Publications

A selection of research that used data from INSS Assisted DIY systems, newest first.

Research using INSS systems

Janiak F, Forsthofer M, Czubek J, … Szczerska M, Baden T (2026). Fluorescent nanodiamond phantoms for spatial resolution benchmarking in two- and three-photon microscopy. bioRxiv (preprint). doi:10.64898/2026.01.12.699010

Capece Marsico J, Askarova M, Sharma O, Nandakumar S, Pacheco C, Favila N, Blaess S, Krabbe S (2026). Basolateral amygdala dopamine signals behavioural salience across exploration and learning. bioRxiv (preprint). doi:10.64898/2026.09.03.749083

Becalick A, Blot A, Strom M, Znamenskiy P (2026). Barcoded rabies in situ connectomics for high-throughput reconstruction of neural circuits. Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-77105-y

Paricio-Montesinos R, Knull M, Bahlouli A, Gründemann J (2026). A thalamic inhibitory circuit aligns sensory coding with learned value. bioRxiv (preprint). doi:10.64898/2026.06.29.735190

Moretto E, Masato A, Panzi C, … Harris SS, Busche MA, Schiavo G (2026). Aberrant tau accumulation caused by MAPT mutations induces early pathological changes in axonal transport that are rescued by p38α inhibition. Nat Neurosci. doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02266-4

Yang S, McDonald AJ, Lu X, … Emiliani V, Ji N, Reimer J, Bourdieu L, St-Pierre F (2026). A red-emitting, genetically encoded indicator for two-photon voltage recording in vivo. bioRxiv (preprint). doi:10.64898/2026.06.01.726307

Lafirdeen AM, Telliez C, Jérémie N, … Papagiakoumou E, Emiliani V (2026). Three-photon holographic microscopy for deep precise optogenetics. Research Square (preprint). doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-9271774/v1

Ellingford R, Harris SS, Kehring M, … Hyman BT, Busche MA (2026). Alzheimer’s disease pathology degrades an NMDA receptor-dependent spontaneous activity pattern in cortico-hippocampal circuits. Neuron. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2026.02.027

Campbell EP, Martin L, Magee JC, Grienberger C (2026). Learning-dependent feedback by OLM interneurons shapes CA1 representations. bioRxiv (preprint). doi:10.64898/2025.12.21.695825

Peters J, Cai Z, van Veghel M, … Battaglia FP, Englitz B (2026). The representation of omitted sounds in the mouse auditory cortex. Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-68847-w

Roig-Puiggros S, Guyoton M, Suchkov D, … Watrin F, Manent JB, Jabaudon D (2026). Position-independent emergence of neocortical neuron molecular identity, connectivity and function. Nat Neurosci. doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02142-7

Benoit CM, Ganea DA, Paricio-Montesinos R, … Engelhardt M, Gründemann J (2026). Axon initial segment dynamics during associative fear learning. Nat Neurosci. doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02152-5

Sarpong GA, Pass R, Liyanagama K, … Looger LL, Wickens JR (2025). Spatially heterogeneous acetylcholine dynamics in the striatum promote behavioral flexibility. Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-66826-1

Egea-Weiss A, Turner-Bridger B, Viduolyte A, Marianelli E, Znamenskiy P, Iacaruso MF (2025). Topographic alignment of auditory inputs to the visual cortex. bioRxiv (preprint). doi:10.1101/2025.07.29.667237

Lenkey N, Garvert AC, Neubrandt M, Kriener B, Vervaeke K (2025). Brain region-specific gain modulation of place cells by VIP neurons. Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-60679-4

Harris SS, Rajani RM, Zünkler J, … Müller UC, Busche MA (2025). The amyloid precursor family of proteins in excitatory neurons are essential for regulating cortico-hippocampal circuit dynamics in vivo. Cell Rep. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115801

Guyoton M, Matteucci G, Foucher CG, Getz MP, Gjorgjieva J, El-Boustani S (2025). Cortical circuits for cross-modal generalization. Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-59342-9

Jung F, Cao X, Heymans L, Carlén M (2025). The DMC-Behavior Platform: an open-source framework for auditory-guided perceptual decision-making in head-fixed mice. eNeuro. doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0457-24.2025

Thome C, Janssen JM, Karabulut S, … Gründemann J, … Engelhardt M (2025). Live imaging of excitable axonal microdomains in ankyrin-G-GFP mice. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.87078

Neubrandt M, Lenkey N, Vervaeke K (2025). VIP interneurons control hippocampal place cell remapping through transient disinhibition in novel environments. bioRxiv (preprint). doi:10.1101/2025.02.01.636072

He Y, Colas Nieto A, Blot A, Znamenskiy P (2024). A depth map of visual space in the primary visual cortex. bioRxiv (preprint). doi:10.1101/2024.09.27.615442

Hasegawa M, Huang Z, Paricio-Montesinos R, Gründemann J (2024). Network state changes in sensory thalamus represent learned outcomes. Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-51868-8

Lindeman S, Fu X, Reinert JK, Fukunaga I (2024). Value-related learning in the olfactory bulb occurs through pathway-dependent perisomatic inhibition. PLoS Biol. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002536

Milioto C, Carcolé M, Giblin A, … Busche MA, … Isaacs AM (2024). PolyGR and polyPR knock-in mice reveal a conserved neuroprotective extracellular matrix signature in C9orf72 ALS/FTD neurons. Nat Neurosci. doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01589-4

Lande AS, Garvert AC, Ebbesen NC, Jordbræk SV, Vervaeke K (2023). Representations of tactile object location in the retrosplenial cortex. Curr Biol. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.019

Bojarskaite L, Vallet A, Bjørnstad DM, … Mardal KA, Enger R (2023). Sleep cycle-dependent vascular dynamics in male mice and the predicted effects on perivascular cerebrospinal fluid flow and solute transport. Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36643-5

Rem PD, Sereikaite V, Fernández-Fernández D, … Barkat TR, Strømgaard K, Bettler B (2023). Soluble amyloid-β precursor peptide does not regulate GABAB receptor activity. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.82082

Auguste YSS, Ferro A, Kahng JA, … Pedmale UV, Cheadle L (2022). Oligodendrocyte precursor cells engulf synapses during circuit remodeling in mice. Nat Neurosci. doi:10.1038/s41593-022-01170-x

Gianatti M, Garvert AC, Vervaeke K (2022). Diverse long-range projections convey position information to the retrosplenial cortex. bioRxiv (preprint). doi:10.1101/2022.09.18.508427

Esmaeili V, Oryshchuk A, Asri R, … Crochet S, Petersen CCH (2022). Learning-related congruent and incongruent changes of excitation and inhibition in distinct cortical areas. PLoS Biol. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001667

Adefuin AM, Lindeman S, Reinert JK, Fukunaga I (2022). State-dependent representations of mixtures by the olfactory bulb. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.76882

Liu Y, Foustoukos G, Crochet S, Petersen CCH (2022). Axonal and dendritic morphology of excitatory neurons in layer 2/3 mouse barrel cortex imaged through whole-brain two-photon tomography and registered to a digital brain atlas. Front Neuroanat. doi:10.3389/fnana.2021.791015

Hennestad E, Witoelar A, Chambers AR, Vervaeke K (2021). Mapping vestibular and visual contributions to angular head velocity tuning in the cortex. Cell Rep. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110134

Koldaeva A, Zhang C, Huang YP, … Matsunami H, Fukunaga I (2021). Generation and characterization of a cell type-specific, inducible Cre-driver line to study olfactory processing. J Neurosci. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3076-20.2021

Esmaeili V, Tamura K, Muscinelli SP, … Gerstner W, Petersen CCH (2021). Rapid suppression and sustained activation of distinct cortical regions for a delayed sensory-triggered motor response. Neuron. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.05.005

Orsolic I, Rio M, Mrsic-Flogel TD, Znamenskiy P (2021). Mesoscale cortical dynamics reflect the interaction of sensory evidence and temporal expectation during perceptual decision-making. Neuron. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.03.031

El-Boustani S, Sermet BS, Foustoukos G, Oram TB, Yizhar O, Petersen CCH (2020). Anatomically and functionally distinct thalamocortical inputs to primary and secondary mouse whisker somatosensory cortices. Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17087-7

Tunbak H, Vazquez-Prada M, Ryan TM, Kampff AR, Dreosti E (2020). Whole-brain mapping of socially isolated zebrafish reveals that lonely fish are not loners. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.55863

Mayrhofer JM, El-Boustani S, Foustoukos G, Auffret M, Tamura K, Petersen CCH (2019). Distinct contributions of whisker sensory cortex and tongue-jaw motor cortex in a goal-directed sensorimotor transformation. Neuron. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.07.008

Koldaeva A, Schaefer AT, Fukunaga I (2019). Rapid task-dependent tuning of the mouse olfactory bulb. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.43558

Methods papers co-authored by INSS

Lees RM, Bianco IH, Campbell RAA, Orlova N, Peterka DS, Pichler B, Smith SL, Yatsenko D, Yu CH, Packer AM (2025). Standardized measurements for monitoring and comparing multiphoton microscope systems. Nat Protoc. doi:10.1038/s41596-024-01120-w

Lees RM, Pichler B, Packer AM (2024). Contribution of optical resolution to the spatial precision of two-photon optogenetic photostimulation. Neurophotonics. doi:10.1117/1.NPh.11.1.015006