Mark J. Wagner, Tony Hyun Kim, Joan Savall, Mark J. Schnitzer & Liqun Luo

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Cerebellar granule cells encode the expectation of reward.

(I will mainly talk about this.)

Andrea Giovannucci, Aleksandra Badura, Ben Deverett, Farzaneh Najafi, Talmo D Pereira, Zhenyu Gao, Ilker Ozden, Alexander D Kloth, Eftychios Pnevmatikakis, Liam Paninski, Chris I De Zeeuw, Javier F Medina & Samuel S-H Wang

Nat Neurosci. 2017 May;20(5):727-734. doi: 10.1038/nn.4531. Epub 2017 Mar 20.

Cerebellar granule cells acquire a widespread predictive feedback signal during motor learning.

Nat Neurosci. 2017 Apr;20(4):529-539.

Metabotropic action of postsynaptic kainate receptors triggers hippocampal long-term potentiation.

Petrovic MM, Viana da Silva S, Clement JP, Vyklicky L, Mulle C, González-González IM, Henley JM.

PMID: 28192396

Optogenetic Control of Synaptic Composition and Function

Brooke L. Sinnen, Aaron B. Bowen, Jeffrey S. Forte, Brian G. Hiester, Kevin C. Crosby, Emily S. Gibson, Mark L. Dell’Acqua, and Matthew J. Kennedy
Neuron, 93(3):646-660.

Jin Li, Tamara Casteels, Thomas Frogne, …, Patrick Collombat, Jacob Hecksher-Sørensen, Stefan Kubicek
Artemisinins Target GABAA Receptor Signaling and Impair α Cell Identity
Cell 168, 86–100, 2017

Actin Is Crucial for All Kinetically Distinguishable Forms of Endocytosis at Synapses

Xin-Sheng Wu,Sung Hoon Lee,Jiansong Sheng,Zhen Zhang5,,Wei-Dong Zhao,Dongsheng Wang,Yinghui Jin,Patrick Charnay,James M. Ervasti,Ling-Gang Wu
Neuron Volume 92, Issue 5, p1020–1035, 7 December 2016

Jeffrey D Martell, Masahito Yamagata, Thomas J Deerinck, Sébastien Phan, Carolyn G Kwa, Mark H Ellisman, Joshua R Sanes & Alice Y Ting

A split horseradish peroxidase for the detection of intercellular protein–protein interactions and sensitive visualization of synapses

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Bo Zhang and Thomas C. Südhof

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Neuroligins Are Selectively Essential for NMDAR Signaling in Cerebellar Stellate Interneurons.

cf. Neuroligins Sculpt Cerebellar Purkinje-Cell Circuits by Differential Control of Distinct Classes of Synapses

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Timing Rules for Synaptic Plasticity Matched to Behavioral Function.

Suvrathan A, Payne HL, Raymond JL.

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Won-Suk Chung,Philip B. Verghese,Chandrani Chakraborty, Julia Joung, Bradley T. Hyman, Jason D. Ulrich,David M. Holtzman and Ben A. Barres

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Novel allele-dependent role for APOE in controlling the rate of synapse pruning by astrocytes

Guo et al., (Prof. Regehr’s group) Neuron 91, 1330–1341

Purkinje Cells Directly Inhibit Granule Cells in Specialized Regions of the Cerebellar Cortex.

Piochon et al. (Prof. Hansel’s group), PNAS (Early edition)

Calcium threshold shift enables frequency-independent control of plasticity by an instructive signal.

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Postsynaptic, not presynaptic NMDA receptors are required for spike-timing-dependent LTD induction.
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