Justin Blau

The paper identifies Pde10a as a regulator of neuronal excitability in SCN neurons, showing its rhythmic expression drives a depolarized silent state.

This study shows that FMRP acutely regulates neuronal plasticity in adult Drosophila neurons by modulating sif mRNA translation and Rac1 activity.

The paper shows that activity-regulated genes like Hr38 and Sr control structural plasticity in Drosophila s-LNv circadian neurons by regulating sif transcription.

The paper identifies a gene expression program in Drosophila neurons that is activated by neuronal inactivity rather than activity, involving Pura and Toy transcription factors.

The paper introduces Tango-seq to overlay transcriptomic data on connectomes, identifying neurons downstream of Drosophila clock neurons and revealing synaptic connections and plasticity.