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Marlene Bartos is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Neuroscience, focusing particularly on Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Neurology, Molecular Biology, and Sensory Systems.

The scientist's main research topics cover Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies.

Recent notable publications by Marlene Bartos include:

  • Dentate gyrus circuits for encoding, retrieval and discrimination of episodic memories, 2020, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • The hippocampus converts dynamic entorhinal inputs into stable spatial maps, 2021, Neuron
  • Hippocampal low-frequency stimulation prevents seizure generation in a mouse model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, 2020, eLife
  • Resolving the prefrontal mechanisms of adaptive cognitive behaviors: A cross-species perspective, 2023, Neuron
  • Topographically organized representation of space and context in the medial prefrontal cortex, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors include Jonas-Frederic Sauer, Thomas Hainmueller, Shani Folschweiller, Thibault Cholvin, and Hannah Muysers, indicating collaboration across a network of researchers with strengths in related fields.

Bartos has published repeatedly in several venues known for neuroscience research, such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Neuron, Nature Communications, and Cell Reports.

Best Publications

  • Synaptic mechanisms of synchronized gamma oscillations in inhibitory interneuron networks

    Marlene Bartos;Imre Vida;Peter Jonas

  • Fast synaptic inhibition promotes synchronized gamma oscillations in hippocampal interneuron networks.

    Marlene Bartos;Imre Vida;Michael Frotscher;Axel Meyer

  • Dentate gyrus circuits for encoding, retrieval and discrimination of episodic memories

    Thomas Hainmueller;Marlene Bartos

  • Hippocampal theta rhythm and its coupling with gamma oscillations require fast inhibition onto parvalbumin-positive interneurons

    Peer Wulff;Alexey A. Ponomarenko;Marlene Bartos;Tatiana M. Korotkova

  • Parallel emergence of stable and dynamic memory engrams in the hippocampus

    Thomas Hainmueller;Marlene Bartos

  • Shunting inhibition improves robustness of gamma oscillations in hippocampal interneuron networks by homogenizing firing rates.

    Imre Vida;Marlene Bartos;Peter Jonas

  • Rapid signaling at inhibitory synapses in a dentate gyrus interneuron network.

    Marlene Bartos;Imre Vida;Michael Frotscher;Jörg R. P. Geiger

  • Parvalbumin-positive CA1 interneurons are required for spatial working but not for reference memory

    Andrew J Murray;Jonas-Frederic Sauer;Jonas-Frederic Sauer;Gernot Riedel;Christina McClure

  • Postnatal Differentiation of Basket Cells from Slow to Fast Signaling Devices

    Daniel Doischer;Jonas Aurel Hosp;Yuchio Yanagawa;Kunihiko Obata

  • Organization of prefrontal network activity by respiration-related oscillations

    Jonatan Biskamp;Marlene Bartos;Jonas-Frederic Sauer

  • Coordination of Fast and Slow Rhythmic Neuronal Circuits

    Marlene Bartos;Yair Manor;Farzan Nadim;Eve Marder

  • Functional characteristics of parvalbumin‐ and cholecystokinin‐expressing basket cells

    Marlene Bartos;Claudio Elgueta

  • Distinct nonuniform cable properties optimize rapid and efficient activation of fast-spiking GABAergic interneurons

    Anja Nörenberg;Hua Hu;Imre Vida;Marlene Bartos

  • Intercircuit Control of Motor Pattern Modulation by Presynaptic Inhibition

    Marlene Bartos;Michael P. Nusbaum

  • Synaptic Properties of SOM- and CCK-Expressing Cells in Dentate Gyrus Interneuron Networks

    Shakuntala Savanthrapadian;Thomas Meyer;Claudio Elgueta;Sam A Booker

  • Morpho-physiological criteria divide dentate gyrus interneurons into classes

    Jonas A. Hosp;Michael Strüber;Yuchio Yanagawa;Kunihiko Obata

  • Seed-induced Aβ deposition is modulated by microglia under environmental enrichment in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

    Stephanie Ziegler‐Waldkirch;Paolo d′Errico;Jonas‐Frederic Sauer;Daniel Erny

  • Impaired fast-spiking interneuron function in a genetic mouse model of depression

    Jonas-Frederic Sauer;Michael Strüber;Marlene Bartos

  • Associative plasticity at excitatory synapses facilitates recruitment of fast-spiking interneurons in the dentate gyrus.

    Sivakumar Sambandan;Jonas-Frederic Sauer;Imre Vida;Marlene Bartos

  • Somatostatin-positive interneurons in the dentate gyrus of mice provide local- and long-range septal synaptic inhibition

    Mei Yuan;Thomas Meyer;Christoph Benkowitz;Shakuntala Savanthrapadian

Frequent Co-Authors

Imre Vida
Imre Vida Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Peter Jonas
Peter Jonas Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Akos Kulik
Akos Kulik University of Freiburg
William Wisden
William Wisden Imperial College London
Michael P. Nusbaum
Michael P. Nusbaum University of Pennsylvania
Eve Marder
Eve Marder Brandeis University
Farzan Nadim
Farzan Nadim New Jersey Institute of Technology
Yuchio Yanagawa
Yuchio Yanagawa Gunma University
Hannah Monyer
Hannah Monyer German Cancer Research Center
Kunihiko Obata
Kunihiko Obata The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI

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