Friday Lecture Series
Friday, December 4, 2015
3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium
Thomas Jessell, Ph.D.
Claire Tow Professor,
Department of Neuroscience,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Columbia University Medical Center
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Strategies and Circuits for Skilled Movement
Recommended Reading
Empirical Articles
Azim, E., Jiang, J., Alstermark, B., & Jessell, T. M. (2014). Skilled reaching relies on a V2a propriospinal internal copy circuit. Nature, 508(7496), 357-363. doi:10.1038/nature13021.
Fink, A. J., Croce, K. R., Huang, Z. J., Abbott, L. F., Jessell, T. M., & Azim, E. (2014). Presynaptic inhibition of spinal sensory feedback ensures smooth movement. Nature, 509(7498), 43-48. doi:10.1038/nature13276.
Mendelsohn, A. I., Simon, C. M., Abbott, L. F., Mentis, G. Z., & Jessell, T. M. (2015). Activity regulates the incidence of heteronymous sensory-motor connections. Neuron, 87(1), 111-123. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.05.045.
Zampieri, N., Jessell, T. M., & Murray, A. J. (2014). Mapping sensory circuits by anterograde transsynaptic transfer of recombinant rabies virus. Neuron, 81(4), 766-778. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2013.12.033.
Review Paper
Azim, E., Fink, A. J., & Jessell, T. M. (2014). Internal and external feedback circuits for skilled forelimb movement. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 79, 81-92. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2014.79.024786.
