RIKEN Center for Brain Science Laboratory for Synaptic Plasticity and Connectivity
Laboratory Head: Yukiko Goda (Ph.D.)
Research Summary
Synapses are the nodes of information transmission in the brain. The dynamic changes in the efficacy of synaptic transmission or synaptic strength, play crucial roles in a variety of cognitive functions from perception, emotion, computation, to learning and memory. Our research seeks to understand how synapses acquire a particular strength and how the strength of individual synapses is dynamically modified in relationship to other synapses of the neural network. We study how these mechanisms of synaptic strength regulation control neural circuit properties underlying particular types of behavior.
Main Research Fields
- Biological Sciences
Keywords
- Synapse cell biology
- Synaptic transmission and plasticity
Selected Publications
Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.
- 1.Letellier M, Levet F, Thoumine O, Goda Y.:
"Differential role of pre- and postsynaptic neurons in the activity-dependent control of synaptic strengths across dendrites"
PLoS Biology 17,e2006223. (2019) - 2.Park YK, Goda Y.:
"Integrins in synapse regulation"
Nat Rev Neurosci 17, 745-756 (2016) - 3.Letellier M, Park YK, Chater TE, Chipman PH, Gautam SG, Oshima-Takago T, Goda Y.:
"Astrocytes regulate heterogeneity of presynaptic strengths in hippocampal networks"
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 113, E2685-2694 (2016) - 4.Shinoe T, Goda Y.:
"Tuning synapses by proteolytic remodeling of the adhesive surface"
Curr Op Neurobiol 35, 148-155 (2015) - 5.* McGeachie AB, Skrzypiec AE, Cingolani LA, Letellier M, Pawlak R, and Goda Y.:
"Beta3 integrin is dispensable for conditioned fear and Hebbian forms of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus"
Eur J Neurosci 36, 2461-2469 (2012) - 6.* Pozo K, Cingolani LA, Bassani S, Laurent F, Passafaro M, Goda Y.:
"Beta3 integrin interacts directly with GluA2 AMPA receptor subunit and regulates AMPA receptor expression in hippocampal neurons"
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109, 1323-1328 (2012) - 7.* Vitureira N, Letellier M, White IJ, Goda Y.:
"Differential control of presynaptic efficacy by postsynaptic N-cadherin and beta-catenin"
Nat Neurosci 15, 81-89 (2011) - 8.* Staras K, Branco T, Burden JJ, Pozo K, Darcy K, Marra V, Ratnayaka A, Goda Y.:
"A Vesicle superpool spanning multiple presynaptic terminals in hippocampal neurons"
Neuron 66, 36-44 (2010) - 9.* Branco T, Staras K, Darcy KJ, Goda Y.:
"Local dendritic activity sets release probability at hippocampal synapses"
Neuron 58, 749-762 (2008) - 10.* Cingolani LA, Thalhammer A, Yu LM, Catalano M, Ramos T, Colicos MA, Goda Y.:
"Activity-dependent regulation of synaptic AMPA receptor composition and abundance by β3 integrins"
Neuron 58, 749-762 (2008)
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Yukiko Goda
- Laboratory Head
Core members
- Toru Shinoe
- Research Scientist
- Thomas Edward Chater
- Research Scientist
- Yun Kyung Park
- Research Scientist
- Alejandra Pazo Fernandez
- Research Scientist
- Angelo Tedoldi
- Research Scientist
- Margaux Saint-Martin
- Visiting Researcher
- Mizuki Kurosawa
- Technical Staff I
- Itsuko Yamamoto
- Technical Staff II
- Mimi Sakaguchi
- Assistant
Careers
| Position | Deadline |
|---|---|
| Seeking Research Scientists (W19261) | Open until filled |
Contact Information
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Email: yukiko.goda [at] riken.jp