Verina H. Leung

The paper identifies a neural circuit regulating feeding bout fragmentation through activity in the dorsal subiculum to mammillary body pathway.

This paper develops vCATCH to map covalent drug targets across the entire mouse body, revealing new tissue and cell type engagements for afatinib and ibrutinib.

Deleting Piezo1 and Piezo2 together in mice weakens uterine contractions and prolongs labor; uterine and sensory-neuron deletions act additively, and knockout uteri show reduced Gja1 (connexin43).

The paper identifies PIEZO2 as a key mechanosensitive ion channel in adipose sensory innervation and shows its role in regulating adipose tissue phenotypes.

The paper identifies phosphorylated pyruvate dehydrogenase (pPDH) as an in vivo marker for neuronal inhibition, correlating with reduced action potential firing and detectable across various inhibitory conditions.