CROISSANT MEETING

In the morning of Thursday and Friday, we have a short discussion on papers recently published and closely related to our research, avec du café et des croissants.

From January 2026, the papers to be discussed will be shared exclusively with lab members via the Teams platform. Lab members will upload recent papers of their interest and briefly present and discuss the main points.

Just to enjoy Science!

List of papers we have already discussed:

Jan. 2026 -

Li et al. (2026) A disinhibitory basal forebrain-to-cortex projection supports sustained attention. Cell 189: 4140-4158

Xu et al. (2026) Oxytocin attenuates fear learning via enhancing somatostatin interneuron–mediated local GABAergic inhibition in the prelimbic cortex. Science Advance 12: eaef8400

Jacobs et al. (2026) The Anterior BNST Is Required for Novelty-Driven Social Interaction. Journal of Neuroscience 46: e1743252026

Molas et al. (2024) Dopamine control of social novelty preference is constrained by an interpeduncular-tegmentum circuit. Nature Communications 15: 2841

Ghareeb et al. (2026) A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery. Nature in press

Aygün et al. (2026) An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software. Nature 654: 909–916

Gottweis et al. (2026) Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist. Nature in press

Lu et al. (2026) Towards end-to-end automation of AI research. Nature in press

Chen et al. (2025) Cracking the Valence Code: Patterned Facial Kinematics and Neural Signatures of Emotional Expressions in Mice. Advanced Science 42: e17156

Korgan et al. (2025) Merkel cell stimulation in fear and sensory signaling. Neuropsychopharmacology 50: 1395–1405

Lee et al. (2025) Separable Dorsal Raphe Dopamine Projections Mimic the Facets of a Loneliness-like State. eLife reviewed preprint

Katlowitz et al. (2026) Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus. Nature 654: 714-723

Daruwalla et al. (2026) Cheese3D enables sensitive detection and analysis of whole-face movement in mice. Nature Neuroscience 29: 1510-1521

Nicolas et al. (2023) Linking emotional valence and anxiety in a mouse insula-amygdala circuit. Nature Communications 14: 5073

El-Kalliny et al. (2026) Accumbal calcium-permeable AMPA receptors orchestrate neuronal ensembles underlying social attachment. Nature Communications 17: 783

Kim et al. (2026) Electromagnetic field-inducible in vivo gene switch for remote spatiotemporal control of gene expression. Cell 189: 3465-3480

Sadretdinova et al. (2026) Lateral hypothalamic input engages a disinhibitory microcircuit in the dorsal raphe to promote behavior activation. bioRxiv preprint

Chen et al. (2026) Thalamic activation of the visual cortex at the single-synapse level. Science 391: 1349-1354

Rohner et al. (2026) Next-generation multicolor indicators for in vivo imaging of norepinephrine. Nature Methods 23: 636-652

Raam et al. (2026) Cortical regulation of collective social dynamics during environmental challenge. Nature Neuroscience 29: 901-914

Francioni et al. (2026) Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites. Nature in press

Tsukano et al. (2026) Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses. Nature Neuroscience 29: 888-900

Rogers et al. (2026) Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour. Nature in press

Liu et al. (2026) Synchrony within Aβ mechanoreceptor subtypes governs signal propagation to primary somatosensory cortex. bioRxiv preprint

Le Merre et al. (2026) A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity. Nature Neuroscience 29: 673-681

Correia et al. (2026) Dissociable neuronal substrates for positive and negative valence stimuli in the nucleus accumbens. bioRxiv preprint

Liao et al. (2026) A genetically defined midbrain-pontine circuit gates vocal communication. bioRxiv preprint

Li et al. (2025) Bright light exposure suppresses feeding and weight gain via a visual circuit linked to the lateral hypothalamus. Nature Neuroscience 29:632-646

Aggarwal et al. (2025) Glutamate indicators with increased sensitivity and tailored deactivation rates. Nature Methods 23: 417-425

Jan. 2025 - Dec. 2025

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Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2023

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Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2022

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Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2021

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Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2020