Andrew Luskin

@aluskin

in vivo veritas

Joined May 2011

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Andrew Luskin @aluskin May 7, 2025

New paper on arousal in the brain! What controls the controller?

Andrew Luskin @aluskin Feb 9, 2023

nature.com/articles/s4158…

www.nature.com Muscles that move the retina augment compound eye vision in Drosophila Nature - Drosophila are shown to have retinal muscles that allow them to smoothly track visual motion and also to make rapid eye movements, and the associated functions and mechanisms involved are...

Andrew Luskin @aluskin Feb 7, 2023

nature.com/articles/d4158…

www.nature.com Gut microbes shape athletic motivation Nature - Gut microbes influence exercise-associated reward circuits in the brain.

Andrew Luskin @aluskin Jan 28, 2023

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

www.science.org Mitochondria metabolism sets the species-specific tempo of neuronal development Mitochondria are important regulators of the pace of neuronal development underlying human-specific brain maturation.

Andrew Luskin @aluskin Jan 26, 2023

science.org/doi/full/10.11…

www.science.org Clustering of vomeronasal receptor genes is required for transcriptional stability but not for... Vomeronasal receptor gene clustering in mammals results from a pressure on transcriptional maintenance rather than gene choice.