Team led by Jeff Lichtman unveils connectome of a slab of human temporal cortex containing all six layers. Links to paper, gallery, and Boston Globe article…
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…
Gazette highlights NIH grant to Lichtman
NIH BRAIN CONNECTS grant awarded for mouse brain connectome…
Transcriptomic analysis of the ocular posterior segment completes a cell atlas of the human eye
Monavarfeshani A, Yan W, Pappas C, Odenigbo KA, He Z, Segrè AV, van Zyl T, Hageman GS, Sanes JR. PNAS 2023 Vol. 120 No. 34 e2306153120. https://doi-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1073/pnas.2306153120…
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….
Pyramidal neuron subtype diversity governs microglia states in the neocortex
Jeffrey A. Stogsdill, Kwanho Kim, Loïc Binan, Samouil L. Farhi, Joshua Z. Levin & Paola Arlotta
Nature volume 608, pages 750–756 (2022)
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Temporally divergent regulatory mechanisms govern neuronal diversification and maturation in the mouse and marmoset neocortex
Wen Yuan, Sai Ma, Juliana R. Brown, Kwanho Kim, Vanessa Murek, Lucia Trastulla, A. Meissner, S. Lodato, Ashwin S. Shetty, J. Levin, J. Buenrostro, M. Ziller, P. Arlotta
Nature Neuroscience volume 25, pages 1049–1058 (2022)
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Cell atlas of the human ocular anterior segment: Tissue-specific and shared cell types
van Zyl T, Yan W, McAdams AM, Monavarfeshani A, Hageman GS, Sanes JR….
Conservation and divergence of cortical cell organization in human and mouse revealed by MERFISH
Fang R, Xia C, Close JL, Zhang M, He J, Huang Z, Halpern AR, Long B, Miller JA, Lein ES, Zhuang X.
Science. 2022 Jul;377(6601):56-62….
Joshua Sanes awarded honorary doctorate
Josh was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem….
Tle4 controls both developmental acquisition and postnatal maintenance of corticothalamic projection neuron identity
M. Galazo, D. Sweetser, J. D. Macklis
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Autism genes converge on asynchronous development of shared neuron classes
B. Paulsen, Silvia Velasco, …, P. Arlotta
Nature volume 602, pages 268–273 (2022)
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