Fernando Garcia

The paper develops a knock-in Ntsr1-Flp mouse line for intersectional targeting of midbrain dopamine circuits and demonstrates its utility in distinguishing dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic neurons.

The paper identifies a specific dopamine neuron population in mice required for anticipatory locomotion during food anticipation, showing genetic dissociation of behavioral components.

The paper shows that proposed GPCR markers for adult dopamine neurons, like Nmur1 and Cckar, lack functional expression and challenge existing atlas assignments.

This study demonstrates that systemic AAV delivery enables widespread calcium indicator expression in marmosets, allowing functional optical imaging of visual area MT at multiple scales.