Judith Baka

Conserved Cell Type Signatures Across the Brainstem and Spinal Cord in the Mouse Central Nervous System

The paper maps conserved cell type signatures in the adult mouse brainstem and spinal cord using multi-omics data, revealing shared and region-specific features.

Discovery of neuronal cell types by pairing whole cell reconstructions with RNA expression profiles

The paper introduces morphoFISH, a method combining imaging and spatial transcriptomics to identify new neuronal cell types in the mouse brain.

Temporal disparity of action potentials triggered in axon initial segments and distal axons in the neocortex

The paper reports spontaneously occurring retroaxonal action potentials in interneurons that are independent of network inputs, showing distinct temporal contributions to network activity compared to AIS-APs.

Linear summation of metabotropic postsynaptic potentials follows coactivation of neurogliaform interneurons

The paper shows that metabotropic GABAB responses sum linearly while ionotropic GABAA responses sum sublinearly in neurogliaform interneurons.

Robust perisomatic GABAergic self-innervation inhibits basket cells in the human and mouse supragranular neocortex

The paper investigates GABAergic autapses in parvalbumin-expressing basket cells across human and mouse neocortex, finding robust self-innervation in pvBCs but not in other interneurons.

Transcriptomic and morphophysiological evidence for a specialized human cortical GABAergic cell type

The paper identifies a novel human cortical GABAergic interneuron subtype with unique transcriptomic, morphological, and physiological features not observed in rodents.