C. Ron Yu

This study shows that antiviral drugs fail to prevent neurological deficits in SARS-CoV-2-infected mice, which resemble neurodegenerative diseases due to chronic inflammation.

This study generates single-cell transcriptomic atlases of the mouse vomeronasal organ, revealing new cell types, lineage relationships, and molecular mechanisms of receptor specification.

This study creates DevATLAS to map spatiotemporal circuit maturation in postnatal mouse brains and identifies molecular mechanisms and impairments in neurodevelopmental disorders.

This paper introduces a biologically realistic local learning rule that enables recurrent networks to achieve invariant object representation and classification without error backpropagation.

The paper identifies Fzd1 as a master regulator of the critical period for olfactory imprinting, showing its role in closing the period to lock in permanent odor memory circuits.

The paper develops a physicochemical model of odor sampling that simulates ligand-receptor interactions and evaluates their impact on odor discrimination sensitivity.

This study shows that innate odor preference in mice requires both spontaneous neural activity and sensory experience during a critical period, with ectopic projections altering odor valence.

The paper shows that innate odor valence is not encoded through insulated channels but is instead re-coded via crosstalk among mitral/tufted cells in the olfactory bulb, abolishing innate behavioral responses to mixed odors.

The paper proposes a computational framework based on maximal dependence capturing to generate invariant object representations, demonstrating its effectiveness in symbol and face recognition under noisy conditions.