“Specific expansion of motor cortical projections in a singing mouse”
Great new work by @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social E. Isco @cliffscience.bsky.social @xmikezheng20.bsky.social @tonyzador.bsky.social
& colleagues on the neural basis of vocal dexterity, now out in @nature.com 🧪🧠
For all cerebellum and cerebellar nuclei aficionados: A cre line specifically tagging the large, excitatory B-cells in the mouse cerebellar nuclei:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Lmk if you want to use it!
Just published in JOSS: 'DART: A GUI Pipeline for Aligning Histological Brain Sections to 3D Atlases and Automating Laser Microdissection' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.09109
New from the lab: BARseq3!
Barcodes + high efficiency spatial transcriptomics and translatomics in the same cells, or just a nice spatial transcriptomics assay. All in a modular, expandable system to enable truly multimodal measurements. Check it out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Teamwork by Huihui Qi, @mmganant.bsky.social, and @dylanzgonzo.bsky.social
If you are at #SfN2025, don't miss Huihui's poster tomorrow (Sunday) morning at MM6 (PSTR095.13)! He has developed methods for barcoded connectomics across many vertebrates, from frogs to NHPs, and is comparing the single-cell anatomy of the song systems of zebra finches and parrots!
POINTseq, now out in Neuron after peer review. Read it. There are barcodes, viruses, and dopamine. Congrats to @hyopilkim.bsky.social on leading our lab's first published paper!
I am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgill.ca for admission in Fall 2026!
Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.