Student Awards

RECENT STUDENT PUBLICATIONS

Molecules and mechanisms of dendrite development in Drosophila.
Corty MM, Matthews BJ, Grueber WB. Development. 2009 Apr;136(7):1049-61.

Drosophila larval NMJ immunohistochemistry.
Brent J, Werner K, McCabe BD. J Vis Exp. 2009 Mar 28;(25). pii: 1108. doi: 10.3791/1108.

Specificity and sufficiency of EphB1 in driving the ipsilateral retinal projection.
Petros TJ, Shrestha BR, Mason C. J Neurosci. 2009 Mar 18;29(11):3463-74.

Neural Mechanisms of Grief Regulation.
Freed PJ, Yanagihara TK, Hirsch J, Mann JJ. Biol Psychiatry. 2009 Feb 26.

Radiographic Evidence of Cerebral Hyperperfusion and Reversal Following Angioplasty and Stenting of Intracranial Carotid and Middle Cerebral Artery Stenosis: Case report and review of the literature.
Brus-Ramer M, Starke RM, Komotar RJ, Meyers PM. J Neuroimaging. 2009 Feb 13.

Low-threshold primary afferent drive onto GABAergic interneurons in the superficial dorsal horn of the mouse.
Daniele CA, MacDermott AB. J Neurosci. 2009 Jan 21;29(3):686-95.

Mice with a "monoclonal nose": perturbations in an olfactory map impair odor discrimination.
Fleischmann A, Shykind BM, Sosulski DL, Franks KM, Glinka ME, Mei DF, Sun Y, Kirkland J, Mendelsohn M, Albers MW, Axel R. Neuron. 2008 Dec 26;60(6):1068-81.

SLM Microscopy: Scanless Two-Photon Imaging and Photostimulation with Spatial Light Modulators.
Nikolenko V, Watson BO, Araya R, Woodruff A, Peterka DS, Yuste R. Front Neural Circuits. 2008;2:5. Epub 2008 Dec 19.

UP states protect ongoing cortical activity from thalamic inputs.
Watson BO, MacLean JN, Yuste R. PLoS ONE. 2008;3(12):e3971. Epub 2008 Dec 18.

A sequel to the tale of p25/Cdk5 in neurodegeneration.
Ikiz B, Przedborski S. Neuron. 2008 Dec 10;60(5):731-2.

Moment-to-moment tracking of state value in the amygdala.
Belova MA, Paton JJ, Salzman CD. J Neurosci. 2008 Oct 1;28(40):10023-30.Click here to read

A specialized vascular niche for adult neural stem cells.
Tavazoie M, Van der Veken L, Silva-Vargas V, Louissaint M, Colonna L, Zaidi B, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Doetsch F. Cell Stem Cell. 2008 Sep 11;3(3):279-88.

Neurons in the lateral intraparietal area create a priority map by the combination of disparate signals.
Ipata AE, Gee AL, Bisley JW, Goldberg ME. Exp Brain Res. 2008 Sep 2. [Epub ahead of print]

Type III neuregulin-1 is required for normal sensorimotor gating, memory-related behaviors, and corticostriatal circuit components.
Chen YJ, Johnson MA, Lieberman MD, Goodchild RE, Schobel S, Lewandowski N, Rosoklija G, Liu RC, Gingrich JA, Small S, Moore H, Dwork AJ, Talmage DA, Role LW. J Neurosci. 2008 Jul 2;28(27):6872-83.

Neuronal correlates of the set-size effect in monkey lateral intraparietal area.
Balan PF, Oristaglio J, Schneider DM, Gottlieb J. PLoS Biol. 2008 Jul 1;6(7):e158.

Neural Integrator: A Sandpile Model.
Nikitchenko M, Koulakov A., Neural Comput. 2008 Jun 5. [Epub ahead of print]

A signaling pathway AKTing up in schizophrenia.
Arguello PA, Gogos JA. J Clin Invest. 2008 Jun;118(6):2018-21.

Neural enhancement and pre-emptive perception: the genesis of attention and the attentional maintenance of the cortical salience map.
Gee AL, Ipata AE, Gottlieb J, Bisley JW, Goldberg ME. Perception. 2008;37(3):389-400.

Task specific computations in attentional maps.
Gottlieb J, Balan PF, Oristaglio J, Schneider D. Vision Res. 2008 May 23. [Epub ahead of print]

A mutation in mouse Disc1 that models a schizophrenia risk allele leads to specific alterations in neuronal architecture and cognition.
Kvajo M, McKellar H, Arguello PA, Drew LJ, Moore H, MacDermott AB, Karayiorgou M, Gogos JA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 May 13;105(19):7076-81. Epub 2008 May 5.

Altered brain microRNA biogenesis contributes to phenotypic deficits in a 22q11-deletion mouse model.
Stark KL, Xu B, Bagchi A, Lai WS, Liu H, Hsu R, Wan X, Pavlidis P, Mills AA, Karayiorgou M, Gogos JA. Nat Genet. 2008 May 11 [Epub ahead of print]

Presynaptic type III neuregulin1-ErbB signaling targets {alpha}7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors to axons.
Hancock ML, Canetta SE, Role LW, Talmage DA. J Cell Biol. 2008 May 5;181(3):511-21.

Of cartridges and columns: new roles for cadherins in visual system development.
Matthews BJ, Corty MM, Grueber WB. Neuron. 2008 Apr 10;58(1):1-3.

The Drosophila pheromone cVA activates a sexually dimorphic neural circuit.
Datta SR, Vasconcelos ML, Ruta V, Luo S, Wong A, Demir E, Flores J, Balonze K, Dickson BJ, Axel R. Nature. 2008 Mar 27;452(7186):473-7. Epub 2008 Feb 27.

Crystal structure of the extracellular cholinesterase-like domain from neuroligin-2.
Koehnke J, Jin X, Budreck EC, Posy S, Scheiffele P, Honig B, Shapiro L. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Feb 12;105(6):1873-8. Epub 2008 Feb 4.

Brain micro-ecologies: neural stem cell niches in the adult mammalian brain.
Riquelme PA, Drapeau E, Doetsch F. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 Jan 12;363(1489):123-37.

A single-molecule assay to directly identify solvent-accessible disulfide bonds and probe their effect on protein folding.
Ainavarapu SR, Wiita AP, Huang HH, Fernandez JM. J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Jan 16;130(2):436-7. Epub 2007 Dec 19.

Tone and call responses of units in the auditory nerve and dorsal medullary nucleus of Xenopus laevis.
Elliott TM, Christensen-Dalsgaard J, Kelley DB. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2007 Dec;193(12):1243-57. Epub 2007 Nov 8.


Electrical stimulation of spared corticospinal axons augments connections with ipsilateral spinal motor circuits after injury.
Brus-Ramer M, Carmel JB, Chakrabarty S, Martin JH. J Neurosci. 2007 Dec 12;27(50):13793-801.

Na(+)/Ca(2+)-exchanger-mediated Mn(2+)-enhanced (1)H(2)O MRI in hypoxic, perfused rat myocardium.
Medina DC, Kirkland DM, Tavazoie MF, Springer CS Jr, Anderson SE. Contrast Media Mol Imaging. 2007 Nov 30 [Epub ahead of print]

Nogo Receptor 1 (RTN4R) as a Candidate Gene for Schizophrenia: Analysis Using Human and Mouse Genetic Approaches.
Hsu R, Woodroffe A, Lai WS, Cook MN, Mukai J, Dunning JP, Swanson DJ, Roos JL, Abecasis GR, Karayiorgou M, Gogos JA. PLoS ONE. 2007 Nov 28;2(11):e1234.

Dwell Time Analysis of a Single-Molecule Mechanochemical Reaction.
Szoszkiewicz R, Ainavarapu SR, Wiita AP, Perez-Jimenez R, Sanchez-Ruiz JM, Fernandez JM. Langmuir. 2007 Nov 14; [Epub ahead of print]

Probing the chemistry of thioredoxin catalysis with force.
Wiita AP, Perez-Jimenez R, Walther KA, Gräter F, Berne BJ, Holmgren A, Sanchez-Ruiz JM, Fernandez JM. Nature. 2007 Nov 1;450(7166):124-7.

A step toward optimal coding in olfaction.
Abbott LF, Luo SX. Nat Neurosci. 2007 Nov;10(11):1342-3.

Neuroligin-3 is a neuronal adhesion protein at GABAergic and glutamatergic synapses.
Budreck EC, Scheiffele P. Eur J Neurosci. 2007 Oct;26(7):1738-48.

Expectation modulates neural responses to pleasant and aversive stimuli in primate amygdala.
Belova MA, Paton JJ, Morrison SE, Salzman CD. Neuron. 2007 Sep 20; 55(6):970-84.

Flexible neural representations of value in the primate brain.
Salzman CD, Paton JJ, Belova MA, Morrison SE. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2007 Sep 13; [Epub ahead of print].

Na+/Ca2+-exchanger-mediated Mn2+-enhanced (1)H2O MRI in hypoxic, perfused rat myocardium.
Medina DC, Kirkland DM, Tavazoie MF, Springer CS Jr, Anderson SE. Contrast Media Mol Imaging. 2007 Sep;2(5):248-57.

Male discrimination of receptive and unreceptive female calls by temporal features.
Elliott TM, Kelley DB. J Exp Biol. 2007 Aug;210(Pt 16):2836-42.

Ca2+/calmodulin regulates trafficking of Ca(V)1.2 Ca2+ channels in cultured hippocampal neurons.
Wang HG, George MS, Kim J, Wang C, Pitt GS. J Neurosci. 2007 Aug 22;27(34):9086-93.

Self-tuning of neural circuits through short-term synaptic plasticity.
Sussillo D, Toyoizumi T, Maass W. J Neurophysiol. 2007 June;97(6):4079-95. Epub 2007 Apr 4.

Propofol Inhibits HCN1 Pacemaker Channels by Selective Association with the Closed States of the Membrane Embedded Channel Core.
Lyashchenko AK, Redd KJ, Yang J, Tibbs GR. J Physiol. 2007 June 14; [Epub ahead of print].

Cytoplasmic dynein and LIS1 are required for microtubule advance during growth cone remodeling and fast axonal outgrowth.
Grabham PW, Seale GE, Bennecib M, Goldberg DJ, Vallee RB. J Neurosci. 2007 May 23; 27(21):5823-34.

Dendrite self-avoidance is controlled by dscam.
Matthews BJ, Kim ME, Flanagan JJ, Hattori D, Clemens JC, Zipursky SL, Grueber WB. Cell. 2007 May 4; 129(3):593-604.

Dorsal radial glia generate olfactory bulb interneurons in the postnatal murine brain.
Ventura RE, Goldman JE. J Neurosci. 2007 April 18;27(16):4297-302.

Molecular characterization of the genetic lession in Dystonia musculorum (dt-Alb) mice.
Goryunov D, Adebola A, Jefferson JJ, Leung CL, Messer A, Liem RK. Brain Res. 2007 April 6;1140:179-87. Epub 2006 May 24.

Feedforward inhibition contributes to the control of epileptiform propagation speed.
Trevelyan AJ, Sussillo D, Yuste R. J Neurosci. 2007 March 28;27(13):3383-7.

HCN pacemaker channel activation is controlled by acidic lipids downstream of diacylglycerol kinase and phospholipase A2.
Fogle KJ, Lyashchenko AK, Turbendian HK, Tibbs GR. J Neurosci. 2007 March 14;27(11):2802-14.

Lexico-semantic structure and the world-frequency effect in recognition memory.
Monaco JD, Abbott LF, Kahana MJ. Learn Mem. 2007 Mar-Apr;14(2):204-13.

Brain micro-ecologies: neural stem cell niches in the adult mammalian brain.
Riquelme PA, Drapeau E, Doetsch F. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2007 Feb 23; [Epub ahead of print].

Temperature-compensated chemical reactions.
Rajan K, Abbott LF. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2007 Feb;75(2 Pt 1):022902. Epub 2007 Feb 23.

Cueing effects on semantic and perceptual categorization: ERPs reveal differential effects of validity as a function of processing stage.
Lai G, Mangels JA. Neuropsychologia. 2007;45(9):2038-50. Epub 2007 Feb 23.

Early life stress alters adult serotonin 2C receptor pre-mRNA editing and expression of the alpha subunit of the heterotrimeric G-protein G q.
Bhansali P, Dunning J, Singer SE, David L, Schmauss C. J Neurosci. 2007 Feb 7;27(6):1467-73.

Voltage sensor movement and cAMP binding allosterically regulate an inherently voltage-independent closed-open transition in HCN channels.
Chen S, Wang J, Zhou L, George MS, Siegelbaum SA. J Gen Physiol. 2007 Feb ;129(2):175-88.


RECENT STUDENT AWARDS - 2009

Brunie Prize
Masoud Tavazoie,  "A specialized vascular niche for adult neural stem cells" (Fiona Doetsch)

Dean's Award for Excellence in Research
Yevgeniy (Gene) Sirotin

Gatsby Initiative Studentship
Myungin Baek, "Genetic specification of adult Drosophila leg motor neuron lineages"                (Richard Mann) Biological Sciences
Grace Lai, "Neural systems for language and music in autism spectrum disorder"                        (Joy Hirsch) Neurobiology and Behavior
David Schneider, "Neural circuits mediating the discrimination of communication sounds in auditory scenes" (Sara Woolley) Neurobiology and Behavior
Brikha Shrestha, "Molecular mechanisms of dendrite diversity of Drosophila sensory neuron" (Wes Grueber/ Carol Mason) Neurobiology and Behavior
Sara Steenrod, "Contributions of proprioceptive and corollary discharge signals to the maintenance of visual stability in parietal cortex" (Michael Goldberg) Neurobiology and Behavior
Gulsen Surmeli, "Importance of motor pool identities in the establishment of  the motor circuit in mice" (Thomas Jessell) Biological Sciences
Michael Vidne, "Understanding the role of common input-driven correlations in the primate retina" (Liam Paninski) Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Kavli Prize for Best Thesis in Neuroscience
Yevgeniy (Gene) Sirotin, "Multi-wavelength imaging of cortical activity patterns in V1 of alert monkeys" (Aniruddha Das) 2008

NSF Fellowship:
David Pfau, "Image Reconstruction from Retinal Spike Trains During Fixational Eye Motion"

NSF Fellowship – Honorable Mention:
Alexis HIll, "Regulation of Amyloid Precursor Protein Cleavage by Protein Trafficking"
Cate Jensen, "The nature of nurture: environmental influence on hypothalamic and mesolimbic dopamine connections" (Frances Champagne)
Zev Rosen, "Is Aggressive Behavior Rewarding? A Serotonin-Dopamine Hypothesis"
Karina Scalise
Elaine Zhang, (Randy Bruno)

Student Awards - 2008

Brunie Prize
Li-Chun Cheng,  "miR-124 regulates adult neurogenesis by targeting the transcription factor Sox9" (Fiona Doetsch)

American Heart Association Founders Affiliate Predoctoral Fellowship
Dave Malito, "Molecular Mechanisms of Arrhythmia Linked to the Cardiac Sodium Channel"          (Robert Kass)

Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA)(NIH) - Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA)(NIH) - TRANSFORM (TRaining And Nurturing Scientists FOr Research that is Multidisciplinary) award for one year of training in clinical research:
Sarah Singer Canetta,  "Type III Nrg1-erbB Signaling in Nociception" (Lorna Role, David Talmage, and Clinical Mentor L. Fredrik Jarskog)

Dean's Day for Research Award
Mohsin Ahmed, "Low efficacy of presynaptic function at perforant path inputs to hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons is enhanced by long-term potentiation" (Steven Siegelbaum)

F31, NIH-NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship
David Schneider, "Discrimination of communication sounds in auditory scenes" (Sarah Wooley)

Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Coding ( best poster prize)
David Schnieder (Sarah Woolley)

NIH (NRSA) Fellowship:
Annegret Falkner, "Neural mechanisms of distractor filtering in the parietal cortex"            (Michael Goldberg)
Ellen B. Penney,  "MicroRNAs and their targets are novel regulators of NMJ morphology in drosophila" (Brian McCabe)
Tanya Sippy, "Function of Neocortical GABAergic Interneurons in Local Circuit Activations"            (Rafael Yuste)
Melissa Walker, "Structural and Functional Studies of Invertebrate Classical Cadherins" (Lawrence Shapiro)
Michelle Umali, "Neurophysiological Correlates of Emotional Modulation of Visual Perception"          (Joy Hirsch)

NSF Fellowship:
William Hinkle, “Impact of Background Music on Cognitive Task Performance”
Gregory Wayne, “Neurobiology and the Emergence of Cooperation”
Carl Schoonover, "Determining the synaptic anatomy of the thalamocortical synapse"

NSF Fellowship – Honorable Mention:
Andrew Fink, "The modulation of sensory input by neuronal circuits" (Thomas Jessell)
Catherine Jensen, “Maternal care and oxytocin regulation of dopamanergic neurons in the VTA”
Rebecca Schoer, “Neural Representations of Relative Value in the Orbitofrontal Cortex and Amygdala” (Daniel Salzman)