Zhou, S., Zhu, Q., Eom, M., Fang, S., Subach, O. M., Ran, C., Alvarado Singh, J., Sunkavalli, P. S., Dong, Y., Wang, Y., Hu, J., Zhang, H., Wang, Z., Sun, X., Yang, T., Mu, Y., Yoon, Y.-G., Guo, Z. V., Subach, F. V., Piatkevich, K. D.

A sensitive soma-localized red fluorescent calcium indicator for multi-modality imaging of neuronal populations in vivo. biorxiv (2025).

Ran, C., Boettcher, J.C., Kaye, J.A., Gallori, C.E., Liberles, S.D.

A brainstem map for visceral sensations. Nature, 609, 320-326 (2022).

Ran, C.^, Kamalani, G.N.A., Chen, X.^

Modality-Specific Modulation of Temperature Representations in the Spinal Cord after Injury. The Journal of Neuroscience, 41, 8210-8219 (2021).

Ran, C.^, Chen, X.

Probing the coding logic of thermosensation using spinal cord calcium imaging. Experimental Neurology, 318, 42-49 (2019).

Ren, J., Friedmann, D., Xiong, J., Liu, C., Ferguson, B.R., Weerakkody, T., DeLoach, K.E., Ran, C., Pu, A., Sun, Y., Weissbourd, B., Neve, R.L., Huguenard, J., Horowitz, H., Luo, L.

Anatomically Defined and Functionally Distinct Dorsal Raphe Serotonin Sub-systems. Cell, 175, 1-16 (2018).

Zhu, J., Palliyil, S., Ran, C., Kumar, J.P.

Drosophila Pax6 promotes development of the entire eye-antennal disc thereby ensuring proper adult head formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 5846-5853 (2017).

Ran, C., Hoon, M.A., Chen, X.

The coding of cutaneous temperature in the spinal cord. Nature Neuroscience, 19, 1201–1209 (2016).

Lammel, S., Lim, B.K., Ran, C., Huang, K.W., Betley, M.J., Tye, K.M., Deisseroth, K., Malenka, R.C.

Input-specific control of reward and aversion in the ventral tegmental area. Nature, 491, 212–217 (2012).

Abumaria, N., Yin, B., Zhang, L., Li, X., Chen, T., Descalzi, G., Zhao, L., Ahn, M., Luo, L., Ran, C., Zhuo, M., Liu, G.

Effects of elevation of brain magnesium on fear conditioning, fear extinction and synaptic plasticity in the infralimbic prefrontal cortex and lateral amygdala. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 14871-14881 (2011).