Publications

Whole-body integration of gene expression and single-cell morphology

Hernando Vergara, Constantin Pape, Kimberly Meechan, Valentyna Zinchenko, Christel Genoud, Adrian Wanner, Kevin Mutemi, Benjamin Titze, Rachel Templin, Paola Bertucci, Oleg Simakov, Wiebke Dürichen, Pedro Machado, Emily Savage, Lothar Schermelleh, Yannick Schwab, Rainer Friedrich, Anna Kreshuk, Christian Tischer, Detlev Arendt

We present a pipeline for the integration of gene expression data with single-cell morphology in whole-body specimens, and apply it to the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii.

Cell, 2021

Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal

Francesca Greenstreet, Hernando M. Vergara, Yvonne Johansson, Sthitapranjya Pati, Laura Schwarz, Stephen Lenzi, Jesse P. Geerts, Matthew Wisdom, Alina Gubanova, Lars Rollik, Jasvin Kaur, Theodore Moskovitz, Joseph Cohen, Emmett Thompson, Troy W. Margrie, Claudia Clopath, Marcus Stephenson-Jones

We describe a dopaminergic signal in the striatum that encodes action prediction errors, which serve as a value-free teaching signal that supports learning by reinforcing repeated associations.

Nature, 2025