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6. Whole exome sequencing identifies new susceptibility candidates underlying community-acquired pneumonia

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Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Sandra Viz-Lasheras, Xabier Bello, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Alba Camino-Mera, Sara Pischedda, María José Currás-Tuala, Irene Rivero-Calle, Ana Dacosta-Urbieta, Fernando Caamaño-Viña, Carmen Rodríguez-Tenreiro Sánchez, Isabel Cifuentes, Cristina Méndez, Chiea Chuen Khor, Federico Martinón-Torres, and Antonio Salas

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Medicine (General), R5-920, Genetics, QH426-470
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2024
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7. New clues for the role of cerebellum in schizophrenia and the associated cognitive impairment

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Pawan Faris, Doris Pischedda, Fulvia Palesi, and Egidio D’Angelo

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cerebellum, schizophrenia, cognitive impairment, cerebellar neurotransmitters, cerebellar connectivity, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
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Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder associated with severe cognitive dysfunction. Although research has mainly focused on forebrain abnormalities, emerging results support the involvement of the cerebellum in SZ physiopathology, particularly in Cognitive Impairment Associated with SZ (CIAS). Besides its role in motor learning and control, the cerebellum is implicated in cognition and emotion. Recent research suggests that structural and functional changes in the cerebellum are linked to deficits in various cognitive domains including attention, working memory, and decision-making. Moreover, cerebellar dysfunction is related to altered cerebellar circuit activities and connectivity with brain regions associated with cognitive processing. This review delves into the role of the cerebellum in CIAS. We initially consider the major forebrain alterations in CIAS, addressing impairments in neurotransmitter systems, synaptic plasticity, and connectivity. We then focus on recent findings showing that several mechanisms are also altered in the cerebellum and that cerebellar communication with the forebrain is impaired. This evidence implicates the cerebellum as a key component of circuits underpinning CIAS physiopathology. Further studies addressing cerebellar involvement in SZ and CIAS are warranted and might open new perspectives toward understanding the physiopathology and effective treatment of these disorders.

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2024
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8. Multi-tissue transcriptomics of a unique monozygotic discordant twin case of severe progressive osseous heteroplasia

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Alberto Gómez-Carballa, María José Currás-Tuala, Sara Pischedda, Miriam Cebey-López, José Gómez-Rial, Irene Rivero-Calle, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Xabier Bello, Sandra Viz-Lasheras, Antonio Justicia-Grande, Julián Montoto-Louzao, Alba Camino-Mera, Isabel Ferreirós-Vidal, Máximo Fraga, José R. Antúnez, Rodolfo Gómez, Federico Martinón-Torres, and Antonio Salas

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Medicine (General), R5-920, Genetics, QH426-470
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2024
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9. Music compensates for altered gene expression in age-related cognitive disorders

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Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Laura Navarro, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Xabier Bello, Sara Pischedda, Sandra Viz-Lasheras, Alba Camino-Mera, María José Currás, Isabel Ferreirós, Narmeen Mallah, Sara Rey-Vázquez, Lorenzo Redondo, Ana Dacosta-Urbieta, Fernando Caamaño-Viña, Irene Rivero-Calle, Carmen Rodriguez-Tenreiro, Federico Martinón-Torres, and Antonio Salas

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Medicine, Science
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Abstract Extensive literature has explored the beneficial effects of music in age-related cognitive disorders (ACD), but limited knowledge exists regarding its impact on gene expression. We analyzed transcriptomes of ACD patients and healthy controls, pre-post a music session (n = 60), and main genes/pathways were compared to those dysregulated in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as revealed by a multi-cohort study (n = 1269 MCI/AD and controls). Music was associated with 2.3 times more whole-genome gene expression, particularly on neurodegeneration-related genes, in ACD than in controls. Co-expressed gene-modules and pathways analysis demonstrated that music impacted autophagy, vesicle and endosome organization, biological processes commonly dysregulated in MCI/AD. Notably, the data indicated a strong negative correlation between musically-modified genes/pathways in ACD and those dysregulated in MCI/AD. These findings highlight the compensatory effect of music on genes/biological processes affected in MCI/AD, providing insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying the benefits of music on these disorders.

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2023
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10. Defensive medicine through the lens of the managerial perspective: a literature review

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Gianfranco Pischedda, Ludovico Marinò, and Katia Corsi

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Defensive medicine, Healthcare sector, Management issue, Managerial practices, Literature review, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270
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Abstract Purpose Several studies have been carried out on defensive medicine, but research from the managerial viewpoint is still scarce. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to conduct a literature review to better understand defensive medicine from a managerial perspective. Design/methodology/approach A literature review was conducted of studies focusing on the organisational (meso) level of healthcare providers and managerial practices. A final sample of 28 studies was processed. Findings Defensive medicine has mainly been studied in the USA, and scholars have principally used quantitative surveys. High-risk specialities have been a critical field of investigation, and a large portion of the papers are published in journals that cover medicine, health policy, education and law fields. The analysis showed that operations and the organisation of staffing were the most discussed managerial practices. No study considered planning and budgeting aspects. Originality/value The review confirmed that the managerial aspect of defensive medicine has not been fully addressed. Stimulated by this gap, this study analyses the managerial background of the defensive medicine phenomenon and shows which managerial practices have been most analysed. This paper also contributes to developing the literature on defensive medicine from the managerial side. Areas for future research include qualitative studies to investigate the behaviour of managers of healthcare companies to give a different perspective on defensive medicine and organisations’ decision-making. Research limitations/implications Some important publications might have been missed in this work because of the choice of only two databases. A further limit could be imposed by the use of the English language as an inclusion criterion.

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2023
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12. Poly(dicarbon monofluoride) (C2F)n bridges the neutron reflectivity gap

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Nesvizhevsky, Valery, Henry, Killian, Dauga, Louise, Clavier, Batiste, Le Floch, Sylvie, Lychagin, Egor, Muzychka, Alexei, Nezvanov, Alexander, Pischedda, Vittoria, Teander, Cole, Turlybekuly, Kylyshbek, Radescu, Silvana, Vigolo, Brigitte, Cahen, Sébastien, Hérold, Claire, Ghanbaja, Jafaar, Zhernenkov, Kirill, and Dubois, Marc

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2024
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13. Host gene expression signatures to identify infection type and organ dysfunction in children evaluated for sepsis: a multicentre cohort study

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Levin, Michael, Coin, Lachlan, Gormley, Stuart, Hamilton, Shea, Hoggart, Clive, Kaforou, Myrsini, Sancho-Shimizu, Vanessa, Wright, Victoria, Abdulla, Amina, Agapow, Paul, Bartlett, Maeve, Eleftherohorinou, Hariklia, Galassini, Rachel, Inwald, David, Mashbat, Meg, Menikou, Stephanie, Mustafa, Sobia, Nadel, Simon, Rahman, Rahmeen, Shailes, Hannah, Thakker, Clare, Bokhandi, S., Power, Sue, Barham, Heather, Pathan, N., Ridout, Jenna, White, Deborah, Thurston, Sarah, Faust, S., Patel, S., McCorkell, Jenni, Davies, P., Crate, Lindsey, Navarra, Helen, Carter, Stephanie, Ramaiah, R., Patel, Rekha, Tuffrey, Catherine, Gribbin, Andrew, McCready, Sharon, Peters, Mark, Hardy, Katie, Standing, Fran, O'Neill, Lauren, Abelake, Eugenia, Deep, Akash, Nsirim, Eniola, Pollard, Andrew, Willis, Louise, Young, Zoe, Royad, C., White, Sonia, Fortune, Peter-Marc, Hudnott, Phil, Martinón-Torres, Federico, Salas, Antonio, Álvez González, Fernando, Barral-Arca, Ruth, Cebey-López, Miriam, Curras-Tuala, María José, García, Natalia, García Vicente, Luisa, Gómez-Carballa, Alberto, Gómez Rial, Jose, Grela Beiroa, Andrea, Justicia Grande, Antonio, Leboráns Iglesias, Pilar, Martínez Santos, Alba Elena, Martinón-Torres, Nazareth, Martinón Sánchez, José María, Morillo Gutiérrez, Beatriz, Mosquera Pérez, Belén, Obando Pacheco, Pablo, Pardo-Seco, Jacobo, Pischedda, Sara, Rivero-Calle, Irene, Rodríguez-Tenreiro, Carmen, Redondo-Collazo, Lorenzo, Salas Ellacuriaga, Antonio, Fernández, Sonia Serén, del Sol Porto Silva, María, Vega, Ana, Vilanova Trillo, Lucía, Reyes, Susana Beatriz, Cruz León León, María, Navarro Mingorance, Álvaro, Gabaldó Barrio, Xavier, Oñate Vergara, Eider, Concha Torre, Andrés, Vivanco, Ana, Fernández, Reyes, Giménez Sánchez, Francisco, Sánchez Forte, Miguel, Rojo, Pablo, Contreras, J. Ruiz, Palacios, Alba, Epalza Ibarrondo, Cristina, Fernández Cooke, Elizabeth, Navarro, Marisa, Álvarez Álvarez, Cristina, José Lozano, María, Carreras, Eduardo, Brió Sanagustín, Sonia, Neth, Olaf, Martínez Padilla, Mª del Carmen, Prieto Tato, Luis Manuel, Guillén, Sara, Fernández Silveira, Laura, Moreno, David, de Groot, R., Tutu van Furth, A.M., van der Flier, M., Boeddha, N.P., Driessen, G.J.A., Emonts, M., Hazelzet, J.A., Kuijpers, T.W., Pajkrt, D., Sanders, E.A.M., van de Beek, D., van der Ende, A., Philipsen, H.L.A., Adeel, A.O.A., Breukels, M.A., Brinkman, D.M.C., de Korte, C.C.M.M., de Vries, E., de Waal, W.J., Dekkers, R., Dings-Lammertink, A., Doedens, R.A., Donker, A.E., Dousma, M., Faber, T.E., Gerrits, G.P.J.M., Gerver, J.A.M., Heidema, J., Homan-van der Veen, J., Jacobs, M.A.M., Jansen, N.J.G., Kawczynski, P., Klucovska, K., Kneyber, M.C.J., Koopman-Keemink, Y., Langenhorst, V.J., Leusink, J., Loza, B.F., Merth, I.T., Miedema, C.J., Neeleman, C., Noordzij, J.G., Obihara, C.C., van Overbeek- van Gils, A.L.T., Poortman, G.H., Potgieter, S.T., Potjewijd, J., Rosias, P.P.R., Sprong, T., ten Tussher, G.W., Thio, B.J., Tramper-Stranders, G.A., van Deuren, M., van der Meer, H., van Kuppevelt, A.J.M., van Wermeskerken, A.M., Verwijs, W.A., Wolfs, T.F.W., Schlapbach, Luregn J., Agyeman, Philipp, Aebi, Christoph, Giannoni, Eric, Stocker, Martin, Posfay-Barbe, Klara M., Heininger, Ulrich, Bernhard-Stirnemann, Sara, Niederer-Loher, Anita, Kahlert, Christian, Hasters, Paul, Relly, Christa, Baer, Walter, Berger, Christoph, Carrol, Enitan D., Paulus, Stéphane, Frederick, Hannah, Jennings, Rebecca, Johnston, Joanne, Kenwright, Rhian, Fink, Colin G, Pinnock, Elli, Emonts, Marieke, Agbeko, Rachel, Anderson, Suzanne, Secka, Fatou, Bojang, Kalifa, Sarr, Isatou, Kebbeh, Ngange, Sey, Gibbi, Saidykhan, Momodou, Cole, Fatoumata, Thomas, Gilleh, Antonio, Martin, Zenz, Werner, Kohlfürst, Daniela S., Binder, Alexander, Schweintzger, Nina A., Sagmeister, Manfred, Baumgart, Hinrich, Baumgartner, Markus, Behrends, Uta, Biebl, Ariane, Birnbacher, Robert, Blanke, Jan-Gerd, Boelke, Carsten, Breuling, Kai, Brunner, Jürgen, Buller, Maria, Dahlem, Peter, Dietrich, Beate, Eber, Ernst, Elias, Johannes, Emhofer, Josef, Etschmaier, Rosa, Farr, Sebastian, Girtler, Ylenia, Grigorow, Irina, Heimann, Konrad, Ihm, Ulrike, Jaros, Zdenek, Kalhoff, Hermann, Kaulfersch, Wilhelm, Kemen, Christoph, Klocker, Nina, Köster, Bernhard, Kohlmaier, Benno, Komini, Eleni, Kramer, Lydia, Neubert, Antje, Ortner, Daniel, Pescollderungg, Lydia, Pfurtscheller, Klaus, Reiter, Karl, Ristic, Goran, Rödl, Siegfried, Sellner, Andrea, Sonnleitner, Astrid, Sperl, Matthias, Stelzl, Wolfgang, Till, Holger, Trobisch, Andreas, Vierzig, Anne, Vogel, Ulrich, Weingarten, Christina, Welke, Stefanie, Wimmer, Andreas, Wintergerst, Uwe, Wüller, Daniel, Zaunschirm, Andrew, Ziuraite, Ieva, Žukovskaja, Veslava, Hibberd, Martin L., Davila, Sonia, Delany, Isabel, Schlapbach, Luregn J, Raman, Sainath, Sharp, Nathalie, Phillips, Natalie, Irwin, Adam, Balch, Ross, Harley, Amanda, Johnson, Kerry, Sever, Zoe, George, Shane, Grimwood, Keith, Snelling, Peter J, Chavan, Arjun, Kitcatt, Eleanor, Lawton, Luke, Hempenstall, Allison, Pilot, Pelista, Gibbons, Kristen S, Le Marsney, Renate, Blumenthal, Antje, Ganesamoorthy, Devika, Pardo, Carolyn, Kling, Jessica, McPherson, Stephen, MacDonald, Anna D, Bialasiewicz, Seweryn, Pham, Trang, Wilson, Clare, Sharp, Natalie, Kling, Jessica C, McPherson, Stephen J, Herberg, Jethro A, and Coin, Lachlan J M

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2024
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14. Music compensates for altered gene expression in age-related cognitive disorders

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Gómez-Carballa, Alberto, Navarro, Laura, Pardo-Seco, Jacobo, Bello, Xabier, Pischedda, Sara, Viz-Lasheras, Sandra, Camino-Mera, Alba, Currás, María José, Ferreirós, Isabel, Mallah, Narmeen, Rey-Vázquez, Sara, Redondo, Lorenzo, Dacosta-Urbieta, Ana, Caamaño-Viña, Fernando, Rivero-Calle, Irene, Rodriguez-Tenreiro, Carmen, Martinón-Torres, Federico, and Salas, Antonio

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2023
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16. A scribal device in oral clothing: functions of formulaic language in early Chinese divinatory texts

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Flaminia Pischedda

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chinese divination, oracle bones, bamboo manuscripts, formulaicity, orality, Print media, NE1-3002, Ancient history, D51-90
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This paper aims at broadening the scope of what the term ‘formula’ encompasses by studying a written context of formulaic applications and their complex connections to ritual performance. More specifically, it examines the interplay between the oral and the written in the language of the late Shang 商 (ca. 1230–1046 BC) oracle bone inscriptions (OBI). Drawing on the study on ‘formulaicity’ by Wray and Perkins, I propose a definition of formulae based on the OBI evidence and identify the structure-based formulaic types as found in the divinatory records. I then discuss the functions that formulae perform in the divinatory record. I suggest that formulae should be considered a scribal device, a set of stock phrases and technical words used by the scribes to record divination results. They formed a toolkit which was meant to facilitate the composition of written records on hard media. The writing act occurred after (and separately from) the oral divinatory act. Therefore, the oral and written coexisted but were independent from each other within the context of divinatory performance.

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2024
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17. The sound of the Italian comic book: Representing noises, senses, and emotions across 80 years

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Pischedda Pier Simone

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comic books, sound symbolism, phonaesthesia, italian, english, corpus, disney, Philology. Linguistics, P1-1091
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This article will describe the long-time use of sound symbolic forms (including ideophones and interjections) in Italian Disney comic book publications, from the 1930s until recent times. This is achieved through the diachronic analysis of ∼4,700 entries coming from a corpus of sound symbolic forms as compiled by the author, taken from 210 Disney stories. Each of the entries was classified according to five different sound symbolic types based on the event, scenario, or situation they referred to. This analysis will provide an ideal chance to comment on several features exploited in the creation and use of sound symbolic forms and will be offered together with elucidations on a few under-researched areas within the linguistic study of sound symbolism. Quantitative data will be provided on (1) the lexical status of these forms, (2) their language of origin, and (3) the frequency of the five sound symbolic types. Additional commentary will also be offered on the various lexical and phonaesthetic experimentations featured in the comic strips. The results will be based on the comparison of the data coming from the corpus with existing research on these topics.

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2024
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19. Children of a Lesser God? Demand-Driven Mechanism and the Potential Rise of Unequal Competition in IHES

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Pischedda, Gianfranco and Marinò, Ludovico

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This study aims to determine whether the introduction of input-oriented resource allocation in the Italian higher education system has resulted in behaviours influencing the attractiveness of universities. The results of an analysis of panel data spanning 57 public universities reveal that the geographical characteristics in which they operate seem to restrict the autonomy of some universities, harming their ability to choose a proper solution that improves attractiveness and results in gaining more funds. These findings emphasise the pivotal role played by external factors in the extent to which university behaviour can impact attractiveness, while also suggesting that a level playing field can only be guaranteed within the system if governments reduce the internal disparities in Italian tertiary education.

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2022
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21. The Effect of Performance-Oriented Funding in Higher Education: Evidence from the Staff Recruitment Budget in Italian Higher Education

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Fadda, Nicoletta, Marinò, Ludovico, Pischedda, Gianfranco, and Ezza, Alberto

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This study, which aims to investigate some potential effects derived from the adoption of performance-oriented funding in the higher education system, is focused on competitive allocative mechanism to provide universities with the staff recruitment budget in the Italian Higher Education System using panel data spanning the period 2012-2018 for 58 public universities. Results show that the geographical area in which universities operate influences their capacity to increase performance and thus financial resources. Indeed, universities located in Northern areas, the wealthier part of Italy, received a higher amount of resources than those located in the rest of the country. These findings reveal the key role played by external factors, which are beyond the control of management, in universities' capacity to achieve better performance. Results also suggest that policy-makers should identify the correct trade-off between the quest for higher performance within the Italian Higher Education System and equity in resource allocation.

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2022
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22. Antimalarial Artefenomel Inhibits Human SARS-CoV-2 Replication in Cells while Suppressing the Receptor ACE2

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Massignan, Tania, Boldrini, Alberto, Terruzzi, Luca, Spagnolli, Giovanni, Astolfi, Andrea, Bonaldo, Valerio, Pischedda, Francesca, Pizzato, Massimo, Lolli, Graziano, Barreca, Maria Letizia, Biasini, Emiliano, Faccioli, Pietro, and Pieri, Lidia

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Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules, Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter, Physics - Biological Physics
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The steep climbing of victims caused by the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) throughout the planet is sparking an unprecedented effort to identify effective therapeutic regimens to tackle the pandemic. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is known to gain entry into various cell types through the binding of one of its surface proteins (spike) to the host Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2). Thus, spike-ACE2 interaction represents a major target for vaccines and antiviral drugs. A novel method has been recently described by some of the authors to pharmacologically downregulate the expression of target proteins at the post-translational level. This technology builds on computational advancements in the simulation of folding mechanisms to rationally block protein expression by targeting folding intermediates, hence hampering the folding process. Here, we report the all-atom simulations of the entire sequence of events underlying the folding pathway of ACE2. Our data revealed the existence of a folding intermediate showing two druggable pockets hidden in the native conformation. Both pockets were targeted by a virtual screening repurposing campaign aimed at quickly identifying drugs capable to decrease the expression of ACE2. We identified four compounds capable of lowering ACE2 expression in Vero cells in a dose-dependent fashion. All these molecules were found to inhibit the entry into cells of a pseudotyped retrovirus exposing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Importantly, the antiviral activity has been tested against live SARS-CoV-2 (MEX-BC2/2020 strain). One of the selected drugs (Artefenomel) could completely prevent cytopathic effects induced by the presence of the virus, thus showing antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2. Ongoing studies are further evaluating the possibility of repurposing these drugs for the treatment of COVID-19., Comment: Manuscript has extended to include the experimental evidence for anti-viral effects on cell colonies

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2020

23. First record of naturalization of Erechtites hieraciifolius (L.) Raf. ex DC. (Asteraceae) in Italy

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Giacomo Trotta, Miris Castello, Francesco Petruzzellis, Sara Pischedda, and Francesco Boscutti

Subjects
Alien plants, asteraceae, invasive potential, wildfires, Botany, QK1-989, Geology, QE1-996.5
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The plant species Erechtites hieraciifolius (Asteraceae) is here reported for the first time in Italy as a naturalized neophyte in the Classical Karst. The species was observed in 2023 in post-fire forest areas burnt by wildfires in the summer 2022. The features of findings suggest for a naturalization of the species with putative invasive character. This novel occurrence highlights the need for additional research to better understand its colonization and expansion, suggesting the need of early eradication actions.

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2023
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24. A multi-platform approach to identify a blood-based host protein signature for distinguishing between bacterial and viral infections in febrile children (PERFORM): a multi-cohort machine learning study

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Jackson, Heather Ruth, Zandstra, Judith, Menikou, Stephanie, Hamilton, Shea, McArdle, Andrew J, De, Tisham, Agyeman, Philipp K A, Von Both, Ulrich, Carrol, Enitan D, Emonts, Marieke, Eleftheriou, Irini, Van der Flier, Michiel, Fink, Colin, De Groot, Ronald, Moll, Henriette A, Pokorn, Marko, Pollard, Andrew, Schlapbach, Luregn J, Tsolia, Maria, Usuf, Effua, Wright, Victoria, Yeung, Shunmay, Zavadska, Dace, Zenz, Werner, Coin, Lachlan JM, Cunnington, Aubrey J, Martinon-Torres, Federico, Herberg, Jethro, De Jonge, Marien I, Levin, Michael, Kuijpers, Taco, Kaforou, Myrsini, Abdulla, Amina, Aebi, Christoph, Agbeko, Rachel, Ali, Ladan, Alkema, Wynand, Allen, Karen, Anderson, Suzanne, Ansari, Imran, Arif, Tasnim, Avramoska, Tanja, Baas, Bryan, Bahovec, Natalija, Balode, Anda, Bãrdzdina, Arta, Barendregt, A M, Barral-Arca, Ruth, Bath, David, Bauchinger, Sebastian, Baumard, Lucas, Baumgart, Hinrich, Baxter, Frances, Bell, Kathryn, Bell, Ashley, Bello, Xabier, Bellos, Evangelos, Benesch, Martin, Bennet, Joshua, Berger, Christoph, Bernhard-Stirnemann, Sara, Bibi, Sagida, Bidlingmaier, Christoph, Binder, Alexander, Binder, Vera, Blackmore, Jennifer, Bojang, Kalifa, Borensztajn, Dorine M, Brengel-Pesce, Karen, Broderick, Claire, Buschbeck, Judith, Calvo-Bado, Leonides, Carnota, Sandra, Carter, Michael J, Castro, María Barreiro, Cebey-López, Miriam, Ceesay, Samba, Ceolotto, Astrid, Chan, Adora, Cocklin, Elizabeth, Collings, Kalvin, Crulley, Stephen, Curras-Tuala, María José, D'alessandro, Umberto, D'Souza, Giselle, Danhauser, Katharina, Darboe, Saffiatou, Darnell, Sarah, De Haan, L, De Vries, Gabriella, Deksne, Dãrta, Devine, Kirsty, Dewez, Juan Emmanuel, Dik, W, Dudley, Julia, Eber, Ernst, Fabian, Daniel, Farto, Cristina Balo, Fernández, Sonia Serén, Fidler, Katy, Fitchett, Elizabeth, Galassini, Rachel, Gallisti, Siegfried, García, Mirian Ben, Gardovska, Dace, Geissler, J, Gerrits, G P J M, Giannoni, Eric, Gloerich, Jolein, Gómez-Carballa, Alberto, González, Fernando Álves, Gores, Gunther, Grãvele, Dagne, Griese, Matthias, Grope, Ilze, Gurung, Meeru, Haas, Nikolaus, Habgood-Coote, Dominic, Hagedoorn, Nienke N, Haidl, Harald, Harrison, Rebekah, Hauer, Almuthe, Heidema, J, Heininger, Ulrich, Henriet, Stefanie, Hibberd, Martin, Hoggart, Cllive, Hösele, Susanne, Hourmat, Sara, Hude, Christa, Huijnen, Martijn, Iglesias, Pilar Leboráns, Iglesias, Marisol Vilas, Jennings, Rebecca, Johnson, Joanne, Jongerius, Ilse, Jorgensen, Rikke, Kahlert, Christian, Kandasamy, Rama, Kappler, Matthias, Keldorfer, Markus, Kelly, Dominic F, Khanijau, Aakash, Kim, Nayoung, Kim, Eunjung, King, Sharon, Kolberg, Laura, Kolnik, Mojca, Kloosterhuis, Lieke, Kohlfürst, Daniela S, Kohlmaier, Benno, Krenn, Larissa, Leigh, Simon, Leitner, Manuel, Leurent, Baptiste, Lim, Emma, Lin, Naomi, Liu, Ching-Chuan, Löffler, Sabine, Lurz, Eberhard, Mackerness, Christine, Maconochie, Ian, Mallet, Francois, Marmarinos, Antonis, Martin, Alex, Martin, Mike, Martinón Sánchez, José María, Martinón-Torres, Nazareth, McAlinden, Paul, McDonald, Sam, McDonell, Anne, Meiere, Anija, Meierford, Anne, Miedema, C J, Miners, Alec, Mistry, Ravi, Mommert, Marine, Morris, Sophie, Muench, Georg, Murdoch, David R, Mustafa, Sobia, Natalucci, Giancarlo, Neeleman, C, Newall, Karen, Nichols, Samuel, Niederer-Loher, Anita, Niedrist, Tobias, Nijman, Ruud, Nokalna, Ieve, Nordberg, Gudrun, O'Connor, Daniel, Obihara, C C, Oliver, Zoe, Oosthoek, Wilma, Ora, Miguel Sadiki, Osterman, Veronika, Pachot, Alexandre, Pajkrt, D, Pardo-Seco, Jacobo, Pavãre, Jana, Paz, Ivonne Pena, Paulus, Stéphane, Pérez, Belén Mosquera, Persand, Salina, Pfleger, Andreas, Pfurtscheller, Klaus, Philipsen, Ria, Pickering, Alisa, Pierce, Benjamin, Pilch, Heidemarie, Pischedda, Sara, Pölz, Lena, Posfay-Barbe, Klara M, Powell, Oliver, Prunk, Petra, Pučuka, Zanda, Rajic, Glorija, Rashid, Aqeela, Redondo-Collazo, Lorenzo, Reiter, Karl, Relly, Christa, Rhodes, Mathew, Rial, Jose Gómez, Richmond, Vivien, Riedel, Thomas, Rivero Calle, Irene, Roca, Anna, Rödl, Siegfried, Rodríguez, Lidia Piñeiro, Rodríguez-Tenreiro, Carmen, Romaine, Sam, Rowlands, Emily, Rudzate, Aleksandra, Sagmeister, Manfred, Saidykhan, Momodou, Sallas, Antonio, Sarr, Isatou, Schoen, Carola, Schonenberg, D, Schweintzger, Nina, Secka, Fatou, Selecka, Katrīna, Shah, Priyen, Shen, Ching-Fen, Shrestha, Shrijana, Skrabl-Baumgartner, Andrea, Soon, Joshua, Sperl, Matthias, Sprenkeler, Evelien, Spyridis, Nikos, Srovin, Tina Plankar, Stampfer, Laura, Stevens, Molly, Stocker, Martin, Strenger, Volker, Suárez, Carlos Durán, Svile, Dace, Syggelou, Kelly, Tal, Chantal, Tambouratzi, Maria, Tavliavini, Emma, Thakker, Clare, Thomson, Evelyn, Throson, Stephen, Till, Holger, Tramper-Stranders, G A, Trasorras, Cristina Serén, Trobisch, Andreas, Urbãne, Urzula Nora, Usman, Mariama, Valentine, Lucille, Van Aerde, Koen, Van den Berg, J M, Van den Broek, Bryan, Van der Giessen, Ilona, Van der Kuip, M, Van der Velden, Fabian, Van Furth, A M, Van Gool, Alain J, Van Leur, M, van Mierlo, G, Vázquez, Sara Ray, Vermont, Clementien, Vicente, Luisa García, Vincek, Katarina, Vito, Ortensia, Voice, Marie, Wallia, Diane, Walsh, Ben, Wang, Shih-Min, Wedderburn, Catherine, Willems, Esther, Wilson, Clare, Wood, Amanda, Woodsford, Phil, Wyss, Verena, Xagorari, Marietta, Zachariasse, Joany, Zaman, Syed M A, Zurl, Christoph, Zwerenz, Manuela, Jackson, Heather R, Hamilton, Melissa Shea, Fischer, Roman, Thorne, Adam M, Huang, Honglei, Tanck, Michael W, Jansen, Machiel H, Pollard, Andrew J, Tsolia, Maria N, Wright, Victoria J, Coin, Lachlan J M, Casals-Pascual, Climent, Herberg, Jethro A, de Jonge, Marien I, and Kuijpers, Taco W

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2023
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25. Surgical Face Masks Do Not Impair the Decoding of Facial Expressions of Negative Affect More Severely in Older than in Younger Adults

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Henke, Lea, Guseva, Maja, Wagemans, Katja, Pischedda, Doris, Haynes, John-Dylan, Jahn, Georg, and Anders, Silke

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Surgical face masks reduce the spread of airborne pathogens but also disturb the flow of information between individuals. The risk of getting seriously ill after infection with SARS-COV-2 during the present COVID-19 pandemic amplifies with age, suggesting that face masks should be worn especially during face-to-face contact with and between older people. However, the ability to accurately perceive and understand communication signals decreases with age, and it is currently unknown whether face masks impair facial communication more severely in older people. We compared the impact of surgical face masks on dynamic facial emotion recognition in younger (18-30 years) and older (65-85 years) adults (N = 96) in an online study. Participants watched short video clips of young women who facially expressed anger, fear, contempt or sadness. Faces of half of the women were covered by a digitally added surgical face mask. As expected, emotion recognition accuracy declined with age, and face masks reduced emotion recognition accuracy in both younger and older participants. Unexpectedly, the effect of face masks did not differ between age groups. Further analyses showed that masks also reduced the participants' overall confidence in their emotion judgements, but not their performance awareness (the difference between their confidence ratings for correct and incorrect responses). Again, there were no mask-by-age interactions. Finally, data obtained with a newly developed questionnaire (attitudes towards face masks, atom) suggest that younger and older people do not differ in how much they feel impaired in their understanding of other people's emotions by face masks or how useful they find face masks in confining the COVID-19 pandemic. In sum, these findings do not provide evidence that the impact of face masks on the decoding of facial signals is disproportionally larger in older people.

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2022
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27. Relationship between molecular pathogen detection and clinical disease in febrile children across Europe: a multicentre, prospective observational study

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Shah, Priyen, Voice, Marie, Calvo-Bado, Leonides, Calle, Irene Rivero, Morris, Sophie, Nijman, Ruud, Broderick, Claire, De, Tisham, Eleftheriou, Irini, Galassini, Rachel, Khanijau, Aakash, Kolberg, Laura, Kolnik, Mojca, Rudzate, Aleksandra, Sagmeister, Manfred, Schweintzger, Nina, Secka, Fatou, Thakker, Clare, Van der Velden, Fabian, Vermont, Clementien, Vincek, Katarina, Agyeman, Philipp K.A., Cunnington, Aubrey J., De Groot, Ronald, Emonts, Marieke, Fidler, Katy, Kuijpers, Taco, Mommert-Tripon, Marine, Brengel-Pesce, Karen, Mallet, Francois, Moll, Henriette, Paulus, Stéphane, Pokorn, Marko, Pollard, Andrew, Schlapbach, Luregn J., Shen, Ching-Fen, Tsolia, Maria, Usuf, Effua, Van der Flier, Michiel, Von Both, Ulrich, Yeung, Shunmay, Zavadska, Dace, Zenz, Werner, Wright, Victoria, Carrol, Enitan D., Kaforou, Myrsini, Martinon-Torres, Federico, Fink, Colin, Levin, Michael, Herberg, Jethro, Baumard, Lucas, Bellos, Evangelos, Coin, Lachlan, D'Souza, Giselle, Habgood-Coote, Dominic, Hamilton, Shea, Hoggart, Cllive, Hourmat, Sara, Jackson, Heather, Lin, Naomi, Menikou, Stephanie, Nichols, Samuel, Paz, Ivonne Pena, Powell, Oliver, Vito, Ortensia, Wilson, Clare, Abdulla, Amina, Ali, Ladan, Darnell, Sarah, Jorgensen, Rikke, Maconochie, Ian, Mustafa, Sobia, Persand, Salina, Walsh, Ben, Stevens, Molly, Kim, Nayoung, Kim, Eunjung, Pierce, Benjamin, Dudley, Julia, Richmond, Vivien, Tavliavini, Emma, Liu, Ching-Chuan, Wang, Shih-Min, González, Fernando Álves, Farto, Cristina Balo, Barral-Arca, Ruth, Castro, María Barreiro, Bello, Xabier, Ben García, Mirian, Carnota, Sandra, Cebey-López, Miriam, Curras-Tuala, María José, Suárez, Carlos Durán, Vicente, Luisa García, Gómez-Carballa, Alberto, Rial, Jose Gómez, Iglesias, Pilar Leboráns, Martinón-Torres, Nazareth, Martinón Sánchez, José María, Pérez, Belén Mosquera, Pardo-Seco, Jacobo, Rodríguez, Lidia Piñeiro, Pischedda, Sara, Vázquez, Sara Ray, Rodríguez-Tenreiro, Carmen, Redondo-Collazo, Lorenzo, Ora, Miguel Sadiki, Sallas, Antonio, Fernández, Sonia Serén, Trasorras, Cristina Serén, Iglesias, Marisol Vilas, Balode, Anda, Bãrdzdina, Arta, Deksne, Dãrta, Gardovska, Dace, Grãvele, Dagne, Grope, Ilze, Meiere, Anija, Nokalna, Ieve, Pavãre, Jana, Pučuka, Zanda, Selecka, Katrīna, Svile, Dace, Urbãne, Urzula Nora, Bojang, Kalifa, Zaman, Syed M.A., Anderson, Suzanne, Roca, Anna, Sarr, Isatou, Saidykhan, Momodou, Darboe, Saffiatou, Ceesay, Samba, D'alessandro, Umberto, Borensztajn, Dorine M., Hagedoorn, Nienke N., Tal, Chantal, Zachariasse, Joany, Dik, W., Aebi, Christoph, Berger, Christoph, Wyss, Verena, Usman, Mariama, Giannoni, Eric, Stocker, Martin, Posfay-Barbe, Klara M., Heininger, Ulrich, Bernhard-Stirnemann, Sara, Niederer-Loher, Anita, Kahlert, Christian, Natalucci, Giancarlo, Relly, Christa, Riedel, Thomas, Cocklin, Elizabeth, Jennings, Rebecca, Johnson, Joanne, Leigh, Simon, Newall, Karen, Romaine, Sam, Tambouratzi, Maria, Marmarinos, Antonis, Xagorari, Marietta, Syggelou, Kelly, Spyridis, Nikos, Blackmore, Jennifer, Harrison, Rebekah, Kohlmaier, Benno, Kohlfürst, Daniela S., Zurl, Christoph, Binder, Alexander, Hösele, Susanne, Leitner, Manuel, Pölz, Lena, Rajic, Glorija, Bauchinger, Sebastian, Baumgart, Hinrich, Benesch, Martin, Ceolotto, Astrid, Eber, Ernst, Gallisti, Siegfried, Gores, Gunther, Haidl, Harald, Hauer, Almuthe, Hude, Christa, Keldorfer, Markus, Krenn, Larissa, Pilch, Heidemarie, Pfleger, Andreas, Pfurtscheller, Klaus, Nordberg, Gudrun, Niedrist, Tobias, Rödl, Siegfried, Skrabl-Baumgartner, Andrea, Sperl, Matthias, Stampfer, Laura, Strenger, Volker, Till, Holger, Trobisch, Andreas, Löffler, Sabine, Dewez, Juan Emmanuel, Hibberd, Martin, Bath, David, Miners, Alec, Fitchett, Elizabeth, Wedderburn, Catherine, Meierford, Anne, Leurent, Baptiste, De Jonge, Marien I., van Aerde, Koen, Alkema, Wynand, van den Broek, Bryan, Gloerich, Jolein, Van Gool, Alain J., Henriet, Stefanie, Huijnen, Martijn, Philipsen, Ria, Willems, Esther, Gerrits, G.P.J.M., Van Leur, M., Heidema, J., De Haan, L., Miedema, C.J., Neeleman, C., Obihara, C.C., Tramper-Stranders, G.A., Kandasamy, Rama, Carter, Michael J., O'Connor, Daniel, Bibi, Sagida, Kelly, Dominic F., Gurung, Meeru, Throson, Stephen, Ansari, Imran, Murdoch, David R., Shrestha, Shrijana, Oliver, Zoe, Lim, Emma, Valentine, Lucille, Allen, Karen, Bell, Kathryn, Chan, Adora, Crulley, Stephen, Devine, Kirsty, Fabian, Daniel, King, Sharon, McAlinden, Paul, McDonald, Sam, McDonell, Anne, Pickering, Alisa, Thomson, Evelyn, Wood, Amanda, Wallia, Diane, Woodsford, Phil, Baxter, Frances, Bell, Ashley, Rhodes, Mathew, Agbeko, Rachel, Mackerness, Christine, Baas, Bryan, Kloosterhuis, Lieke, Oosthoek, Wilma, Arif, Tasnim, Bennet, Joshua, Collings, Kalvin, Van der Giessen, Ilona, Martin, Alex, Rashid, Aqeela, Rowlands, Emily, Soon, Joshua, De Vries, Gabriella, van der Velden, Fabian, Martin, Mike, Mistry, Ravi, Zwerenz, Manuela, Buschbeck, Judith, Bidlingmaier, Christoph, Binder, Vera, Danhauser, Katharina, Haas, Nikolaus, Griese, Matthias, Kappler, Matthias, Lurz, Eberhard, Muench, Georg, Reiter, Karl, Schoen, Carola, Pachot, Alexandre, Mommert, Marine, Srovin, Tina Plankar, Bahovec, Natalija, Prunk, Petra, Osterman, Veronika, Avramoska, Tanja, Jongerius, Ilse, van den Berg, J.M., Schonenberg, D., Barendregt, A.M., Pajkrt, D., van der Kuip, M., van Furth, A.M., Sprenkeler, Evelien, Zandstra, Judith, van Mierlo, G., Geissler, J., Rivero-Calle, Irene, Sagmeister, Manfred G., Schweintzger, Nina A., Kuijpers, Taco W., van der Flier, Michiel, and von Both, Ulrich

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2023
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28. Impact of infection on proteome-wide glycosylation revealed by distinct signatures for bacterial and viral pathogens

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Abdulla, Amina, Aebi, Christoph, van Aerde, Koen, Agbeko, Rachel, Agyeman, Philipp, D’alessandro, Umberto, Ali, Ladan, Alkema, Wynand, Allen, Karen, González, Fernando Álvez, Anderson, Suzanne, Ansari, Imran, Araf, Tasnim, Avramoska, Tanja, Baas, Bryan, Bahovec, Natalija, Farto, Cristina Balo, Balode, Anda, Barendregt, A.M., Barral-Arca, Ruth, Castro, María Barreiro, Bārzdiņa, Arta, Bath, David, Bauchinger, Sebastian, Baumard, Lucas, Baumgart, Hinrich, Baxter, Frances, Bell, Ashley, Bell, Kathryn, Bello, Xabier, Bellos, Evangelos, Benesch, Martin, Ben García, Mirian, Bennet, Joshua, Berger, Christoph, van den Berg, J.M., Bernhard-Stirnemann, Sara, Bibi, Sagida, Bidlingmaier, Christoph, Binder, Alexander, Binder, Vera, Bojang, Kalifa, Borensztajn, Dorine M., von Both, Ulrich, Brengel-Pesce, Karen, van den Broek, Bryan, Buschbeck, Judith, Calvo-Bado, Leo, Carnota, Sandra, Carrol, Enitan D., Carter, Michael J., Cebey-López, Miriam, Ceesay, Samba, Ceolotto, Astrid, Chan, Adora, Cocklin, Elizabeth, Collings, Kalvin, Crulley, Stephen, Cunnington, Aubrey, Curras-Tuala, María José, Danhauser, Katharina, Darboe, Saffiatou, Darnell, Sarah, De, Tisham, Deksne, Dārta, Devine, Kirsty, Dewez, Juan Emmanuel, Dudley, Julia, Suárez, Carlos Durán, Eber, Ernst, Eleftheriou, Irini, Emonts, Marieke, Fabian, Daniel, Feuchtinger, Tobias, Fidler, Katy, Fink, Colin, van der Flier, Michiel, van Furth, A.M., Galassini, Rachel, Gallistl, Siegfried, Vicente, Luisa García, Gardovska, Dace, Geissler, J., Gerrits, G.P.J.M., Giannoni, Eric, van der Giessen, Ilona, Gloerich, Jolein, Gómez-Carballa, Alberto, Rial, Jose Gómez, van Gool, Alain J., Gores, Gunther, Grāvele, Dagne, Griese, Matthias, Grope, Ilze, de Groot, Ronald, Gurung, Meeru, de Haan, L., Haas, Nikolaus, Habgood-Coote, Dominic, Hagedoorn, Nienke N., Haidl, Harald, Hamilton, Shea, Hauer, Almuthe, Heidema, J., Heininger, Ulrich, Henriet, Stefanie, Herberg, Jethro, Hoggart, Clive, Hösele, Susanne, Hourmat, Sara, Hude, Christa, Huijnen, Martijn, Jackson, Heather, Jennings, Rebecca, Johnston, Joanne, de Jonge, Marien I., Jongerius, Ilse, Jorgensen, Rikke, Kaforou, Myrsini, Kahlert, Christian, Kandasamy, Rama, Kappler, Matthias, Keil, Julia, Keldorfer, Markus, Kell, Dominic F., Kim, Eunjung, King, Sharon, Kloosterhuis, Lieke, Kohlfürst, Daniela S., Kohlmaier, Benno, Kolberg, Laura, Kolnik, Mojca, Krenn, Larissa, Kuijpers, Taco, van der Kuip, M., Iglesias, Pilar Leboráns, Leigh, Simon, Leitner, Manuel, van Leur, M., Lim, Emma, Lin, Naomi, Liu, Ching-Chuan, Löffler, Sabine, Lurz, Eberhard, Maconochie, Ian, Mackerness, Christine, Mallet, François, Martinón-Torres, Federico, Marmarinos, Antonis, Martin, Alex, Martin, Mike, Martinón Sánchez, José María, Martinón-Torres, Nazareth, McAlinden, Paul, McDonnell, Anne, McDonald, Sam, Miedema, C.J., Meiere, Anija, Menikou, Stephanie, van Mierlo, G., Miners, Alec, Mistry, Ravi, Moll, Henriëtte A., Mommert, Marine, Pérez, Belén Mosquera, Murdoch, David R., Mustafa, Sobia, Natalucci, Giancarlo, Neeleman, C., Newall, Karen, Nichols, Samuel, Niedrist, Tobias, Niederer-Loher, Anita, Nijman, Ruud, Nokalna, Ieva, Urbāne, Urzula Nora, Nordberg, Gudrun, Obihara, C.C., O'Connor, Daniel, Oosthoek, Wilma, Osterman, Veronika, Pachot, Alexandre, Pajkrt, D., Pardo-Seco, Jacobo, Paulus, Stéphane, Pavāre, Jana, Paz, Ivonne Pena, Persand, Salina, Pfleger, Andreas, Pfurtscheller, Klaus, Philipsen, Ria, Pickering, Ailsa, Pierce, Benjamin, Pilch, Heidemarie, Rodríguez, Lidia Piñeiro, Pischedda, Sara, Srovin, Tina Plankar, Pokorn, Marko, Pollard, Andrew J., Pölz, Lena, Posfay-Barbe, Klara M., Prunk, Petra, Pučuka, Zanda, Rajic, Glorija, Rashid, Aqeela, Redondo-Collazo, Lorenzo, Relly, Christa, Calle, Irene Rivero, Vázquez, Sara Rey, Rhodes, Mathew, Richmond, Vivien, Riedel, Thomas, RocaIsatou Sarr, Anna, Rödl, Siegfried, Rodríguez-Tenreiro, Carmen, Romaine, Sam, Rowlands, Emily, Ora, Miguel Sadiki, Sagmeister, Manfred G., Saidykhan, Momodou, Salas, Antonio, Schlapbach, Luregn J., Schonenberg, D., Secka, Fatou, Selecka, Katrīna, Fernández, Sonia Serén, Trasorras, Cristina Serén, Shah, Priyen, Shen, Ching-Fen, Shrestha, Shrijana, Sidorova, Aleksandra, Skrabl-Baumgartner, Andrea, D’Souza, Giselle, Sperl, Matthias, Sprenkeler, Evelien, Schweintzger, Nina A., Stampfer, Laura, Stevens, Molly, Stocker, Martin, Strenger, Volker, Svile, Dace, Syggelou, Kelly, Tambouratzi, Maria, Tan, Chantal, Tavliavini, Emma, Thomson, Evelyn, Thorson, Stephen, Till, Holger, Tramper-Stranders, G.A., Trobisch, Andreas, Tsolia, Maria, Usuf, Effua, Valentine, Lucille, Vermont, Clementien L., Iglesias, Marisol Vilas, Vincek, Katarina, Voice, Marie, de Vries, Gabriella, Wallia, Diane, Wang, Shih-Min, Willems, Esther, Wilson, Clare, Wood, Amanda, Woodsford, Phil, Wright, Victoria, Xagorari, Marietta, Yeung, Shunmay, Zachariasse, Joany, Zavadska, Dace, Zaman, Syed M.A., Zandstra, Judith, Zenz, Werner, Zurl, Christoph, Zwerenz, Manuela, Suppers, Anouk, van den Heuvel, Lambert P., van de Kar, Nicole, Philipsen, Ria H.L.A., van Dael, Maurice, Wright, Victoria J., Herberg, Jethro A., Torres, Federico Martinon, Levin, Michael, Lefeber, Dirk J., and Wessels, Hans J.C.T.

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2023
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29. Improved reference genome of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus

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Palatini, Umberto, Masri, Reem A, Cosme, Luciano V, Koren, Sergey, Thibaud-Nissen, Françoise, Biedler, James K, Krsticevic, Flavia, Johnston, J Spencer, Halbach, Rebecca, Crawford, Jacob E, Antoshechkin, Igor, Failloux, Anna-Bella, Pischedda, Elisa, Marconcini, Michele, Ghurye, Jay, Rhie, Arang, Sharma, Atashi, Karagodin, Dmitry A, Jenrette, Jeremy, Gamez, Stephanie, Miesen, Pascal, Masterson, Patrick, Caccone, Adalgisa, Sharakhova, Maria V, Tu, Zhijian, Papathanos, Philippos A, Van Rij, Ronald P, Akbari, Omar S, Powell, Jeffrey, Phillippy, Adam M, and Bonizzoni, Mariangela

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Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genetics, Human Genome, Vaccine Related, Vector-Borne Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Biodefense, Prevention, Biotechnology, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Rare Diseases, Underpinning research, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Generic health relevance, Infection, Good Health and Well Being, Aedes, Animals, Arboviruses, Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Genome, Genome Size, Immunity, Insect Vectors, Mosquito Vectors, RNA, Small Interfering, Transcriptome, Ae, albopictus, miRNAs, piRNA clusters, Viral integrations, Sex locus, Population differentiation, Developmental transcriptome, Ae. albopictus, Environmental Sciences, Information and Computing Sciences, Bioinformatics
Abstract

BackgroundThe Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus is globally expanding and has become the main vector for human arboviruses in Europe. With limited antiviral drugs and vaccines available, vector control is the primary approach to prevent mosquito-borne diseases. A reliable and accurate DNA sequence of the Ae. albopictus genome is essential to develop new approaches that involve genetic manipulation of mosquitoes.ResultsWe use long-read sequencing methods and modern scaffolding techniques (PacBio, 10X, and Hi-C) to produce AalbF2, a dramatically improved assembly of the Ae. albopictus genome. AalbF2 reveals widespread viral insertions, novel microRNAs and piRNA clusters, the sex-determining locus, and new immunity genes, and enables genome-wide studies of geographically diverse Ae. albopictus populations and analyses of the developmental and stage-dependent network of expression data. Additionally, we build the first physical map for this species with 75% of the assembled genome anchored to the chromosomes.ConclusionThe AalbF2 genome assembly represents the most up-to-date collective knowledge of the Ae. albopictus genome. These resources represent a foundation to improve understanding of the adaptation potential and the epidemiological relevance of this species and foster the development of innovative control measures.

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2020

31. Relationship between molecular pathogen detection and clinical disease in febrile children across Europe: a multicentre, prospective observational studyResearch in context

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Priyen Shah, Marie Voice, Leonides Calvo-Bado, Irene Rivero-Calle, Sophie Morris, Ruud Nijman, Claire Broderick, Tisham De, Irini Eleftheriou, Rachel Galassini, Aakash Khanijau, Laura Kolberg, Mojca Kolnik, Aleksandra Rudzate, Manfred G. Sagmeister, Nina A. Schweintzger, Fatou Secka, Clare Thakker, Fabian van der Velden, Clementien Vermont, Katarina Vincek, Philipp K.A. Agyeman, Aubrey J. Cunnington, Ronald De Groot, Marieke Emonts, Katy Fidler, Taco W. Kuijpers, Marine Mommert-Tripon, Karen Brengel-Pesce, Francois Mallet, Henriette Moll, Stéphane Paulus, Marko Pokorn, Andrew Pollard, Luregn J. Schlapbach, Ching-Fen Shen, Maria Tsolia, Effua Usuf, Michiel van der Flier, Ulrich von Both, Shunmay Yeung, Dace Zavadska, Werner Zenz, Victoria Wright, Enitan D. Carrol, Myrsini Kaforou, Federico Martinon-Torres, Colin Fink, Michael Levin, Jethro Herberg, Irene Rivero Calle, Manfred Sagmeister, Nina Schweintzger, Fabian Van der Velden, Taco Kuijpers, Michiel Van der Flier, Ulrich Von Both, Lucas Baumard, Evangelos Bellos, Lachlan Coin, Giselle D'Souza, Dominic Habgood-Coote, Shea Hamilton, Cllive Hoggart, Sara Hourmat, Heather Jackson, Naomi Lin, Stephanie Menikou, Samuel Nichols, Ivonne Pena Paz, Oliver Powell, Ortensia Vito, Clare Wilson, Amina Abdulla, Ladan Ali, Sarah Darnell, Rikke Jorgensen, Ian Maconochie, Sobia Mustafa, Salina Persand, Ben Walsh, Molly Stevens, Nayoung Kim, Eunjung Kim, Benjamin Pierce, Julia Dudley, Vivien Richmond, Emma Tavliavini, Ching-Chuan Liu, Shih-Min Wang, Fernando Álves González, Cristina Balo Farto, Ruth Barral-Arca, María Barreiro Castro, Xabier Bello, Mirian Ben García, Sandra Carnota, Miriam Cebey-López, María José Curras-Tuala, Carlos Durán Suárez, Luisa García Vicente, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Jose Gómez Rial, Pilar Leboráns Iglesias, Nazareth Martinón-Torres, José María Martinón Sánchez, Belén Mosquera Pérez, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Lidia Piñeiro Rodríguez, Sara Pischedda, Sara Ray Vázquez, Carmen Rodríguez-Tenreiro, Lorenzo Redondo-Collazo, Miguel Sadiki Ora, Antonio Sallas, Sonia Serén Fernández, Cristina Serén Trasorras, Marisol Vilas Iglesias, Anda Balode, Arta Bãrdzdina, Dãrta Deksne, Dace Gardovska, Dagne Grãvele, Ilze Grope, Anija Meiere, Ieve Nokalna, Jana Pavãre, Zanda Pučuka, Katrīna Selecka, Dace Svile, Urzula Nora Urbãne, Kalifa Bojang, Syed M.A. Zaman, Suzanne Anderson, Anna Roca, Isatou Sarr, Momodou Saidykhan, Saffiatou Darboe, Samba Ceesay, Umberto D'alessandro, Dorine M. Borensztajn, Nienke N. Hagedoorn, Chantal Tal, Joany Zachariasse, W. Dik, Christoph Aebi, Christoph Berger, Verena Wyss, Mariama Usman, Eric Giannoni, Martin Stocker, Klara M. Posfay-Barbe, Ulrich Heininger, Sara Bernhard-Stirnemann, Anita Niederer-Loher, Christian Kahlert, Giancarlo Natalucci, Christa Relly, Thomas Riedel, Elizabeth Cocklin, Rebecca Jennings, Joanne Johnson, Simon Leigh, Karen Newall, Sam Romaine, Maria Tambouratzi, Antonis Marmarinos, Marietta Xagorari, Kelly Syggelou, Nikos Spyridis, Jennifer Blackmore, Rebekah Harrison, Benno Kohlmaier, Daniela S. Kohlfürst, Christoph Zurl, Alexander Binder, Susanne Hösele, Manuel Leitner, Lena Pölz, Glorija Rajic, Sebastian Bauchinger, Hinrich Baumgart, Martin Benesch, Astrid Ceolotto, Ernst Eber, Siegfried Gallisti, Gunther Gores, Harald Haidl, Almuthe Hauer, Christa Hude, Markus Keldorfer, Larissa Krenn, Heidemarie Pilch, Andreas Pfleger, Klaus Pfurtscheller, Gudrun Nordberg, Tobias Niedrist, Siegfried Rödl, Andrea Skrabl-Baumgartner, Matthias Sperl, Laura Stampfer, Volker Strenger, Holger Till, Andreas Trobisch, Sabine Löffler, Juan Emmanuel Dewez, Martin Hibberd, David Bath, Alec Miners, Elizabeth Fitchett, Catherine Wedderburn, Anne Meierford, Baptiste Leurent, Marien I. De Jonge, Koen van Aerde, Wynand Alkema, Bryan van den Broek, Jolein Gloerich, Alain J. Van Gool, Stefanie Henriet, Martijn Huijnen, Ria Philipsen, Esther Willems, G.P.J.M. Gerrits, M. Van Leur, J. Heidema, L. De Haan, C.J. Miedema, C. Neeleman, C.C. Obihara, G.A. Tramper-Stranders, Rama Kandasamy, Michael J. Carter, Daniel O'Connor, Sagida Bibi, Dominic F. Kelly, Meeru Gurung, Stephen Throson, Imran Ansari, David R. Murdoch, Shrijana Shrestha, Zoe Oliver, Emma Lim, Lucille Valentine, Karen Allen, Kathryn Bell, Adora Chan, Stephen Crulley, Kirsty Devine, Daniel Fabian, Sharon King, Paul McAlinden, Sam McDonald, Anne McDonell, Alisa Pickering, Evelyn Thomson, Amanda Wood, Diane Wallia, Phil Woodsford, Frances Baxter, Ashley Bell, Mathew Rhodes, Rachel Agbeko, Christine Mackerness, Bryan Baas, Lieke Kloosterhuis, Wilma Oosthoek, Tasnim Arif, Joshua Bennet, Kalvin Collings, Ilona Van der Giessen, Alex Martin, Aqeela Rashid, Emily Rowlands, Joshua Soon, Gabriella De Vries, Mike Martin, Ravi Mistry, Manuela Zwerenz, Judith Buschbeck, Christoph Bidlingmaier, Vera Binder, Katharina Danhauser, Nikolaus Haas, Matthias Griese, Matthias Kappler, Eberhard Lurz, Georg Muench, Karl Reiter, Carola Schoen, Alexandre Pachot, Marine Mommert, Tina Plankar Srovin, Natalija Bahovec, Petra Prunk, Veronika Osterman, Tanja Avramoska, Ilse Jongerius, J.M. van den Berg, D. Schonenberg, A.M. Barendregt, D. Pajkrt, M. van der Kuip, A.M. van Furth, Evelien Sprenkeler, Judith Zandstra, G. van Mierlo, and J. Geissler

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Molecular diagnostics, Diagnostic, Febrile illness, Infectious disease, Bacterial, Viral, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270
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Summary: Background: The PERFORM study aimed to understand causes of febrile childhood illness by comparing molecular pathogen detection with current clinical practice. Methods: Febrile children and controls were recruited on presentation to hospital in 9 European countries 2016–2020. Each child was assigned a standardized diagnostic category based on retrospective review of local clinical and microbiological data. Subsequently, centralised molecular tests (CMTs) for 19 respiratory and 27 blood pathogens were performed. Findings: Of 4611 febrile children, 643 (14%) were classified as definite bacterial infection (DB), 491 (11%) as definite viral infection (DV), and 3477 (75%) had uncertain aetiology. 1061 controls without infection were recruited. CMTs detected blood bacteria more frequently in DB than DV cases for N. meningitidis (OR: 3.37, 95% CI: 1.92–5.99), S. pneumoniae (OR: 3.89, 95% CI: 2.07–7.59), Group A streptococcus (OR 2.73, 95% CI 1.13–6.09) and E. coli (OR 2.7, 95% CI 1.02–6.71). Respiratory viruses were more common in febrile children than controls, but only influenza A (OR 0.24, 95% CI 0.11–0.46), influenza B (OR 0.12, 95% CI 0.02–0.37) and RSV (OR 0.16, 95% CI: 0.06–0.36) were less common in DB than DV cases. Of 16 blood viruses, enterovirus (OR 0.43, 95% CI 0.23–0.72) and EBV (OR 0.71, 95% CI 0.56–0.90) were detected less often in DB than DV cases. Combined local diagnostics and CMTs respectively detected blood viruses and respiratory viruses in 360 (56%) and 161 (25%) of DB cases, and virus detection ruled-out bacterial infection poorly, with predictive values of 0.64 and 0.68 respectively. Interpretation: Most febrile children cannot be conclusively defined as having bacterial or viral infection when molecular tests supplement conventional approaches. Viruses are detected in most patients with bacterial infections, and the clinical value of individual pathogen detection in determining treatment is low. New approaches are needed to help determine which febrile children require antibiotics. Funding: EU Horizon 2020 grant 668303.

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2023
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32. Impact of infection on proteome-wide glycosylation revealed by distinct signatures for bacterial and viral pathogens

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Esther Willems, Jolein Gloerich, Anouk Suppers, Michiel van der Flier, Lambert P. van den Heuvel, Nicole van de Kar, Ria H.L.A. Philipsen, Maurice van Dael, Myrsini Kaforou, Victoria J. Wright, Jethro A. Herberg, Federico Martinon Torres, Michael Levin, Ronald de Groot, Alain J. van Gool, Dirk J. Lefeber, Hans J.C.T. Wessels, Marien I. de Jonge, Amina Abdulla, Christoph Aebi, Koen van Aerde, Rachel Agbeko, Philipp Agyeman, Umberto D’alessandro, Ladan Ali, Wynand Alkema, Karen Allen, Fernando Álvez González, Suzanne Anderson, Imran Ansari, Tasnim Araf, Tanja Avramoska, Bryan Baas, Natalija Bahovec, Cristina Balo Farto, Anda Balode, A.M. Barendregt, Ruth Barral-Arca, María Barreiro Castro, Arta Bārzdiņa, David Bath, Sebastian Bauchinger, Lucas Baumard, Hinrich Baumgart, Frances Baxter, Ashley Bell, Kathryn Bell, Xabier Bello, Evangelos Bellos, Martin Benesch, Mirian Ben García, Joshua Bennet, Christoph Berger, J.M. van den Berg, Sara Bernhard-Stirnemann, Sagida Bibi, Christoph Bidlingmaier, Alexander Binder, Vera Binder, Kalifa Bojang, Dorine M. Borensztajn, Ulrich von Both, Karen Brengel-Pesce, Bryan van den Broek, Judith Buschbeck, Leo Calvo-Bado, Sandra Carnota, Enitan D. Carrol, Michael J. Carter, Miriam Cebey-López, Samba Ceesay, Astrid Ceolotto, Adora Chan, Elizabeth Cocklin, Kalvin Collings, Stephen Crulley, Aubrey Cunnington, María José Curras-Tuala, Katharina Danhauser, Saffiatou Darboe, Sarah Darnell, Tisham De, Dārta Deksne, Kirsty Devine, Juan Emmanuel Dewez, Julia Dudley, Carlos Durán Suárez, Ernst Eber, Irini Eleftheriou, Marieke Emonts, Daniel Fabian, Tobias Feuchtinger, Katy Fidler, Colin Fink, A.M. van Furth, Rachel Galassini, Siegfried Gallistl, Luisa García Vicente, Dace Gardovska, J. Geissler, G.P.J.M. Gerrits, Eric Giannoni, Ilona van der Giessen, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Jose Gómez Rial, Gunther Gores, Dagne Grāvele, Matthias Griese, Ilze Grope, Meeru Gurung, L. de Haan, Nikolaus Haas, Dominic Habgood-Coote, Nienke N. Hagedoorn, Harald Haidl, Shea Hamilton, Almuthe Hauer, J. Heidema, Ulrich Heininger, Stefanie Henriet, Jethro Herberg, Clive Hoggart, Susanne Hösele, Sara Hourmat, Christa Hude, Martijn Huijnen, Heather Jackson, Rebecca Jennings, Joanne Johnston, Ilse Jongerius, Rikke Jorgensen, Christian Kahlert, Rama Kandasamy, Matthias Kappler, Julia Keil, Markus Keldorfer, Dominic F. Kell, Eunjung Kim, Sharon King, Lieke Kloosterhuis, Daniela S. Kohlfürst, Benno Kohlmaier, Laura Kolberg, Mojca Kolnik, Larissa Krenn, Taco Kuijpers, M. van der Kuip, Pilar Leboráns Iglesias, Simon Leigh, Manuel Leitner, M. van Leur, Emma Lim, Naomi Lin, Ching-Chuan Liu, Sabine Löffler, Eberhard Lurz, Ian Maconochie, Christine Mackerness, François Mallet, Federico Martinón-Torres, Antonis Marmarinos, Alex Martin, Mike Martin, José María Martinón Sánchez, Nazareth Martinón-Torres, Paul McAlinden, Anne McDonnell, Sam McDonald, C.J. Miedema, Anija Meiere, Stephanie Menikou, G. van Mierlo, Alec Miners, Ravi Mistry, Henriëtte A. Moll, Marine Mommert, Belén Mosquera Pérez, David R. Murdoch, Sobia Mustafa, Giancarlo Natalucci, C. Neeleman, Karen Newall, Samuel Nichols, Tobias Niedrist, Anita Niederer-Loher, Ruud Nijman, Ieva Nokalna, Urzula Nora Urbāne, Gudrun Nordberg, C.C. Obihara, Daniel O'Connor, Wilma Oosthoek, Veronika Osterman, Alexandre Pachot, D. Pajkrt, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Stéphane Paulus, Jana Pavāre, Ivonne Pena Paz, Salina Persand, Andreas Pfleger, Klaus Pfurtscheller, Ria Philipsen, Ailsa Pickering, Benjamin Pierce, Heidemarie Pilch, Lidia Piñeiro Rodríguez, Sara Pischedda, Tina Plankar Srovin, Marko Pokorn, Andrew J. Pollard, Lena Pölz, Klara M. Posfay-Barbe, Petra Prunk, Zanda Pučuka, Glorija Rajic, Aqeela Rashid, Lorenzo Redondo-Collazo, Christa Relly, Irene Rivero Calle, Sara Rey Vázquez, Mathew Rhodes, Vivien Richmond, Thomas Riedel, Anna RocaIsatou Sarr, Siegfried Rödl, Carmen Rodríguez-Tenreiro, Sam Romaine, Emily Rowlands, Miguel Sadiki Ora, Manfred G. Sagmeister, Momodou Saidykhan, Antonio Salas, Luregn J. Schlapbach, D. Schonenberg, Fatou Secka, Katrīna Selecka, Sonia Serén Fernández, Cristina Serén Trasorras, Priyen Shah, Ching-Fen Shen, Shrijana Shrestha, Aleksandra Sidorova, Andrea Skrabl-Baumgartner, Giselle D’Souza, Matthias Sperl, Evelien Sprenkeler, Nina A. Schweintzger, Laura Stampfer, Molly Stevens, Martin Stocker, Volker Strenger, Dace Svile, Kelly Syggelou, Maria Tambouratzi, Chantal Tan, Emma Tavliavini, Evelyn Thomson, Stephen Thorson, Holger Till, G.A. Tramper-Stranders, Andreas Trobisch, Maria Tsolia, Effua Usuf, Lucille Valentine, Clementien L. Vermont, Marisol Vilas Iglesias, Katarina Vincek, Marie Voice, Gabriella de Vries, Diane Wallia, Shih-Min Wang, Clare Wilson, Amanda Wood, Phil Woodsford, Victoria Wright, Marietta Xagorari, Shunmay Yeung, Joany Zachariasse, Dace Zavadska, Syed M.A. Zaman, Judith Zandstra, Werner Zenz, Christoph Zurl, and Manuela Zwerenz

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Health sciences, Glycobiology, Immunology, Glycomics, Science
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Summary: Mechanisms of infection and pathogenesis have predominantly been studied based on differential gene or protein expression. Less is known about posttranslational modifications, which are essential for protein functional diversity. We applied an innovative glycoproteomics method to study the systemic proteome-wide glycosylation in response to infection. The protein site-specific glycosylation was characterized in plasma derived from well-defined controls and patients. We found 3862 unique features, of which we identified 463 distinct intact glycopeptides, that could be mapped to more than 30 different proteins. Statistical analyses were used to derive a glycopeptide signature that enabled significant differentiation between patients with a bacterial or viral infection. Furthermore, supported by a machine learning algorithm, we demonstrated the ability to identify the causative pathogens based on the distinctive host blood plasma glycopeptide signatures. These results illustrate that glycoproteomics holds enormous potential as an innovative approach to improve the interpretation of relevant biological changes in response to infection.

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2023
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38. Trafficking of the glutamate transporter is impaired in LRRK2-related Parkinson’s disease

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Iovino, Ludovica, Giusti, Veronica, Pischedda, Francesca, Giusto, Elena, Plotegher, Nicoletta, Marte, Antonella, Battisti, Ilaria, Di Iacovo, Angela, Marku, Algerta, Piccoli, Giovanni, Bandopadhyay, Rina, Perego, Carla, Bonifacino, Tiziana, Bonanno, Giambattista, Roseti, Cristina, Bossi, Elena, Arrigoni, Giorgio, Bubacco, Luigi, Greggio, Elisa, Hilfiker, Sabine, and Civiero, Laura

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2022
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39. Strategic complexity and cognitive skills affect brain response in interactive decision-making

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Carlo Reverberi, Doris Pischedda, Marco Mantovani, John-Dylan Haynes, and Aldo Rustichini

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Medicine, Science
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Abstract Deciding the best action in social settings requires decision-makers to consider their and others’ preferences, since the outcome depends on the actions of both. Numerous empirical investigations have demonstrated variability of behavior across individuals in strategic situations. While prosocial, moral, and emotional factors have been intensively investigated to explain this diversity, neuro-cognitive determinants of strategic decision-making and their relation with intelligence remain mostly unknown. This study presents a new model of the process of strategic decision-making in repeated interactions, first providing a precise measure of the environment’s complexity, and then analyzing how this complexity affects subjects’ performance and neural response. The results confirm the theoretical predictions of the model. The frequency of deviations from optimal behavior is explained by a combination of higher complexity of the strategic environment and cognitive skills of the individuals. Brain response correlates with strategic complexity, but only in the subgroups with higher cognitive skills. Furthermore, neural effects were only observed in a fronto-parietal network typically involved in single-agent tasks (the Multiple Demand Network), thus suggesting that neural processes dealing with cognitively demanding individual tasks also have a central role in interactive decision-making. Our findings contribute to understanding how cognitive factors shape strategic decision-making and may provide the neural pathway of the reported association between strategic sophistication and fluid intelligence.

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2022
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40. Surgical face masks do not impair the decoding of facial expressions of negative affect more severely in older than in younger adults

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Lea Henke, Maja Guseva, Katja Wagemans, Doris Pischedda, John-Dylan Haynes, Georg Jahn, and Silke Anders

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Online study, Facial emotion recognition, Face mask, Anger, Fear, Contempt, Consciousness. Cognition, BF309-499
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Abstract Surgical face masks reduce the spread of airborne pathogens but also disturb the flow of information between individuals. The risk of getting seriously ill after infection with SARS-COV-2 during the present COVID-19 pandemic amplifies with age, suggesting that face masks should be worn especially during face-to-face contact with and between older people. However, the ability to accurately perceive and understand communication signals decreases with age, and it is currently unknown whether face masks impair facial communication more severely in older people. We compared the impact of surgical face masks on dynamic facial emotion recognition in younger (18–30 years) and older (65–85 years) adults (N = 96) in an online study. Participants watched short video clips of young women who facially expressed anger, fear, contempt or sadness. Faces of half of the women were covered by a digitally added surgical face mask. As expected, emotion recognition accuracy declined with age, and face masks reduced emotion recognition accuracy in both younger and older participants. Unexpectedly, the effect of face masks did not differ between age groups. Further analyses showed that masks also reduced the participants’ overall confidence in their emotion judgements, but not their performance awareness (the difference between their confidence ratings for correct and incorrect responses). Again, there were no mask-by-age interactions. Finally, data obtained with a newly developed questionnaire (attitudes towards face masks, atom) suggest that younger and older people do not differ in how much they feel impaired in their understanding of other people’s emotions by face masks or how useful they find face masks in confining the COVID-19 pandemic. In sum, these findings do not provide evidence that the impact of face masks on the decoding of facial signals is disproportionally larger in older people.

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2022
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41. The effect of performance-oriented funding in higher education: evidence from the staff recruitment budget in Italian higher education

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Fadda, Nicoletta, Marinò, Ludovico, Pischedda, Gianfranco, and Ezza, Alberto

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Education -- Finance, Public universities and colleges -- Finance -- Recruiting, Industry hiring, Company business management, Company financing, Education
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This study, which aims to investigate some potential effects derived from the adoption of performance-oriented funding in the higher education system, is focused on competitive allocative mechanism to provide universities with the staff recruitment budget in the Italian Higher Education System using panel data spanning the period 2012-2018 for 58 public universities. Results show that the geographical area in which universities operate influences their capacity to increase performance and thus financial resources. Indeed, universities located in Northern areas, the wealthier part of Italy, received a higher amount of resources than those located in the rest of the country. These findings reveal the key role played by external factors, which are beyond the control of management, in universities' capacity to achieve better performance. Results also suggest that policy-makers should identify the correct trade-off between the quest for higher performance within the Italian Higher Education System and equity in resource allocation., Author(s): Nicoletta Fadda [sup.1] , Ludovico Marinò [sup.1] , Gianfranco Pischedda [sup.1] , Alberto Ezza [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.11450.31, 0000 0001 2097 9138, Department of Economics and Business, University [...]

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2022
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42. The effect of context and reason on the neural correlates of intentions

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Sebo Uithol, Kai Görgen, Doris Pischedda, Ivan Toni, and John-Dylan Haynes

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Intentional action, Action selection, Context-dependence, fMRI, MVPA, Embodiment, Science (General), Q1-390, Social sciences (General), H1-99
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Many studies have identified networks in parietal and prefrontal cortex that are involved in intentional action. Yet, our understanding of the way these networks are involved in intentions is still very limited. In this study, we investigate two characteristics of these processes: context- and reason-dependence of the neural states associated with intentions. We ask whether these states depend on the context a person is in and the reasons they have for choosing an action. We used a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and multivariate decoding to directly assess the context- and reason-dependency of the neural states underlying intentions. We show that action intentions can be decoded from fMRI data based on a classifier trained in the same context and with the same reason, in line with previous decoding studies. Furthermore, we found that intentions can be decoded across different reasons for choosing an action. However, decoding across different contexts was not successful. We found anecdotal to moderate evidence against context-invariant information in all regions of interest and for all conditions but one. These results suggest that the neural states associated with intentions are modulated by the context of the action.

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2023
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45. Multi-tissue transcriptomics of a unique monozygotic discordant twin case of severe progressive osseous heteroplasia

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Gómez-Carballa, Alberto, primary, Currás-Tuala, María José, additional, Pischedda, Sara, additional, Cebey-López, Miriam, additional, Gómez-Rial, José, additional, Rivero-Calle, Irene, additional, Pardo-Seco, Jacobo, additional, Bello, Xabier, additional, Viz-Lasheras, Sandra, additional, Justicia-Grande, Antonio, additional, Montoto-Louzao, Julián, additional, Camino-Mera, Alba, additional, Ferreirós-Vidal, Isabel, additional, Fraga, Máximo, additional, Antúnez, José R., additional, Gómez, Rodolfo, additional, Martinón-Torres, Federico, additional, and Salas, Antonio, additional

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2024
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47. Measuring brain potentials of imagination linked to physiological needs and motivational states

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A. M. Proverbio and F. Pischedda

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EEG/ERP, mental imagery, motivational states, ERP markers, brain computer interface (BCI), Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
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IntroductionWhile EEG signals reflecting motor and perceptual imagery are effectively used in brain computer interface (BCI) contexts, little is known about possible indices of motivational states. In the present study, electrophysiological markers of imagined motivational states, such as craves and desires were investigated.MethodsEvent-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in 31 participants during perception and imagery elicited by the presentation of 360 pictograms. Twelve micro-categories of needs, subdivided into four macro-categories, were considered as most relevant for a possible BCI usage, namely: primary visceral needs (e.g., hunger, linked to desire of food); somatosensory thermal and pain sensations (e.g., cold, linked to desire of warm), affective states (e.g., fear: linked to desire of reassurance) and secondary needs (e.g., desire to exercise or listen to music). Anterior N400 and centroparietal late positive potential (LPP) were measured and statistically analyzed.ResultsN400 and LPP were differentially sensitive to the various volition stats, depending on their sensory, emotional and motivational poignancy. N400 was larger to imagined positive appetitive states (e.g., play, cheerfulness) than negative ones (sadness or fear). In addition, N400 was of greater amplitude during imagery of thermal and nociceptive sensations than other motivational or visceral states. Source reconstruction of electromagnetic dipoles showed the activation of sensorimotor areas and cerebellum for movement imagery, and of auditory and superior frontal areas for music imagery.DiscussionOverall, ERPs were smaller and more anteriorly distributed during imagery than perception, but showed some similarity in terms of lateralization, distribution, and category response, thus indicating some overlap in neural processing, as also demonstrated by correlation analyses. In general, anterior frontal N400 provided clear markers of subjects’ physiological needs and motivational states, especially cold, pain, and fear (but also sadness, the urgency to move, etc.), than can signal life-threatening conditions. It is concluded that ERP markers might potentially allow the reconstruction of mental representations related to various motivational states through BCI systems.

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2023
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48. Sensogenomics of music and Alzheimer’s disease: An interdisciplinary view from neuroscience, transcriptomics, and epigenomics

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Laura Navarro, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Sara Pischedda, Julián Montoto-Louzao, Sandra Viz-Lasheras, Alba Camino-Mera, Thomas Hinault, Federico Martinón-Torres, and Antonio Salas

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Alzheimer’s disease, music stimuli, RNAseq, genes, dopamine, transcriptome, epigenome, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
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IntroductionThe relationship between music and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been approached by different disciplines, but most of our outstanding comes from neuroscience.MethodsFirst, we systematically reviewed the state-of-the-art of neuroscience and cognitive sciences research on music and AD (>100 studies), and the progress made on the therapeutic impact of music stimuli in memory. Next, we meta-analyzed transcriptomic and epigenomic data of AD patients to search for commonalities with genes and pathways previously connected to music in genome association, epigenetic, and gene expression studies.ResultsOur findings indicate that >93% of the neuroscience/ cognitive sciences studies indicate at least one beneficial effect of music on patients with neurodegenerative diseases, being improvements on memory and cognition the most frequent outcomes; other common benefits were on social behavior, mood and emotion, anxiety and agitation, quality of life, and depression. Out of the 334 music-related genes, 127 (38%) were found to be linked to epigenome/transcriptome analysis in AD (vs. healthy controls); some of them (SNCA, SLC6A4, ASCC2, FTH1, PLAUR and ARHGAP26) have been reported to be associated e.g. with musical aptitude and music effect on the transcriptome. Other music-related genes (GMPR, SELENBP1 and ADIPOR1) associated to neuropsychiatric, neurodegenerative diseases and music performance, emerged as hub genes in consensus co-expression modules detected between AD and music estimulated transcriptomes. In addition, we found connections between music, AD and dopamine related genes, with SCNA being the most remarkable – a gene previously associated with learning and memory, and neurodegenerative disorders (e.g., Parkinson’s disease and AD).DiscussionThe present study indicate that the vast majority of neuroscientific studies unambiguously show that music has a beneficial effect on health, being the most common benefits relevant to Alzheimer’s disease. These findings illuminate a new roadmap for genetic research in neurosciences, and musical interventions in AD and other neurodegenerative conditions.

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2023
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