University of California - San Diego
UCSD - Neurosciences Graduate Program

Representative Student Publications

    Martha Bagnall

    Bagnall MW, Stevens RJ, du Lac S. Transgenic mouse lines subdivide medial
    vestibular nucleus neurons into  discrete, neurochemically distinct populations.
    J Neurosci. 2007 Feb 28;27(9):2318-30.

    Aaron Blankenship

    Wang CT, Blankenship AG, Anishchenko A, Elstrott J, Fikhman M, Nakanishi S,
    Feller MB. GABA(A) receptor-mediated signaling alters the structure of
    Spontaneous activity in the developing retina. J Neurosci. 2007
    Aug 22;27(34):9130-40.

     DJ Braiser

    Jacob V, Brasier DJ, Erchova I, Feldman D, Shulz DE. Spike timing-dependent
    synaptic depression in the in vivo barrel cortex of the rat. J Neurosci. 2007
    Feb 7; 27(6):1271-84.

    Bender VA, Bender KJ, Brasier DJ, Feldman DE. Two coincidence detectors for
    spike timing-dependent plasticity in somatosensory cortex. J Neurosci. 2006
    Apr 19; 26(16):4166-77.

    Nicole Coufal

    Yeo GW, Xu X, Liang TY, Muotri AR, Carson CT, Coufal NG, Gage FH.
    Alternative splicing events identified in human embryonic stem cells and
    neural progenitors. PLoS Comput Biol. 2007 Oct;3(10):1951-67.

    Muotri AR, Marchetto MC, Coufal NG, Gage FH.
    The necessary junk: new functions for transposable elements.
    Hum Mol Genet. 2007 Oct 15;16 Spec No. 2:R159-67.

    Garcia-Perez JL, Marchetto MC, Muotri AR, Coufal NG, Gage FH, O'Shea KS,
    Moran JV. LINE-1 retrotransposition in human embryonic stem cells.
    Hum Mol Genet. 2007 Jul 1;16(13):1569-77.

    Justin Elstrott

    Elstrott et al. Direction selectivity in the retina is established 
    independent of visual experience and cholinergic retinal waves. Neuron 
    (2008) vol. 58 (4) pp. 499-506

    Shah, R. D. O. S. Dhande, A. R. Chandrasekaran, A. Anishchenko, J. 
    Elstrott, T. Iwasato, E. Swindell, M. Jamrich, S. Itohara, M. B. 
    Feller and M C. Crair, (2008). "Adenylate Cyclase 1 is required for  
    activity-dependent retinocolicular map refinement and response 
    homeostasis", submitted

    Wang C, Blankenship A, Anishchenko A, Elstrott J, Fikhman M, Nakanishi 
    S, Feller M.  2007.  Tonic activation of GABA-A receptors inhibits 
    spontaneous activity in the developing retina. Journal of 
    Neuroscience  27(34): 9130-40

    Quentin Gaudry

    Fortin DL, Banghart MR, Dunn TW, Borges K, Wagenaar DA, Gaudry Q,
    Karakossian MH, Otis TS, Kristan WB, Trauner D, Kramer RH. Photochemical
    control of endogenous ion channels and cellular excitability. Nat Methods.
    2008 Apr;5(4):331-8.

    Jeff Gauthier

    Field GD, Sher A, Gauthier JL, Greschner M, Shlens J, Litke AM,
    Chichilnisky EJ.Spatial properties and functional organization of small bistratified
    ganglion cells in primate retina. J Neurosci. 2007 Nov 28;27(48):13261-72.

    Petrusca D, Grivich MI, Sher A, Field GD, Gauthier JL, Greschner M, Shlens
    J, Chichilnisky EJ, Litke AM. Identification and characterization of a Y-like
    primate retinal ganglion cell type. J Neurosci. 2007 Oct 10;27(41):11019-27.

    Lindsey Glickfeld

    Glickfeld LL, Scanziani M. Self-administering cannabinoids, Trends
    Neurosci 2005, 28:341-3.

    Glickfeld LL, Scanziani M. Distinct timing in the activity of
    cannabinoid-sensitive and -insensitive basket cells. Nature Neurosci
    2006, 9: 807-15.

    Kapfer C, Glickfeld LL, Atallah BV, Scanziani M, Supralinear Increase
    of Recurrent Inhibition during Sparse Activity in the Somatosensory
    Cortex. Nature Neurosci 2007, 10: 743 GÇô 53

    Glickfeld LL, Atallah BV, Scanziani M, Complementary modulation of
    somatic inhibition by opioids and cannabinoids. J. Neurosci. 2008,
    28:1824-32

    Glickfeld LL, Roberts JD, Somogyi P, Scanziani M. Interneurons
    hyperpolarize pyramidal cells along their entire somatodendritic axis.
    Nature Neurosci 2009, 12: 21-23.

    Jennifer Greenhall

    Schiller, N. O., Greenhall, J. A., Shelton, J. R., and Caramazza, A. Serial
    order effects in spelling errors:  Evidence from two dysgraphic patients.
    Neurocase. 2001, 7: 1-14.

    Carter, T.A., Del Rio, J.A., Greenhall, J.A., Latronica, M.L, Lockhart,
    D.J., and Barlow, C. Chipping away at complex behavior:
    transcriptome/phenotype correlations in the mouse brain. Physiology and
    Behavior.  2001, 73: 849-857.

    Carter, T.A1., Greenhall, J.A.1, Yoshida, S., Fuchs, S., Helton, R.,
    Swaroop, A., Lockhart, D.J., and Barlow, C. Mechanisms of aging in
    senescence-accelerated mice. Genome Biology. 2005, 6(6): R48.

    Greenhall, J.A1., Zapala, M.A1., Cáceres, M., Libiger, O., Barlow, C.,
    Schork, N.J. and Lockhart, D.J.  Detecting Genetic Variation in Microarray
    Expression Data.  Genome Research, 2007, 17:1228-1235.
    1These authors contributed equally.

    Dan Hill

    Hill DN, Bermejo R, Zeigler HP, Kleinfeld D. Biomechanics of the vibrissa
    motor plant in rat: Rhythmic whisking consists of triphasic neuromuscular
    activity. J Neurosci. 28(13):3438-55 (2008)

    Hill DN, Kleinfeld D, Mehta SB. Spike Sorting. In Observed Brain Dynamics by
    P. P. Mitra and H. Bokil, Oxford Press. (2007)

     Sam Nummela

    Nummela SU, Lovejoy LP, Krauzlis RJ. Saccade selection when reward
    probability is dynamically manipulated using Markov chains. Exp Brain
    Res. 2008 Mar 11

    Cindy Poo

    Poo C, Isaacson JS. An early critical period for long-term plasticity and structural
    modification of sensory synapses in olfactory cortex. J Neurosci. 2007
    Jul 11;27(28):7553-8.

    Poo, C and Isaacson, JS. Odor Representations in Olfactory Cortex: Sparse Coding,
    Global Inhibition, and Oscillations. Neuron 2009. vol. 62(6). pp 850-861.

    Doug Rubino

    Rubino, D., Robbins, K.A., and Hatsopoulos, N.G. (2006). Propagating waves
    mediate information transfer in the motor cortex. Nat. Neurosci. 9, 1549–
    1557.

    Lee Schroeder

    Schaffer CB, Friedman B, Nishimura N, Schroeder LF, Tsai PS, Ebner FF, Lyden
    PD, Kleinfeld D. Two-photon imaging of cortical surface microvessels reveals a
    robust redistribution inblood flow after vascular occlusion. PLoS Biol. 2006
    Feb;4(2):e22. Epub 2006 Jan 3.

    *2:* Berg RW, Friedman B, Schroeder LF, Kleinfeld
    D. Activation of nucleus basalis facilitates cortical control of a brain stem motor
    program. J Neurophysiol. 2005 Jul;94(1):699-711. Epub 2005 Feb 23.

    Sharon Sann

    Sann SB, Xu L, Nishimune H, Sanes JR, Spitzer NC (2008). Neurite outgrowth
    and in vivo sensory innervation mediated by a CaV2.2-laminin β2 stop
    signal.  Journal of Neuroscience, 28:2366-2374.

    Sann SB (2006).  Growth cone stop signals: Inviting to stay or sending
    away?  Journal of Neuroscience, 26: 8879-80.

    Yael Shrager

    Shrager, Y. & Squire, L. R. (submitted). Medial temporal lobe function and
    human memory. In Gazzaniga, M. S. (Ed), The Cognitive Neurosciences IV.
    Cambridge: MIT Press.

    Shrager, Y., Kirwan, C. B. & Squire, L. R. (submitted).  The neural basis of
    the cognitive map: path integration does not require hippocampus or
    entorhinal cortex.

    Shrager, Y., Kirwan, C. B. & Squire, L. R.  (in press). Activity in both
    hippocampus and perirhinal cortex predicts the memory strength of
    subsequently remembered information. Neuron.

    Shrager, Y., Levy, D. A., Hopkins, R. O. & Squire, L. R. (2008). Working
    memory and the organization of brain systems. Journal of Neuroscience,
    28(18):1848-22.

    Shrager, Y. & Squire, L.R. (in press).  The medial temporal lobe: visual
    perception and recognition memory.  In Dere, E., Huston, J.P., Easton, A.
    (Eds), Handbook of Episodic Memory Research In: Handbook of Behavioral
    Neuroscience, Amsterdam: Elsevier.

    Squire, L.R. & Shrager, Y. (in press).  Declarative memory system: amnesia.
    In Byrne, J.H. (Ed), Learning and Memory – A Comprehensive Reference,
    Oxford: Elsevier.

    Shrager, Y., Bayley, P.J., Bontempi, B., Hopkins, R.O. & Squire, L.R.
    (2007). Spatial memory and the human hippocampus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A,
    104(8); 2961-66.

    Gold, J.J., Smith, C.N., Bayley, P.J., Shrager, Y., Brewer, J.B., Stark,
    C.E.L., Hopkins, R.O. & Squire, L.R. (2006). Item memory, source memory, and
    the medial temporal lobe: Concordant findings from fMRI and memory-impaired
    patients.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 103 (24); 9351 – 56.

    Shrager, Y., Gold, J.J., Hopkins, R.O. & Squire, L.R. (2006). Intact visual
    perception in memory-impaired patients with medial temporal lobe lesions.
    Journal of Neuroscience, 26(8); 2235 - 40.

    Squire, L.R., Shrager, Y. & Levy, D.A. (2006). Lack of evidence for a role
    of medial temporal lobe structures in visual perception.  Learning & Memory,
    13; 106 - 7.

    Levy, D.A., Shrager, Y. & Squire, L.R. (2005). Intact visual discrimination
    of complex and feature-ambiguous stimuli in the absence of perirhinal
    cortex. Learning & Memory, 12 (1); 61 - 6.

    Tamara Stawicki

    Liu Z, Conroy WG, Stawicki TM, Nai Q, Neff RA, Berg DK. EphB receptors
    co-distribute with a nicotinic receptor subtype and regulate nicotinic
    downstream signaling in neurons. Mol Cell Neurosci. 2008 Mar 18.
    [Epub ahead of print]

    Chen M, Lucas KG, Akum BF, Balasingam G, Stawicki TM, Provost JM,
    Riefler GM, Jörnsten RJ, Firestein BL. A novel role for snapin in dendrite
    patterning: interaction with cypin. Mol Biol Cell. 2005 Nov;16(11):5103-14.
    Epub 2005 Aug 24.

    Renna Stevens

    Bagnall MW, Stevens RJ, du Lac S. Transgenic mouse lines subdivide medial
    vestibular nucleus neurons into  discrete, neurochemically distinct populations.
    J Neurosci. 2007 Feb 28;27(9):2318-30.

    Norma Velázquez-Ulloa

    Root C.R., Velázquez-Ulloa N.A., Monsalve G.C., Minakova E. Embryonic
    transmitters modulate activity regulating later neuronal differentiation.
    Journal of Neuroscience. Vol 28(18), 4777-4784.

 

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