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Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily spans Neuroscience and Materials Science, with a specific focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Materials Chemistry. Other notable subfields include Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, as well as Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry. Additional research interests include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Phosphodiesterase Function and Regulation, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies include:

  • Useful Caged Compounds for Cell Physiology, 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Reverse Engineering Caged Compounds: Design Principles for their Application in Biology, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Other notable publications in the dataset, although authored by different primary authors but connected to similar research domains, are:

  • GluN3A excitatory glycine receptors control adult cortical and amygdalar circuits, 2022, Neuron
  • Optofluidic control of rodent learning using cloaked caged glutamate, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Photochemical Control of Drug Efficacy: A Comparison of Uncaging and Photoswitching Ifenprodil on NMDA Receptors, 2021, ChemPhotoChem

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ellis-Davies include Hitesh K. Agarwal, Jun Zhao, Radoslav Janíček, Marcel Egger, and Ernst Niggli. This network of collaboration reflects interdisciplinary work typical in neuroscience and chemical research.

The scientist has published multiple works in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemical Communications, Angewandte Chemie, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Structural basis of long-term potentiation in single dendritic spines

    Masanori Matsuzaki;Naoki Honkura;Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies;Haruo Kasai

  • Dendritic spine geometry is critical for AMPA receptor expression in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons

    Masanori Matsuzaki;Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies;Tomomi Nemoto;Tomomi Nemoto;Yasushi Miyashita

  • Caged compounds: photorelease technology for control of cellular chemistry and physiology

    Graham C R Ellis-Davies

  • Brain metabolism dictates the polarity of astrocyte control over arterioles

    Grant R. J. Gordon;Hyun B. Choi;Ravi L. Rungta;Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies

  • Protein synthesis and neurotrophin-dependent structural plasticity of single dendritic spines.

    Jun-ichi Tanaka;Yoshihiro Horiike;Masanori Matsuzaki;Takashi Miyazaki;Takashi Miyazaki

  • A critical time window for dopamine actions on the structural plasticity of dendritic spines.

    Sho Yagishita;Akiko Hayashi-Takagi;Graham C.R. Ellis-Davies;Hidetoshi Urakubo

  • The Subspine Organization of Actin Fibers Regulates the Structure and Plasticity of Dendritic Spines

    Naoki Honkura;Masanori Matsuzaki;Jun Noguchi;Jun Noguchi;Graham C.R. Ellis-Davies

  • Disruption of astrocyte-vascular coupling and the blood-brain barrier by invading glioma cells.

    Stacey Watkins;Stefanie Robel;Ian F. Kimbrough;SStephanie M. Robert

  • Spine-Neck Geometry Determines NMDA Receptor-Dependent Ca2+ Signaling in Dendrites

    Jun Noguchi;Masanori Matsuzaki;Graham C.R. Ellis-Davies;Haruo Kasai;Haruo Kasai

  • Rapid adaptation of cardiac ryanodine receptors: modulation by Mg2+ and phosphorylation

    H. H. Valdivia;J. H. Kaplan;G. C. R. Ellis-Davies;W. J. Lederer

  • Recombinant Probes for Visualizing Endogenous Synaptic Proteins in Living Neurons

    Garrett G. Gross;Jason A. Junge;Rudy J. Mora;Hyung Bae Kwon

  • Compartmentalization of GABAergic Inhibition by Dendritic Spines

    Chiayu Q. Chiu;Gyorgy Lur;Thomas M. Morse;Nicholas T. Carnevale

  • Mechanism of the distance‐dependent scaling of Schaffer collateral synapses in rat CA1 pyramidal neurons

    Mark A. Smith;Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies;Jeffrey C. Magee

  • The nitrodibenzofuran chromophore: a new caging group for ultra-efficient photolysis in living cells.

    Atsuya Momotake;Nicolas Lindegger;Ernst Niggli;Robert J Barsotti

  • Astrocyte-Mediated Distributed Plasticity at Hypothalamic Glutamate Synapses

    Grant R.J. Gordon;Grant R.J. Gordon;Karl J. Iremonger;Srinivas Kantevari;Graham C.R. Ellis-Davies

  • GABA promotes the competitive selection of dendritic spines by controlling local Ca2+ signaling

    Tatsuya Hayama;Jun Noguchi;Satoshi Watanabe;Noriko Takahashi

  • In vivo two-photon uncaging of glutamate revealing the structure–function relationships of dendritic spines in the neocortex of adult mice

    Jun Noguchi;Akira Nagaoka;Satoshi Watanabe;Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies

  • Mechanism of the distance-dependent scaling of Schaffer collateral synapses in rat CA1 pyramidal neurons

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  • Supralinear Ca2+ signaling by cooperative and mobile Ca2+ buffering in Purkinje neurons.

    Hitoshi Maeda;Graham C.R. Ellis-Davies;Koichi Ito;Yasushi Miyashita;Yasushi Miyashita

  • Neurobiology with caged calcium.

    Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies

  • Optical control of neuronal ion channels and receptors

    Pierre Paoletti;Graham C R Ellis-Davies;Alexandre Mourot

  • Two-color, two-photon uncaging of glutamate and GABA.

    Srinivas Kantevari;Masanori Matsuzaki;Yuya Kanemoto;Haruo Kasai

  • Spontaneous Activity of Cochlear Hair Cells Triggered by Fluid Secretion Mechanism in Adjacent Support Cells.

    Han Chin Wang;Chun Chieh Lin;Rocky Cheung;Yingxin Zhang-Hooks

  • Ca2+ Requirements for Cerebellar Long-Term Synaptic Depression: Role for a Postsynaptic Leaky Integrator

    Keiko Tanaka;Leonard Khiroug;Leonard Khiroug;Fidel Santamaria;Tomokazu Doi

Frequent Co-Authors

Masanori Matsuzaki
Masanori Matsuzaki University of Tokyo
Yasushi Miyashita
Yasushi Miyashita Juntendo University
Brian A. MacVicar
Brian A. MacVicar University of British Columbia
Dwight E. Bergles
Dwight E. Bergles Johns Hopkins University
Bernardo L. Sabatini
Bernardo L. Sabatini Harvard Medical School
Philip G. Haydon
Philip G. Haydon Tufts University
Michael J. Higley
Michael J. Higley Yale University
George J Augustine
George J Augustine Nanyang Technological University
Nicola R. Sibson
Nicola R. Sibson University of Oxford
Kamran Khodakhah
Kamran Khodakhah Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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