Publications
Here is a list of my scientific publications, including preprints and journal papers.
Preprint
Hung Lo†,
Malinda Tantirigama, Anke Schoenherr, Laura Moreno-Velasquez, Lukas Faiss, Benjamin Rost, Matthew Larkum, Benjamin Judkewitz, Katharina Stumpenhorst, Marion Rivalan,
York Winter, Dietmar Schmitz∗, Friedrich Johenning∗,†
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†: co-corresponding authors
*: equally supervised the project
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In this study, we found a feeding rate-dependent neuronal modulation in the mouse olfactory cortex (aPC). When mice are binge feeding, the whole olfactory cortex is shutting down, while we can see clear neuronal responses during slow feeding. This modulation is not observed in the gustatory cortex, another main sensory modality in flavor perception. We dived much deeper into the potential mechanisms including olfactory bulb inputs and local GABAergic interneurons in the aPC (see Fig. 3 in the paper).
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We further found a correlation between binge-induced aPC suppression and mice's appetite. Enhancing the aPC suppression through closed-loop optogenetics we can increase food intake in mice!
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Overall, we described a novel behavior-dependent sensory modulation in the olfactory cortex, and such modulation has an active role in regulating feeding behaviors.
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Check out the paper/code for more details!
Journal
Verena Heise*, Constance Holman*, Hung Lo*, Ekaterini Maria Lyras*, Mark Christopher Adkins, Maria Raisa Jessica Aquino, Konstantinos I. Bougioukas, Katherine Bray, Martyna Gajos, Xuanzong Guo, Corinna Hartling, Rodrigo Huerta-Gutierrez, Miroslava Jindrová, Joanne Kenney, Adrianna KÄ™piÅ„ska, Laura Kneller, Elena Lopez-Rodriguez, Felix Mühlensiepen, Angela Richards, Gareth Richards, Maximilian Siebert, James Andrew Smith, Natalie Smith, Nicolai Stransky, Sirpa Tarvainen, Daniela Sofia Valdes, Kayleigh L Warrington, Nina-Maria Wilpert, Disa Witkowska, Mirela Zaneva, Jeanette Zanker, Tracey Weissgerber*
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We (open & reproducible courses lecturers and brainstorming organizers, marked with *) invited our past course participants for a brainstorming event for following up on what practice they have implemented in their own research and what are the challenges they faced. We distilled the discussion into this "10 simple rules" paper so researchers can find it easier to navigate what to do after participating in training courses.
Journal
Brianne A Kent, Constance Holman, Emmanuella Amoako, Alberto Antonietti, JAMES MBA Azam, Hanne Ballhausen, Yaw Bediako, Anat M. Belasen, Clarissa França Dias Carneiro, Yen-Chung Chen, Ewoud Compeer, Chelsea A. C. Connor, Sophia Crüwell, Humberto Debat, Emma Dorris, Hedyeh Ebrahimi, Jeffrey C. Erlich, Florencia Fernández-Chiappe, Felix Fischer, MaÅ‚gorzata Anna Gazda, Toivo Glatz, Peter Grabitz, Verena Heise, David Kent, Hung Lo, Gary Mcdowell, Devang Mehta, Wolf-Julian Neumann, Kleber Neves, Mark Patterson, Naomi Penfold, Sophie Piper, Iratxe Puebla, Peter K Quashie, Carolina Paz Quezada, Julia Riley, Jessica L. Rohmann, Shyam Saladi, Benjamin Schwessinger, Bob Siegerink, Paulina Stehlik, Alexandra Tzilivaki, Kate L. Umbers, Aalok Varma, Kaivalya Walavalkar, Charlotte M de Winde, Cecilia Zaza, Tracey Weissgerber
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This is a summary manuscript of a virtual brainstorming event. Fifty-four invited participants who have experience in ECR initiatives that aims to improve science joined the discussion together and we collected the challenges of organizing ECR events and how individuals and organizations can support ECRs who are working to improve the research culture and practice.
Preprint / Journal
Helena Jambor*, Alberto Antonietti*, Bradly Alicea, Tracy L. Audisio, Susann Auer, Vivek Bhardwaj, Steven J. Burgess, Iuliia Ferling, Małgorzata Anna Gazda, Luke H. Hoeppner, Vinodh Ilangovan, Hung Lo, Mischa Olson, Salem Yousef Mohamed, Sarvenaz Sarabipour, Aalok Varma, Kaivalya Walavalkar, Erin M. Wissink, Tracey L. Weissgerber
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This is a meta-research paper collaborated with the eLife community ambassador program. We performed meta-research on papers from three biomedical fields (Plant Biology, Cell Biology, Physiology) and assessed the reporting quality of biomedical images (eg. scale bar, color, annotation...).
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We also provided a clear step-by-step guideline on how to make clear and informative image-based figures for biomedical research articles.
Preprint / Journal
Laura Moreno-Velasquez, Hung Lo, Stephen Lenzi, Malte Kaehne, Jörg Breustedt, Dietmar Schmitz, Sten Rüdiger and Friedrich W. Johenning
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During postnatal development, neurons' morphology changes drastically. Here, we found the dendrites of layer 2a and layer 2b excitatory neurons in the mouse piriform cortex have very different morphology during the postnatal development regarding their length and branches.
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We further identified a potential mechanism that during the early critical period, NMDA-mediated dendritic spikes are only observed in the distal apical dendrites of layer 2b piriform neurons, which select the dendritic branches to survive during developmental pruning in apical dendrites.
