The homeodomain protein Bsh increases lamina neuron types and visual function.

For neurons to prevent undesirable synaptic connections in the brain, the combinatorial expression of γ-PCDH is essential.

Investigation of synapse development using a single neuron system illuminates how individual neurons specify connectivity with their postsynaptic partners and the central role of the synaptic organizer neurexin in this process.

A combination of multicellular recording and optogenetic photostimulation was used to deeply characterize the spatial profiles and effective strengths of intralaminar and translaminar synaptic connections from genetically defined neuronal populations in the visual cortex of adult mouse.

Electrophysiological study in human brain slices reveals that short-term synaptic plasticity from presynaptic pyramidal neuron to postsynaptic interneuron connections are target-cell specific based on their subclass interneuron identity.

Barcoded rabies virus tracing combined with single-cell RNAseq and in situ sequencing achieves high-throughput retrograde projection mapping and synaptic connectivity mapping at cellular resolution.

RNA sequencing and conditional Nova mutants reveal that Nova protein function is necessary for activity-dependent alternative splicing of synaptic genes within somatostatin cortical interneurons and regulates its afferent and efferent connectivity.

The sex-specificity of a transcription factor required for sexual differentiation of a neural circuit is regulated by a novel post-transcriptional mechanism.

Sister projection neurons in the mammalian olfactory system do not share sensory synaptic input indicating that lineage-independent mechanisms regulate their synaptic connectivity with the olfactory sensory neurons.

Functional synaptic organization in the cerebellar cortex is stereotyped and associates distant modules through parallel fibers.