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It was the best of times it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

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This sentence has inline code, useful for making references to variables, packages, versions, etc. within a sentence.

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Jekyll Spaceship

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$ 2^{\frac{n-1}{3}} $

$ \int_a^b f(x)\,dx. $

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software

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software

List team members

Aisha Hansen Undergraduate Researcher

Alekhya Meduri Undergraduate Researcher

Amanda Archer Undergraduate Researcher

Art Marquez PhD Student, MCDB

Avalyn Woods Undergraduate Researcher

Bradley Colquitt, Ph.D. Principal investigator

Cayla Lagousis PhD Student, MCDB

Chinweike Asogwa, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher

Darian Mohsenin Undergraduate Researcher

Dylan Bomar Undergraduate Researcher

Eva Katcher Junior Specialist

Frank Rand PhD Student, MCDB

Keerthi Varadharaj Undergraduate Researcher

Maria Fernanda Viveros Post-bac Researcher

Mathew Sarti Junior Specialist -> UC Davis Neuroscience PhD

Michael Eso Undergraduate Researcher

Nathaniel Wolff Undergraduate Researcher

Samyak Salgiya Undergraduate Researcher

Yahaira Uribe Undergraduate Researcher

Yousef Alrasheed Master's Student, MCDB

List blog posts

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Code

const test = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.";

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Grid of citations

2026

Gene regulatory co-option drives birdsong neural circuit specialization

Arturo P. Marquez, Cayla R. M. Lagousis, Eva G. Katcher, Frank Rand, Keerthi Varadharaj, Michael S. Brainard, Bradley M. Colquitt

openRxiv  ·  24 Apr 2026  ·  doi:10.64898/2026.04.24.720702

Establishing mouse forebrain organoids as models of intrinsic cortical network assembly

Sebastian Hernandez, Hunter E. Schweiger, Isabel Cline, Gregory A. Kaurala, Ash Robbins, …, Bradley M. Colquitt, Tal Sharf, David Haussler, Mircea Teodorescu, Mohammed A. Mostajo-Radji

Stem Cell Reports  ·  01 Apr 2026  ·  doi:10.1016/j.stemcr.2026.102832

MALDI-FISH for Colocalization of Brominated Metabolites and Pseudovibrio spp. in Aplysina Tissue

Allyson McAtamney, Cayla Lagousis, Bradley M. Colquitt, Lucia Pita, Alessandra S. Eustaquio, Laura M. Sanchez

Journal of Natural Products  ·  12 Feb 2026  ·  doi:10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5c01555

2025

An interneuronal CRH and CRHBP circuit stabilizes birdsong performance

Bradley M Colquitt, Michael S Brainard

eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd  ·  26 Nov 2025  ·  doi:10.7554/eLife.109232.1

Preconfigured neuronal firing sequences in human brain organoids

Tjitse van der Molen, Alex Spaeth, Mattia Chini, Sebastian Hernandez, Gregory A. Kaurala, …, Andreas Hierlemann, Keith B. Hengen, Ileana L. Hanganu-Opatz, Kenneth S. Kosik, Tal Sharf

Nature Neuroscience  ·  24 Nov 2025  ·  doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02111-0

2023

Neural circuit-wide analysis of changes to gene expression during deafening-induced birdsong destabilization

Bradley M Colquitt, Kelly Li, Foad Green, Robert Veline, Michael S Brainard

eLife  ·  07 Jun 2023  ·  doi:10.7554/eLife.85970

2022

Organizational Conservation and Flexibility in the Evolution of Birdsong and Avian Motor Control

Bradley M. Colquitt

Brain, Behavior and Evolution  ·  01 Jan 2022  ·  doi:10.1159/000525019

2021

Cellular transcriptomics reveals evolutionary identities of songbird vocal circuits

Bradley M. Colquitt, Devin P. Merullo, Genevieve Konopka, Todd F. Roberts, Michael S. Brainard

Science  ·  12 Feb 2021  ·  doi:10.1126/science.abd9704

2018

Draft genome assembly of the Bengalese finch, Lonchura striata domestica, a model for motor skill variability and learning

Bradley M Colquitt, David G Mets, Michael S Brainard

GigaScience  ·  15 Feb 2018  ·  doi:10.1093/gigascience/giy008

2014

Enhancer Interaction Networks as a Means for Singular Olfactory Receptor Expression

Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, William E. Allen, Bradley M. Colquitt, Tracie Goh, Karl K. Murphy, Kevin Monahan, Colleen P. Mosley, Nadav Ahituv, Stavros Lomvardas

Cell  ·  01 Oct 2014  ·  doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.033

Dnmt3a Regulates Global Gene Expression in Olfactory Sensory Neurons and Enables Odorant-Induced Transcription

Bradley M. Colquitt, Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, Rachel Duffié, Stavros Lomvardas

Neuron  ·  01 Aug 2014  ·  doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.07.013

2013

Alteration of genic 5-hydroxymethylcytosine patterning in olfactory neurons correlates with changes in gene expression and cell identity

Bradley M. Colquitt, William E. Allen, Gilad Barnea, Stavros Lomvardas

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  ·  22 Aug 2013  ·  doi:10.1073/pnas.1302759110

2011

An Epigenetic Signature for Monoallelic Olfactory Receptor Expression

Angeliki Magklara, Angela Yen, Bradley M. Colquitt, E. Josephine Clowney, William Allen, …, George Mountoufaris, Catriona Carey, Gilad Barnea, Manolis Kellis, Stavros Lomvardas

Cell  ·  01 May 2011  ·  doi:10.1016/j.cell.2011.03.040

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Code

const test = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet";

const test = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet";

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