Publications

Zhang L., Cavallini M., Wang J., Xin R., Zhang Q., Feng G., Sanes J.R., Peng Y.R. Evolutionary and Developmental Specialization of Foveal Cell Types in the Marmoset. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(16), 2024. [PubMed] [pdf]

Peng Y.R. Cell-type specification in the retina: Recent discoveries from transcriptomic approaches. Current Opinion Neurobiology 81:102752, 2023. [PubMed] [pdf]

Hahn J., Monavarfeshani A., Qiao M., Kao A., Kölsch Y., Kumar A., Kunze V.P., Rasys A.M., Richardson R., Baier H., Lucas R. J., Li W., Meister M., Trachtenberg J.T., Yan W., Peng Y.R., Sanes J.R., Shekhar K. Evolution of neuronal cell classes and types in the vertebrate retina. Nature 624(7991):415-424, 2023. [PubMed] [pdf]

Liu A., Milner E.S., Peng Y.R., Blume H.A., Brown M.C., Bryman G.S., Emanuel A.J., Morquette P., Viet N.M., Sanes J.R., Gamlin P.D., Do M.T. H. Encoding of environmental illumination by primate melanopsin neurons. Science 379(6630):376-381, 2023. [PubMed] [pdf]

Shekhar K., Whitney I.E., Butrus S., Peng Y.R., Sanes J.R. Diversification of
multipotential postmitotic mouse retinal ganglion cell precursors into discrete types. eLife 11:e73809, 2022. [PubMed] [pdf]

Peng Y.R.^†, and Sampath A.P.^†. LRR-ning the Rules: Synapse Organization in the Primary Rod Pathway. Neuron 105(6): 949-951, 2020. (^†equal correspondence) [PubMed] [pdf]

Yan W.^*, Peng Y.R.^*, Van Zyl T.^*, Regev A., Shekhar K., Juric D., Sanes J.R. Cell Atlas of the human fovea and peripheral retina. Scientific Reports 10(1): 9802, 2020. (^*equal contribution) [PubMed] [pdf]

Van Zyl T., Yan W., McAdams A., Peng Y.R., Shekhar K., Regev A., Juric D., Sanes J.R. Cell atlas of the trabecular meshwork and aqueous outflow pathways in humans and four model species provides insights into the pathogenesis of glaucoma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(19): 10339-10349, 2020. [PubMed] [pdf]

Peng Y.R.^*, James R.E.^*, Yan W., Kay J.N., Kolodkin A.L.^†, Sanes J.R.^†. Binary fate choice between closely related interneuronal types is determined by a Fezf1-dependent postmitotic transcriptional switch. Neuron 105 (3):1-11, 2020. (^*equal contribution, ^†equal correspondence) [PubMed] [pdf]

Peng Y.R.^*, Shekhar K.^*, Yan W., Herrmann D., Sappington A., Bryman G.S., Van Zyl T., Do. M.T.H., Regev A., Sanes, J.R. Molecular classification and comparative taxonomics of foveal and peripheral cells in primate retina. Cell 176(5):1222-1237, 2019. (^*equal contribution, cover story) [PubMed] [pdf]

Van Zyl T., McAdams A., Yan W., Shekhar K., Peng Y.R., Laboulaye M., Regev A., Sanes J.R. Molecular Classification of Cell Types in the Human Trabecular Meshwork and Surrounding Structures Using Single-Cell RNAseq. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 60 (9):1787-1787, 2019 [article]

Duan X., Krishnaswamy A., Laboulaye M.A., Liu J., Peng Y.R., Yamagata M., Toma K., Sanes J.R. Cadherin Combinations Recruit Dendrites of Distinct Retinal Neurons to a Shared Interneuronal Scaffold. Neuron 99(6):1145–1154, 2018. [PubMed] [pdf]

Peng Y.R., Tran M.N., Krishnaswamy A., Kostadinov D., Martersteck E.M., Sanes J.R. Satb1 regulates contactin 5 to pattern dendrites of a mammalian retinal ganglion cell. Neuron 95(4):869-883, 2017. (Recommended by Faculty of 1000) [PubMed] [pdf]

Peng Y.R.^*, Hou Z.H.^*, Yu X. The kinase activity of EphA4 mediates homeostatic scaling-down of synaptic strength via activation of Cdk5. Neuropharmacology 65:232-43, 2013. (^*equal contribution) [PubMed] [pdf]

Peng Y.R.^*, Zeng S.Y.^*, Song H.L., Li M.Y., Yamada M.K., Yu X. Postsynaptic spiking homeostatically induces cell-autonomous regulation of inhibitory inputs via retrograde signaling. Journal of Neuroscience 30(48):16220-31, 2010 (^*equal contribution, cover story) [PubMed] [pdf]

Peng Y.R., He S, Marie H, Zeng S.Y., Ma J, Tan Z.J., Lee S.Y., Malenka R.C., Yu X. Coordinated changes in dendritic arborization and synaptic strength during neural circuit development. Neuron 61(1):71-84, 2009. (Recommended by Faculty of 1000) [PubMed] [pdf]