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Valentina Villani

Aarhus UniversityORCID 0000-0001-9237-4250Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Approach:deep learning· 2 Assay:electronic health records· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1

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Chao SuniD· 2 shared Erika UddstromiD· 1 shared Esben LorentzeniD· 1 shared Ilika GhoshiD· 1 shared Lars Boye Brandt· 1 shared Luca Pishos· 1 shared Markus Oernsvig Christensen· 1 shared Monil ShahiD· 1 shared

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A Protein Language Model Reveals Organellar Calcium ATPases at Neuronal Synapses

Valentina Villani, Silvia Turchetto, Lars Boye Brandt, Markus Oernsvig Christensen, Erika Uddstrom, Sara Derosa, Esben Lorentzen, Chao Sun

The paper introduces Synapse Gigamapper, a protein language model that identifies synaptic localization motifs and reveals SERCA's role in excitatory synapses.

bioRxiv · Mar 4, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Mitochondria remodel near synapses to boost metabolic capacity and fuel plasticity

Monil Shah, Ilika Ghosh, Nitheyaa Shree Ramesh, Luca Pishos, Tristano Pancani, Valentina Villani, Ryohei Yasuda, Sahil Loomba, Chao Sun, Naomi Kamasawa, Vidhya Rangaraju

The paper investigates how mitochondria near synapses remodel to increase ATP production and support synaptic plasticity through structural and functional changes.

bioRxiv · Aug 27, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience