Readings

WEEK # READING ASSIGNMENTS
1 Introduction
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Presentation by Course Writing Instructor (PDF) (Courtesy of Marilee Ogren. Used with permission.)

Julius, David, Amy B. MacDermott, Richard Axel, and Thomas M. Jessel. "Molecular Characterization of a Funcational cDNA Encoding the Serotonin 1c Receptor." Science 241 (1998): 558-564.
3 Buck, Linda, and Richard Axel. "A Novel Multigene Family May Encode Odorant Receptors: A Molecular Basis for Odor Recognition." Cell 65 (1991): 175-187.
4 Question and Answer Session
5 Shen, Karen, and Tobias Meyer. "Dynamic Control of CaMKII Translocation and Localization in Hippocampal Neurons by NMDA Receptor Stimulation." Science 284 (1999): 162-166.
6 Scheiffele, Peter, Jinhong Fan, Jenny Choih, Richard Fetter, and Tito Serafini. "Neuroligin Expressed in Nonneuronal Cells Tiggers Presynaptic Development in Contacting Axons." Cell 101 (2000): 657-669.
7 Hua, Jackie Yuanyuan, Matthew C. Smear, Herwig Baler, and Stephen J. Smith. "Regulation of Axon Growth In Vivo by Activity-based Competition." Nature 434 (2005): 969-973.
8 Antoch, Marina P., Eun-Joo Song, Anne-Marie Change, Martha Hotz Vitaterna, Yaliang Zhao, Lisa D. Wilsbacher, Ashvin M. Sangoram, David P. King, Lawrence H. Pinto, and Joseph S. Takahashi. "Functional Identification of the Mouse Circadian Clock Gene by Transgenic BAC Rescue." Cell 89 (1997): 655-667.
9 Serafini, Tito, Timothy E. Kennedy, Michael J. Galko, Christine Mirzayen, Thomas M. Jessell, and Marie Tessler-Lavigne. "The Netrins Define a Family of Axon Outgrouth-promoting Proteins Homologous to C. elegans UNC-6." Cell 78 (1994): 409-424.
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Gould, Elizabeth, Alison J. Reeves, Michael S. A. Graziano, and Charles G. Gross. "Neurogenesis in the Neocortex of Adult Primates." Science 286 (1999): 548-552.

Kornack, David R., and Pasko Rakic. "Cell Proliferations without Neurogenesis in Adult Primate Neocortex." Science 294 (2001): 2127-2130.
11 MacLauren, R. E., R. A. Pearson, A. MacNeil, R. H. Douglas, T. E. Salt, M. Akimoto, A. Swaroop, J. S. Sowden, and R. R. Ali. "Retinal Repair by Transplantation of Photoreceptor Precursors." Nature 444 (2006): 203-207.
12 Davis, Graeme W., and Corey S. Goodman. "Synapse Specific control of Synaptic Efficacy at the Terminals of a Single Neuron." Nature 392 (1998): 82-86.
13 Brown, Arthur, Paul A. Yates, Patrick Burrola, Dan Ortuno, Ashish Vaidya, Thomas M. Jessell, Samuel L. Pfaff, Dennis D.M. O'Leary, and Greg Lemke. "Topographic Mapping from the Retina to the Midbrain Is Controlled by Relative but not Absolute Levels of EphA Receptor Signaling." Cell 102 (2000): 77-88.