Jonathan Boulanger-Weill

Emergence of Functional Heart-Brain Circuits in a Vertebrate

This study tracks the development of heart-brain circuits in larval zebrafish, revealing three stages of functional maturation involving vagal motor, sympathetic, and sensory pathways.

Meteorins regulate the formation of the left-right organizer and the establishment of vertebrate body asymmetry

This study identifies a role for the Meteorin protein family in the formation of the left-right organizer and the establishment of vertebrate body asymmetry during embryonic development.

Fishexplorer: A multimodal cellular atlas platform for neuronal circuit dissection in larval zebrafish

FishExplorer integrates multimodal brain data from larval zebrafish to enable circuit analysis and hypothesis generation.

A connectomic resource for neural cataloguing and circuit dissection of the larval zebrafish brain

The paper presents a connectomic dataset of a larval zebrafish brain, enabling circuit analysis through synaptic and neuronal annotations.

Lrrns define a visual circuit underlying brightness and contrast perception

The paper identifies a brightness and contrast processing circuit in zebrafish and shows Lrrn CAMs are essential for its assembly and function.

Correlative light and electron microscopy identifies circuit motifs underlying processing of noisy visual motion in larval zebrafish

The paper uses correlative light and electron microscopy to identify synaptic motifs in larval zebrafish that support visual motion processing.

Paired and solitary ionocytes in the zebrafish olfactory epithelium

The paper characterizes ionocyte subtypes in zebrafish olfactory epithelium, identifying three types with distinct functions and distributions.

Position-independent functional refinement within the vagus motor topographic map

The paper shows that vagus motor neurons in zebrafish can generate appropriate peripheral responses even when transplanted, indicating post-establishment circuit refinement depends on synaptic transmission.

Multi-species community platform for comparative neuroscience in teleost fish

The paper develops a multi-species brain atlas platform for comparative neuroscience in teleost fish, revealing species-specific neural structures and enabling gene expression and activity comparisons.

Functional and ultrastructural analysis of reafferent mechanosensation in larval zebrafish

This study investigates how zebrafish larvae distinguish self-generated reafferent mechanosensory signals from exafferent stimuli using lateral line hair cells and neural circuits.

A computational toolbox and step-by-step tutorial for the analysis of neuronal population dynamics in calcium imaging data

The paper provides a computational toolbox and tutorial for analyzing neuronal population dynamics in calcium imaging data, demonstrating its versatility across datasets.