SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Hung J., Colicos M.A.(2008) Astrocytic Ca2+ waves guide CNS growth cones to remote regions of neuronal activity. PlosONE 3(11):e3692
Cingolani L.A., Thalhammer A., Yu L.M., Catalano M., Ramos T., Colicos M.A., Goda Y. (2008) Activity-dependent regulationof synaptic AMPA receptor composition and abundance by beta3 integrins. Neuron 58(5):749-62.
Arstikaitis P., Gauthier-Campbell C., Carolina Gutierrez Herrera R., Huang K., Levinson J.N., Murphy T.H., Kilimann M.W., Sala C., Colicos M.A., El-Husseini A. (2008) Paralemmin-1, a modulator of filopodia induction is required for spine maturation. Mol Biol Cell 19(5):2026-38.
Abramov A.Y., Fraley C., Diao C.T., Winkfein R., Colicos M.A., Duchen M.R., French R.J., Pavlov E. (2007) Targeted polyphosphatase expression alters mitochondrial metabolism and inhibits calcium-dependent cell death. Proc Natl Aca Sci USA 104(46):18091-6.
Timothy A. Dunn, T.A., Wang, C., Colicos, M.A., Zaccolo, M., DiPilato, L.M., Zhang, J., Tsien, R.Y., Feller, M.B. (2006) Imaging of cAMP levels and PKA activity reveals that retinal waves drive oscillations in second messenger cascades. Journal of Neuroscience 26(49):12807-15
Goda, Y and Colicos, M.A. (2006) Photoconductive stimulation of neurons cultured on silicon wafers. Nature Protocols 1, 461 - 467
Colicos, M.A. and Syed, N.I. (2006) Neuronal networks and synaptic plasticity: understanding complex system dynamics by interfacing neurons with silicon technologies. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209 (Pt 12): 2312-9.
Gerrow, K., Romorini, S., Nabi, S.M., Colicos, M.A., Sala, C., and El-Husseini, A. (2006) A preformed complex of postsynaptic proteins is involved in excitatory synapse development. Neuron 49, 1-16, Feb 16.
Khosravani, H., Altier, C., Zamponi, G.W., Colicos, M.A. (2005) The Arg453Cys-neuroligin-1 mutation modulates NMDA mediated synaptic transmission and receptor distribution in hippocampal neurons. - FEBS Letters Dec. 9; 579:6587–6594
Swayne, L.A., Hameed, S., Chen, L., Barr, W., Charlesworth, E., Colicos. M.A., Zamponi, G.W., and Braun, J.E.A. Huntingtin disrupts syntaxin modulation of N-type calcium channels. (2005) Cell. Mol. Neurosci. Nov; 30(3):339-51.
Colicos, M.A., Firth, S.I., Bosze, J., Goldstein, J., Feller, M.B. (2004) Emergence of realistic retinal networks in culture promoted by the superior colliculus. Developmental Neuroscience 26:406-416.
Colicos, M.A., Collins, B.E., Sailor, M.J., Goda, Y. (2001) Remodeling of Synaptic Actin Induced by Photoconductive Stimulation. Cell, 107(5): 605-616.
Manitt, C., Colicos, M.A., Peterson, A.C., Kennedy T.E. (2001) Characterization of netrin in the adult rodent spinal cord. Journal of Neuroscience, Jun 1; 21(11):3911-3922.
Morales, M., Colicos, M.A., Goda, Y. (2000) Actin-dependent regulation of neurotransmitter release at central synapses. Neuron, 27(3):539-550.
