Latest research

1. 1. Neuroscience

   MAPLE (modular automated platform for large-scale experiments), a robot for integrated organism-handling and phenotyping

   Tom Alisch et al.

   A new versatile, autonomous, robotic experimental platform (MAPLE) can increase the throughput of biological experiments by automating the growth and phenotyping of a variety of model organisms.
2. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Epitope resurfacing on dengue virus-like particle vaccine preparation to induce broad neutralizing antibody

   Wen-Fan Shen et al.
3. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Consensus designs and thermal stability determinants of a human glutamate transporter

   Erica CIrri et al.
4. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   A new experimental platform facilitates assessment of the transcriptional and chromatin landscapes of aging yeast

   David G Hendrickson et al.
5. 1. Plant Biology

   The role of APETALA1 in petal number robustness

   Marie Monniaux et al.
6. 1. Neuroscience

   Fast-backward replay of sequentially memorized items in humans

   Qiaoli Huang et al.
7. 1. Ecology
   2. Plant Biology

   The decoration of specialized metabolites influences stylar development

   Jiancai Li et al.

   Regulation of diterpene glycoside malonylation status influences stylar elongation through affecting auxin signaling in Nicotiana attenuata.
8. 1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   A novel pH-dependent membrane peptide that binds to EphA2 and inhibits cell migration

   Daiane S Alves et al.

   The transmembrane domain of the EphA2 receptor has been transformed into a novel amphitropic peptide that binds to the EphA2 receptor and inhibits cell migration.
9. 1. Plant Biology

   A plant chitinase controls cortical infection thread progression and nitrogen-fixing symbiosis

   Anna Malolepszy et al.

   Lotus japonicus chitinase modulates the level of rhizobial Nod factor and thereby enables cortical infection and functional symbiosis in root nodules.
10. 1. Evolutionary Biology

    Changes to social feeding behaviors are not sufficient for the fitness gains of the C. elegans N2 reference strain

    Yuehui Zhao et al.