Kavli Affiliate: Peter Walter | Authors: Rochelle Coulson, Valentina Frattini, Caitlin Moyer, Jennifer Hodges, Peter Walter, Philippe Mourrain, Yi Zuo and Gordon Wang | Summary: Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is caused by the functional loss of Fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein (FMRP), a translational regulator that binds the transcripts of many proteins involved in synaptic function […]

Kavli Affiliate: Xin Duan | Authors: Wendy W.S. Yue, Kouki K. Touhara, Kenichi Toma, Xin Duan and David Julius | Summary: After injury, mammalian spinal cords develop scars to seal off the damaged area and prevent further injury. However, excessive scarring can hinder neural regeneration and functional recovery (1, 2). These competing actions underscore the […]

Kavli Affiliate: Joshua Berke | Authors: Thomas Faust, Ali Mohebi and Joshua D Berke | Summary: The nucleus accumbens (NAc) helps govern motivation to pursue rewards. Two distinct sets of NAc projection neurons – expressing dopamine D1 versus D2 receptors – are thought to promote and suppress motivated behaviors respectively. However, support for this conceptual […]

Kavli Affiliate: Bjoern Schwer | Authors: Christin Schmidt, Sarah Cohen, Brian L. Gudenas, Sarah Husain, Annika Carlson, Samantha Westelman, Linyu Wang, Joanna J. Phillips, Paul A. Northcott, William A. Weiss and Bjoern Schwer | Summary: SNCAIP duplication may promote Group 4 medulloblastoma via induction of PRDM6, a poorly characterized member of the PRDF1 and RIZ1 […]

Kavli Affiliate: Su Guo | Authors: Jiale Xu, Romelo Casanave, Apurva S Chitre, Qiyang Wang, Khai-Minh Nguyen, Chiara Blake, Mahendra Wagle, Riyan Cheng, Oksana Polesskaya, Abraham A Palmer and Su Guo | Summary: Behavioral diversity is critical for population fitness. Individual differences in risk-taking are observed across species, but underlying genetic mechanisms and conservation are […]

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Keiser | Authors: William J. Connell, Kristle Garcia, Hani Goodarzi and Michael J. Keiser | Summary: Chemical probes interrogate disease mechanisms at the molecular level by linking genetic changes to observable traits. However, comprehensive chemical screens in diverse biological models are impractical. To address this challenge, we developed ChemProbe, a model that […]

Kavli Affiliate: Seth Shipman | Authors: Manuel Peter, Seth Shipman and Jeffrey D Macklis | Summary: Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) into distinct neuronal populations holds substantial potential for disease modeling in vitro, toward both elucidation of pathobiological mechanisms and screening of potential therapeutic agents. For successful differentiation of hPSCs into subtype-specific neurons […]

Kavli Affiliate: Roger Nicoll | Authors: XIUMIN CHEN, Qixu Cai, jing zhou, Samuel J Pleasure, Howard Schulman, Mingjie Zhang and Roger A Nicoll | Summary: CaMKII plays a critical role in long-term potentiation (LTP), a well-established model for learning and memory through the enhancement of synaptic transmission. Biochemical studies indicate that CaMKII catalyzes a phosphotransferase […]

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Sofia Dahlman, Laura Avellaneda-Franco, Ciaren Kett, Dinesh Subedi, Remy B Young, Jodee A. Gould, Emily L Rutten, Emily L Gilliver, Christopher JR Turkington, Neda Nezam-Abadi, Juris A Grasis, Dena Lyras, Professor, Robert A Edwards, Samuel C Forster and Jeremy J Barr | Summary: Large-scale metagenomic and data mining efforts […]

Kavli Affiliate: Yifan Cheng | Authors: Armin Adly, Maxine Bi, Christopher Carlson, Abdullah Muhammad Syed, Alison Ciling, Jennifer Doudna, Yifan Cheng and David O. Morgan | Summary: The Nucleocapsid (N) protein of SARS-CoV-2 compacts the RNA genome into viral ribonucleoprotein (vRNP) complexes within virions. Assembly of vRNPs is inhibited by phosphorylation of the N protein […]