Publications

June 1st, 2021
Multi-label in vivo STED microscopy by parallelized switching of reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins
Willig KI, Wegner W, Müller A, Calvet-Fournier V, Steffens H

Cell Reports. 2021 Jun 1; 35 (9) 109192. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109192

May 26th, 2021
PriMa: A low-cost, modular, open hardware, and 3D-printed fMRI manipulandum
Greulich RS, Hüser T, Dörge M, Scherberger H

Neuroimage. 2021 May 28:118218. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118218.

May 4th, 2021
Multiscale photonic imaging of the native and implanted cochlea
Keppeler D, Kampshoff C, Thirumalai A, Duque-Afonso CJ, Schaeper J, Quilitz T, Töpperwien M, Vogl C, Hessler R, Meyer A, Salditt T, Moser T

PNAS. 2021 May 4; 118(18) e2014472118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2014472118

April 14th, 2021
The Cone Method: Inferring Decision Times from Single-Trial 3D Movement Trajectories in Choice Behavior
Ulbrich P, Gail A

Behav Res (2021). doi: 10.3758/s13428-021-01579-5

April 14th, 2021
Nonlinear Spatial Integration Underlies the Diversity of Retinal Ganglion Cell Responses to Natural Images
Karamanlis D, Gollisch T

J Neurosci. 2021 Apr 14;41(15):3479-3498. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3075-20.2021

March 26th, 2021
Linear and nonlinear chromatic integration in the mouse retina
Khani MH, Gollisch T

Nat Commun 12, 1900 (2021). doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22042-1

March 16th, 2021
Cholinergic manipulations affect sensory responses but not attentional enhancement in macaque MT
Veith VK, Quigley C, Treue S

BMC Biol 19, 49 (2021). doi: 10.1186/s12915-021-00993-7

March 11th, 2021
Developing Fast, Red-Light Optogenetic Stimulation of Spiral Ganglion Neurons for Future Optical Cochlear Implants
Huet AT, Dombrowski T, Rankovic V, Thirumalai A, Moser T

Front. Mol. Neurosci., 11 March 2021. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2021.635897

March 9th, 2021
Spine dynamics of PSD-95-deficient neurons in the visual cortex link silent synapses to structural cortical plasticity
Yusifov R, Tippmann A, Staiger JF, Schlüter OM, Löwel S

PNAS. 2021 Mar 9; 118(10) e2022701118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.20227011188

March 3th, 2021
Primate Extrastriate Cortical Area MST: A Gateway between Sensation and Cognition
Wild B, Treue S

J Neurophysiol. 2021 Mar 3. doi: 10.1152/jn.00384.2020

March 1st, 2021
Molecular and cellular dynamics of the 26S proteasome
Sakata E, Eisele MR, Baumeister W

BBA-Proteins Proteom. 2021 Mar 1; 1869(3) 140583. doi: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2020.140583

January 22nd, 2021
Spatial clustering of orientation preference in primary visual cortex of the large rodent agouti
Ferreiro DN, Conde-Ocazionez SA, Patriota JHN, Souza LC, Oliveira MF, Wolf F, Schmidt KE

iScience. 2020 Dec 1;24(1):101882. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101882

January 19th, 2021
Regulation of a subset of release-ready vesicles by the presynaptic protein Mover
Pofantis E, Neher E, Dresbach T

PNAS. 2021 Jan 19; 118(3):e2022551118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2022551118

January 15th, 2021
A neural correlate of visual feature binding in primate lateral prefrontal cortex
Parto Dezfouli M, Schwedhelm P, Wibral M, Treue S, Daliri M, Esghaei M

NeuroImage. 2021 Jan 15; 117757. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117757

January 12th, 2021
Reproducibility and efficiency in handling complex neurophysiological data
Denker M, Grün S, Wachtler T, Scherberger H

Neuroforum. 2021 Jan 12. doi: 10.1515/nf-2020-0041

January 7th, 2021
Understanding and treating paediatric hearing impairment
Wrobel C, Zafeiriou M-P, Moser T

EBioMedicine. 2021 Jan 7; 63:103171. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.103171

January 7th, 2021
Overloaded adeno-associated virus as a novel gene therapeutic tool for otoferlin-related deafness
Rankovic V, Vogl C, Dörje NM, Bahader I, Duque-Afonso CJ, Thirumalai A, Weber T, Kusch K, Strenzke N, Moser T

Front Mol Neurosci. 2021 Jan 7; 13:600051. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2020.600051

January 1st, 2021
Neuronal Circuits in Barrel Cortex for Whisker Sensory Perception
Staiger JF, Petersen CCH

Physiol Rev. 2021 Jan 1;101(1):353-415. doi: 10.1152/physrev.00019.2019.

December 21st, 2020
A sensory cell diversifies its output by varying Ca2+ influx-release coupling among active zones
Özçete ÖD, Moser T

EMBO J. 2020 Dec 21; e106010. doi: 10.15252/embj.2020106010

December 18th, 2020
Visualization of naive and learned odor representations using in vivo calcium imaging and immunohistochemical bouton mapping of single Drosophila mushroom body neurons
Hancock CE, Geurten BRH, Fiala A

STAR Protocols. 2020 Dec 18; 1(3):100210. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2020.100210

December 3rd, 2020
Orientation preference maps in Microcebus murinus reveal size-invariant design principles in primate visual cortex
Ho CLA, Zimmermann R, Flórez Weidinger JD, Prsa M, Schottdorf  M, Merlin S, Okamoto T, Ikezoe K, Pifferi F, Aujard F, Angelucci A, Wolf F, Huber D

Curr Biol. 2020 Dec 3; 31:1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.027

November 27th, 2020
Drosophila mechanosensory transduction
Hehlert P, Zhang W, Göpfert MC

Trends Neurosci. 2020 Nov 27. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2020.11.001

November 26th, 2020
Sustained spatial attention accounts for the direction bias of human microsaccades
Xue C, Calapai A, Krumbiegel J, Treue S

Sci Rep. 2020 Nov 26; 10:20604. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-77455-7

November 19th, 2020
Molecular assembly and structural plasticity of sensory ribbon synapses – A presynaptic perspective
Voorn RA, Vogl C

Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Nov 19; 21(22):8758. doi: 10.3390/ijms21228758

November 2nd, 2020
Increased callosal connectivity in reeler mice revealed by brain-wide input mapping of vip neurons in barrel cortex
Hafner G, Guy J, Witte M, Truschow P, Rüppel A, Sirmpilatze N, Dadarwal R, Boretius S, Staiger JF

Cereb Cor. 2020 Nov 2; bhaa280. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa280

October 31st, 2020
What the salamander eye has been telling the vision scientist’s brain
Rozenblit F, Gollisch T

Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2020 Oct 31; 106:61-71. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2020.04.010

October 29th, 2020
Shared functional connectivity between the dorso-medial and dorso-ventral streams in macaques
Greulich S, Adam R, Everling S, Scherberger H

Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 29; 10(18610). doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75219-x

August 19th, 2020
Commentary: The causal role of α-oscillations in feature binding
Crayen MA, Yurt P, Stefan Treue S, Esghaei M

Front Neurosci. 2020 Aug 19; 14:753. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00753

August 5th, 2020
Tipping the scales: Peptide-dependent dysregulation of neural circuit dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease
Harris SS, Wolf F, De Strooper B, Busche MA

Neuron. 2020 Aug 5; 107(3):417-435. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.06.005

July 22nd, 2020
Multichannel optogenetic stimulation of the auditory pathway using microfabricated LED cochlear implants in rodents
Keppeler D, Schwaerzle M, Harczos T, Jablonski L, Dieter A, Wolf B, Ayub S, Vogl C, Wrobel C, Hoch G, Abdellatif K, Jeschke M, Rankovic V, Paul O, Ruther P, Moser T

Sci Transl Med. 2020 Jul 22; 12(553):eabb8086. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abb8086

July 21st, 2020
Maturational changes in mouse cutaneous touch and Piezo2-mediated mechanotransduction
Michel N, Narayanan P, Shomroni O, Schmidt M

Cell Rep. 2020 Jul 21; 32:107912. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107912

July 17th, 2020
Silent synapse-based mechanisms of critical period plasticity
Xu W, Löwel S, Schlüter OM

Front Cell Neurosci. 2020 Jul 17; 14:213. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2020.00213

July 7th, 2020
Distinct Mechanisms of Over-Representation of Landmarks and Rewards in the Hippocampus
Sato M, Mizuta K, Islam T, Kawano M, Sekine Y, Takekawa T, Gomez-Dominguez D, Schmidt A, Wolf F, Kim K, Yamakawa H, Ohkura M, Lee MG, Fukai T, Nakai J, Hayashi Y

Cell Rep. 2020 Jul 7;32(1):107864. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107864

July 6th, 2020
Histological assessment of optogenetic tools to study fronto-visual and fronto-parietal cortical networks in the rhesus macaque
Fortuna MG, Hüer J, Guo H, Gruber J, Gruber-Dujardin E, Staiger JF, Scherberger H, Treue S, Gail A

Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 6; 10(11051). doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67752-6

July 1st, 2020
The bicistronic gene würmchen encodes two essential components for epithelial development in Drosophila
Königsmann T, Parfentev I, Urlaub H, Riedel S, Reinhard, Schuh R

Dev Biol. 2020 Jul 1; 463(1):53-62. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2020.04.005

June 25th, 2020
Macromolecular and electrical coupling between inner hair cells in the rodent cochlea
Jean P, Anttonen T, Michanski S, de Diego AMG, Steyer AM, Neef A, Oestreicher D, Kroll J, Nardis C, Pangršič T, Möbius W, Ashmore J, Wichmann C, Moser T

Nat Commun. 2020 Jun 25; 11:3208. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17003-z

June 23rd, 2020
Tipping the scales: Peptide-dependent dysregulation of neural circuit dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease
Harris SS, Wolf F, de Strooper B, Busche MA

Neuron. 2020 Jun 23; 107(3):417-435. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.06.005

May 30th, 2020
An experimentally generated peptide database increases the sensitivity of XL-MS with complex samples
Parfentev I, Schilbach S, Cramer P, Urlaub H

J Proteom. 2020 May 30; 220:103754. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2020.103754

May 1st, 2020
Attention amplifies neural representations of changes in sensory input at the expense of perceptual accuracy
Mehrpour V, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Treue S

Nat Commun. 2020 May 1; 11(2128). doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15989-0

April 4th, 2020
Visualization of a distributed synaptic memory code in the Drosophila brain
Bilz F, Geurten BRH, Hancock CE, Widmann A, Fiala A

Neuron. 2020 Apr 4; pii: S0896-6273(20)30217-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.03.010

March 19th, 2020
Emerging approaches for restoration of hearing and vision
Kleinlogel S, Vogl C, Jeschke M, Neef J, Moser T

Physiol Rev. 2020 Mar 19; 100:1467–152. doi: 10.1152/physrev.00035.2019

March 19th, 2020
Aralar sequesters GABA into hyperactive mitochondria, causing social behavior deficits
Kanellopoulos AK, Mariano V, Spinazzi M, Woo YJ, McLean C, Pech U, Li KW, Armstrong JD, Giangrande A, Callaerts P, Smit AB, Abrahams BS, Fiala A, Achsel T, Bagni C

Cell. 2020 Mar 19; 180(6):1178-1197.e20. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.02.044

March 16th, 2020
Attention strengthens across-trial pre-stimulus phase coherence in visual cortex, enhancing stimulus processing
Zareian B, Maboudi K, Daliri MR, Moghaddam HA, Treue S, Esghaei M

Sci Rep. 2020 Mar 16; 10:4837. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-61359-7

March 10th, 2020
The synaptic vesicle priming protein CAPS-1 shapes the adaptation of sensory evoked responses in mouse visual cortex
Nestvogel DB, Merino RM, Leon-Pinzon C, Schottdorf M, Lee C, Imig C, Brose N, Rhee JS

Cell Rep. 2020 Mar 10; 30(10):3261-3269.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.045

March 6th, 2020
The lateral prefrontal cortex of primates encodes stimulus colors and their behavioral relevance during a match-to-sample task
Schwedhelm P, Baldauf D, Treue S

Sci Rep. 2020 Mar 6; 10(1):4216. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-61171-3

February 24th, 2020
Luminance information is required for the accurate estimation of contrast in rapidly changing visual contexts
Ketkar MD, Sporar K, Gür B, Ramos-Traslosheros G, Seifert M, Silies M

Curr Biol. 2020 Feb 24; 30(4):R166-R168. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.038

February 11th, 2020
Stochastic and arbitrarily generated input patterns to the mushroom bodies can serve as conditioned stimuli in Drosophila
Warth Pérez Arias CC, Frosch P, Fiala A, Riemensperger TD

Front Physiol. 2020 Feb 11; 11:53. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00053

January 22nd, 2020
AP180 promotes release site clearance and clathrin-dependent vesicle reformation in mouse cochlear inner hair cells
Kroll J, Özcete Ö, Jung S, Maritzen T, Milosevic I, Wichmann C, Moser T

J Cell Sci. 2020 Jan 22; 133(2). doi: 10.1242/jcs.236737

December 20th, 2019
Pathway-, layer- and cell-type-specific thalamic input to mouse barrel cortex
Sermet BS, Truschow P, Feyerabend M, Mayrhofer JM, Oram TB, Yizhar O, Staiger JF, Petersen CC

Elife. 2019 Dec 20; 8:e52665. doi: 10.7554/eLife.52665

October 15th, 2019
Complementary encoding of priors in monkey frontoparietal network supports a dual process of decision-making
Suriya-Arunroj L , Gail A

Elife. 2019 Oct 15; 8:e47581. doi: 110.7554/eLife.47581

October 10th, 2019
The Orphan Cytokine Receptor CRLF3 Emerged With the Origin of the Nervous System and Is a Neuroprotective Erythropoietin Receptor in Locusts
Hahn N, Büschgens L, Schwedhelm-Domeyer N, Bank S, Geurten BRH, Neugebauer P, Massih B, Göpfert MC, Heinrich R

Front Mol Neurosci. 2019 Oct 11; 12:251. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2019.00251

October 8th, 2019
In Vivo Optical Calcium Imaging of Learning-Induced Synaptic Plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster
Hancock CE, Bilz F, Fiala A

J Vis Exp. 2019 Oct 19; (152):e60288. doi: 10.3791/60288

September 24th, 2019
Mapping Brain-Wide Afferent Inputs of Parvalbumin-Expressing GABAergic Neurons in Barrel Cortex Reveals Local and Long-Range Circuit Motifs
Hafner G, Witte M, Guy J, Subhashini N, Fenno L, Ramakrishnan C, Kim Y, Deisseroth K, Callaway E, Oberhuber M, Conzelmann K, Staiger JF

Cell Reports. 2019 Sep 24; 13(28). doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.08.064

September 19th, 2019
ON selectivity in Drosophila vision is a multisynaptic process involving both glutamatergic and GABAergic inhibition
Molina-Obando S, Vargas-Fique J, Henning M, Gür B, Schladt T, Akhtar J, Berger T, Silies M

ELife. 2019 Sep 19; 8:e49373. doi: 10.7554/eLife.49373

September 16th, 2019
β-secretase BACE1 is required for normal cochlear function.
Dierich M, Hartmann S, Dietrich N, Moeser P, Brede F, Johnson Chacko L, Tziridis K, Schilling A, Krauss P, Hessler S, Karch S, Schrott-Fischer A, Blumer M, Birchmeier C, Oliver D, Moser T, Schulze H, Alzheimer C, Leitner M, Huth T

J Neurosci. 2019 Sep 16; 0028-19. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0028-19.2019

September 9th, 2019
Chromophore-Independent Roles of Opsin Apoproteins in Drosophila Mechanoreceptors
Katana R, Guan, C, Zanini D, Larsen M., Giraldo D, Geurten B, Schmidt C, Britt S, Göpfert M

Curr Biol. 2019 Sep 9; doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.036

August 13th, 2019
Characterizing the morphology of somatostatin-expressing interneurons and their synaptic innervation pattern in the barrel cortex of the GIN mouse.
Zhou X, Mansori I, Fischer T, Witte M, Staiger JF

J Comp Neurol. 2019 Aug 13; Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1002/cne.24756.

August 6th, 2019
Strategic deployment of feature-based attentional gain in primate visual cortex
Kozyrev V, Daliri MR, Schwedhelm P, Treue S

PLoS Biol. 2019 Aug 6; 17(8):e3000387. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000387

August 2nd, 2019
Sensory processing at ribbon synapses in the retina and the cochlea
Moser T, Grabner C, Schmitz F

Physiol Rev. 2019 Aug 2; doi: 10.1152/physrev.00026.2018. [Epub ahead of print]

June 18th, 2019
Neuromodulation leads to a burst-tonic switch in a subset of VIP neurons in mouse primary somatosensory (Barrel) cortex
Prönneke A, Witte M, Möck M, Staiger JF

Cereb Cortex. 2019 Jun 18; 30(2):488-504. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhz102

June 6th, 2019
Slow presynaptic mechanisms that mediate adaptation in the olfactory pathway of Drosophila
Martelli C, Fiala A

Elife. 2019 Jun 6;8. pii: e43735. doi: 10.7554/eLife.43735

May 30th, 2019
Routing information flow by separate neural synchrony frequencies allows for "functionally labeled lines" in higher primate cortex
Khamechian MB, Kozyrev V, Treue S, Esghaei M, Daliri MR

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 May 30. pii: 201819827. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1819827116

May 13th, 2019
Pou4f1 defines a subgroup of Type I spiral ganglion neurons and is necessary for normal inner hair cell presynaptic Ca²⁺ signaling
Sherrill H, Jean P, Driver E, Sanders T, Fitzgerald T, Moser T, Kelley M

J Neurosci, 2019 May 13. pii: 2728-18. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2728-18.2019

May 9th, 2019
Statistical mechanics of spike events underlying phase space partitioning and sequence codes in large-scale models of neural circuits
Touzel MP, Wolf F

Phys. Rev. E 99, 052402; doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.99.052402

April 30th, 2019
Nanomachinery organizing release at neuronal and ribbon synapses
Chakrabarti R, Wichmann C

Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2019, 20(9), 2147; doi: 10.3390/ijms20092147

April 11th, 2019
Intrinsic planar polarity mechanisms influence the position-dependent regulation of synapse properties in inner hair cells
Jean P, Demet Özçete Ö, Tarchini B, Moser T

PNAS, 2019 Apr 11. pii: 201818358. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1818358116

March 13th, 2019
Mapping developmental maturation of inner hair cell ribbon synapses in the apical mouse cochlea
Michanski S, Smaluch K, Steyer AM, Chakrabarti R, Setz C, Oestreicher D, Fischer C, Möbius W, Moser T, Vogl C, Wichmann C

PNAS, 2019 Mar 13. pii: 201812029. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812029116

February 07th, 2019
Endophilin-A regulates presynaptic Ca2+ influx and synaptic vesicle recycling in auditory hair cells
Kroll J, Jaime Tobón LM, Vogl C, Neef J, Kondratiuk I, König M, Strenzke N, Wichmann C, Milosevic I, Moser T

EMBO J., 2019 Mar 1;38(5). pii: e100116. doi: 10.15252/embj.2018100116

January 21st, 2019
Transgenerational transmission of enhanced ocular dominance plasticity from enriched mice to their non-enriched offspring
Kalogeraki E, Yusifov R, Löwel S

eNeuro 6(1), 21st January 2019. doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0252-18.2018

January 17th, 2019
Activity Correlations between Direction-Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells Synergistically Enhance Motion Decoding from Complex Visual Scenes
Kühn NK, Gollisch T

Neuron. 2019 Jan 17. pii: S0896-6273(19)30004-2. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.003.

January 09th, 2019
Disruption of otoferlin alters the mode of exocytosis at the mouse inner hair cell ribbon synapse
Takago H, Oshima-Takago T, Moser T

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 09 January 2019; 11:492. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00492.

January 02nd, 2019
Lipid Emulsion–Based OCT Angiography for Ex Vivo Imaging of the Aqueous Outflow Tract
Gottschalk HM, Wecker T, Khattab MH, Fischer CV, Callizo J, Rehfeldt F, Lubjuhn R, Russmann C, Hoerauf H, van Oterendorp C

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science January 2019, Vol.60, 397-406. doi:10.1167/iovs.18-25223

December 26th, 2018
An opposing function of paralogs in balancing developmental synapse maturation.
Favaro PD, Huang X, Hosang L, Stodieck S, Cui L, Liu YZ, Engelhardt KA, Schmitz F, Dong Y, Löwel S, Schlüter OM

PLoS Biology, 26 December 2018, doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2006838, Epub ahead of print.

December 3rd, 2018
A dual-AAV approach restores fast exocytosis and partially rescues auditory function in deaf otoferlin knock-out mice
Al-Moyed H, Cepeda A, Jung S, Moser T, Kügler S, Reisinger E

EMBO Molecular Medicine, 03 December 2018, doi: 10.15252/emmm.201809396.

November 28th, 2018
An axon initial segment is required for temporal precision in action potential encoding by neuronal populations
Lazarov E, Dannemeyer M, Feulner B, Enderlein J, Gutnick MJ, Wolf F, Neef A

Sci Adv 4(11), 28 November 2018. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau8621.

November 15th, 2018
The codon sequences predict protein lifetimes and other parameters of the protein life cycle in the mouse brain
Mandad S, Rahman RU, Centeno TP, Vidal RO, Wildhagen H, Rammner B, Keihani S, Opazo F, Urban I, Ischebeck T, Kirli K, Benito E, Fischer A, Yousefi RY, Dennerlein S, Rehling P, Feussner I, Urlaub H, Bonn S, Rizzoli SO, Fornasiero EF

Sci Rep. 2018 Nov 15;8(1):16913. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-35277-8.

October 17th, 2018
Ca2+ regulates the kinetics of synaptic vesicle fusion at the afferent inner hair cell synapse
Huang CH, Moser T

Front. Cell. Neurosci., 17 October 2018, doi: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00364.

October 8th, 2018
Axial Tubule Junctions Activate Atrial Ca2+ Release Across Species
Brandenburg S, Pawlowitz J, Fakuade FE, Kownatzki-Danger D, Kohl T, Mitronova GY, Scardigli M, Neef J, Schmidt C, Wiedmann F, Pavone FS, Sacconi L, Kutschka I, Sossalla S†, Moser T, Voigt N and Lehnart SE

Front. Physiol., 08 October 2018, doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01227.

October 4th, 2018
Comparative synaptosome imaging: a semi-quantitative method to obtain copy numbers for synaptic and neuronal proteins
Richter KN, Wildhagen H, Helm MS, Ußling J-E, Schikorski T & Rizzoli SO

Scientific Rep. 2018 8: 14838, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-33130-6.

September 11th, 2018
Neural Activity Predicts Reaction in Primates Long Before a Behavioral Response
Dezfouli MP, Khamechian MB, Treue S, Esghaei M, Dalir MR

Front. Behav. Neurosci., 11 September 2018, doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00207.

September 10th, 2018
Vesicle sub-pool organization at inner hair cell ribbon synapses
Chakrabarti R, Michanski S, Wichmann C

EMBO Reports e44937, 10 September, 2018; doi: 10.15252/embr.201744937

September 6th, 2018
Cytomatrix proteins CAST and ELKS regulate retinal photoreceptor development and maintenance
Hagiwara A, Kitahara Y, Grabner CP, Vogl C, Abe M, Kitta R, Ohta K, Nakamura K, Sakimura K, Moser T, Nishi A, Othsuka T

Journal of Cell Biology Vol. 217, no. 11, 06 September, 2018.

August 21st, 2018
Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Phosphoinositides in Endocytosis Studied in the Isolated Plasma Membranes
Milosevic I

Published In: Swan L. (eds) Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1847. Humana Press, New York, NY. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8719-1_11.

August 1st, 2018
Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels: Key Players in Sensory Coding in the Retina and the Inner Ear
Pangrsic T, Singer JH, Koschak A

Physiol Rev 98: 2063–2096, 2018, published August 1, 2018. doi:10.1152/physrev.00030.2017.

July 26th, 2018
Auditory midbrain coding of statistical learning that results from discontinuous sensory stimulation
Cruces-Solis H, Jing Z, Babaev O, Rubin J, Gür B, Krueger-Burg D, Strenzke N, de Hoz L

PLOS Biology, July 26, 2018. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005114.

July 11th, 2018
Optogenetic stimulation of cochlear neurons activates the auditory pathway and restores auditory-driven behavior in deaf adult gerbils
Wrobel C, Dieter A, Huet A, Keppeler D, Duque-Afonso CJ, Vogl C, Hoch G, Jeschke M, Moser T

Sci. Transl. Med. 10, eaao0540 (2018) 11 July 2018. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aao0540.

July 10th, 2018
Role of sodium channel subtype in action potential generation by neocortical pyramidal neurons
Katz E, Stoler O, Scheller A, Khrapunsky Y, Goebbels S, Kirchhoff F, Gutnick MJ, Wolf F, Fleidervish IA

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jul 24;115(30):E7184-E7192. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1720493115. Epub 2018 Jul 10.

July 9th, 2018
X10 expansion microscopy enables 25-nm resolution on conventional microscopes
Truckenbrodt S, Maidorn M, Crzan D, Wildhagen H, Kabatas S, SO Rizzoli

EMBO reports (2018) e45836, published online 09.07.2018. doi: 10.15252/embr.201845836.

June 27th, 2018
Synaptojanin and Endophilin Mediate Neck Formation during Ultrafast Endocytosis
Watanabe S, Mamer LE, Raychaudhuri S, Luvsanjav D, Eisen J, Trimbuch T, Söhl-Kielczynski B, Fenske P, Milosevic I, Rosenmund C, Jorgensen EM

Neuron Vol 98, 6, 1184–1197, June 27, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.06.005.

May 29th, 2018
Newly produced synaptic vesicle proteins are preferentially used in synaptic transmission
Truckenbrodt S, Viplav A, Jähne S, Vogts A, Denker A, Wildhagen H, Fornasiero EF, SO Rizzoli

EMBO Journal, e98044, 2018, published online: June 27, 2018. doi: 10.15252/embj.201798044.

May 24th, 2018
Neural dynamics of variable grasp movement preparation in the macaque fronto-parietal network
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Journal of Neuroscience 24 May 2018, 2557-17, doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2557-17.2018.

May 1st, 2018
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Nature Communicationsvolume (2018) 9:1750, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04146-3.

April 21st, 2018
Attention decouples action potentials from the phase of local field potentials in macaque visual cortical area MT
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MC Biology (2018) 16:86, doi: 10.1186/s12915-018-0551-2.

April 18th, 2018
How Does the Brain Tell Self-Motion from Object Motion?
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Journal of Neuroscience 38(16). Published online 2018 April 18. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.0039-18.2018.

April 13th, 2018
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eLife. 2018; 7: e32569. Published online 2018 Apr 13. doi: 10.7554/eLife.32569.029.

April 10th, 2021
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J Neurosci. 2021 Apr 14;41(15):3479-3498. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3075-20.2021

April 6th, 2018
Cascades of Homeostatic Dysregulation Promote Incubation of Cocaine Craving
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Journal of Neuroscience 6 April 2018, 3291-17; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3291-17.2018.

March 28th, 2018
Neural Control of Startle-Induced Locomotion by the Mushroom Bodies and Associated Neurons in Drosophila
Sun J, Xu AQ, Giraud J, Poppinga H, Riemensperger T, Fiala A, Birman S

Front. Syst. Neurosci., 28 March 2018, doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2018.00006.

March 15th, 2018
Proprioceptive Opsin Functions in Drosophila Larval Locomotion
Zanini D, Giraldo D, Warren B, Katana R, Andrés M, Reddy S, Pauls S, Schwedhelm-Domeyer N, Geurten BRH, Göpfert MC

Neuron 98, 1–8, April 4, 2018; published online: March 15, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.02.028.

March 9th, 2018
Myotubularin related protein-2 and its phospholipid substrate PIP2 control Piezo2-mediated mechanotransduction in peripheral sensory neurons
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Elife. 2018 Mar 9; 7. pii: e32346. doi: 10.7554/eLife.32346. [Epub ahead of print].

February 22nd, 2018
Directed Interaction Between Monkey Premotor and Posterior Parietal Cortex During Motor-Goal Retrieval from Working Memory
Martínez-Vázquez P, Gail A

Cerebral Cortex, 2018; 1–16; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhy035.

February 6th, 2018
Revisiting the Role of Clathrin-Mediated Endoytosis in Synaptic Vesicle Recycling
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Front Cell Neurosci. 2018; 12: 27. Published online 2018 Feb 6. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00027.

January 26th, 2018
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Michaels JA, Scherberger H

Scientific Rep. 2018 8:1710. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-20051-7.

January 18th, 2018
Quantitative optical nanophysiology of Ca2+-signaling at inner hair cell active zones
Neef J, Ohn TL, Urban NT, Frank T, Jean P, Hell SW, Willig KI, Moser T

Nature Communications 2018 Jan 18; 9: 290. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02612-y.

January 12th, 2018
The synaptic ribbon is critical for sound encoding at high rates and with temporal precision
Jean P, Lopez de la Morena D, Michanski S, Jaime Tobón LM, Chakrabarti R, Picher MM, Neef J, Jung SY, Gültas M, Maxeiner S, Neef A, Wichmann C, Strenzke N, Grabner C, Moser T

Elife. 2018 Jan 12; 7. pii: e29275. doi: 10.7554/eLife.29275.

January, 9th 2018
In vivo STED microscopy visualizes PSD95 sub-structures and morphological changes over several hours in the mouse visual cortex
Wegner W, Mott AC, Grant SGN, Steffens H, Willig KI

Sci Rep. 2018 8:219, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-18640-z.

January, 8th 2018
Encoding of Spatial Attention by Primate Prefrontal Cortex Neuronal Ensembles
Backen T, Treue S and Martinez-Trujillo JC

eNeuro 8 January 2018, 5 (1) ENEURO.0372-16.2017; doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0372-16.2017.

January 5th, 2018
The CAPOS mutation in ATP1A3 alters Na/K-ATPase function and results in auditory neuropathy which has implications for management
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Human Genetics 2018 Jan 5th, doi: 10.1007/s00439-017-1862-z.

January 2nd, 2018
Long-term visual training increases visual acuity and long-term monocular deprivation promotes ocular dominance plasticity in adult standard-cage raised mice
Hosang L, Yusifov R, Löwel S

eNeuro 2 January 2018, ENEURO.0289-17.2017.

December, 19th, 2017
Mechanical Properties of a Drosophila Larval Chordotonal Organ
Prahlad A, Spalthoff C, Kong D, Großhans J, Göpfert MC, Schmidt CF

Biophysical Journal Vol. 113, Issue 12, 2017 Dec 19, 2796-2804. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.08.061.

December, 18th, 2017
Electrical stimulation of macaque lateral prefrontal cortex modulates oculomotor behavior indicative of a disruption of top-down attention
Schwedhelm P, Baldauf D, Treue S

Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 17715 (2017). doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-18153-9.

December, 7th, 2017
Local field potentials are induced by visually evoked spiking activity in macaque cortical area MT
Esghaei M, Daliri MR, Treue S

Sci Rep. 2017 Dec 7;7(1):17110. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-17372-4.

November 29th, 2017
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Ferrea E, Suriya-Arunroj L, Hoehl D, Thomas U, Gail A

J Neurophysiol. 2017 Nov 29; https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00504.2017.

November 16th, 2017
Glyoxal as an alternative to PFA in immunostainings and nanoscopy
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EMBO J. 2017; e201695709 doi: 10.15252/embj.201695709.

November 1st, 2017
Subcellular Targeting of VIP Boutons in Mouse Barrel Cortex is Layer-Dependent and not Restricted to Interneurons
Zhou X, Rickmann M, Hafner G, Staiger JF

Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 27, Issue 11, 1 Nov 2017, p 5353–5368, doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhx220.

October 26th, 2017
Environmental enrichment accelerates ocular dominance plasticity in mouse visual cortex whereas transfer to standard cages resulted in a rapid loss of increased plasticity
Kalogeraki E, Pielecka-Fortuna J, Löwel S

PLOS One October 26, 2017 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186999.

October 16th, 2017
Dopamine Modulates Serotonin Innervation in the Drosophila Brain
Niens J, Reh F, Çoban B, Cichewicz K, Eckardt J, Liu Y, Hirsh J, Riemensperger TD

Front. Syst. Neurosci. 2017 Oct 16; 11:76. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2017.00076.

October 2017
RIM-binding protein 2 promotes a large number of Ca_V1.3 Ca²⁺-channels and contributes to fast synaptic vesicle replenishment at hair cell active zones
Krinner S, Jung SY, Butola T, Wichmann C, Moser T

Front Cell Neurosci. 2017 Oct 11th, doi: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00334.

October 2017
Piccolo promotes vesicle replenishment at a fast central auditory synapse
Butola T, Wichmann C, Moser T

Front Syn Neurosci. 2017 Oct 9th, doi: 10.3389/fnsyn.2017.00014.

October 4th, 2017
Activity-Dependent Phosphorylation by CaMKIIδ Alters the Ca²⁺ Affinity of the Multi-C2-Domain Protein Otoferlin
Meese S, Cepeda AP, Gahlen F, Adams CM, Ficner R, Ricci AJ, Heller S, Reisinger E, Herget M

Front Synaptic Neurosci. 2017 Oct 4; doi: 10.3389/fnsyn.2017.00013.

September 19th, 2017
Differential Effects of HCN Channel Block on On and Off Pathways in the Retina as a Potential Cause for Medication-Induced Phosphene Perception
Bemme S, Weick M, Gollisch T

Invest Ophth Vis Sci. 2017 Sep, 58, (11); doi:10.1167/iovs.17-21572.

September 18th, 2017
In vivo mouse and live cell STED microscopy of neuronal actin plasticity using far-red emitting fluorescent proteins
Wegner W, Ilgen P, Gregor C, van Dort J, Mott AC, Steffens H, Willig KI

Sci Rep. 2017 Sep 18;7(1):11781. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-11827-4.

September 13th, 2017
Diversity in Spatial Scope of Contrast Adaptation among Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells
Khani MH, Gollisch T

J Neurophysiol. 2017 Sep 13; jn.00529.2017. doi: 10.1152/jn.00529.2017

September 11th, 2017
The BEACH protein LRBA is required for hair bundle maintenance in cochlear hair cells and for hearing
Vogl C, Butola T, Haag N, Hausrat TJ, Leitner MG, Moutschen M, Lefèbvre PP, Speckmann C, Garrett L, Becker L, Fuchs H, Hrabe de Angelis M, Nietzsche S, Kessels MM, Oliver D, Kneussel M, Kilimann MW, Strenzke N

EMBO reports. 2017, e201643689; doi: 10.15252/embr.201643689

July 26th, 2017
Inference of neuronal functional circuitry with spike-triggered non-negative matrix factorization
Liu JK, Schreyer HM, Onken A, Rozenblit F, Khani MH, Krishnamoorthy V, Panzeri S, Gollisch T

Nature Communications, 2017 Jul 26, 8, (149); doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00156-9.

July 19th, 2017
TRPV1 regulates excitatory innervation of OLM neurons in the hippocampus
Hurtado-Zavala JI, Ramachandran B, Ahmed S, Halder R, Bolleyer C, Awasthi A, Stahlberg MA, RJ W, Anderson K, Drenan RM, Lester HA, Miwa JM, Staiger JF, Fischer A, Dean C

Nat Commun. 2017 Jul 19;doi: 10.1038/ncomms15878

July 14th, 2017
Loss of Neuroligin3 specifically downregulates retinal GABAAα2 receptors without abolishing direction selectivity
Hoon M, Krishnamoorthy V, Gollisch T, Falkenburger B, Varoqueaux F

PLoS, 2017 Jul 14; doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181011.

July 11th, 2017
SIFamide Translates Hunger Signals into Appetitive and Feeding Behavior in Drosophila
Martelli C, Pech U, Kobbenbring S, Pauls D, Bahl B, Sommer MV, Pooryasin A, Barth J, Warth Perez Arias C, Vassiliou C, Farca Luna AJ, Poppinga H, Richter FG, Wegener C, Fiala A, Riemensperger T

Cell Reports. 2017 Jul 11; 20, (2): 464–478. doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.06.043.

July 10th, 2017
Neuroligins Nlg2 and Nlg4 Affect Social Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
Corthals K, Heukamp AS, Kossen R, Großhennig I, Hahn N, Gras H, Göpfert MC, Heinrich R, Geurten BRH

Front Psychiatry. 2017 Jul 10; 8:113. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00113

June 6th, 2017
What makes a reach movement effortful? Physical effort discounting supports common minimization principles in decision making and motor control
Morel P, Ulbrich P, Gail A

PLoS Biol. 2017 Jun 6;15(6):e2001323. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001323. eCollection 2017 Jun.

May 22nd, 2017
Rab interacting molecules 2 and 3 directly interact with the pore-forming Ca_V1.3 Ca²⁺ channel subunit and promote its membrane expression
Picher MM, Oprişoreanu AM, Jung S, Michel K, Schoch S, Moser T

Front Cell Neurosci. 2017 Jun 8;11:160. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00160. eCollection 2017.

18 May 2017
Inhibitory interneurons and their circuit motifs in the many layers of the barrel cortex
Feldmeyer D, Qi G, Emmenegger V, Staiger JF

Neuroscience. 2018 Jan 1;368:132-151. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.05.027. Epub 2017 May 18.

April 19th, 2017
Formation and Maintenance of Functional Spines in the Absence of Presynaptic Glutamate
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Sigler A, Oh WC, Imig C, Altas B, Kawabe H, Cooper BH, Kwon HB, Rhee JS, Brose N

Neuron. 2017 Apr 19;94(2):304-311.e4; doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.03.029.

March 6th, 2017
Conditional deletion of pejvakin in adult outer hair cells causes progressive hearing loss
in mice.
Harris SL, Kazmierczak M, Pangršič T, Shah P, Chuchvara N, Barrantes-Freer A, Moser T,
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Neuroscience. 2017 Mar 6;344:380-393; doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.12.055. Epub 2017 Jan 9.

February 22nd, 2017
Sensitivity to image recurrence across eye-movement-like image transitions through local serial inhibition in the retina.
Krishnamoorthy V, Weick M, Gollisch T

Elife. 2017 Feb 23;6. pii: e22431; doi: 10.7554/eLife.22431.

February 21st, 2017
Hearing regulates Drosophila aggression
Versteven M, Vanden Broeck L, Geurten B, Zwarts L, Decraecker L, Beelen M, Göpfert MC, Heinrich R, Callaerts P

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Feb 21; 114(8):1958-1963. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1605946114

February 3rd, 2017
Regulation of Dendritic Spine Morphology in Hippocampal Neurons by Copine-6.
Burk K, Ramachandran B, Ahmed S, Hurtado-Zavala JI, Awasthi A, Benito E, Faram R, Ahmad H, Swaminathan A, McIlhinney J, Fischer A, Perestenko P, Dean C

Cereb Cortex. 2017 Feb 3:1-18; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhx009.

February 1st, 2017
A homozygous FITM2 mutation causes a deafness-dystonia syndrome with motor regression and signs of ichthyosis and sensory neuropathy
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Dis Model Mech. 2017 Feb 01; 10: 105-118; doi: 10.1242/dmm.026476

January 11th, 2017
Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors and silent synapses in cocaine-conditioned place
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Shukla A, Beroun A, Panopoulou M, Neumann PA, Grant SGN, Olive MF, Dong Y, Schlüter OM

EMBO J. 2017 Feb 15;36(4):458-474; doi: 10.15252/embj.201695465. Epub 2017 Jan 11.

January 18th, 2017
Adrenergic Gate Release for Spike Timing-Dependent Synaptic Potentiation.
Liu Y, Cui L, Schwarz MK, Dong Y, Schlüter OM

Neuron. 2017 Jan 18;93(2):394-408; doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.12.039.

January 5th, 2017
Ca2+-binding protein 2 inhibits Ca2+-channel inactivation in mouse inner hair cells.
Picher MM, Gehrt A, Meese S, Ivanovic A, Predoehl F, Jung S, Schrauwen I, Dragonetti AG,
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Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2017 Feb 9. pii: 201617533; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1617533114.

January 1st, 2017
Differential Contribution of Low- and High-level Image Content to Eye Movements in Monkeys
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Wilming N, Kietzmann TC, Jutras M, Xue C, Treue S, Buffalo EA, König P

Cereb Cortex. 2017 Jan 1;27(1):279-293; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhw399.

December 15th, 2016
An Extended Normalization Model of Attention Accounts for Feature-Based Attentional Enhancement of Both Response and Coherence Gain
Schwedhelm P, Krishna BS, Treue S

PLoS Comput Biol . 2016 Dec 15; 12(12): e1005225. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005225

December 1st, 2016
A novel method for culturing stellate astrocytes reveals spatially distinct Ca2+ signaling and
vesicle recycling in astrocytic processes.
Wolfes AC, Ahmed S, Awasthi A, Stahlberg MA, Rajput A, Magruder DS, Bonn S, Dean C

J Gen Physiol. 2017 Jan;149(1):149-170; Epub 2016 Dec 1; doi: 10.1085/jgp.201611607.

November 30th, 2016
Joint encoding of object motion and motion direction in the salamander retina.
Kühn NK, Gollisch T

Journal Neurosci. 30 November 2016, 36 (48) 12203-12216; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1971-16.2016.

November 29th, 2016
Parvalbumin- and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-expressing neocortical interneurons impose differential inhibition on Martinotti cells.
Walker F, Möck M, Feyerabend M, Guy J, Wagener RJ, Schubert D, Staiger JF, Witte M

Nature Communications 7:13664; doi: 10.1038/ncomms13664, 2016.

November 22nd, 2016
Spatial attention reduces burstiness in Mmcaque visual cortical area MST.
Xue C, Kaping D, Baloni Ray S, Krishna BS, Treue S

Cereb Cortex 1-9. 22 November 2016; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhw326.

November 22nd, 2016
Visual attention is available at a task-relevant location rapidly after a saccade
Yao T, Ketkar M, Treue S, Krishna BS

eLife. 2016 Nov 22; 5:e18009 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.18009

November 4th, 2016
Using Matrix and Tensor Factorizations for the Single-Trial Analysis of Population Spike Trains.
Onken A, Liu JK, Karunasekara PPCR, Delis I, Gollisch T, Panzeri S

PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 Nov 4;12(11):e1005189. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005189. eCollection 2016 Nov.

November 04th, 2016
Neural Population Dynamics during Reaching Are Better Explained by a Dynamical System than Representational Tuning
Michaels JA, Dann B, Scherberger H

PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 Nov 04;12(11): e1005175. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005175

October 18th, 2016
Endophilin-A deficiency induces the Foxo3a-Fbxo32 network in the brain and causes dysregulation of autophagy and the ubiquitin-proteasome system.
Murdoch JD, Rostosky CM, Gowrisankaran S, Arora AS, Soukup SF, Vidal R, Capece V, Freytag S, Fischer A, Verstreken P, Bonn S, Raimundo N, Milosevic I

Cell Rep. 2016 Oct 5. pii: S2211-1247(16)31314-6. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.09.058.

October 11th, 2016
Hair cell synaptic dysfunction, auditory fatigue and thermal sensitivity in otoferlin Ile515Thr mutants.
Strenzke N, Chakrabarti R, Al-Moyed H, Müller A, Hoch G, Pangrsic T, Yamanbaeva G, Lenz C, Pan KT, Auge E, Geiss-Friedlander R, Urlaub H, Brose N, Wichmann C, Reisinger E

EMBO J. 2016 Dec 1;35(23):2519-2535. Epub 2016 Oct 11.

September 29th, 2016
Spermidine suppresses age-associated memory impairment by preventing adverse increase of presynaptic active zone size and release.
Gupta VK, Pech U, Bhukel A, Fulterer A, Ender A, Mauermann SF, Andlauer TF, Antwi-Adjei E, Beuschel C, Thriene K, Maglione M, Quentin C, Bushow R, Schwärzel M, Mielke T, Madeo F, Dengjel J, Fiala A, Sigrist SJ

PLoS Biol. 2016 Sep 29;14(9):e1002563. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002563. eCollection 2016.

September 21st, 2016
Physical exercise preserves adult visual plasticity in mice and restores it after a stroke in the somatosensory cortex.
Kalogeraki E, Pielecka-Fortuna J, Hüppe JM, Löwel S

Front Aging Neurosci. 2016 Sep 21;8:212. eCollection 2016.

September 1st, 2016
The antiproliferative effect of bevacizumab on human tenon fibroblasts is not mediated by vascular endothelial growth factor inhibition.
Fischer CV, Mans V, Horn M, Naxer S, Klettner A, van Oterendorp C

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016 Sep 1;57(11):4970-4977. doi: 10.1167/iovs.16-19938.

August 22nd, 2016
A reanalysis of "Two types of asynchronous activity in networks of excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons".
Engelken R, Farkhooi F, Hansel D, van Vreeswijk C, Wolf F.

F1000Res. 2016 Aug 22;5:2043.

August 15th, 2016
Uniting functional network topology and oscillations in the fronto-parietal single unit network of behaving primates.
Dann B, Michaels JA, Schaffelhofer S, Scherberger H

Elife. 2016 Aug 15;5. pii: e15719. doi: 10.7554/eLife.15719.

August 9th, 2016
Hair cells employ active zones with different voltage-dependence of Ca2+-influx to decompose sounds into complementary neural codes.
Ohn TL, Rutherford MA, Jing Z, Jung S, Duque-Afonso CJ, Hoch G, Picher MM, Scharinger A, Strenzke N, Moser T

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Aug 9;113(32):E4716-25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1605737113.

August 8th, 2016
Auditory Efferent System Modulates Mosquito Hearing
Andrés M, Seifert M, Spalthoff C, Warren B, Weiss L, Giraldo D, Winkler M, Pauls S, Göpfert MC

Curr Biol. 2016 Aug 08; 26(15):2028-2036. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.077

August 5th, 2016
Native piezo2 interactomics identifies pericentrin as a novel regulator of piezo2 in somatosensory neurons.
Narayanan P, Sondermann J, Rouwette T, Karaca S, Urlaub H, Mitkovski M, Gomez-Varela D, Schmidt M

J Proteome Res. 2016 Aug 5;15(8):2676-87. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00235. Epub 2016 Jul 11.

July 25th, 2016
Tryptophan-rich basic protein (WRB) mediates insertion of the tail-anchored protein otoferlin and is required for hair cell exocytosis and hearing.
Vogl C, Panou I, Yamanbaeva G, Wichmann C, Mangosing S, Vilardi F, Indzhykulian A, Pangršič T, Santarelli R, Rodriguez-Ballesteros M, Weber T, Jung S, Cardenas E, Wu X, Wojcik SM, Kwan KY, del Castillo I, Schwappach B, Strenzke N, Corey DP, Lin SY, Moser T

EMBO J. 2016 Dec 1;35(23):2536-2552. Epub 2016 Jul 25.

July 6th, 2016
Sensing pH with TMCs.
Spalthoff C, Göpfert M

Neuron. 2016 Jul 6;91(1):6-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.06.026.

June 30th, 2016
Nocistatin sensitizes TRPA1 channels in peripheral sensory neurons.
Avenali L, Abate Fulas O, Sondermann J, Narayanan P, Gomez-Varela D, Schmidt M

Channels (Austin). 2016 Jun 30:1-9.

28 June 2016
Transmembrane channel-like (tmc) gene regulates Drosophila larval locomotion
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Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2016 Jun 28;113(26):7243-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1606537113

10 June 2016
Attention enhances stimulus representations in macaque visual cortex without affecting their signal-to-noise level
Daliri MR, Kozyrev V, Treue S

Scientific Reports. 10 June 2016; 6, Article number: 27666 (2016); doi:10.1038/srep27666

March 14th, 2016
A Pressure Injection System for Investigating the Neuropharmacology of Information Processing in Awake Behaving Macaque Monkey Cortex
Veith VK, Quigley C, Treue S

J Vis Exp. 2016 Mar 14; (109): 53724; doi: 10.3791/53724

June 7th, 2016
Complexin 3 increases the fidelity of signaling in a retinal circuit by regulating exocytosis at ribbon synapses.
Mortensen LS, Park SJ, Ke JB, Cooper BH, Zhang L, Imig C, Löwel S, Reim K, Brose N, Demb JB, Rhee JS, Singer JH

Cell Rep. 2016 Jun 7;15(10):2239-50. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.05.012

March 1st, 2016
Ocular dominance plasticity after stroke was preserved in PSD-95 knockout mice.
Greifzu F, Parthier D, Goetze B, Schlüter OM, Löwel S

PLoS One. 2016 Mar 1;11(3):e0149771. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149771

February 22nd, 2016
An attention-sensitive memory trace in macaque MT following saccadic eye movements.
Yao T, Treue S, Krishna BS

PLoS Biol 14(2): e1002390. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002390

February 21st, 2016
Environmental enrichment preserved lifelong ocular dominance plasticity, but did not improve visual abilities.
Greifzu, F., Kalogeraki, E.,Löwel, S

Neurobiol Aging. 2016 May; 41:130-7. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.02.014.

February 19th, 2016
Auditory neuropathy - neural and synaptic mechanisms.
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Nat Rev Neurol. 2016 Feb 19. doi: 10.1038/nrneurol.2016.10. [Epub ahead of print]

January 19th, 2016
Model-Free Estimation of Tuning Curves and Their Attentional Modulation, Based on Sparse and Noisy Data
Helmer M, Kozyrev V, Stephan V, Treue S, Geisel T, Battaglia D

PLoS ONE. 2016 Jan 19; 11(1): e0146500. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146500

January 6th, 2016
The membrane marker mCLING reveals the molecular composition of trafficking organelles.
Revelo NH, Rizzoli SO

Curr Protoc Neurosci. 2016 Jan 4;74:2.25.1-21. doi: 10.1002/0471142301.ns0225s74.

December 31st, 2015
Complete Firing-Rate Response of Neurons with Complex Intrinsic Dynamics
Puelma Touzel M, Wolf F

PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Dec 31; 11(12): e1004636. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004636

December 22nd, 2015
Attention Decreases Phase-Amplitude Coupling, Enhancing Stimulus Discriminability in Cortical Area MT.
Esghaei M, Daliri MR, Treue S

Front Neural Circuits. 2015 Dec 22;9:82. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2015.00082.

December 21st, 2015
A Class of Visual Neurons with Wide-Field Properties Is Required for Local Motion Detection.
Fisher YE , Leong JCS, Sporar K, Ketkar MD, Gohl D M, Clandinin TR, Silies M

Current Biology 2015 Dec 05. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.018 [Epub ahead of print]

December 11th, 2015
Hearing in Insects.
Göpfert MC, Hennig RM.

Annu Rev Entomol. 2015 Dec 11. [Epub ahead of print]

November 26th, 2015
Diverse Roles of Axonemal Dyneins in Drosophila Auditory Neuron Function and Mechanical Amplification in Hearing.
Karak S, Jacobs JS, Kittelmann M, Spalthoff C, Katana R, Sivan-Loukianova E, Schon MA, Kernan MJ, Eberl DF, Göpfert MC.

Sci Rep. 2015 Nov 26;5:17085. doi: 10.1038/srep17085.

November 25th, 2015
I Plan Therefore I Choose: Free-Choice Bias Due to Prior Action-Probability but Not Action-Value.
Suriya-Arunroj L, Gail A.

Front Behav Neurosci. 2015 Nov 25;9:315. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00315.

November 17th, 2015
Random Wiring, Ganglion Cell Mosaics, and the Functional Architecture of the Visual Cortex.
Schottdorf M, Keil W, Coppola D, White LE, Wolf F.

PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Nov 17;11(11):e1004602. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004602.

October 28th, 2015
Super-resolution Microscopy of Clickable Amino Acids Reveals the Effects of Fluorescent Protein Tagging on Protein Assemblies.
Vreja IC, Nikić I, Göttfert F, Bates M, Kröhnert K, Outeiro TF, Hell SW, Lemke EA, Rizzoli SO.

ACS Nano. 2015 Nov 24;9(11):11034-41. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04434.

October 7th, 2015
Disruption of adaptor protein 2μ (AP-2μ) in cochlear hair cells impairs vesicle reloading of synaptic release sites and hearing.
Jung S, Maritzen T, Wichmann C, Jing Z, Neef A, Revelo NH, Al-Moyed H, Meese S, Wojcik SM, Panou I, Bulut H, Schu P, Ficner R, Reisinger E, Rizzoli SO, Neef J, Strenzke N, Haucke V, Moser T.

EMBO J. 2015 Oct 7. pii: e201591885. [Epub ahead of print]

October 7th, 2015
The Ribbon Synapse Between Type I Spiral Ganglion Neurons and Inner Hair Cells.
Rutherford MA, Moser T.

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October 1st, 2015
Growing neuronal islands on multi-electrode arrays using an accurate positioning-μCP device.
Samhaber R, Schottdorf M, El Hady A, Bröking K, Daus A, Thielemann C, Stühmer W, Wolf F

J Neurosci Methods. 2016 Jan 15;257:194-203. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.09.022.

September 24th, 2015
Characterizing VIP Neurons in the Barrel Cortex of VIPcre/tdTomato Mice Reveals Layer-Specific Differences.
Prönneke A, Scheuer B, Wagener RJ, Möck M, Witte M, Staiger JF.

Cereb Cortex. 2015 Dec;25(12):4854-68. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhv202.

September 10th, 2015
Ankyrin Repeats Convey Force to Gate the NOMPC Mechanotransduction Channel.
Zhang W, Cheng LE, Kittelmann M, Li J, Petkovic M, Cheng T, Jin P, Guo Z, Göpfert MC, Jan LY, Jan YN.

Cell. 2015 Sep 10;162(6):1391-403. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.08.024.

August 28th, 2015
A contamination-insensitive probe for imaging specific biomolecules by secondary ion mass spectrometry
Kabatas S, Vreja IC, Saka SK, Höschen C, Kröhnert K, Opazo F, Rizzoli SO, Diederichsen U

Chem Commun. 2015 Aug 28; 51(67):13221-4. doi: 10.1039/c5cc03895b

July 31st, 2015
Spike-Triggered Covariance Analysis Reveals Phenomenological Diversity of Contrast Adaptation in the Retina.
Liu KL, Gollisch T.

PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Jul 31;11(7):e1004425. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004425

July 23rd, 2015
Modulation of Presynaptic Release Probability by the Vertebrate-Specific Protein Mover.
Körber C, Horstmann H, Venkataramani V, Herrmannsdörfer F, Kremer T, Kaiser M, Schwenger DB, Ahmed S, Dean C, Dresbach T, Kuner T.

Neuron. 2015 Aug 5;87(3):521-33. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.07.001.

July 15th, 2015
Molecularly and structurally distinct synapses mediate reliable encoding and processing of auditory information
Wichmann C.

Hear Res. 2015 Dec; 330(Pt B):178-90. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2015.07.008

July 8th, 2015
Gene therapy for deafness: How close are we?
Moser T.

Sci Transl Med. 2015 Jul 8;7(295):295fs28

June 26th, 2015
Synaptic encoding and processing of auditory information in physiology and disease.
Moser T & Strenzke N.

Hear Res. 2015 Dec;330(Pt B):155-6

June 16th, 2015
Rab3-interacting molecules 2α and 2β promote the abundance of voltage-gated Ca_V1.3 Ca²⁺ channels at hair cell active zones.
Jung S, Oshima-Takago T, Chakrabarti R, Wong AB, Jing Z, Yamanbaeva G, Picher MM, Wojcik SM, Göttfert F, Predoehl F, Michel K, Hell SW, Schoch S, Strenzke N, Wichmann C, Moser T.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Jun 16;112(24):E3141-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1417207112.

June 3rd, 2015
Modulation of nociceptive ion channels and receptors via protein-protein interactions: implications for pain relief.
Rouwette T, Avenali L, Sondermann J, Narayanan P, Gomez-Varela D, Schmidt M.

Channels (Austin). 2015;9(4):175-85. doi: 10.1080/19336950.2015.1051270.

May 26th, 2015
Progressive maturation of silent synapses governs the duration of a critical period.
Huang X, Stodieck SK, Goetze B, Cui L, Wong MH, Wenzel C, Hosang L, Dong Y, Löwel S, Schlüter OM.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 May 26; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1506488112

May 19th, 2015
What types of neocortical GABAergic neurons do really exist?
Staiger JF, Möck M, Witte M.

Neuroforum. 2015 June;6(2):49-56.

May 7th, 2015
Restoring the ON Switch in Blind Retinas: Opto-mGluR6, a Next-Generation, Cell-Tailored Optogenetic Tool.
van Wyk M, Pielecka-Fortuna J, Löwel S, Kleinlogel S.

PLoS Biol. 2015 May 7;13(5):e1002143. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002143.

May 6th, 2015
TRP Channels in Insect Stretch Receptors as Insecticide Targets.
Nesterov A, Spalthoff C, Kandasamy R, Katana R, Rankl NB, Andrés M, Jähde P, Dorsch JA, Stam LF, Braun FJ, Warren B, Salgado VL, Göpfert MC.

Neuron. 2015 May 6;86(3):665-71. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.04.001.

May 6th, 2015
Molecular Remodeling of the Presynaptic Active Zone of Drosophila Photoreceptors via Activity-Dependent Feedback.
Sugie S, Hakeda-Suzuki S, Suzuki E, Silies M, Shimozono M, Möhl C, Suzuki T, Tavosanis G.

Neuron. 2015 May 6;86(3):711-25. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.046.

March 31st, 2015
Optical dissection of experience-dependent pre- and postsynaptic plasticity in the Drosophila brain.
Pech U, Revelo NH, Seitz KJ, Rizzoli SO, Fiala A.

Cell Rep. 2015 Mar 31;10(12):2083-95. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.02.065. Epub 2015 Mar 26.

March 3rd, 2015
EF-hand protein Ca2+ buffers regulate Ca2+ influx and exocytosis in sensory hair cells.
Pangršič T, Gabrielaitis M, Michanski S, Schwaller B, Wolf F, Strenzke N, Moser T.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Mar 3;112(9):E1028-37. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1416424112. Epub 2015 Feb 17.

February 21st, 2015
Hearing in Drosophila.
Albert JT, Göpfert MC.

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2015 Feb 21;34C:79-85. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2015.02.001.

February 15th, 2015
Unconventional molecular regulation of synaptic vesicle replenishment in cochlear inner hair cells.
Vogl C, Cooper BH, Neef J, Wojcik SM, Reim K, Reisinger E, Brose N, Rhee JS, Moser T, Wichmann C.

J Cell Sci. 2015 Feb 15;128(4):638-44. doi: 10.1242/jcs.162099. Epub 2015 Jan 20.

February 5th, 2015
Long-term depression is differentially expressed in distinct lamina of hippocampal CA1 dendrites.
Ramachandran B, Ahmed S, Dean C.

Front Cell Neurosci. 2015 Feb 5;9:23. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00023.

January 28th, 2015
Optogenetic stimulation of the auditory pathway for research and future prosthetics.
Moser T.

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2015 Jan 28;34C:29-36. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2015.01.004. [Epub ahead of print]

January 22nd, 2015
Relating structure and function of inner hair cell ribbon synapses.
Wichmann C & Moser T.

Cell Tissue Res. 2015 Jul;361(1):95-114.

January 21st, 2015
Asymmetric generalization in adaptation to target displacement errors in humans and in a neural network model.
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J Neurophysiol. 2015 Jan 21:jn.00483.2014. doi: 10.1152/jn.00483.2014. [Epub ahead of print]

January 16th, 2015
Considering optogenetic stimulation for cochlear implants.
Jeschke M & Moser T.

Hear Res. 2015 Apr;322:224-34. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2015.01.005.

January 9th, 2015
Planning Movements in Visual and Physical Space in Monkey Posterior Parietal Cortex.
Kuang S, Morel P, Gail A.

Cereb Cortex. 2015 Jan 9. pii: bhu312. [Epub ahead of print]

December 15th, 2014
Synchronization patterns suggest different functional organization in parietal reach region and dorsal premotor cortex.
Chakrabarti S, Martinez-Vazquez P, Gail A.

J Neurophysiol. 2014 Dec 15;112(12):3138-53. doi: 10.1152/jn.00621.2013. Epub 2014 Sep 17.

December 15th, 2014
Synthetic retinal analogues modify the spectral and kinetic characteristics of microbial rhodopsin optogenetic tools.
AzimiHashemi N, Erbguth K, Vogt A, Riemensperger T, Rauch E, Woodmansee D, Nagpal J, Brauner M, Sheves M, Fiala A, Kattner L, Trauner D, Hegemann P, Gottschalk A, Liewald JF.

Nat Commun. 2014 Dec 15;5:5810. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6810.

November 12th, 2014
Voluntary Physical Exercise Promotes Ocular Dominance Plasticity in Adult Mouse Primary Visual Cortex.
Kalogeraki E, Greifzu F, Haack F, Löwel S.

J Neurosci. 2014 Nov 12;34(46):15476-81. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2678-14.2014.

October 30th, 2014
Application of STED Microscopy to Cell Biology Questions.
Revelo NH, Rizzoli SO.

Methods Mol Biol. 2015;1251:213-30. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2080-8_12.

October 22nd, 2014
The morphological and molecular nature of synaptic vesicle priming at presynaptic active zones.
Imig C, Min SW, Krinner S, Arancillo M, Rosenmund C, Südhof TC, Rhee J, Brose N, Cooper BH.

Neuron. 2014 Oct 22;84(2):416-31. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.10.009.

September 25th, 2014
Ethanol inhibits long-term potentiation in hippocampal CA1 neurons, irrespective of lamina and stimulus strength, through neurosteroidogenesis.
Ramachandran B, Ahmed S, Zafar N, Dean C.

Hippocampus. 2015 Jan;25(1):106-18. doi: 10.1002/hipo.22356.

September 23rd, 2014
Channelrhodopsin-2-XXL, a powerful optogenetic tool for low-light applications.
Dawydow A, Gueta R, Ljaschenko D, Ullrich S, Hermann M, Ehmann N, Gao S, Fiala A, Langenhan T, Nagel G, Kittel RJ.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Sep 23;111(38):13972-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1408269111. Epub 2014 Sep 8

September 16th, 2014
Brief dark exposure restored ocular dominance plasticity in aging mice and after a cortical stroke.
Stodieck SK, Greifzu F, Goetze B, Schmidt KF, Löwel S.

Exp Gerontol. 2014 Sep 16;60C:1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.exger.2014.09.007. [Epub ahead of print]

September 16th, 2014
When adaptive control fails: Slow recovery of reduced rapid online control during reaching under reversed vision
Shenbing Kuang, Alexander Gail

Vision Res. 2014 Sep 16. pii: S0042-6989(14)00208-9. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.08.021.

September 3rd, 2014
Uniquantal Release through a Dynamic Fusion Pore Is a Candidate Mechanism of Hair Cell Exocytosis.
Nikolai M. Chapochnikov, Hideki Takago, Chao-Hua Huang, Tina Pangrisic, Darina Khimich, Jakob Neef, Elisabeth Auge, Fabian Göttfert, Stefan W. Hell, Carolin Wichmann, Fred Wolf and Tobias Moser

Neuron. 2014 Sep 3. pii: S0896-6273(14)00678-3. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.003. [Epub ahead of print]

August 31th, 2014
Photo-cross-linking and high-resolution mass spectrometry for assignment of RNRNA-binding sites in RNRNA-binding proteins
Katharina Kramer, Timo Sachsenberg, Benedikt M Beckmann, Saadia Qamar, Kum-Loong Boon, Matthias W Hentze, Oliver Kohlbacher & Henning Urlaub

Nat Methods. 2014 Aug 31. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3092. [Epub ahead of print]

August 29th, 2014
Spatial task context makes short-latency reaches prone to induced Roelofs illusion.
Bahareh Taghizadeh, Alexander Gail

Front. Hum. Neurosci., 29 August 2014 | doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00673.

August 26th, 2014
Cortico-Cortical Interactions Influence Binocularity of the Primary Visual Cortex of Adult Mice.
Dehmel S, Löwel S.

PLoS One. 2014 Aug 26;9(8):e105745. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105745. eCollection 2014.

August 25th, 2014
Neuronal Osmotransduction: Push-Activating TRPV1 with Microtubules.
Andrés M, Göpfert MC.

Dev Cell. 2014 Aug 25;30(4):363-4. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.08.012.

August 15th, 2014
The disorganized visual cortex in reelin-deficient mice is functional and allows for enhanced plasticity.
Justyna Pielecka-Fortuna, Robin Jan Wagener, Ann-Kristin Martens, Bianka Goetze, Karl-Friedrich Schmidt, Jochen F. Staiger, Siegrid Löwel

Brain Struct Funct. 2014 Aug 15. [Epub ahead of print]

August 10th, 2014
Optogenetic Stimulation of the Auditory Nerve
Victor H. Hernandez, Anna Gehrt, Zhizi Jing, Gerhard Hoch, Marcus Jeschke, Nicola Strenzke, Tobias Moser

JoVE. 10/08/2014, Issue 92; doi: 10.3791/52069

July 25th, 2014
Multi-protein assemblies underlie the mesoscale organization of the plasma membrane.
Saka SK, Honigmann A, Eggeling C, Hell SW, Lang T, Rizzoli SO

Nat Commun. 2014 Jul 25;5:4509. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5509.

May 30th, 2014
Composition of isolated synaptic boutons reveals the amounts of vesicle trafficking proteins.
Wilhelm BG, Mandad S, Truckenbrodt S, Kröhnert K, Schäfer C, Rammner B, Koo SJ, Claßen GA, Krauss M, Haucke V, Urlaub H, Rizzoli SO.

Science. 2014 May 30;344(6187):1023-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1252884.

May 28th, 2014
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Takeshita D, Gollisch T.

J Neurosci. 2014 May 28;34(22):7548-61. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0413-14.2014.

May 26th, 2014
A new probe for super-resolution imaging of membranes elucidates trafficking pathways.
Revelo NH, Kamin D, Truckenbrodt S, Wong AB, Reuter-Jessen K, Reisinger E, Moser T, Rizzoli SO.

J Cell Biol. 2014 May 26;205(4):591-606. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201402066.

May 15th, 2014
Induction of aversive learning through thermogenetic activation of Kenyon cell ensembles in Drosophila.
Vasmer D, Pooryasin A, Riemensperger T, Fiala A

Front. Behav. Neurosci., 15 May 2014 | doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00174.

May 14th, 2014
ATP Hydrolysis Is Critically Required for Function of CaV1.3 Channels in Cochlear Inner Hair Cells via Fueling Ca²⁺ Clearance.
Weiler S, Krinner S, Wong AB, Moser T, Pangršič T

J Neurosci. 2014 May 14;34(20):6843-8. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4990-13.2014.

April 23rd, 2014
Persistence of Functional Sensory Maps in the Absence of Cortical Layers in the Somsatosensory Cortex of Reeler Mice.
Guy J, Wagener RJ, Möck M, Staiger JF

Cereb. Cortex (2014) doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu052

April 18th, 2014
TRPs in Hearing
Zanini D, Göpfert MC.

Handb Exp Pharmacol. 2014;223:899-916. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-05161-1_7.

April 10th, 2014
Correlated optical and isotopic nanoscopy.
Saka SK, Vogts A, Kröhnert K, Hillion F, Rizzoli SO, Wessels JT.

Nat Commun. 2014 Apr 10;5:3664. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4664.

April 1st, 2014
Dynamical models of cortical circuits.
Wolf F, Engelken R, Puelma-Touzel M, Weidinger JD, Neef A.

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2014 Apr;25:228-36. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.01.017.

February 26th, 2014
A gradual depth-dependent change in connectivity features of supragranular pyramidal cells in rat barrel cortex
Staiger JF, Bojak I, Miceli S, Schubert D

Brain Struct Funct. 2014 Feb 26. [Epub ahead of print]

February 19th, 2014
hemingway is required for sperm flagella assembly and ciliary motility in Drosophila.
Soulavie F, Piepenbrock D, Thomas J, Vieillard J, Duteyrat JL, Cortier E, Laurençon A, Göpfert MC, Durand B.

Mol Biol Cell. 2014 Apr;25(8):1276-86. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E13-10-0616. Epub 2014 Feb 19.

February 5th, 2014
FM dye photo-oxidation as a tool for monitoring membrane recycling in inner hair cells.
Kamin D, Revelo NH, Rizzoli SO

PLoS One. 2014 Feb 5;9(2):e88353. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088353. eCollection 2014.

February 4th, 2014
The extracellular matrix protein artichoke is required for integrity of ciliated mechanosensory and chemosensory organs in Drosophila embryos.
Andrés M, Turiégano E, Göpfert MC, Canal I, Torroja L.

Genetics. 2014 Apr;196(4):1091-102. doi: 10.1534/genetics.113.156323. Epub 2014 Feb 4.

January 29th, 2014
Differential Associative Training Enhances Olfactory Acuity in Drosophila melanogaster.
Barth J, Dipt S, Pech U, Hermann M, Riemensperger T, Fiala A.

J Neurosci. 2014 Jan 29;34(5):1819-37. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2598-13.2014.

January 17th, 2014
Developmental refinement of hair cell synapses tightens the coupling of Ca²⁺ influx to exocytosis
Wong AB, Rutherford MA, Gabrielaitis M, Pangršič T, Göttfert F, Frank T, Michanski S, Hell S, Wolf F, Wichmann C, Moser T

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January 17th, 2014
Bassoon-disruption slows vesicle replenishment and induces homeostatic plasticity at a CNS synapse
Mendoza Schulz A, Jing Z, Sánchez Caro JM, Wetzel F, Dresbach T, Strenzke N, Wichmann C, Moser T

The EMBO Journal

January 15th, 2014
Modes and regulation of endocytic membrane retrieval in mouse auditory hair cells
Neef J, Jung S, Wong AB, Reuter K, Pangrsic T, Chakrabarti R, Kügler S, Lenz C, Nouvian R, Boumil RM, Frankel WN, Wichmann C, Moser T.

J Neurosci. 2014 Jan 15;34(3):705-16. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3313-13.2014.

January 6th, 2014
Environmental enrichment extends ocular dominance plasticity into adulthood and protects from stroke-induced impairments of plasticity
Greifzu F, Pielecka-Fortuna J, Kalogeraki E, Krempler K, Favaro PD, Schlüter OM, Löwel S..

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jan 6. [Epub ahead of print]

December 12th, 2013
A global in vivo Drosophila RNAi screen identifies a key role of ceramide phosphoethanolamine for glial ensheathment of axons
Aniket Ghosh, Tina Kling, Nicolas Snaidero, Julio L. Sampaio, Andrej Shevchenko, Heribert Gras, Bart Geurten, Martin C. Göpfert, Jörg B. Schulz, Aaron Voigt, Mikael Simons

CPLoS Genet. 2013;9(12):e1003980. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003980. Epub 2013 Dec 12.

November 14th, 2013
A single dopamine pathway underlies progressive locomotor deficits in a Drosophila model of Parkinson disease
Riemensperger T, Issa AR, Pech U, Coulom H, Nguyễn MV, Cassar M, Jacquet M, Fiala A, Birman S.

Cell Rep. 2013 Nov 27;5(4):952-60. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.10.032. Epub 2013 Nov 14.

September 25th, 2013
Opposite adaptive processing of stimulus intensity in two major nuclei of the somatosensory brainstem.
Mohar B, Katz Y, Lampl I.

J Neurosci. 2013 Sep 25;33(39):15394-400. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1886-13.2013.

September 25th, 2013
Differential Roles of Postsynaptic Density-93 Isoforms in Regulating Synaptic Transmission
Krüger JM, Favaro PD, Liu M, Kitlinska A, Huang X, Raabe M, Akad DS, Liu Y, Urlaub H, Dong Y, Xu W, Schlüter OM

J Neurosci. 2013 Sep 25;33(39):15504-15517

September 23rd, 2013
Mushroom body miscellanea: transgenic Drosophila strains expressing anatomical and physiological sensor proteins in Kenyon cells
Pech U, Dipt S, Barth J, Singh P, Jauch M, Thum AS, Fiala A, Riemensperger T.

Front Neural Circuits. 2013 Sep 23;7:147. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00147

September 4th, 2013
Cortical balance of excitation and inhibition is regulated by the rate of synaptic activity.
Taub AH, Katz Y, Lampl I.

J Neurosci. 2013 Sep 4;33(36):14359-68. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1748-13.2013.

August 19th, 2013
The Bruchpilot cytomatrix determines the size of the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles
Matkovic T, Siebert M, Knoche E, Depner H, Mertel S, Owald D, Schmidt M, Thomas U, Sickmann A, Kamin D, Hell SW, Bürger J, Hollmann C, Mielke T, Wichmann C, Sigrist SJ

J Cell Biol. 2013 Aug 19;202(4):667-83. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201301072

August 14th, 2013
Synaptic State-Dependent Functional Interplay between Postsynaptic Density-95 and Synapse-Associated Protein 102
Bonnet SA, Akad DS, Samaddar T, Liu Y, Huang X, Dong Y, Schlüter OM.

J Neurosci. 2013 Aug 14;33(33):13398-409. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6255-11.2013

July 10th, 2013
Dynamic control of synaptic vesicle replenishment and short-term plasticity by Ca(2+)-calmodulin-Munc13-1 signaling.
Lipstein N, Sakaba T, Cooper BH, Lin KH, Strenzke N, Ashery U, Rhee JS, Taschenberger H, Neher E, Brose N.

Neuron. 2013 Jul 10;79(1):82-96. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.05.011. Epub 2013 Jun 13.

June 26th, 2013
Concurrent maturation of inner hair cell synaptic Ca2+influx and auditory nerve spontaneous activity around hearing onset in mice
Aaron B Wong, Zhizi Jing, Mark A Rutherford, Thomas Frank, Nicola Strenzke and Tobias Moser

J Neurosci. 2013 Jun 26;33(26):10661-6. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1215-13.2013.

June 20th, 2013
Localization of the contacts between Kenyon cells and aminergic neurons in the Drosophila melanogaster brain using splitGFP reconstitution
Pech U, Pooryasin A, Birman S, Fiala A.

J Comp Neurol. 2013 Jun 20. doi: 10.1002/cne.23388. [Epub ahead of print].

May 28th, 2013
Mover is a homomeric phospho-protein present on synaptic vesicles
Ahmed S, Wittenmayer N, Kremer T, Hoeber J, Kiran Akula A, Urlaub H, Islinger M, Kirsch J, Dean C, Dresbach T.

PLoS One. 2013 May 28;8(5):e63474. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063474. Print 2013.

May 8th, 2013
Imbalance between Excitation and Inhibition in the Somatosensory Cortex Produces Postadaptation Facilitation
Katayun Cohen-Kashi Malina, Muna Jubran, Yonatan Katz and Ilan Lampl

J Neurosci. 2013 May 8;33(19):8463-71. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4845-12.2013.

May 6th, 2013
Mechanosensation: tethered ion channels.
Zanini D, Göpfert MC.

Curr Biol. 2013 May 6;23(9):R349-51. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.03.045.

April 29th, 2013
"Self" versus "non-self" connectivity dictates properties of synaptic transmission and plasticity.
Liu H, Chapman ER, Dean C.

PLoS One. 2013 Apr 29;8(4):e62414. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062414.

April 24th, 2013
Molecular profiling of synaptic vesicle docking sites reveals novel proteins but few differences between glutamatergic and GABAergic synapses
Boyken J, Grønborg M, Riedel D, Urlaub H, Jahn R, Chua JJ.

Neuron. 2013 Apr 24;78(2):285-97. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.02.027

April 22nd, 2013
Harmonin enhances voltage-dependent facilitation of Ca_v1.3 channels and synchronous exocytosis in mouse inner hair cells
Gregory FD, Pangrsic T, Calin-Jageman IE, Moser T, Lee A.

J Physiol. 2013 Apr 22. [Epub ahead of print]

April 17th, 2013
Controlling the oscillation phase through precisely timed closed-loop optogenetic stimulation: a computational study
Witt A, Palmigiano A, Neef A, El Hady A, Wolf F, Battaglia D.

Front Neural Circuits. 2013 Apr 17;7:49. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00049. eCollection 2013.

March 30th, 2013
Optopatcher-An electrode holder for simultaneous intracellular patch-clamp recording and optical manipulation
Katz Y, Yizhar O, Staiger J, Lampl I.

Neurosci Methods. 2013 Mar 30;214(1):113-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.01.017. Epub 2013 Jan 28.

March 6th, 2013
Disruption of the presynaptic cytomatrix protein bassoon degrades ribbon anchorage, multi-quantal release, and sound encoding at the hair cell afferent synaps.
Zhizi Jing, Mark A. Rutherford, Hideki Takago, Thomas Frank, Anna Fejtova, Darina Khimich, Tobias Moser, Nicola Strenzke

The Journal of Neuroscience, 6 March 2013, 33(10): 4456-4467; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3491-12.2013

March 6th, 2013
Local and Global Contrast Adaptation in Retinal Ganglion Cells
Garvert MM, Gollisch T

Neuron. 2013 Mar 6;77(5):915-28. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.030.

February 5th, 2013
Ephrin-A5/EphA4 signalling controls specific afferent targeting to cochlear hair cells
Defourny J, Poirrier AL, Lallemend F, Mateo Sánchez S, Neef J, Vanderhaeghen P, Soriano E, Peuckert C, Kullander K, Fritzsch B, Nguyen L, Moonen G, Moser T, Malgrange B.

Nat Commun. 2013;4:1438. doi: 10.1038/ncomms2445.

January 2nd, 2013
Computing Complex Visual Features with Retinal Spike Times
Gütig R*, Gollisch T*, Sompolinsky H, Meister M

PLoS One 2013, 8(1):e53063 (*=equal contribution)

Dec 20th, 2012
Dynamic Flux Tubes Form Reservoirs of Stability in Neuronal Circuits
Michael Monteforte and Fred Wolf

Phys. Rev. X 2, 041007 (2012) [12 pages]

Dec 20th, 2012
Features and Functions of ial Integration by Retinal Ganglion Cells
Gollisch T

Journal of Physiology Paris 2012, Epub ahead of print, doi: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2012.12.001

Dec 19th, 2012
The Iso-Response Method: Measuring Neuronal Stimulus Integration with Closed-Loop Experiments.
Gollisch T, Herz AVM

Front Neural Circuits. 2012;6:104. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00104. Epub 2012 Dec 19.

Nov 8th, 2012
Coordinated optimization of visual cortical maps (II) numerical studies
Reichl L, Heide D, Löwel S, Crowley JC, Kaschube M, Wolf F.

PLoS Comput Biol. 2012;8(11):e1002756. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002756. Epub 2012 Nov 8.

Nov 8th, 2012
Coordinated optimization of visual cortical maps (I) symmetry-based analysis
Reichl L, Heide D, Löwel S, Crowley JC, Kaschube M, Wolf F.

PLoS Comput Biol. 2012;8(11):e1002466. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002466. Epub 2012 Nov 8.

Nov 8th, 2012
Sensorimotor learning biases choice behavior: a learning neural field model for decision making
Klaes C, Schneegans S, Schöner G, Gail A.

PLoS Comput Biol. 2012 Nov;8(11):e1002774. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002774

Oct, 2012
Transcranial alternating stimulation in a high gamma frequency range applied over V1 improves contrast perception but does not modulate spatial attention
Laczó B, Antal A, Niebergall R, Treue S, Paulus W.

Brain Stimul. 2012 Oct;5(4):484-91. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2011.08.008. Epub 2011 Sep 15.

Sep 9th, 2012
Improving behavioral performance under full attention by adjusting response criteria to changes in stimulus predictability
Katzner S, Treue S, Busse L.

Journal of Vision 2012 Sep 4;12(10). pii: 1. doi: 10.1167/12.10.1. Print 2012.

Sep 6th, 2012
Otoferlin: a multi-C₂ domain protein essential for hearing
Tina Pangršič, Ellen Reisinger, Tobias Moser

Sound is encoded at synapses between cochlear inner hair cells and the auditory nerve. These synapses are anatomically and functionally specialized to transmit acoustic information with high fidelity over a lifetime. The molecular mechanisms of hair-cell transmitter release have recently attracted substantial interest. Here we review progress toward understanding otoferlin, a multi-C₂ domain protein identified a decade ago by genetic analysis of human deafness. Otoferlin functions in hair-cell exocytosis. Several otoferlin C₂ domains bind to Ca²⁺, phospholipids, and proteins. Current research reveals requirements for otoferlin in priming and fusion of synaptic vesicles during sound encoding. Understanding the molecular mechanisms through which otoferlin functions also has important implications for understanding the disease mechanisms that lead to deafness.
Trends Neurosci. 2012 Nov;35(11):671-80. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2012.08.002. Epub 2012 Sep 7.

Aug 31st, 2012
Drosophila Auditory Organ Genes and Genetic Hearing Defects
Pingkalai R. Senthilan, David Piepenbrock, Guvanch Ovezmyradov, Björn Nadrowski, Susanne Bechstedt, Stephanie Pauls, Margret Winkler, Wiebke Möbius, Jonathon Howard, Martin C. Göpfert

The Drosophila auditory organ shares equivalent transduction mechanisms with vertebrate hair cells, and both are specified by atonal family genes. Using a whole-organ knockout strategy based on atonal, we have identified 274 Drosophila auditory organ genes. Only four of these genes had previously been associated with fly hearing, yet one in five of the genes that we identified has a human cognate that is implicated in hearing disorders. Mutant analysis of 42 genes shows that more than half of them contribute to auditory organ function, with phenotypes including hearing loss, auditory hypersusceptibility, and ringing ears. We not only discover ion channels and motors important for hearing, but also show that auditory stimulus processing involves chemoreceptor proteins as well as phototransducer components. Our findings demonstrate mechanosensory roles for ionotropic receptors and visual rhodopsins and indicate that different sensory modalities utilize common signaling cascades.
Cell. 2012 Aug 31;150(5):1042-54.

Aug 29th, 2012
Deletion of the presynaptic scaffold CAST reduces active zone size in rod photoreceptors and impairs visually evoked potentials
tom Dieck S, Specht D, Strenzke N, Hida Y, Krishnamoorthy V, Schmidt KF, Inoue E, Ishizaki H, Tanaka-Okamoto M, Miyoshi J, Hagiwara A, Brandstätter JH, Löwel S, Gollisch T, Ohtsuka T, Moser T.

J Neurosci. 2012 Aug 29;32(35):12192-12203.

Aug, 2012
Optical calcium imaging in the nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster
Riemensperger T, Pech U, Dipt S, Fiala A.

Drosophila melanogaster is one of the best-studied model organisms in biology, mainly because of the versatility of methods by which heredity and specific expression of genes can be traced and manipulated. Sophisticated genetic tools have been developed to express transgenes in selected cell types, and these techniques can be utilized to target DNA-encoded fluorescence probes to genetically defined subsets of neurons. Neuroscientists make use of this approach to monitor the activity of restricted types or subsets of neurons in the brain and the peripheral nervous system. Since membrane depolarization is typically accompanied by an increase in intracellular calcium ions, calcium-sensitive fluorescence proteins provide favorable tools to monitor the spatio-temporal activity across groups of neurons.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2012 Aug;1820(8):1169-78. Epub 2012 Feb 28.

July 29th, 2012
Direct gating and mechanical integrity of Drosophila auditory transducers require TRPN1.
Thomas Effertz, Björn Nadrowski, David Piepenbrock, Jörg T. Albert & Martin C. Göpfert

The elusive transduction channels for hearing are directly gated mechanically by the pull of gating springs. We found that the transient receptor potential (TRP) channel TRPN1 (NOMPC) is essential for this direct gating of Drosophila auditory transduction channels and that the channel-spring complex was disrupted if TRPN1 was lost. Our results identify TRPN1 as a mechanical constituent of the fly's auditory transduction complex that may act as the channel and/or gating spring. [more]
Nature Neuroscience 2012, doi:10.1038/nn.3175

July 15th, 2012
Spike-triggered covariance: geometric proof, symmetry properties, and extension beyond Gaussian stimuli.
Samengo I, Gollisch T.

J Comput Neurosci. 2012 Jul 15. [Epub ahead of print]

June 21st, 2012
Analysis of neurotransmitter release mechanisms by photolysis of caged Ca²⁺ in an autaptic neuron culture system
Burgalossi A, Jung S, Man KN, Nair R, Jockusch WJ, Wojcik SM, Brose N, Rhee JS

Nat Protoc. 2012 Jun 21;7(7):1351-65. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2012.074

July 11th, 2012
The Mechanosensory Structure of the Hair Cell Requires Clarin-1, a Protein Encoded by Usher Syndrome III Causative Gene
Geng R, Melki S, Chen DH, Tian G, Furness DN, Oshima-Takago T, Neef J, Moser T, Askew C, Horwitz G, Holt JR, Imanishi Y, Alagramam KN.

J Neurosci. 2012 Jul 11;32(28):9485-9498.

June 6th, 2012
Molecular anatomy and physiology of exocytosis in sensory hair cells
Mark A. Rutherford, Tina Pangrsic

Cell Calcium., Jun 6, 2012, DOI:10.1016/j.ceca.2012.05.008

Apr 4th, 2012
Spike Encoding of Neurotransmitter Release Timing by Spiral Ganglion Neurons of the Cochlea
Rutherford M.A., Chapochnikov N.M. and Moser T

The Journal of Neuroscience, 2012 April 4, 32(14):4773-4789, DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4511-11.2012

April 1st, 2012
Neural Circuit Development in the Mammalian Cochlea
Bulankina A. V. and Moser T

The organ of Corti, the sensory epithelium of the mammalian auditory system, uses afferent and efferent synapses for encoding auditory signals and top-down modulation of cochlear function. During development, the final precisely ordered sensorineural circuit is established following excessive formation of afferent and efferent synapses and subsequent refinement. Here, we review the development of innervation of the mouse organ of Corti and its regulation . [more]
Physiology. 2012 Apr;27(2):100-12.

March 30th, 2012
Expert-like performance of an autonomous spike tracking algorithm in isolating and maintaining single units in the macaque cortex.
Chakrabarti S, Hebert P, Wolf MT, Campos M, Burdick JW, Gail A.

Jan. 26th, 2012
Closed-Loop Measurements of Iso-Response Stimuli Reveal Dynamic Nonlinear Stimulus Integration in the Retina.
Daniel Bölinger, Tim Gollisch

Neurons often integrate information from multiple parallel signaling streams. How a neuron combines these inputs largely determines its computational role in signal processing. Experimental assessment of neuronal signal integration, however, is often confounded by cell-intrinsic nonlinear processes that arise after signal integration has taken place. To overcome this problem and determine how ganglion cells in the salamander retina integrate visual contrast over space, we used automated online analysis of recorded spike trains and closed-loop control of the visual stimuli to identify different stimulus patterns that give the same neuronal response. These iso-response stimuli revealed a threshold-quadratic transformation as a fundamental nonlinearity within the receptive field center. Moreover, for a subset of ganglion cells, the method revealed an additional dynamic nonlinearity that renders these cells particularly sensitive to spatially homogeneous stimuli. This function is shown to arise from a local inhibition-mediated dynamic gain control mechanism. [more]
Neuron. 2012 Jan 26;73(2):333-46.

Dec 22th, 2011
Multifocal attention filters out distracter stimuli within and beyond receptive field boundaries of primate MT neurons.
Niebergall R, Khayat PS, Treue S, Martinez-Trujillo JC.

Neuron. 2011 Dec 22;72(6):1067-79.

Oct 26th, 2011
Expansion of MT neurons excitatory receptive fields during covert attentive tracking.
Niebergall R, Khayat PS, Treue S, Martinez-Trujillo JC.

J Neurosci. 2011 Oct 26;31(43):15499-510.

Oct. 20th, 2011
Representation of Dynamical Stimuli in Populations of Threshold Neurons.
Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Fred Wolf

PLoS Comput Biol. 2011 Oct;7(10):e1002239. Epub 2011 Oct 20.

Aug. 7th, 2011
Harmonin inhibits presynaptic Ca_v1.3 Ca²⁺ channels in mouse inner hair cells.
Gregory FD, Bryan KE, Pangršič T, Calin-Jageman IE, Moser T, Lee A.

Harmonin is a scaffolding protein that is required for normal mechanosensory function in hair cells. We found a presynaptic association of harmonin and Ca_v1.3 Ca²⁺ channels at the mouse inner hair cell synapse, which limits channel availability through a ubiquitin-dependent pathway. [more]
Nat Neurosci. 2011 Aug 7;14(9):1109-11. doi: 10.1038/nn.2895.

May 12th, 2011
Choosing Goals, Not Rules: Deciding among Rule-Based Action Plans.
Klaes C, Westendorff S, Chakrabarti S, Gail A.

In natural situations, movements are often directed toward locations different from that of the evoking sensory stimulus. Movement goals must then be inferred from the sensory cue based on rules. When there is uncertainty about the rule that applies for a given cue, planning a movement involves both choosing the relevant rule and computing the movement goal based on that rule. Under these conditions, it is not clear whether primates compute multiple movement goals based on all possible rules before choosing an action, or whether they first choose a rule and then only represent the movement goal associated with that rule. Supporting the former hypothesis, we show that neurons in the frontoparietal reach areas of monkeys simultaneously represent two different rule-based movement goals, which are biased by the monkeys' choice preferences. Apparently, primates choose between multiple behavioral options by weighing against each other the movement goals associated with each option. [more]
Neuron. 2011 May 12;70(3):536-48.

May 11th, 2011
Spike correlations - what can they tell about synchrony?
Tchumatchenko T, Geisel T, Volgushev M, Wolf F

Front Neurosci. 2011 May 11;5:68. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00068. eCollection 2011

Apr. 12th, 2011
NompC TRP channel is essential for Drosophila sound receptor function.
Effertz T, Wiek R, Göpfert MC.

The idea that the NompC TRPN1 channel is the Drosophila transducer for hearing has been challenged by remnant sound-evoked nerve potentials in nompC nulls. We now report that NompC is essential for the function of Drosophila sound receptors and that the remnant nerve potentials of nompC mutants are contributed by gravity/wind receptor cells. Ablating the sound receptors reduces the amplitude and sensitivity of sound-evoked nerve responses, and the same effects ensued from mutations in nompC. Ablating the sound receptors also suffices to abolish mechanical amplification, which arises from active receptor motility, is linked to transduction, and also requires NompC. Calcium imaging shows that the remnant nerve potentials in nompC mutants are associated with the activity of gravity/wind receptors and that the sound receptors of the mutants fail to respond to sound. Hence, Drosophila sound receptors require NompC for mechanical signal detection and amplification, demonstrating the importance of this transient receptor potential channel for hearing and reviving the idea that the fly's auditory transducer might be NompC. [more]
Curr Biol. 2011 Apr 12;21(7):592-7. Epub 2011 Mar 31. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.02.048