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Ju Lu

University of California, Santa CruzORCID 0000-0002-7010-3799Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 4 Organism:mouse· 4 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Assay:imaging· 2 Research Focus:spatial domain detection· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1

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Dissociating the Hallucinogenic and Neuroplastic Effects of Psilocybin

Jacob J. Baker, Emily Kogan, Shaorong Ma, Ju Lu, Yi Zuo

This study investigates how 5-HT2AR signaling in L5 PyrNs contributes to psilocybin-induced synaptic remodeling versus hallucinations in rodents.

bioRxiv · Jul 9, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Persistent cortical excitatory neuron dysregulation in adult Chd8 haploinsufficient mice.

César P. Canales, Stephanie A. Lozano, Nicholas Alonzo Frost, Karol Cichewicz, Wellington Z. Amaral, Nicolas Seban, Ethan Fenton, A. Ayanna Wade, Nickolas Chu, Emily M. Smith, Cory S. Ardekani, Samuel Frank, Jeffrey Bennett, Pierre Lavenex, Aspen Kopley-Smith, , Alex S. Nord

This study identifies persistent excitatory neuron dysfunction in Chd8 haploinsufficient mice through single nucleus transcriptomics and behavioral analysis.

bioRxiv · Jun 4, 2025 · PreprintGenomics

Neuromuscular connectomes across development reveal synaptic ordering rules

Yaron Meirovitch, Kai Kang, Ryan W. Draft, Elisa Catherine Pavarino, Maria Fernanda Henao Echeverri, Fuming Yang, Stephen G. Turney, Daniel Raimund Berger, Adi Peleg, Marta Montero‐Crespo, Richard Lee Schalek, Ju Lu, Jean Livet, Juan-Carlos Tapia, Jeff William Lichtman

The paper traces neuromuscular connectivity in mice across development, revealing that synaptic pruning follows a global activity-based ordering rule.

bioRxiv · Sep 20, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience

A genetically-encoded fluorescent acetylcholine indicator

Miao Jing, Peng Zhang, Guangfu Wang, Jiesi Feng, Lukas Mesik, Jianzhi Zeng, Huoqing Jiang, Shaohua Wang, Jess C Looby, Nick A. Guagliardo, Linda W. Langma, Ju Lu, Yi Zuo, David A. Talmage, Lorna W. Role, , Yulong Li

This paper develops GACh sensors, genetically-encoded fluorescent indicators for acetylcholine, validated across multiple cell types and species, revealing new insights into cholinergic transmission.

Nature Biotechnology · Jul 9, 2018Peer-reviewedNeuroscience