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Cong Wang

McGovern Institute for Brain Research

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AREION: A Foundation Model for Atlas-Agnostic Representation Learning of Brain Connectome

Zhao Zhang, Hongming Li, Yuanwang Zhang, Guoliang You, Cong Wang, Yong Fan A

AREION learns atlas-agnostic representations of brain connectomes, outperforming baselines with fewer parameters and strong transferability across atlases.

bioRxiv · Oct 1, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Structure-aware geometric graph learning for modeling protease-substrate specificity at scale

Xudong Guo, Yue Bi, Zixu Ran, Tong Pan, Heyun Sun, Yi Hao, Runchang Jia, Cong Wang, Qi Zhang, Lukasz Kurgan, Jiangning Song, Fuyi Li

OmniCleave models protease-substrate specificity using a geometric graph framework, outperforming existing methods and identifying novel substrates.

bioRxiv · Apr 10, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics

Optic nerve regeneration requires the intracellular domain of LIFRa/CD118

Qian Jiang, Cong Wang, Yuerong Ren, Peiyun Duan, Ke tian, Xiangwei Duan, Binghan Cai, Changzhong Xu, Jian Li, Larry I. Benowitz, Ningli Wang, Bing Jiang, Lili Xie

This study identifies the intracellular domain of LIFR/CD118 as essential for optic nerve regeneration in mature RGCs, independent of LIF and other therapies.

bioRxiv · Oct 14, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Increased EThcD efficiency on the hybrid Orbitrap Excedion Pro Mass Analyzer extends the depth in identification and sequence coverage of HLA class I immunopeptidomes

Amy L. Kessler, Kyle L. Fort, Hanno Christoph Resemann, Peter Krüger, Cong Wang, Heiner Koch, Jan-Peter Hauschild, Fabio Marino, Albert J. R. Heck

This study shows that using EThcD on a new mass spectrometer improves the identification and sequence coverage of HLA class I immunopeptidomes by filling gaps in fragmentation data.

Molecular & Cellular Proteomics · Aug 12, 2025Peer-reviewedBiochemistry

The study on the impact of indoleacetic acid on enhancing the ability of the rumen's original microecology to degrade aflatoxin B1.

Jiajin Sun, Zhonghao Wang, Xinyu Yan, Yuqi Zhao, Li Tan, Xuning Miao, Rong Zhao, Wenjie Huo, Lei Chen, Qinghong Li, Qiang Liu, Cong Wang, Gang Guo

This study investigates how indoleacetic acid (IAA) enhances the rumen microecology's ability to degrade aflatoxin B1, showing improved degradation rates and microbial stability.

bioRxiv · Aug 2, 2024 · PreprintMicrobiology

Listener’s vmPFC simulates speaker choices when reading between the lines

Qingtian Mi, Cong Wang, Colin F. Camerer, Lusha Zhu

The paper shows that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex encodes probabilistic inferences of cooperative speaker choices during communication, with striatum reflecting updates on intended meaning.

Science Advances · Mar 3, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience