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Kerry R. Delaney

Kerry R. Delaney

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Neuroscience

D-Index
32
Citations
5556
World Ranking
9502
National Ranking
551

Overview

Kerry R. Delaney is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a focus on neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Within these broader fields, they have contributed particularly to cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, genetics, neurology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics, prominently including genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, neurobiology and insect physiology research, neural dynamics and brain function, chromatin remodeling and cancer, as well as photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Delaney has published extensively in several scientific journals. They have contributed to the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry on three occasions, and also have publications in eLife, Nature Communications, Wireless Power Transfer, and Epigenetics.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • The functional organization of excitation and inhibition in the dendrites of mouse direction-selective ganglion cells, 2020, eLife
  • Longitudinal functional imaging of VIP interneurons reveals sub-population specific effects of stroke that are rescued with chemogenetic therapy, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Controlling wireless power transfer by tuning and detuning resonance of telemetric devices for rodents, 2020, Wireless Power Transfer
  • Differential Subcellular Distribution and Release Dynamics of Cotransmitted Cholinergic and GABAergic Synaptic Inputs Modify Dopaminergic Neuronal Excitability, 2022, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Analysis of the interplay between MeCP2 and histone H1 during in vitro differentiation of human ReNCell neural progenitor cells, 2023, Epigenetics

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Paul E. Croarkin, Robert L. Chow, Paul A. Nakonezny, Dicle Büyüktaşkın, and Luís Carrasco Páez.

Best Publications

  • Anatomical and functional imaging of neurons using 2-photon laser scanning microscopy

    W. Denk;K. R. Delaney;A. Gelperin;D. Kleinfeld

  • Extensive Turnover of Dendritic Spines and Vascular Remodeling in Cortical Tissues Recovering from Stroke

    Craig E. Brown;Ping Li;Jamie D. Boyd;Kerry R. Delaney

  • The role of presynaptic calcium in short-term enhancement at the hippocampal mossy fiber synapse.

    Wade G. Regehr;Kerry R. Delaney;David W. Tank

  • Rapid Reversible Changes in Dendritic Spine Structure In Vivo Gated by the Degree of Ischemia

    Shengxiang Zhang;Jamie Boyd;Kerry Delaney;Timothy H. Murphy

  • Ca2+ accumulations in dendrites of neocortical pyramidal neurons: An apical band and evidence for two functional compartments

    Rafael Yuste;Michael J. Gutnick;Drorit Saar;Kerry R. Delaney

  • A quantitative analysis of presynaptic calcium dynamics that contribute to short-term enhancement

    DW Tank;WG Regehr;KR Delaney

  • Distributed representation of vibrissa movement in the upper layers of somatosensory cortex revealed with voltage‐sensitive dyes

    D. Kleinfeld;D. Kleinfeld;K.R. Delaney

  • A quantitative measurement of the dependence of short-term synaptic enhancement on presynaptic residual calcium

    K. R. Delaney;David W. Tank

  • Presynaptic calcium and serotonin-mediated enhancement of transmitter release at crayfish neuromuscular junction

    K. Delaney;David W. Tank;R. S. Zucker

  • Waves and stimulus-modulated dynamics in an oscillating olfactory network.

    K R Delaney;A Gelperin;M S Fee;J A Flores

  • Odor-evoked calcium signals in dendrites of rat mitral cells

    Serge Charpak;Jerome Mertz;Emmanuel Beaurepaire;Laurent Moreaux

  • Competition between Phasic and Asynchronous Release for Recovered Synaptic Vesicles at Developing Hippocampal Autaptic Synapses

    Yo Otsu;Vahid Shahrezaei;Bo Li;Lynn A. Raymond

  • Dynamics of propagating waves in the olfactory network of a terrestrial mollusk: an electrical and optical study.

    D. Kleinfeld;K. R. Delaney;M. S. Fee;J. A. Flores

  • Calcium released by photolysis of DM‐nitrophen stimulates transmitter release at squid giant synapse.

    K R Delaney;R S Zucker

  • Axonal Regeneration and Physiological Activity Following Transection and Immunological Disruption of Myelin within the Hatchling Chick Spinal Cord

    HS Keirstead;JK Dyer;GN Sholomenko;J McGraw

  • Ca2+ from One or Two Channels Controls Fusion of a Single Vesicle at the Frog Neuromuscular Junction

    Vahid Shahrezaei;Alex Cao;Kerry R. Delaney

  • MeCP2 mutation results in compartment-specific reductions in dendritic branching and spine density in layer 5 motor cortical neurons of YFP-H mice.

    David P. Stuss;Jamie D. Boyd;David B. Levin;Kerry R. Delaney

  • Central and reflex neuronal responses elicited by odor in a terrestrial mollusk

    R. Gervais;D. Kleinfeld;K. R. Delaney;A. Gelperin

  • Presynaptic calcium dynamics at the frog retinotectal synapse.

    Marla B. Feller;Kerry R. Delaney;David W. Tank

  • Consequences of Molecular-Level Ca2+ Channel and Synaptic Vesicle Colocalization for the Ca2+ Microdomain and Neurotransmitter Exocytosis: A Monte Carlo Study

    Vahid Shahrezaei;Kerry R. Delaney

  • Branch-Specific Ca2+ Influx from Na+-Dependent Dendritic Spikes in Olfactory Granule Cells

    Tibor Zelles;Jamie D. Boyd;Alexandre B. Hardy;Kerry R. Delaney

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Tank
David W. Tank Princeton University
David Kleinfeld
David Kleinfeld University of California, San Diego
Alan Gelperin
Alan Gelperin Princeton University
Timothy H. Murphy
Timothy H. Murphy University of British Columbia
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University
Wade G. Regehr
Wade G. Regehr Harvard Medical School
Gareth Leng
Gareth Leng University of Edinburgh
Serge Charpak
Serge Charpak Pennsylvania State University
Robert S. Zucker
Robert S. Zucker University of California, Berkeley
Frank C. J. M. van Veggel
Frank C. J. M. van Veggel University of Victoria

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