Light Activation of Channelrhodopsin-2 in Excitable Cells of Caenorhabditis elegans Triggers Rapid Behavioral Responses

Georg Nagel, Martin Brauner, Jana Liewald, +3

Current Biology

Photoreceptor CellSignal TransductionMolecular PhysiologyDevelopmental BiologyLight Activation +9

Optogenetic analysis of synaptic function

Jana Liewald, Martin Brauner, Greg J. Stephens, +4

Nature Methods

Synaptic PlasticityComputational NeuroscienceSynaptic TransmissionMedicineNeurotransmitter +5

<i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> selects distinct crawling and swimming gaits via dopamine and serotonin

Andrés Vidal-Gadea, Stephen Topper, Layla Young, +10

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Motor ControlSensory SystemsCaenorhabditis ElegansLocomotor PerformanceNeural Mechanism +19

Food Sensation Modulates Locomotion by Dopamine and Neuropeptide Signaling in a Distributed Neuronal Network

Alexandra Oranth, Christian Schultheis, Oleg Tolstenkov, +12

Neuron

Distributed Neuronal NetworkNeurobiological MechanismNeural MechanismSensory NeuroscienceNeurophysiology +12

Intestinal signaling to GABAergic neurons regulates a rhythmic behavior in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>

Timothy R. Mahoney, Shuo Luo, Elaine K. Round, +4

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

High-throughput study of synaptic transmission at the neuromuscular junction enabled by optogenetics and microfluidics

Jeffrey N. Stirman, Martin Brauner, Alexander Gottschalk, +1

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Synaptic PlasticityNeuromuscular JunctionNeurophysiologyMedicineSynaptic Transmission +11

In vivo synaptic recovery following optogenetic hyperstimulation

Maike Kittelmann, Jana Liewald, Jan Hegermann, +6

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry

Feng Zhang, Liping Wang, Martin Brauner, +8

Nature

Physiological OpticComputational NeuroscienceNeural RecodingNeural CircuitryNeuroscience +3

Optogenetic analysis of GABA_Breceptor signaling in<i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>motor neurons

Christian Schultheis, Martin Brauner, Jana Liewald, +1

Journal of Neurophysiology

Synaptic TransmissionNeurotransmitterGaba MnsMotor ControlNeurotransmission +17

Synthetic retinal analogues modify the spectral and kinetic characteristics of microbial rhodopsin optogenetic tools

N. AzimiHashemi, Karen Erbguth, Arend Vogt, +12

Nature Communications

Ganglion CellPhotoreceptor CellEngineeringRetinaOphthalmology +8