Min Xu

Towards Robust Automated Mouse Scratching Behavior Detection for Itch Research

This paper develops Scratch-AID+, an automated mouse scratching detection framework, showing that fine-tuned video foundation models outperform classic models in generalizability and accuracy.

Prot-LAMBDA: Explicit Distance Learning Enhances Structural Reasoning in Protein Language Models

Prot-LAMBDA improves protein structure prediction by explicitly incorporating spatial relationships, achieving better performance than ESM2-3B in contact prediction and 3D structure prediction.

Nested neural circuits generate distinct acoustic signals during Drosophila courtship

The paper maps neuronal circuits in Drosophila that generate distinct courtship songs and shows they are organized into nested feed-forward pathways.

The EN-TEx resource of multi-tissue personal epigenomes & variant-impact models

The paper introduces the EN-TEx resource, which provides personal epigenomes and variant-impact models across multiple tissues, revealing allele-specific loci and their associations with GWAS loci.

Combinatorial circuit dynamics orchestrate flexible motor patterns in Drosophila

This study identifies how combinatorial activation of descending pathways in Drosophila generates flexible motor patterns during courtship behavior.

A natural timeless polymorphism allowing circadian clock synchronization in 'white nights'

The paper shows that a natural allele of the timeless gene allows Drosophila to synchronize circadian clocks to temperature cycles in constant light.

Microstructural plasticity in the bilingual brain

This study uses qMRI and fMRI to find that early second language acquisition enhances microstructural cortical development in bilinguals.

Pleotropic effects of PPARD accelerate colorectal tumor progression and invasion

This study shows that PPARD promotes colorectal cancer progression and invasion by enhancing β-catenin signaling and multiple pro-invasive pathways.

Neural Changes Underlying Rapid Fly Song Evolution

This study identifies neural changes underlying rapid fly song evolution by comparing homologous courtship song neurons between Drosophila species.