* Co-corresponding authors

1. Bian WJ*, Brewer CL, Kauer JA, de Lecea L*. (2022) Adolescent sleep shapes social novelty preference in mice. Nature Neuroscience. 25(7):912-923. doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01076-8. [highlighted by Nature Neuroscience News & Views, (doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01103-8) and Spectrum (doi: 10.53053/ZKSE1007)]

2. Bian WJ*, González OC, de Lecea L*. (2023) Adolescent sleep defects and dopaminergic hyperactivity in mice with a schizophrenia-linked Shank3 mutation. Sleep. zsad131. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsad131.

3. Bian WJ, Miao WY, He SJ, Qiu Z, Yu X. (2015) Coordinated spine pruning and maturation mediated by inter-spine competition for cadherin/catenin complexes. Cell. 162(4): 808-822. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.07.018. [highlighted by Nature Review Neuroscience 16(10):577 and selected as “exceptional” by Faculty 1000.]

4. Li H, Jiang T, An S, Xu M, Gou L, Ren B, Shi X, Wang X, Yan J, Yuan J, Xu X, Wu QF, Luo Q, Gong H, Bian WJ*, Li A*, Yu X*. (2024) Single-neuron projectomes of mouse paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus oxytocin neurons reveal mutually exclusive projection patterns. Neuron. 112(7):1081-1099.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.12.022.

5. Wang M, Li H, Takumi T, Qiu Z, Xu X*, Yu X*, Bian WJ*. (2017) Distinct defects in spine formation or pruning in two gene duplication autism mouse models. Neuroscience Bulletin. 33(2):143-152. doi: 10.1007/s12264-017-0111-8.

6. Bian WJ, Miao WY, He SJ, Wan ZF, Luo ZG, Yu X. (2015) A novel Wnt5a-Frizzled4 signaling pathway mediates activity-independent dendrite morphogenesis via the distal PDZ motif of Frizzled 4. Developmental Neurobiology. 75(8): 805-822. doi: 10.1002/dneu.22250.