2006-2007 Publications from NCBG Faculty

Susan Birren

Luther JA, Birren SJ. Nerve growth factor decreases potassium currents and alters repetitive firing in rat sympathetic neurons. J Neurophysiol. 2006 Aug;96(2):946-58.

Slonimsky JD, Mattaliano MD, Moon JI, Griffith LC, Birren SJ. Role for calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in the p75-mediated regulation of sympathetic cholinergic transmission. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Feb 21;103(8):2915-9.

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Paul Garrity

Whited JL, Robichaux MB, Yang JC, Garrity PA. Ptpmeg is required for the proper establishment and maintenance of axon projections in the central brain of Drosophila. Development. 2007 Jan;134(1):43-53.

Khodosh R, Augsburger A, Schwarz TL, Garrity PA. Bchs, a BEACH domain protein, antagonizes Rab11 in synapse morphogenesis and other developmental events. Development. 2006 Dec;133(23):4655-65.

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Leslie Griffith

Griffith LC, Budnik V. Plasticity and second messengers during synapse development. Int Rev Neurobiol. 2006;75:237-65.

Mehren JE, Griffith LC. Cholinergic neurons mediate CaMKII-dependent enhancement of courtship suppression. Learn Mem. 2006 Nov-Dec;13(6):686-9.

Hodge JJ, Mullasseril P, Griffith LC. Activity-dependent gating of CaMKII autonomous activity by Drosophila CASK. Neuron. 2006 Aug 3;51(3):327-37.

Park D, Griffith LC. Electrophysiological and anatomical characterization of PDF-positive clock neurons in the intact adult Drosophila brain. J Neurophysiol. 2006 Jun;95(6):3955-60.

Slonimsky JD, Mattaliano MD, Moon JI, Griffith LC, Birren SJ. Role for calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in the p75-mediated regulation of sympathetic cholinergic transmission. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Feb 21;103(8):2915-9.

Griffith LC. Watching the fly brain learn. Neuron. 2006 Jan 19;49(2):171-4.

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Sacha Nelson

Van Hooser SD, Nelson SB. The squirrel as a rodent model of the human visual system. Vis Neurosci. 2006 Sep-Oct;23(5):765-78.

Nelson SB, Hempel C, Sugino K. Probing the transcriptome of neuronal cell types. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2006 Oct;16(5):571-6.

Maffei A, Nataraj K, Nelson SB, Turrigiano GG. Potentiation of cortical inhibition by visual deprivation. Nature. 2006 Sep 7;443(7107):81-4.

Sjostrom PJ, Turrigiano GG, Nelson SB. Multiple forms of long-term plasticity at unitary neocortical layer 5 synapses. Neuropharmacology. 2006 Aug 6; [Epub ahead of print]

Van Hooser SD, Heimel JA, Chung S, Nelson SB. Lack of patchy horizontal connectivity in primary visual cortex of a mammal without orientation maps. J Neurosci. 2006 Jul 19;26(29):7680-92.

Nelson SB, Sugino K, Hempel CM. The problem of neuronal cell types: a physiological genomics approach. Trends Neurosci. 2006 Jun;29(6):339-45.

Sugino K, Hempel CM, Miller MN, Hattox AM, Shapiro P, Wu C, Huang ZJ, Nelson SB. Molecular taxonomy of major neuronal classes in the adult mouse forebrain. Nat Neurosci. 2006 Jan;9(1):99-107.

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Michael Rosbash

Abruzzi KC, Belostotsky DA, Chekanova JA, Dower K, Rosbash M. 3'-end formation signals modulate the association of genes with the nuclear periphery as well as mRNP dot formation. EMBO J. 2006 Sep 20;25(18):4253-62.

Kadener S, Villella A, Kula E, Palm K, Pyza E, Botas J, Hall JC, Rosbash M. Neurotoxic protein expression reveals connections between the circadian clock and mating behavior in Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Sep 5;103(36):13537-42. Epub 2006 Aug 28.

Lacadie SA, Tardiff DF, Kadener S, Rosbash M. In vivo commitment to yeast cotranscriptional splicing is sensitive to transcription elongation mutants. Genes Dev. 2006 Aug 1;20(15):2055-66.

Tardiff DF, Rosbash M. Arrested yeast splicing complexes indicate stepwise snRNP recruitment during in vivo spliceosome assembly. RNA. 2006 Jun;12(6):968-79.

Kula E, Levitan ES, Pyza E, Rosbash M. PDF cycling in the dorsal protocerebrum of the Drosophila brain is not necessary for circadian clock function. J Biol Rhythms. 2006 Apr;21(2):104-17.

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Piali Sengupta

Biron D, Shibuya M, Gabel C, Wasserman SM, Clark DA, Brown A, Sengupta P, Samuel AD. A diacylglycerol kinase modulates long-term thermotactic behavioral plasticity in C. elegans. Nat Neurosci. 2006 Dec;9(12):1499-505.

Clark DA, Biron D, Sengupta P, Samuel AD. The AFD sensory neurons encode multiple functions underlying thermotactic behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans. J Neurosci. 2006 Jul 12;26(28):7444-51.

Lanjuin A, Claggett J, Shibuya M, Hunter CP, Sengupta P. Regulation of neuronal lineage decisions by the HES-related bHLH protein REF-1. Dev Biol. 2006 Feb 1;290(1):139-51.

van der Linden AM, Nolan K, Sengupta P. KIN-29 SIK regulates chemoreceptor gene expression via an MEF2 transcription factor and a class II HDAC. EMBO J. 2006 doi: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601479.

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Gina Turrigiano

Turrigiano GG. More than a sidekick: glia and homeostatic synaptic plasticity. Trends Mol Med. 2006 Oct;12(10):458-60.

Maffei A, Nataraj K, Nelson SB, Turrigiano GG. Potentiation of cortical inhibition by visual deprivation. Nature. 2006 Sep 7;443(7107):81-4.

Wierenga CJ, Walsh MF, Turrigiano GG. Temporal regulation of the expression locus of homeostatic plasticity. J Neurophysiol. 2006 Oct;96(4):2127-33.

Sjostrom PJ, Turrigiano GG, Nelson SB. Multiple forms of long-term plasticity at unitary neocortical layer 5 synapses. Neuropharmacology. 2006 Aug 6; [Epub ahead of print]

Turrigiano G. Maintaining your youthful spontaneity: microcircuit homeostasis in the embryonic spinal cord. Neuron. 2006 Feb 16;49(4):481-3.

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