Monday Lecture Series
Monday, April 6, 2015
4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC)
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D.,
President,
Carson Family Professor and Head,
Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair,
The Rockefeller University
Sculpting Neuronal Connections: The Logic and Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Pruning
Recommended Readings
Empirical Articles
Leyva-Díaz, E., del Toro, D., Menal, M. J., Cambray, S., Susín, R., Tessier-Lavigne, M., … & López-Bendito, G. (2014). FLRT3 is a Robo1-interacting protein that determines Netrin-1 attraction in developing axons. Current Biology, 24(5), 494-508. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.042
Mire, E., Mezzera, C., Leyva-Díaz, E., Paternain, A. V., Squarzoni, P., Bluy, L., … & López-Bendito, G. (2012). Spontaneous activity regulates Robo1 transcription to mediate a switch in thalamocortical axon growth. Nature Neuroscience, 15(8), 1134-1143. doi:10.1038/nn.3160
Romi, E., Gokhman, I., Wong, E., Antonovsky, N., Ludwig, A., Sagi, I., … & Yaron, A. (2014). ADAM metalloproteases promote a developmental switch in responsiveness to the axonal repellant Sema3A. Nature communications, 5. doi:10.1038/ncomms5058
Xu, K., Wu, Z., Renier, N., Antipenko, A., Tzvetkova-Robev, D., Xu, Y., … & Nikolov, D. B. (2014). Structures of netrin-1 bound to two receptors provide insight into its axon guidance mechanism. Science, 344(6189), 1275-1279. doi:10.1126/science.1255149
Review Papers
Kolodkin, A. L., & Tessier-Lavigne, M. (2011). Mechanisms and molecules of neuronal wiring: a primer. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 3(6), a001727. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a001727
