Computation, wiring, and plasticity in synaptic clusters

VV Pulikkottil, BP Somashekar, US Bhalla - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Synaptic clusters on dendrites are extraordinarily compact computational building blocks.
They contribute to key local computations through biophysical and biochemical signaling …

Segregation of multimodal inputs into discrete midbrain compartments during an early critical period

JM Weakley, EK Kavusak, JB Carroll… - Frontiers in Neural …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The lateral cortex of the inferior colliculus (LCIC) is a multimodal subdivision of the midbrain
inferior colliculus (IC) that plays a key role in sensory integration. The LCIC is …

Biological action at a distance: Correlated pattern formation in adjacent tessellation domains without communication

JM Brooke, SS James… - PLoS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Tessellations emerge in many natural systems, and the constituent domains often contain
regular patterns, raising the intriguing possibility that pattern formation within adjacent …

The effects of geometry and dynamics on biological pattern formation

J Brooke - 2022 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
This project examines the influence of geometry and dynamics on pattern formation in
biological development. Since the work of Turing (1952) it has been known that patterns can …

Time to stop; agent-based modelling of chemoaffinity with competition

SS James, SP Wilson - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
In the classic Chemoaffinity theory, the retinotectal axon projection is thought to use pairs of
orthogonal signalling gradients in the retina to specify the eventual location of synapses …