Alon Zaslaver's Lab

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• Intricate response dynamics enhances stimulus discrimination in ‎the resource-limited C. elegans chemosensory system
  Eduard Bokman, Christian O. Pritz, Rotem Ruach, Eyal Itskovits, Hadar Sharvit, and Alon ‎Zaslaver​
  BMC Biology (2024). Accepted.
   

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• Inheritance of associative memories in C. elegans nematodes

Noa Deshe, Yifat Eliezer, Lihi Hoch, Eyal Itskovits, Eduard Bokman, Shachaf Ben-Ezra and Alon Zaslaver

Nature Communications, 14: 4232 (2023)

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• Principles for coding associative memories in a compact neural network

Chrisitian O. Pritz, Eyal Itskovits, Eduard Bokman, Rotem Ruach, Vladimir Gritsenko, Tal Nelken, Mai Menasherof,
Aharon Azulay, and Alon Zaslaver.
eLife 12, e74434 (2023)

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See also:

• Memory: When neurons split the load / by Itamar Lev and Manuel Zimmer

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• The synaptic organization in the Caenorhabditis elegans neural network suggests significant local compartmentalized computations

Rotem Ruach, Nir Ratner, Scott W. Emmons, Alon Zaslaver

PNAS 120(3) e2201699120, (2023)

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• A negative feedback loop in the GPCR pathway underlies efficient coding of external stimulie

Rotem Ruach, Shai Yellinek, Eyal Itskovits, Noa Deshe, Yifat Eliezer, Eduard Bokman, Alon Zaslaver

Molecular Systems Biology 18:e10514 (2022)

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• Irrational behavior in C. elegans arises from asymmetric modulatory effects within single sensory neurons

Iwanir S.*, Ruach R.*, Itskovits E., Bokman E., Pritz O. C., and Zaslaver A.

Nature Communications, 10, Article number: 3202 (2019)
  *Equal contribution

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• A memory circuit for coping with impending adversity

Eliezer Y., Deshe N., Hoch L., Iwanir S., Pritz O. C., and Zaslaver A.

Current Biology, Volume 9 Issue 10, P1573-1583, (2019)
 

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• 'Mind over Matter in C. elegans'/by Katz and Shaham

• F1000Prime

• PsychologyToday,   Cosmos,   ScienceDaily

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• Concerted pulsatile and graded neural dynamics ‎enables efficient chemotaxis in C. elegans

Itskovits E*, Ruach R*, Kazakov A, Zaslaver A.
Nature Communications, volume 9, Article number: 2866 (2018)

     *Equal contribution

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See also:

• Animal Math (Forbes)

• Need help with your math homework? Ask these worms (ScienceDaily)

• Worms with Waze (Ha'aretz)

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• Salient experiences are represented by unique transcriptional signatures in the mouse brain

Mukherjee D*, Ignatowska-Jankowska BM*, Itskovits E*, Gonzales BJ, Turm H, Izakson L, Haritan D, Bleistein N, Cohen C, Amit I, Shay T, Grueter B, Zaslaver A, Citri A.
eLife, e31220 (2018)

      *Equal contribution

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• A multi-animal tracker for studying complex behaviors

Itskovits E, Levine A, Cohen E, Zaslaver A.

BMC Biol. 2017 Apr 6;15(1):29.

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• The C. elegans Connectome Consists of Homogenous Circuits with Defined Functional Roles

Azulay A, Itskovits E, Zaslaver A.
PLoS Comput Biol (2016).

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• Serotonin promotes exploitation in complex environments by accelerating decision-making

Iwanir S, Brown AS, Nagy S, Najjar D, Kazakov A, Lee KS, Zaslaver A, Levine E, Biron D.
BMC Biol. 2016 Feb 4;14:9.

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• Hierarchical sparse coding in the sensory system of Caenorhabditis elegans

Zaslaver A, Liani I, Shtangel O, Ginzburg S, Yee L, Sternberg PW.
PNAS 112(4):1185-1189 (2015).

 

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