Muriel Thoby‐Brisson

This study shows that a short PHOX2B polyalanine expansion causes severe respiratory issues in mice, but survivors maintain normal weight gain when the mutation is restricted to the MafB lineage.

The paper investigates how vestibular neuronal maturation changes during amphibian metamorphosis, showing a shift from tonic to phasic discharge in vestibulospinal neurons.

This paper identifies a hypothalamus-brainstem circuit mediated by oxytocin that enhances respiratory sinus arrhythmia during calming behaviors.

MorphoCellSorter ranks microglia by morphology using Andrews plots and PCA, showing it works across species, ages, and experimental models.

This study shows that microglia are essential for proper development of respiratory circuits in the mouse brainstem, as their absence leads to abnormal breathing rhythms and neonatal death.

The paper shows that limb motoneurons in Xenopus develop functional connections with muscles before acquiring cholinergic transmitter properties, using glutamate-based synapses initially.