Congratulations to Catherine who, having been appointed in 2022, was awarded the medal in Boston on October 26, 2024!…
Glutamate inputs send prediction error of reward, but not negative value of aversive stimuli, to dopamine neurons
Amo R, Uchida N, Watabe-Uchida M. Neuron. 2024 Jan 22:S0896-6273(23)00979-0. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.12.019. PMID: 38278147…
Ölveczky lab paper makes the cover of October Nature Neuroscience
Describes circuit mechanisms of complex motor sequences…
Neural mechanisms of parasite-induced summiting behavior in ‘zombie’ Drosophila
Elya C, Lavrentovich D, Lee E, Pasadyn C, Duval J, Basak M, Saykina V, de Bivort BL. Elife. 2023 May 15;12:e85410. doi: 10.7554/eLife.85410. Online ahead of print. PMID: 37184212…
Carolyn Elya profile in Gazette
“Zombie” fruit fly work in Ben de Bivort’s lab is described….
Yun Zhang story in Harvard Gazette
You can read “Pathogenic bacteria modulate pheromone response to promote mating” by following the link to the paper…
Nick Bellono cover story in Harvard Magazine
Nick, his lab, and his research are profiled in the current issue….
Pathogenic bacteria modulate pheromone response to promote mating
Taihong Wu, Minghai Ge, Min Wu, Fengyun Duan, Jingting Liang, Maoting Chen, Xicotencatl Gracida, He Liu, Wenxing Yang, Abdul Rouf Dar, Chengyin Li, Rebecca A. Butcher, Arneet L. Saltzman & Yun Zhang
Nature (2023). doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05561-9
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Triggers for mother love
Margaret S. Livingstone
September 19, 2022
119 (39) e2212224119
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212224119
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Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior by Peromyscus mice
Nicole L Bedford, Jesse N Weber, Wenfei Tong, Felix Baier, Ariana Kam, Rebecca A Greenberg, Hopi E Hoekstra
Evolution Letters 6, 330-340 (2022)….
Multi-animal Pose Estimation, Identification And Tracking With Deeplabcut
Jessy Lauer, Mu Zhou, Shaokai Ye, William Menegas, Steffen Schneider, Tanmay Nath, Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman, Valentina Di Santo, Daniel Soberanes, Guoping Feng, Venkatesh N Murthy, George Lauder, Catherine Dulac, Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, Alexander Mathis
Nat Methods 19, 496–504 (2022)….
The role of state uncertainty in the dynamics of dopamine
John G Mikhael, HyungGoo R Kim, Naoshige Uchida, Samuel J Gershman
Current Biology Volume 32, Issue 5, 14 March 2022, Pages 1077-1087.e9….