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Mark Mayford is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with particular attention to cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and molecular biology as subfields of study.

The scientist's research addresses key topics such as memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and the study of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Additional areas of interest include the influence of neurotransmitter receptors on behavior and receptor mechanisms and signaling.

Mark Mayford's recent publications include the following:

  • Compulsive alcohol seeking and relapse: Central role of conditioning factors associated with alleviation of withdrawal states by alcohol (2022, British Journal of Pharmacology)
  • Synaptic potentiation of engram cells is necessary and sufficient for context fear memory (2025, Communications Biology)
  • Synaptic Potentiation of Engram cells is Necessary and Sufficient for Context Fear Memory (2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))

Frequent collaborators in their research include Leonardo M. Cardozo, André F. de Sousa, Blythe C. Dillingham, Westley Dang, and Nicholas Job.

The venues in which Mark Mayford has published recently feature in respected journals such as the British Journal of Pharmacology, Communications Biology, and preprint platforms like bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Control of memory formation through regulated expression of a CaMKII transgene

    Mark Mayford;Mary Elizabeth Bach;Yan You Huang;Lei Wang

  • Subregion- and Cell Type–Restricted Gene Knockout in Mouse Brain

    Joe Z Tsien;Dong Feng Chen;David Gerber;Cindy Tom

  • The Molecular and Systems Biology of Memory

    Eric R. Kandel;Yadin Dudai;Mark R. Mayford

  • A shared neural ensemble links distinct contextual memories encoded close in time

    Denise J. Cai;Daniel Aharoni;Daniel Aharoni;Tristan Shuman;Justin Shobe

  • CBP Histone Acetyltransferase Activity Is a Critical Component of Memory Consolidation

    Edward Korzus;Edward Korzus;Michael G Rosenfeld;Mark Mayford;Mark Mayford

  • Localization of a stable neural correlate of associative memory.

    Leon G. Reijmers;Brian L. Perkins;Naoki Matsuo;Mark Mayford

  • Impairment of spatial but not contextual memory in CaMKII mutant mice with a selective loss of hippocampal ltp in the range of the θ frequency

    Mary Elizabeth Bach;Robert D Hawkins;Mona Osman;Eric R Kandel

  • CaMKII regulates the frequency-response function of hippocampal synapses for the production of both LTD and LTP

    Mark Mayford;Jian Wang;Eric R Kandel;Thomas J O'Dell

  • Disruption of dendritic translation of CaMKIIα impairs stabilization of synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation

    Stephan Miller;Masahiro Yasuda;Jennifer K Coats;Ying Jones

  • Synapses and Memory Storage

    Mark Mayford;Steven A. Siegelbaum;Eric R. Kandel

  • Regional and strain-specific gene expression mapping in the adult mouse brain

    Rickard Sandberg;Rie Yasuda;Daniel G. Pankratz;Todd A. Carter

  • Generation of a Synthetic Memory Trace

    Aleena R. Garner;David C. Rowland;Sang Youl Hwang;Karsten Baumgaertel

  • Modulation of an NCAM-related adhesion molecule with long-term synaptic plasticity in Aplysia

    Mark Mayford;Ari Barzilai;Ari Barzilai;Flavio Keller;Flavio Keller;Samuel Schacher

  • Mutant mice and neuroscience: Recommendations concerning genetic background

    Alcino J. Silva;Elizabeth M. Simpson;Joseph S. Takahashi;Hans Peter Lipp

  • Restricted and regulated overexpression reveals calcineurin as a key component in the transition from short-term to long-term memory.

    Isabelle M Mansuy;Mark Mayford;Betsy Jacob;Eric R Kandel

  • The 3′-untranslated region of CaMKIIα is a cis-acting signal for the localization and translation of mRNA in dendrites

    Mark Mayford;Danny Baranes;Katrina Podsypanina;Eric R. Kandel

  • Spine-type-specific recruitment of newly synthesized AMPA receptors with learning.

    Naoki Matsuo;Leon Reijmers;Mark Mayford

  • Direct reactivation of a coherent neocortical memory of context.

    Kiriana Kater Cowansage;Tristan Shuman;Blythe Christine Dillingham;Allene Chang

  • Locally synchronized synaptic inputs.

    Naoya Takahashi;Kazuo Kitamura;Naoki Matsuo;Mark Mayford

  • Genetic approaches to memory storage

    Mark Mayford;Eric R Kandel

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric R. Kandel
Eric R. Kandel Columbia University
Isabelle M. Mansuy
Isabelle M. Mansuy University of Zurich
Danny G. Winder
Danny G. Winder Vanderbilt University
Mark J. Thomas
Mark J. Thomas University of Minnesota
Peyman Golshani
Peyman Golshani University of California, Los Angeles
Seth G. N. Grant
Seth G. N. Grant University of Edinburgh
Fred H. Gage
Fred H. Gage Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Yadin Dudai
Yadin Dudai Weizmann Institute of Science
Morgan Sheng
Morgan Sheng Broad Institute
Richard W. Tsien
Richard W. Tsien New York University

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