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Overview

Kevin Staras is a researcher affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Physiology. The subfields of their research also include Molecular Biology and Biophysics.

The scientific topics addressed in their publications include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Neural dynamics and brain function, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, and Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

Staras has contributed to research published in a variety of journals, with frequent appearances in venues such as Alzheimer's & Dementia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), EMBO Reports, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, and Cell Reports. These outlets reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research spanning molecular mechanisms and neurological function.

Their recent published papers include the following:

  • Misfolded amyloid-β-42 impairs the endosomal-lysosomal pathway (2020), Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  • Parp1 hyperactivity couples DNA breaks to aberrant neuronal calcium signalling and lethal seizures (2021), EMBO Reports
  • Nanoscale Remodeling of Functional Synaptic Vesicle Pools in Hebbian Plasticity (2020), Cell Reports
  • Non-telecentric two-photon microscopy for 3D random access mesoscale imaging (2022), Nature Communications
  • Elevated amyloid beta disrupts the nanoscale organization and function of synaptic vesicle pools in hippocampal neurons (2022), Cerebral Cortex

Staras frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Louise C. Serpell, Vincenzo Marra, Luca Biasetti, Stéphanie Rey, and Despoina Goniotaki. These collaborations highlight a network of research partnerships within their areas of study.

Best Publications

  • The probability of neurotransmitter release: variability and feedback control at single synapses.

    Tiago Branco;Kevin Staras

  • XRCC1 mutation is associated with PARP1 hyperactivation and cerebellar ataxia

    Nicolas C. Hoch;Hana Hanzlikova;Stuart L. Rulten;Martine Tétreault

  • Constitutive sharing of recycling synaptic vesicles between presynaptic boutons

    Kevin J Darcy;Kevin Staras;Lucy M Collinson;Yukiko Goda

  • Local Dendritic Activity Sets Release Probability at Hippocampal Synapses

    Tiago Branco;Kevin Staras;Kevin J. Darcy;Yukiko Goda

  • Behavioral Role for Nitric Oxide in Chemosensory Activation of Feeding in a Mollusc

    Elphick Mr;Kemenes G;Staras K;O'Shea M

  • A systems approach to the cellular analysis of associative learning in the pond snail Lymnaea.

    Paul R. Benjamin;Kevin Staras;György Kemenes

  • A vesicle superpool spans multiple presynaptic terminals in hippocampal neurons

    Kevin Staras;Tiago Branco;Jemima J. Burden;Karine Pozo

  • Role of Delayed Nonsynaptic Neuronal Plasticity in Long-Term Associative Memory

    Ildikó Kemenes;Volko A. Straub;Eugeny S. Nikitin;Kevin Staras

  • A Preferentially Segregated Recycling Vesicle Pool of Limited Size Supports Neurotransmission in Native Central Synapses

    Vincenzo Marra;Jemima J. Burden;Julian R. Thorpe;Ikuko T. Smith;Ikuko T. Smith

  • Synapsin Selectively Controls the Mobility of Resting Pool Vesicles at Hippocampal Terminals

    Ayelet Orenbuch;Lee Shalev;Vincenzo Marra;Isaac Sinai

  • Pattern-Generating Role for Motoneurons in a Rhythmically Active Neuronal Network

    Kevin Staras;György Kemenes;Paul R. Benjamin

  • Examining size-strength relationships at hippocampal synapses using an ultrastructural measurement of synaptic release probability.

    Tiago Branco;Vincenzo Marra;Kevin Staras

  • In Vitro Appetitive Classical Conditioning of the Feeding Response in the Pond Snail Lymnaea stagnalis

    György Kemenes;Kevin Staras;Paul R. Benjamin

  • Recruitment of resting vesicles into recycling pools supports NMDA receptor‐dependent synaptic potentiation in cultured hippocampal neurons

    Arjuna Ratnayaka;Vincenzo Marra;Daniel Bush;Jemima J Burden

  • Endogenous and network properties of Lymnaea feeding central pattern generator interneurons.

    Volko A. Straub;Kevin Staras;György Kemenes;Paul R. Benjamin

  • Cellular Traces of Behavioral Classical Conditioning Can Be Recorded at Several Specific Sites in a Simple Nervous System

    Kevin Staras;György Kemenes;Paul R. Benjamin

  • Visualization of co-localization in Aβ42-administered neuroblastoma cells reveals lysosome damage and autophagosome accumulation related to cell death.

    Violetta Soura;Maris Stewart-Parker;Thomas L. Williams;Arjuna Ratnayaka

  • Multiple Types of Control by Identified Interneurons in a Sensory-Activated Rhythmic Motor Pattern

    György Kemenes;Kevin Staras;Paul R. Benjamin

  • Suppression of nitric oxide (NO)-dependent behavior by double-stranded RNA-mediated silencing of a neuronal NO synthase gene.

    Sergei A. Korneev;Ildikó Kemenes;Volko Straub;Kevin Staras

  • Neurophysiological Correlates of Unconditioned and Conditioned Feeding Behavior in the Pond Snail Lymnaea stagnalis

    Kevin Staras;György Kemenes;Paul R. Benjamin

  • A critical role for the self-assembly of Amyloid-β1-42 in neurodegeneration

    Karen E. Marshall;Devkee M. Vadukul;Liza Dahal;Liza Dahal;Alina Theisen;Alina Theisen

  • Local dendritic activity sets release probability at hippocampal synapses

    Y Goda;K Darcy;K Staras;T Branco

Frequent Co-Authors

György Kemenes
György Kemenes University of Sussex
Paul R. Benjamin
Paul R. Benjamin University of Sussex
Tiago Branco
Tiago Branco University College London
Michael O'Shea
Michael O'Shea University of Sussex
Thomas Euler
Thomas Euler University of Tübingen
Michael Häusser
Michael Häusser University College London
William L. Klein
William L. Klein Northwestern University
Wendy Noble
Wendy Noble King's College London
Richard J. Andrew
Richard J. Andrew University of Sussex

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