Elizabeth M. C. Hillman

This study identifies endothelial type I interferon signaling as a regulator of vascular normalization after ischemic brain injury, showing it reduces BBB disruption and promotes junctional stability.

This study investigates how mTOR inhibition reverses glioma-induced changes in excitatory neurons, showing effects on mRNA, dendritic spines, and neuronal activity.

The paper shows that reinforcement learning enhances tuft selectivity in apical dendrites for both rewarded and unrewarded stimuli, even after reward removal.

The paper uses intracranial-EEG and video data to show that brain regions switch between spectral states in sync, reflecting naturalistic behaviors and forming functional networks.

This study identifies the neuromuscular mechanisms underlying Drosophila larval rolling escape behavior, revealing circumferential muscle contractions and premotor circuitry involved in generating rolling motion.

The paper uses SCAPE microscopy to analyze neural activity in Drosophila brains during different behaviors, revealing both behavior-related and residual high-dimensional activity patterns.

This study identifies the mesencephalic locomotor region's role in recruiting V2a reticulospinal neurons to control forward locomotion in zebrafish.

The paper reveals topographic organization in a zebrafish vestibular brainstem circuit by showing birthdate correlates with neuronal position, innervation patterns, and connectivity.

This study shows that the human-specific gene SRGAP2C increases cortico-cortical connectivity and improves sensory processing and behavioral performance in mice.

The paper develops a deep-learning-based pipeline for segmenting and tracking cells in 3D brain imaging data, achieving high accuracy across different conditions and datasets.

This paper introduces LocaNMF, a method to decompose widefield calcium imaging data into interpretable spatial and temporal components for analyzing neural activity across mice.

The paper uses SCAPE microscopy to study odor responses in mouse olfactory neurons, finding widespread receptor modulation in response to odor mixtures.

This study tracks glioma progression in mice, showing decreased neuronal synchrony, disrupted neurovascular coupling, and seizure-related hypoxia in infiltrated cortex.

This study uses high-speed volumetric microscopy to analyze proprioceptor activity in crawling Drosophila larvae, revealing dynamic encoding of body position during movement.

~2-4x SNR gains and 20-300x compression on calcium and voltage imaging, from a patch-wise penalized matrix decomposition that splits signal from temporally uncorrelated noise without hyperparameter tuning.