Scientific Publications

Berner, L. A.; Stern, S. A.; Steinglass, J. E.; Walsh, B. T.: The Growing Importance of Neuroscience-Based Research on Eating Disorders Commentary on Lee and Chi (2025). The International Journal of Eating Disorders (2025)

Fecher, C.; Sodmann, A.; Schlott, F.; Jaepel, J.; Schmitt, F.; Lengfelder, I.; Bischler, T.; Nieswandt, B.; Winklhofer, K. F.; Blum, R.: Resting Ca2+ fluxes protect cells from fast mitochondrial fragmentation, cell stress responses, and immediate transcriptional reprogramming. Cellular and molecular life sciences: CMLS (1) (2025)

Gazit Shimoni, N.; Tose, A. J.; Seng, C.; Jin, Y.; Lukacsovich, T.; Yang, H.; Verharen, J. P. H.; Liu, C.; Tanios, M.; Hu, E. et al.; Read, J.; Tang, L. W.; Lim, B. K.; Tian, L.; Földy, C.; Lammel, S.: Changes in neurotensin signalling drive hedonic devaluation in obesity. Nature (2025)

Holford, T. W.; Letourneau, K. N.; Von-Walter, C.; Moncaleano, D.; Loomis, C. L.; Bolton, M. M.: PTEN in somatostatin neurons regulates fear and anxiety and is required for inhibitory synaptic connectivity within central amygdala. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (2025)

Midavaine, É.; Moraes, B. C.; Benitez, J.; Rodriguez, S. R.; Braz, J. M.; Kochhar, N. P.; Eckalbar, W. L.; Tian, L.; Domingos, A. I.; Pintar, J. E. et al.; Basbaum, A. I.; Kashem, S. W.: Meningeal regulatory T cells inhibit nociception in female mice. Science (New York, N.Y.) (6742), pp. 96 - 104 (2025)

Minère, M.; Wilhelms, H.; Kuzmanovic, B.; Lundh, S.; Fusca, D.; Claßen, A.; Shtiglitz, S.; Prilutski, Y.; Talpir, I.; Tian, L. et al.; Kieffer, B.; Davis, J.; Kloppenburg, P.; Tittgemeyer, M.; Livneh, Y.; Fenselau, H.: Thalamic opioids from POMC satiety neurons switch on sugar appetite. Science (New York, N.Y.) (6735), pp. 750 - 758 (2025)

Omana Suarez, G.; Kumar, D. S.; Brunner, H.; Knauss, A.; Barrios, J.; Emel, J.; Teel, J.; Botero, V.; Broyles, C. N.; Stahl, A. et al.; Bidaye, S. S.; Tomchik, S. M.: Neurofibromin deficiency alters the patterning and prioritization of motor behaviors in a state-dependent manner. The Journal of Neuroscience: The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience (2025)

Sun, Q.; Liu, M.; Guan, W.; Xiao, X.; Dong, C.; Bruchas, M. R.; Zweifel, L. S.; Li, Y.; Tian, L.; Li, B.: Dynorphin modulates reward-seeking actions through a pallido-amygdala cholinergic circuit. Neuron (11), pp. 1823 - 1840.e8 (2025)

Trägenap, S.; Whitney, D. E.; Fitzpatrick, D.; Kaschube, M.: The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations. Nature Neuroscience, pp. 1 - 12 (2025)

Yu, C. T.; Follett, H. M.; Summerfelt, P.; Allen, K. P.; Guillaume, C.; Freling, S.; Carroll, J.: Unexpected Retinal Abnormalities in the Cone-Dominant Northern Tree Shrew. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, pp. 235 - 239 (2025)

Amsalem, O.; Inagaki, H.; Yu, J.; Svoboda, K.; Darshan, R.: Sub-threshold neuronal activity and the dynamical regime of cerebral cortex. Nature Communications (1) (2024)

Bapat, O.; Purimetla, T.; Kruessel, S.; Shah, M.; Fan, R.; Thum, C.; Rupprecht, F.; Langer, J. D.; Rangaraju, V.: VAP spatially stabilizes dendritic mitochondria to locally support synaptic plasticity. Nature Communications (205) (2024)

Benedetti, L.; Fan, R.; Weigel, A. V.; Moore, A. S.; Houlihan, P. R.; Kittisopikul, M.; Park, G.; Petruncio, A.; Hubbard, P. M.; Pang, S. et al.; Xu, C. S.; Hess, H. F.; Saalfeld, S.; Rangaraju, V.; Clapham, D. E.; De Camilli, P.; Ryan, T. A.; Lippincott-Schwartz, J.: Periodic ER-plasma membrane junctions support long-range Ca2+ signal integration in dendrites. Cell (2024)

Bukowski, L.; Strøm, M. E.; Andersen, J. L.; Maesen, J. B.; Tian, L.; Sinning, S.: 5-HT_FAsTR: a versatile, label-free, high-throughput, fluorescence-based microplate assay to quantify serotonin transport and release. Scientific Reports (1) (2024)

Dong, C.; Gowrishankar, R.; Jin, Y.; He, X. J.; Gupta, A.; Wang, H.; Sayar-Atasoy, N.; Flores, R. J.; Mahe, K.; Tjahjono, N. et al.; Liang, R.; Marley, A.; Mizuno, G. O.; Lo, D. K.; Sun, Q.; Whistler, J. L.; Li, B.; Gomes, I.; Zastrow, M. V.; Tejeda, H. A.; Atasoy, D.; Devi, L. A.; Bruchas, M. R.; Banghart, M. R.; Tian, L.: Unlocking opioid neuropeptide dynamics with genetically encoded biosensors. Nature Neuroscience (9) (2024)

Espadas, I.; Wingfield, J. L.; Nakahata, Y.; Chanda, K.; Grinman, E.; Ghosh, I.; Bauer, K. E.; Raveendra, B.; Kiebler, M. A.; Yasuda, R. et al.; Rangaraju, V.; Puthanveettil, S.: Synaptically-targeted long non-coding RNA SLAMR promotes structural plasticity by increasing translation and CaMKII activity. Nature Communications (1), pp. 1 - 24 (2024)

Jain, A.; Nakahata, Y.; Pancani, T.; Watabe, T.; Rusina, P.; South, K.; Adachi, K.; Yan, L.; Simorowski, N.; Furukawa, H. et al.; Yasuda, R.: Dendritic, delayed, stochastic CaMKII activation in behavioural time scale plasticity. Nature, pp. 1 - 9 (2024)

Jung, K.; Krüssel, S.; Yoo, S.; An, M.; Burke, B.; Schappaugh, N.; Choi, Y.; Gu, Z.; Blackshaw, S.; Costa, R. M. et al.; Kwon, H.-B.: Dopamine-mediated formation of a memory module in the nucleus accumbens for goal-directed navigation. Nature Neuroscience, pp. 1 - 15 (2024)

Kim, M. J.; Gibson, D. J.; Hu, D.; Yoshida, T.; Hueske, E.; Matsushima, A.; Mahar, A.; Schofield, C. J.; Sompolpong, P.; Tran, K. T. et al.; Tian, L.; Graybiel, A. M.: Dopamine release plateau and outcome signals in dorsal striatum contrast with classic reinforcement learning formulations. Nature Communications (1) (2024)

Lewis-Sanders, D.; Bullich, S.; Olvera, M.-J.; Vo, J.; Hwang, Y.-S.; Mizrachi, E.; Stern, S. A.: Conditioned overconsumption is dependent on reinforcer type in lean, but not obese, mice. Appetite (2024)