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Overview

Joshua T. Trachtenberg is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research contributions focus primarily on neuroscience and molecular biology, with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience. They have published extensively, with a total of 28 publications in neuroscience and 12 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work covers multiple subfields including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Cell Biology

Main research topics associated with their work include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Between 2020 and 2023, their published papers appear in a range of scientific journals and repositories:

  • Evolution of neuronal cell classes and types in the vertebrate retina, 2023, Nature
  • Vision-dependent specification of cell types and function in the developing cortex, 2022, Cell
  • Vision Changes the Cellular Composition of Binocular Circuitry during the Critical Period, 2020, Neuron
  • Evolution of neuronal cell classes and types in the vertebrate retina, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Vision is required for the formation of binocular neurons prior to the classical critical period, 2021, Current Biology

Frequent co-authors working closely with Joshua T. Trachtenberg include:

  • Liming Tan
  • S Lawrence Zipursky
  • Dario L. Ringach
  • Karthik Shekhar
  • Salwan Butrus

Their publications have appeared most frequently in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Cell
  • Neuron
  • Current Biology

Best Publications

  • Long-term in vivo imaging of experience-dependent synaptic plasticity in adult cortex

    Joshua T. Trachtenberg;Brian E. Chen;Graham W. Knott;Guoping Feng

  • Transient and Persistent Dendritic Spines in the Neocortex In Vivo

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

  • Absence of CNTNAP2 Leads to Epilepsy, Neuronal Migration Abnormalities, and Core Autism-Related Deficits

    Olga Peñagarikano;Brett S. Abrahams;Brett S. Abrahams;Edward I. Herman;Kellen D. Winden

  • 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

  • A disinhibitory microcircuit initiates critical-period plasticity in the visual cortex

    Sandra J. Kuhlman;Nicholas D. Olivas;Elaine Tring;Taruna Ikrar

  • Schwann cell apoptosis at developing neuromuscular junctions is regulated by glial growth factor

    Joshua T. Trachtenberg;Wesley J. Thompson

  • Rapid extragranular plasticity in the absence of thalamocortical plasticity in the developing primary visual cortex.

    Joshua T. Trachtenberg;Christopher Trepel;Michael P. Stryker

  • The critical period for ocular dominance plasticity in the Ferret's visual cortex.

    Naoum P. Issa;Joshua T. Trachtenberg;Barbara Chapman;Kathleen R. Zahs

  • Rapid Anatomical Plasticity of Horizontal Connections in the Developing Visual Cortex

    Joshua T. Trachtenberg;Michael P. Stryker

  • Schwann cells induce and guide sprouting and reinnervation of neuromuscular junctions

    Young-Jin Son;Joshua T Trachtenberg;Wesley J Thompson

  • Specific developmental disruption of disrupted-in-schizophrenia-1 function results in schizophrenia-related phenotypes in mice

    Weidong Li;Yu Zhou;J. David Jentsch;Robert A. M. Brown

  • Encoding and storage of spatial information in the retrosplenial cortex

    Rafał Czajkowski;Balaji Jayaprakash;Brian Wiltgen;Brian Wiltgen;Thomas Rogerson;Thomas Rogerson

  • Experience-dependent binocular competition in the visual cortex begins at eye opening.

    Spencer L Smith;Joshua T Trachtenberg

  • Hotspots of dendritic spine turnover facilitate clustered spine addition and learning and memory

    Adam C. Frank;Shan Huang;Miou Zhou;Amos Gdalyahu;Amos Gdalyahu

  • Vision-dependent specification of cell types and function in the developing cortex

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  • Spatial clustering of tuning in mouse primary visual cortex.

    Dario L. Ringach;Patrick J. Mineault;Elaine Tring;Nicholas D. Olivas

  • Enhanced Spatial Resolution During Locomotion and Heightened Attention in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex

    Patrick J. Mineault;Elaine Tring;Joshua T. Trachtenberg;Dario L. Ringach

  • Nerve terminal withdrawal from rat neuromuscular junctions induced by neuregulin and Schwann cells.

    Joshua T. Trachtenberg;Wesley J. Thompson

  • Laminar and compartmental regulation of dendritic growth in mature cortex.

    David K Chow;Matthias Groszer;Mochtar Pribadi;Michal Machniki

  • Associative fear learning enhances sparse network coding in primary sensory cortex

    Amos Gdalyahu;Elaine Tring;Pierre-Olivier Polack;Robin Gruver

  • Fast-spiking interneurons have an initial orientation bias that is lost with vision.

    Sandra J Kuhlman;Elaine Tring;Joshua T Trachtenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Dario L. Ringach
Dario L. Ringach University of California, Los Angeles
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Allen Institute
Alcino J. Silva
Alcino J. Silva University of California, Los Angeles
Graham Knott
Graham Knott École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Anthony Holtmaat
Anthony Holtmaat University of Geneva
Peyman Golshani
Peyman Golshani University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel H. Geschwind
Daniel H. Geschwind University of California, Los Angeles
Michael P. Stryker
Michael P. Stryker University of California, San Francisco
Xiangmin Xu
Xiangmin Xu University of California, Irvine
Linda Wilbrecht
Linda Wilbrecht University of California, Berkeley

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