This is the blog page of Yiyi Yu, a postdoc researcher in a neuroscience and neuro-engineering lab at UCSB.

Publications

Mouse vision

Correlation within and inter-visual cortical areas

Yiyi Yu, Jeffery N Stirman, Christopher R Dorsett, Spencer L Smith, “Visual information is broadcast among cortical areas in discrete channels”, 2024, eLife13:RP97848 Paper

Texture and motion segregation in mouse higher visual areas

This work found visual texture and motion features are segregated into putative ventral and dorsal higher visual areas in mouse L2/3 cortex.

Yiyi Yu, Jeffery N Stirman, Christopher R Dorsett, Spencer L Smith, “Selective representations of texture and motion in mouse higher visual areas”, 2022, Current Biology 32, 2810-2820 Paper Data released

Mice discriminate natural scenes

Yiyi Yu, Riichiro Hira, Jeffrey N Stirman, Waylin Yu, Ikuko T Smith & Spencer L Smith, “Mice use robust and common strategies to discriminate natural scenes”, 2018, Scientific Reports 8(1), 1379 paper

Computation

AUTOTUNE: a software suite for dendritic imaging data

Yiyi Yu, Liam M Adsit, Ikuko T Smith, “Comprehensive software suite for functional analysis and synaptic input mapping of dendritic spines imaged in vivo”, 2024, Neurophotonics, 11(2), 024307-024307 paper AUTOTUNE download

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Postnatal development of olfactory mitral cells

Yiyi Yu, Shawn D Burton, Shreejoy J Tripathy, Nathaniel N Urban, “Postnatal development attunes olfactory bulb mitral cells to high-frequency signaling”, 2015, Journal of Neurophysiology 114 (5), 2830-2842 paper

Mitochondrial dynamics

Mitochondria fusion and fission dynamics in Drosophila larval axons

Yiyi Yu, Hao-Chih Lee, Kuan-Chieh Chen, Joseph Suhan, Minhua Qiu, Qinle Ba, Ge Yang, “Inner membrane fusion mediates spatial distribution of axonal mitochondria”, 2016, Scientific reports 6(1), 18981 paper