Dr. Paul Kotzbauer, Department of Neurology, Washington University

"Neurodegenertive consequences of mutations in a phospholipase gene"

Kotzbauer PT, Truax AC, Trojanowski JQ, Lee VM. Altered neuronal mitochondrial coenzyme A synthesis in neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation caused by abnormal processing, stability, and catalytic activity of mutant pantothenate kinase 2. J Neurosci. 2005 Jan 19;25(3):689-98.

Dr. Steve Petersen, Department of Neurology, Washington University

" The way you do the things you do: Using network analysis tools to study the brain's control systems "

Dosenbach NU, Fair DA, Miezin FM, Cohen AL, Wenger KK, Dosenbach RA, Fox MD, Snyder AZ, Vincent JL, Raichle ME, Schlaggar BL, Petersen SE. Distinct brain networks for adaptive and stable task control in humans.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jun 26;104(26):11073-8.

Dr. Eric Nestler, Department of Psychiatry, U Texas Southwestern Med Ctr

"Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Addiction" (Neuroscience Seminar)

Presenter: Jo Ann Antenor-Dorsey

Dr. Sylvia Bunge, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley

"Relational reasoning, development,and anterior prefrontal cortex" (Neuroscience Seminar)

Paz-Alonso PM, Ghetti S, Donohue SE, Goodman GS, Bunge SA.Neurodevelopmental Correlates of True and False Recognition.Cereb Cortex. 2008 Jan 17 [Epub ahead of print]

Dr. Vladimir Kefalov, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Washington University

Kefalov VJ, Estevez ME, Kono M, Goletz PW, Crouch RK, Cornwall MC, Yau KW. Breaking the covalent bond--a pigment property that contributes to desensitization in cones. Neuron. 2005 Jun 16;46(6):879-90.

Baloh RH, Schmidt RE, Pestronk A, Milbrandt J.Altered axonal mitochondrial transport in the pathogenesis of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease from mitofusin 2 mutations.J Neurosci. 2007 Jan 10;27(2):422-30.

Seugnet L, Boero J, Gottschalk L, Duntley SP, Shaw PJ. Identification of a biomarker for sleep drive in flies and humans. Identification of a biomarker for sleep drive in flies and humans.

Dr. Ron Davis, Department of Molecular Biology & Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine

Liu X, Krause WC, Davis RL. GABAA receptor RDL inhibits Drosophila olfactory associative learning. Neuron. 2007 Dec 20;56(6):1090-102

Dragoi G, Buzsáki G.Temporal encoding of place sequences by hippocampal cell assemblies.Neuron. 2006 Apr 6;50(1):145-57.

Jensen P, Farago AF, Awatramani RB, Scott MM, Deneris ES, Dymecki SM. Redefining the serotonergic system by genetic lineage. Nat Neurosci. 2008 Apr;11(4):417-9. Epub 2008 Mar 16.

Wheeler SR, Carrico ML, Wilson BA, Brown SJ, Skeath JB.The expression and function of the achaete-scute genes in Tribolium castaneum reveals conservation and variation in neural pattern formation and cell fate specification.Development. 2003 Sep;130(18):4373-81.