Hong Gu

TL;DR: A set of Cre reporter mice with strong, ubiquitous expression of fluorescent proteins of different spectra is generated and enables direct visualization of fine dendritic structures and axonal projections of the labeled neurons, which is useful in mapping neuronal circuitry, imaging and tracking specific cell populations in vivo.

TL;DR: The robust, consistent and inducible nature of the ChR2 mice represents a significant advance over previous lines, and the Arch-ER2 and eNpHR3.0 mice are to the authors' knowledge the first demonstration of successful conditional transgenic optogenetic silencing.

TL;DR: These novel transgenic lines greatly expand the ability to monitor and manipulate neuronal activities with increased specificity, and develop driver and double reporter mouse lines and viral vectors using the Cre/Flp and Cre/Dre double recombinase systems.

TL;DR: A large set of driver and reporter transgenic mouse lines are reported, including 23 new driver lines targeting a variety of cortical and subcortical cell populations and 26 new reporter lines expressing an array of molecular tools.

TL;DR: A high-throughput in situ hybridization (ISH), imaging and data processing pipeline to describe whole brain gene expression patterns in Cre driver mice is established and publicly available via the Allen Institute's Transgenic Characterization database.