Latest research

1. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Evolutionary pathways of repeat protein topology in bacterial outer membrane proteins

   Meghan Whitney Franklin et al.

   There is a strand-based evolutionary mechanism for the diversification of outer membrane proteins, which has implications for how repeat proteins are created and for how outer membrane proteins fold.
2. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

   RNA-binding proteins distinguish between similar sequence motifs to promote targeted deadenylation by Ccr4-Not

   Michael W Webster et al.

   Biochemical reconstitution of deadenylation and analysis of binding kinetics reveals how RNA-binding proteins select their mRNA targets.
3. 1. Neuroscience

   Bayesian analysis of retinotopic maps

   Noah C Benson, Jonathan Winawer

   A novel Bayesian method of modeling retinotopic maps is more accurate than traditional voxel-wise methods and can be used to automatically derive high-quality maps.
4. 1. Neuroscience

   Computational modeling of brainstem circuits controlling locomotor frequency and gait

   Jessica Ausborn et al.
5. 1. Developmental Biology

   Primed Track, high-fidelity lineage tracing in mouse pre-implantation embryos using primed conversion of photoconvertible proteins

   Maaike Welling et al.

   Primed Track is an image analysis tool that allows for computational correction of drifting specimen to enable accurate lineage tracing of mammalian pre-implantation development even for larger imaging time intervals.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Immune genes are hotspots of shared positive selection across birds and mammals

   Allison J Shultz, Timothy B Sackton

   Pathogens, particularly viruses, target the same genes over deep evolutionary time, resulting in shared signatures of positive selection and transcriptional responses at the same genes.
7. 1. Neuroscience

   Comparisons between the ON- and OFF-edge motion pathways in the Drosophila brain

   Kazunori Shinomiya et al.

   A complete connectome of the ON and OFF motion pathways of the Drosophila optic lobe is acquired using three-dimensional EM methods, and the similarities and differences of the two pathways are uncovered.
8. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Computational and Systems Biology

   Chronology of motor-mediated microtubule streaming

   Arvind Ravichandran et al.

   Microtubule streaming driven by molecular motors covers characteristic times that span several orders of magnitude from fast, single-microtubule sliding on molecular scales to slow, collective motion on cellular scales.
9. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Synergy between RecBCD subunits is essential for efficient DNA unwinding

   Rani Zananiri et al.

   A new optical tweezers assay sheds light on the mechanism of cooperation and force generation by the subunits of RecBCD, critical for the repair of double strand breaks in bacteria.
10. 1. Neuroscience

    High-throughput synapse-resolving two-photon fluorescence microendoscopy for deep-brain volumetric imaging in vivo

    Guanghan Meng et al.

    Improved two-photon fluorescence microendoscopy enables volumetric imaging of synapses and neurons in deep brain structures in vivo.