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Overview

Anthony Holtmaat is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and specializes in Neuroscience, with a primary focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Their research spans 38 publications in neuroscience-related fields.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neural dynamics and brain function, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, Cell Image Analysis Techniques, and Protein Structure and Dynamics.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Anthony Holtmaat include Ronan Chéreau, Tanika Bawa, Stéphane Pagès, Elodie Husi, and Federico Brandalise. Their scholarly articles have appeared in various venues, notably making multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Neuron, Nature Communications, and Current Biology.

Significant recent publications encompass:

  • A brain atlas of synapse protein lifetime across the mouse lifespan (2022) published in Neuron
  • Dynamic perceptual feature selectivity in primary somatosensory cortex upon reversal learning (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • Temporal Sharpening of Sensory Responses by Layer V in the Mouse Primary Somatosensory Cortex (2020) published in Current Biology
  • Circuit mechanisms for cortical plasticity and learning (2021) published in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • A subpopulation of cortical VIP-expressing interneurons with highly dynamic spines (2022) published in Communications Biology

Best Publications

  • Experience-dependent structural synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain.

    Anthony Holtmaat;Karel Svoboda

  • Transient and Persistent Dendritic Spines in the Neocortex In Vivo

    Anthony J.G.D. Holtmaat;Joshua T. Trachtenberg;Linda Wilbrecht;Gordon M. Shepherd

  • Long-term, high-resolution imaging in the mouse neocortex through a chronic cranial window

    Anthony Holtmaat;Anthony Holtmaat;Tobias Bonhoeffer;David K Chow;Jyoti Chuckowree

  • Experience-dependent and cell-type-specific spine growth in the neocortex.

    Anthony Holtmaat;Linda Wilbrecht;Graham W. Knott;Egbert Welker

  • Spine growth precedes synapse formation in the adult neocortex in vivo.

    Graham W Knott;Anthony Holtmaat;Linda Wilbrecht;Egbert Welker

  • Cell Type-Specific Structural Plasticity of Axonal Branches and Boutons in the Adult Neocortex

    Vincenzo De Paola;Anthony Holtmaat;Graham Knott;Sen Song

  • Activity-Dependent Structural Plasticity of Perisynaptic Astrocytic Domains Promotes Excitatory Synapse Stability

    Yann Bernardinelli;Jerome Randall;Elia Janett;Irina Nikonenko

  • The mesoSPIM initiative: open-source light-sheet microscopes for imaging cleared tissue

    Fabian F Voigt;Daniel Kirschenbaum;Evgenia Platonova;Stéphane Pagès

  • Sensory-evoked LTP driven by dendritic plateau potentials in vivo

    Frédéric Gambino;Stéphane Pagès;Vassilis Kehayas;Daniela Baptista

  • Higher-Order Thalamocortical Inputs Gate Synaptic Long-Term Potentiation via Disinhibition.

    Leena Eve Williams;Anthony Holtmaat

  • Control of synaptic plasticity in deep cortical networks.

    Pieter R Roelfsema;Anthony J D G Holtmaat

  • Functional and structural underpinnings of neuronal assembly formation in learning

    Anthony Holtmaat;Pico Caroni

  • The relationship between PSD-95 clustering and spine stability in vivo.

    Michele Cane;Bohumil Maco;Graham Knott;Anthony Holtmaat

  • Evidence for a Role of the Chemorepellent Semaphorin III and Its Receptor Neuropilin-1 in the Regeneration of Primary Olfactory Axons

    R. Jeroen Pasterkamp;Fred De Winter;Anthony J. G. D. Holtmaat;Joost Verhaagen

  • Dendrites In Vitro and In Vivo Contain Microtubules of Opposite Polarity and Axon Formation Correlates with Uniform Plus-End-Out Microtubule Orientation.

    Kah Wai Yau;Philipp Schätzle;Elena Tortosa;Stéphane Pagès

  • Targeted Overexpression of the Neurite Growth-Associated Protein B-50/GAP-43 in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells Induces Sprouting after Axotomy But Not Axon Regeneration into Growth-Permissive Transplants

    A Buffo;Anthony J D G Holtmaat;T Savio;J.S. Verbeek

  • Anatomical distribution of the chemorepellent semaphorin III/collapsin‐1 in the adult rat and human brain: Predominant expression in structures of the olfactory‐hippocampal pathway and the motor system

    Roman J. Giger;R. Jeroen Pasterkamp;Stefan Heijnen;Anthony J.G.D. Holtmaat

  • Structural Plasticity Underlies Experience-Dependent Functional Plasticity of Cortical Circuits

    Linda Wilbrecht;Anthony Holtmaat;Nicholas Fraser Wright;Kevin Dyson Fox

  • Modality-specific thalamocortical inputs instruct the identity of postsynaptic L4 neurons

    Gabrielle Pouchelon;Frédéric Gambino;Camilla Bellone;Ludovic Telley

  • The astrocyte/meningeal cell interface is a barrier to neurite outgrowth which can be overcome by manipulation of inhibitory molecules or axonal signalling pathways.

    Morven C Shearer;Simone P Niclou;David Brown;Richard A Asher

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham Knott
Graham Knott École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Joost Verhaagen
Joost Verhaagen Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Allen Institute
Linda Wilbrecht
Linda Wilbrecht University of California, Berkeley
Christian Lüscher
Christian Lüscher University of Geneva
Pieter R. Roelfsema
Pieter R. Roelfsema Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Joshua T. Trachtenberg
Joshua T. Trachtenberg University of California, Los Angeles
Alan Carleton
Alan Carleton University of Geneva
Roman J. Giger
Roman J. Giger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Denis Jabaudon
Denis Jabaudon University of Geneva

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