Papers

SLAB is a new laboratory, established in the summer of 2011. The following papers are previous publications of the P.I.

Marra V, Burden JJ, Thorpe JR, Smith IT, Smith SL, Branco T, Staras K (2012) A preferentially segregated recycling vesicle pool of limited size supports neurotransmission in native central synapses. Neuron 76(3):579-589. (pdf)

Smith SL, Smith IT (2011) Life imitates op art. Nature Neuroscience 14(7):803-804. (pdf)

Smith SL, Hausser M (2010) Parallel processing of visual space by neighboring neurons in mouse visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience 13:1144-1149. (pdf) (supplement) (News and Views by Sirotin and Das)

Smith SL, Trachtenberg JT (2010) The refinement of ipsilateral eye retinotopic maps is increased by removing the dominant contralateral eye in adult mice. PLoS One 5(3):e9925. (pdf)

Faguet J, Maranhao B, Smith SL, Trachtenberg JT (2009) Ipsilateral eye cortical maps are uniquely sensitive to binocular plasticity. Journal of Neurophysiology 101:855-861. (pdf)

Hausser M, Smith SL (2007) Controlling neural circuits with light. Nature 446:617-619. (pdf)

Smith SL, Trachtenberg JT (2007) Experience-dependent binocular competition in the visual cortex begins at eye opening. Nature Neuroscience 10:370-375. (pdf) (Profiled in Biophotonics International 14(5):53-56.)

Smith SL, Otis TS (2005) Pattern-dependent, simultaneous plasticity differentially transforms the input-output relationship of a feedforward inhibitory circuit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(41):14901-14906. (pdf) (supplement)

Smith SL, Judy JW, Otis TS (2004) An ultra small array of electrodes for stimulating multiple inputs into a single neuron. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 133(1-2):109-114. (pdf) (Commercialized by Cytonetics, Inc.)

Hausser M, Raman IM, Otis T, Smith SL, Nelson A, du Lac S, Loewenstein Y, Mahon S, Pennartz C, Cohen I, Yarom Y (2004) The beat goes on: spontaneous firing in mammalian neuronal microcircuits. Journal of Neuroscience 24(42):9215-9219. (pdf)

Smith SL, Otis TS (2003) Persistent changes in spontaneous firing of Purkinje neurons triggered by the nitric oxide signaling cascade. Journal of Neuroscience 23(2):367-372. (pdf)