Yunpeng Zhang

This study shows that neuronal activity drives local CaMKII synthesis and localization via autophosphorylation-dependent pathways, leading to spatially and functionally distinct CaMKII populations.

The paper develops genetically-encoded markers for visualizing single dense core vesicles using confocal microscopy, improving resolution over traditional methods.

The paper shows miR-190 suppresses cholinergic co-transmission in glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons by posttranscriptional regulation, affecting sleep behavior.

The paper shows that local axonal translation of CaMKII mRNA, mediated by Mub and a 3UTR element, is essential for asymmetric CaMKII distribution and associative memory in Drosophila neurons.

This paper develops an ex vivo Drosophila brain model that recapitulates pairing-dependent plasticity in the mushroom body, showing it is input-specific and requires CaMKII and sleep.