Vatsal Mehra

The paper quantifies the supraspinal connectome in mice to identify anatomical correlates of functional recovery after spinal injury.

The paper identifies novel transcription factor synergies that enhance axon growth by analyzing co-occupancy patterns and validating them through experimental screens and animal models.

This study shows KLF6 promotes axon growth in CNS neurons by co-occupying regulatory DNA with STAT3, leading to synergistic gene expression changes.

The paper develops a bioinformatic pipeline to analyze chromatin accessibility and gene networks in cortical neurons, finding that developmental chromatin restriction limits axon regeneration and identifies potential pioneer factors to overcome this barrier.