Summary: Background Light is a key environmental regulator of physiology and behaviour. Mistimed or insufficient light disrupts circadian rhythms and is associated with impaired health and well-being across […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Ellisman | Authors: Cristiane dos Santos, Shristi Shrestha, Matthew A Cottam, Guy Perkins, Varda Lev-Ram, Birbickram Roy, Christopher Acree, Keun-Young Kim, Thomas Deerinck, Melanie Cutler, Danielle Dean, Jean Philippe Cartailler, Patrick E MacDonald, Martin W Hetzer, Mark H Ellisman and Rafael Arrojo e Drigo | Summary: Caloric restriction (CR) extends organismal lifespan […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anders Dale | Authors: Elleke Tissink, Alexey A Shadrin, Dennis van der Meer, Nadine Parker, Guy Hindley, Daniel Roelfs, Oleksandr Frei, Chun Chieh Fan, Mats Nagel, Terje Naerland, Magdalena Budisteanu, Srdjan Djurovic, Lars T. Westlye, Martijn van den Heuvel, Danielle Posthuma, Tobias Kaufmann, Anders M. Dale and Ole Andreassen | Summary: Genetic pleiotropy […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wesley Thompson | Authors: Junting Ren, Robert John Loughnan, Bohan Xu, Wesley K. Thompson and Chun Chieh Fan | Summary: Zero-inflated outcomes are very common in behavioral data, particularly for responses to psychological questionnaires. Modeling these challenging distributions is further exacerbated by the absence of established statistical models capable of characterizing total signals […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ethan Bier | Authors: Leonardo Lima, Mateus Berni, Jamile Mota, Daniel Bressan, Alison Julio, Robson Cavalcante, Vanessa Macias, Zhiqian Li, Jason L. Rasgon, Ethan Bier and Helena Marcolla Araujo | Summary: Rhodnius prolixus is currently the model vector of choice for studying Chagas disease transmission, a debilitating disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi parasites. […]
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: Wesley Thompson | Authors: Rong Zablocki, Bohan Xu, Chun-Chieh Fan and Wesley K. Thompson | Summary: Here we present a development of the novel Bayesian Regularized and Anotation-Informed Integrative Analysis of Cognition (BRAINIAC) model. BRAINIAC allows for both estimation of total variance explained by all features for a given cognitive phenotype, as well […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anders Dale | Authors: Diana M. Smith, Pravesh Parekh, Joseph Kennedy, Robert J. Loughnan, Oleksandr Frei, Thomas E. Nichols, Ole A. Andreassen, Terry L. Jernigan and Anders M. Dale | Summary: The relative contributions of genetic variation and experience in shaping the morphology of the adolescent brain are not fully understood. Using longitudinal […]
Kavli Affiliate: Andrea Hasenstaub | Authors: David A. McCormick, Yousheng Shu and Andrea R Hasenstaub | Summary: The ventral pallidum (VP) contains GABA and glutamate (Glut) neurons projecting to ventral tegmental area (VTA) whose stimulation drives approach and avoidance, respectively. Yet little is known about the cell-type-specific mechanisms by which VP projections to VTA drive […]