Joshua T. Trachtenberg

The paper compares cortical cell type organization between metatherian and eutherian mammals using single-nucleus RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics, revealing lineage-specific differences in neuronal subtypes and inhibitory circuitry.

The paper shows that the L2/3 continuum in the mouse visual cortex develops through two phases: a genetically programmed initial phase and a visually experience-driven second phase.

The paper integrates single-cell transcriptomic data from 17 vertebrate species to study the evolution of retinal cell types, finding conserved cell classes and subclasses with variation increasing from outer to inner retina.

This study measures the development of monocular and binocular receptive field tuning in mouse V1 from eye-opening to critical period closure, revealing new features of binocular response maturation.

The paper shows that vision selectively drives the specification of upper-layer glutamatergic cell types in the mouse visual cortex through gene expression regulation.

The paper shows that dendritic plasticity in the retrosplenial cortex links memories by allocating spine clusters to the same dendritic segments for temporally close memories.

This study shows that vision is required for forming binocular neurons and improving their tuning before the classical critical period.

The paper shows vision transforms unstable binocular circuitry into a network of highly tuned complex feature detectors in layer 2/3 of the cortex.

The paper shows that neuron tuning similarity in mouse visual cortex correlates with receptive field overlap rather than cortical distance, supporting salt-and-pepper map formation from clonally related neurons.