Journal Club

The Marder Lab Journal Club was canceled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and has yet to be re-started. A list of previously papers presented are below.

2020

Zhu, N., Zhang, D., Wang, W., Li, X., Yang, B., Song, J., ... & Niu, P. (2020). A novel coronavirus from patients with pneumonia in China, 2019. New England Journal of Medicine. [New England Journal of Medicine]

• • • Presented by Jason Pipkin

Städele, C., Heigele, S., & Stein, W. (2015). Neuromodulation to the rescue: compensation of temperature-induced breakdown of rhythmic motor patterns via extrinsic neuromodulatory input. PLoS biology, 13(9). [PLoS Biology]

• • • Presented by Daniel Powell

Thirumalai, V., Prinz, A. A., Johnson, C. D., & Marder, E. (2006). Red pigment concentrating hormone strongly enhances the strength of the feedback to the pyloric rhythm oscillator but has little effect on pyloric rhythm period. Journal of Neurophysiology, 95(3), 1762-1770. [Journal of Neurophysiology] [PDF] 

• Presented by Hillary Rodgers

Styr, B., Gonen, N., Zarhin, D., Ruggiero, A., Atsmon, R., Gazit, N., ... & Harel, M. (2019). Mitochondrial regulation of the hippocampal firing rate set point and seizure susceptibility. Neuron. [Neuron]

• • • Presented by Mara Rue

2019

Holler-Rickauer, S., Koestinger, G., Martin, K. A., Schuhknecht, G. F., & Stratford, K. J. (2019). Structure and function of a neocortical synapse. bioRxiv. [Nature]

• • • Presented by Jason Pipkin

Jury, S. H., & Watson 3rd, W. H. (2000). Thermosensitivity of the lobster, Homarus americanus, as determined by cardiac assay. The Biological Bulletin, 199(3), 257-264. [The University of Chicago Press Journals]

• • • Presented by Dave Hampton

Andersen, M. K., Jensen, N. J. S., Robertson, R. M., & Overgaard, J. (2018). Central nervous system shutdown underlies acute cold tolerance in tropical and temperate Drosophila species. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(12), jeb179598. [Journal of Experimental Biology]

• • • Presented by Mara Rue

Raper, J. A. (1979). Nonimpulse-mediated synaptic transmission during the generation of a cyclic motor program. Science, 205(4403), 304-306. [Science]

• • • Presented by Hillary Rodgers

Kulik, Y., Jones, R., Moughamian, A. J., Whippen, J., & Davis, G. W. (2019). Dual separable feedback systems govern firing rate homeostasis. eLife, 8, e45717. [eLife]

• • • Presented by Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya

Daur, N., Bryan, A. S., Garcia, V. J., & Bucher, D. (2012). Short-term synaptic plasticity compensates for variability in number of motor neurons at a neuromuscular junction. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(45), 16007-16017. [Journal of Neuroscience]

• • • Presented by Mara Rue

Santin, J. M., & Schulz, D. J. (2019). Membrane Voltage Is a Direct Feedback Signal That Influences Correlated Ion Channel Expression in Neurons. Current Biology. [Current Biology]

• • • Presented by Ekaterina Morozova

Bucher, D., Johnson, C. D., & Marder, E. (2007). Neuronal morphology and neuropil structure in the stomatogastric ganglion of the lobster, Homarus americanus. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 501(2), 185-205. [The Journal of Comparative Neurology] [PDF] 

• • • Presented by Jason Pipkin

Thirumalai, V., Prinz, A. A., Johnson, C. D., & Marder, E. (2006). Red pigment concentrating hormone strongly enhances the strength of the feedback to the pyloric rhythm oscillator but has little effect on pyloric rhythm period. Journal of Neurophysiology, 95(3), 1762-1770. [Journal of Neurophysiology] [PDF]

• • • Presented by Sonal Kedia

Golowasch, J., & Deitmer, J. W. (1993). pH regulation in the stomatogastric ganglion of the crab, Cancer pagurus. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 172(5), 573-581. [Journal of Comparative Physiology A]

• • • Presented by Dave Hampton

Jacob, P. F., & Hedwig, B. (2019). Structure, Activity, and Function of a Singing CPG Interneuron Controlling Cricket Species-Specific Acoustic Signaling. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(1), 96-111. [Journal of Neuroscience]

• • • Presented by Mara Rue

Sengupta, B., Faisal, A. A., Laughlin, S. B., & Niven, J. E. (2013). The effect of cell size and channel density on neuronal information encoding and energy efficiency. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 33(9), 1465-1473. [Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism]

• • • Presented by Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya

Tran, T., Unal, C. T., Severin, D., Zaborszky, L., Rotstein, H. G., Kirkwood, A., & Golowasch, J. (2019). Ionic current correlations are ubiquitous across phyla. Scientific reports, 9(1), 1687. [Nature]

• • • Presented by Ekaterina Morozova

Hawkins, W. E., & Howse, H. D. (1978). A light and electron microscopic study of the cardiac ganglion of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 363-380. [JSTOR]

• • • Presented by Jason Pipkin

Lane, B. J., Kick, D. R., Wilson, D. K., Nair, S. S., & Schulz, D. J. (2018). Dopamine maintains network synchrony via direct modulation of gap junctions in the crustacean cardiac ganglion. eLife, 7, e39368. [eLife]

• • • Presented by Mara Rue

Wang, X. J., & Rinzel, J. (1992). Alternating and synchronous rhythms in reciprocally inhibitory model neurons. Neural Computation, 4(1), 84-97. [PDF]

• • • Presented by Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya

Parker, A. R., Forster, L. A., & Baro, D. J. (2018). Modulator-gated, SUMOylation-mediated, activity-dependent regulation of ionic current densities contributes to short-term activity homeostasis. Journal of Neuroscience, 1379-18. [Journal of Neuroscience]

• • • Presented by Hillary Rodgers

2018

Follmann, R., Goldsmith, C. J., & Stein, W. (2018). Multimodal sensory information is represented by a combinatorial code in a sensorimotor system. PLoS Biology, 16(10), e2004527. [PloS Biology]

• • • Presented by Philipp Rosenbaum

Zhao, S., Golowasch, J. P., & Nadim, F. (2010). Pacemaker neuron and network oscillations depend on a neuromodulator-regulated linear current. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 21. [Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience]

• • • Presented by Dave Hampton

Cymbalyuk, G. S., Gaudry, Q., Masino, M. A., & Calabrese, R. L. (2002). Bursting in leech heart interneurons: cell-autonomous and network-based mechanisms. Journal of Neuroscience, 22(24), 10580-10592. [Journal of Neuroscience]

• • • Presented by Leandro Alonso

Li, X., Bucher, D., & Nadim, F. (2018). Distinct co-modulation rules of synapses and voltage-gated currents coordinate interactions of multiple neuromodulators. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(40), 8549-8562. [Journal of Neuroscience]

• Presented by Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya

Kirby, M. S., & Nusbaum, M. P. (2007). Peptide hormone modulation of a neuronally modulated motor circuit. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(6), 3206-3220. [Journal of Neurophysiology]

DeLong, N. D., Kirby, M. S., Blitz, D. M., & Nusbaum, M. P. (2009). Parallel regulation of a modulator-activated current via distinct dynamics underlies comodulation of motor circuit output. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(39), 12355-12367. [Journal of Neuroscience]

• • • Both were presented by Daniel Powell

Grashow, R., Brookings, T., & Marder, E. (2009). Reliable neuromodulation from circuits with variable underlying structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(28), 11742-11746. [PNAS] [PDF] 

• • • Presented by Ekaterina Morozova

Fröhlich, F., Sejnowski, T. J., & Bazhenov, M. (2010). Network bistability mediates spontaneous transitions between normal and pathological brain states. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(32), 10734-10743. [Journal of Neuroscience]

• • • Presented by Leandro Alonso

Zhang, Y., & Golowasch, J. (2011). Recovery of rhythmic activity in a central pattern generator: analysis of the role of neuromodulator and activity-dependent mechanisms. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 31(3), 685-699. [Journal of Computational Neuroscience]

• • • Presented by Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya

Bédécarrats, A., Chen, S., Pearce, K., Cai, D., & Glanzman, D. L. (2018). RNA from Trained Aplysia Can Induce an Epigenetic Engram for Long-Term Sensitization in Untrained Aplysia. eNeuro, 5(3), eNeuro-0038. [eNeuro]

• Presented by Mara Rue

Kadiri, L. R., Kwan, A. C., Webb, W. W., & Harris-Warrick, R. M. (2011). Dopamine-induced oscillations of the pyloric pacemaker neuron rely on release of calcium from intracellular stores. Journal of Neurophysiology, 106(3), 1288-1298. [Journal of Neurophysiology]

• • • Presented by Sonal Kedia

O’Leary, T., van Rossum, M. C., & Wyllie, D. J. (2010). Homeostasis of intrinsic excitability in hippocampal neurones: dynamics and mechanism of the response to chronic depolarization. The Journal of Physiology, 588(1), 157-170. [The Journal of Physiology]

• • • Presented by Ekaterina Morozova

Hayashi, H., & Ishizuka, S. (1992). Chaotic nature of bursting discharges in the Onchidium pacemaker neuron. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 156(3), 269-291. [Journal of Theoretical Biology]

• • • Presented by Leandro Alonso

Rodgers, C. I., Armstrong, G. A., Shoemaker, K. L., LaBrie, J. D., Moyes, C. D., & Robertson, R. M. (2007). Stress preconditioning of spreading depression in the locust CNS. PLoS One, 2(12), e1366. [PloS One]

• Presented by Mara Rue

Guarina, L., Vandael, D. H., Carabelli, V., & Carbone, E. (2017). Low pHo boosts burst firing and catecholamine release by blocking TASK‐1 and BK channels while preserving Cav1 channels in mouse chromaffin cells. The Journal of physiology, 595(8), 2587-2609. [The Journal of Physiology]

• Presented by Dave Hampton

Jonas, E., & Kording, K. P. (2017). Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?. PLoS computational biology, 13(1), e1005268. [PLoS Computational Biology]

• • • Presented by Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya

Inoue, H., Mori, S. I., Morishima, S., & Okada, Y. (2005). Volume‐sensitive chloride channels in mouse cortical neurons: characterization and role in volume regulation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 21(6), 1648-1658. [European Journal of Neuroscience]

• Presented by Hillary Rodgers

Li, X., Bucher, D. M., & Nadim, F. (2018). Co-modulation of synapses and voltage-gated ionic currents by combined actions of multiple neuromodulators follow distinct rules. bioRxiv, 265694. [Journal of Neuroscience]

• Presented by Ekaterina Morozova

Hahnloser, R. H., Kozhevnikov, A. A., & Fee, M. S. (2002). An ultra-sparse code underlies the generation of neural sequences in a songbird. Nature, 419(6902), 65. [Nature]

Long, M. A., & Fee, M. S. (2008). Using temperature to analyse temporal dynamics in the songbird motor pathway. Nature, 456(7219), 189. [Nature]

Long, M. A., Jin, D. Z., & Fee, M. S. (2010). Support for a synaptic chain model of neuronal sequence generation. Nature, 468(7322), 394. [Nature]

• All 3 were presented by Leandro Alonso

Madeira, D., Narciso, L., Diniz, M. S., & Vinagre, C. (2014). Synergy of environmental variables alters the thermal window and heat shock response: An experimental test with the crab Pachygrapsus marmoratus. Marine environmental research, 98, 21-28. [Marine Environmental Research]

• Presented by Hillary Rodgers

Robertson, R. M. (2004). Thermal stress and neural function: adaptive mechanisms in insect model systems. Journal of Thermal Biology, 29(7-8), 351-358. [Journal of Thermal Biology]

• Presented by Mara Rue

Szücs, A., Huerta, R., Rabinovich, M. I., & Selverston, A. I. (2009). Robust microcircuit synchronization by inhibitory connections. Neuron, 61(3), 439-453. [Neuron]

• Presented by Ekaterina Morozova

Golowasch, J., Abbott, L. F., & Marder, E. (1999). Activity-dependent regulation of potassium currents in an identified neuron of the stomatogastric ganglion of the crab, Cancer borealis. Journal of Neuroscience, 19(20), RC33-RC33. [Journal of Neuroscience] [PDF] 

• Presented by Dave Hampton

Manor, Y., Nadim, F., Abbott, L. F., & Marder, E. (1997). Temporal dynamics of graded synaptic transmission in the lobster stomatogastric ganglion. Journal of Neuroscience, 17(14), 5610-5621. [Journal of Neuroscience] [PDF] 

• Presented by Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya

Szűcs, A., Elson, R. C., Rabinovich, M. I., Abarbanel, H. D., & Selverston, A. I. (2001). Nonlinear behavior of sinusoidally forced pyloric pacemaker neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology, 85(4), 1623-1638. [Journal of Neurophysiology]

• Presented by Leandro Alonso

King, D. G. (1976). Organization of crustacean neuropil. I. Patterns of synaptic connections in the lobster stomatogastric ganglion. Journal of Neurocytology, 5(2), 207-237. [Journal of Neurocytology]

King, D. G. (1976). Organization of crustacean neuropil. II. Distribution of synaptic contacts on identified motor neurons in the lobster stomatogastric ganglion. Journal of Neurocytology, 5(2), 239-266. [Journal of Neurocytology]

Kilman, V. L., & Marder, E. (1996). Ultrastructure of the stomatogastric ganglion neuropil of the crab, Cancer borealis. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 374(3), 362-375. [Journal of Comparative Neurology] [PDF] 

• All 3 were presented by Jason Pipkin

Krenz, W. D., Parker, A. R., Rodgers, E., & Baro, D. J. (2015). Monoaminergic tone supports conductance correlations and stabilizes activity features in pattern-generating neurons of the lobster, Panulirus interruptus. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 9, 63. [Frontiers in Neural Circuits]

• Presented by Mara Rue

Bacak, B. J., Segaran, J., & Molkov, Y. I. (2016). Modeling the effects of extracellular potassium on bursting properties in pre-Bötzinger complex neurons. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 40(2), 231-245. [Journal of Computational Neuroscience]

• Presented by Ekaterina Morozova

Harris-Warrick, R. M., Coniglio, L. M., Levini, R. M., Gueron, S., & Guckenheimer, J. (1995). Dopamine modulation of two subthreshold currents produces phase shifts in the activity of an identified motoneuron. Journal of Neurophysiology, 74(4), 1404-1420. [Journal of Neurophysiology]

• Presented by Dave Hampton

2017

Stein, W., DeLong, N. D., Wood, D. E., & Nusbaum, M. P. (2007). Divergent co‐transmitter actions underlie motor pattern activation by a modulatory projection neuron. European Journal of Neuroscience, 26(5), 1148-1165. [European Journal of Neuroscience]

• Presented by Daniel Powell

Ruoff, P., Zakhartsev, M., & Westerhoff, H. V. (2007). Temperature compensation through systems biology. The FEBS Journal, 274(4), 940-950. [The FEBS Journal]

• Presented by Hillary Rodgers

Kueh, D., Barnett, W. H., Cymbalyuk, G. S., & Calabrese, R. L. (2016). Na+/K+ pump interacts with the h-current to control bursting activity in central pattern generator neurons of leeches. eLife, 5, e19322. [eLife]

• Presented by Ekaterina Morozova

Franci, A., Drion, G., & Sepulchre, R. (2017). Robust and tunable bursting requires slow positive feedback. arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00664. [Journal of Neurophysiology]

• Presented by Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya

Tien, N. W., Soto, F., & Kerschensteiner, D. (2017). Homeostatic Plasticity Shapes Cell-Type-Specific Wiring in the Retina. Neuron, 94(3), 656-665. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.04.016. [Neuron]

• Presented by Jason Pipkin

Golowasch, J., Bose, A., Guan, Y., Salloum, D., Roeser, A., & Nadim, F. (2017). A balance of outward and linear inward ionic currents is required for the generation of slow wave oscillations. Journal of Neurophysiology, jn-00240. doi:10.1152/jn.00240.2017. [Journal of Neurophysiology]

• Presented by Dave Hampton

Coultrap, S. J., Freund, R. K., O’Leary, H., Sanderson, J. L., Roche, K. W., Dell’Acqua, M. L., & Bayer, K. U. (2014). Autonomous CaMKII mediates both LTP and LTD using a mechanism for differential substrate site selection. Cell Reports, 6(3), 431-437. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2014.01.005. [Cell Reports]

• Presented by Daniel Powell

Eberhard, M. J., Schleimer, J. H., Schreiber, S., & Ronacher, B. (2015). A temperature rise reduces trial-to-trial variability of locust auditory neuron responses. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114(3), 1424-1437. doi:10.1152/jn.00980.2014. [Journal of Neurophysiology]

• Presented by Hillary Rodgers

Sakurai, A., Tamvacakis, A. N., & Katz, P. S. (2014). Hidden synaptic differences in a neural circuit underlie differential behavioral susceptibility to a neural injury. eLife, 3. doi:10.7554/eLife.02598. [eLife]

• Presented by Mara Rue

Takemura, S. Y., Aso, Y., Hige, T., Wong, A., Lu, Z., Xu, C. S., ... & Berg, S. (2017). A connectome of a learning and memory center in the adult Drosophila brain. eLife, 6. doi:10.7554/eLife.26975. [eLife]

• Presented by Jason Pipkin

Ma, H., Marti-Gutierrez, N., Park, S. W., Wu, J., Lee, Y., Suzuki, K., ... & Darby, H. (2017). Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos. Nature, 548(7668), 413-419. doi:10.1038/nature23305. [Nature]

• Presented by Eric James

Blitz, D. M., Pritchard, A. E., Latimer, J. K., & Wakefield, A. T. (2017). Muscles innervated by a single motor neuron exhibit divergent synaptic properties on multiple time scales. Journal of Experimental Biology, 220(7), 1233-1244. doi:10.1242/jeb.148908. [Journal of Experimental Biology]

• Presented by Philipp Rosenbaum

Vervaeke, K., Lőrincz, A., Gleeson, P., Farinella, M., Nusser, Z., & Silver, R. A. (2010). Rapid desynchronization of an electrically coupled interneuron network with sparse excitatory synaptic input. Neuron, 67(3), 435-451. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2010.06.028. [Neuron]

• Presented by Hillary Rodgers

O’Leary, T., van Rossum, M. C., & Wyllie, D. J. (2010). Homeostasis of intrinsic excitability in hippocampal neurones: dynamics and mechanism of the response to chronic depolarization. The Journal of Physiology, 588(1), 157-170. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2009.181024. [The Journal of Physiology]

• Presented by Lily He

Knafo, S., Fidelin, K., Prendergast, A., Tseng, P. E. B., Parrin, A., Dickey, C., ... & Wyart, C. (2017). Mechanosensory neurons control the timing of spinal microcircuit selection during locomotion. eLife, 6. doi: 10.7554/eLife.25260. [eLife]

• Presented by Alec Hoyland

Sakurai, A., & Katz, P. S. (2017). Artificial Synaptic Rewiring Demonstrates that Distinct Neural Circuit Configurations Underlie Homologous Behaviors. Current Biology. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.016. [Current Biology]

• Presented by Jason Pipkin

Kim, T. W., Taylor, J., Lovera, C., & Barry, J. P. (2015). CO2-driven decrease in pH disrupts olfactory behaviour and increases individual variation in deep-sea hermit crabs. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73(3), 613-619. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsv019. [ICES Journal of Marine Science]
Kwong, R. W., Kumai, Y., & Perry, S. F. (2014). The physiology of fish at low pH: the zebrafish as a model system. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217(5), 651-662. doi:10.1242/jeb.09160. [Journal of Experimental Biology]

• Presented by Jess Haley

Dakos, V., van Nes, E. H., & Scheffer, M. (2013). Flickering as an early warning signal. Theoretical Ecology, 6(3), 309-317. doi:10.1007/s12080-013-0186-4. [Theoretical Ecology]

• Presented by Jacob Ratliff

2016

Doloc-Mihu, A., & Calabrese, R. L. (2016). Analysis of family structures reveals the robustness or sensitivity of bursting activity to parameter variations in a half-center oscillator (HCO) model. eNeuro, 3(4), ENEURO-0015. doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0015-16.20. [eNeuro]

• Presented by Sara Haddad

MacLean, J. N., Zhang, Y., Goeritz, M. L., Casey, R., Oliva, R., Guckenheimer, J., & Harris-Warrick, R. M. (2005). Activity-independent coregulation of IA and Ih in rhythmically active neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94(5), 3601-3617. doi:10.1152/jn.00281.2005. [Journal of Neurophysiology]

• Presented by Dave Hampton

Schulz, D. J., Goaillard, J. M., & Marder, E. (2006). Variable channel expression in identified single and electrically coupled neurons in different animals. Nature Neuroscience, 9(3), 356. doi:10.1038/nn1639. [Nature Neuroscience] [PDF] 

• Presented by Eric James