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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1990 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1974 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Nicholas C. Spitzer is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The main areas of study in their work include:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science
  • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Nicholas C. Spitzer include:

  • Marta Pratelli
  • Hui-quan Li
  • Swetha K. Godavarthi
  • Anna M. Hakimi
  • Arth Thaker

Recent papers by Nicholas C. Spitzer are:

  • Generalized fear after acute stress is caused by change in neuronal cotransmitter identity, 2024, Science
  • Breast cancer cell-secreted miR-199b-5p hijacks neurometabolic coupling to promote brain metastasis, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Bioelectronic Medicine: a multidisciplinary roadmap from biophysics to precision therapies, 2024, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • Exercise enhances motor skill learning by neurotransmitter switching in the adult midbrain, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Decoding Neurotransmitter Switching: The Road Forward, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience

Throughout their career, Nicholas C. Spitzer has received several awards and honors including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2000)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1990)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1974)

Best Publications

  • Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Primary Event in Glutamate Neurotoxicity

    Alejandro F. Schinder;Eric C. Olson;Nicholas C. Spitzer;Mauricio Montal

  • Electrical activity in early neuronal development

    Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Distinct aspects of neuronal differentiation encoded by frequency of spontaneous Ca2+ transients.

    Xiaonan Gu;Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • In vivo regulation of axon extension and pathfinding by growth-cone calcium transients

    Timothy M. Gomez;Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Adaptation in the chemotactic guidance of nerve growth cones

    Guo Li Ming;Scott T. Wong;John Henley;Xiao Bing Yuan;Xiao Bing Yuan

  • Activity-dependent homeostatic specification of transmitter expression in embryonic neurons

    Laura N. Borodinsky;Cory M. Root;Julia A. Cronin;Sharon B. Sann

  • Embryonic development of identified neurones: differentiation from neuroblast to neurone

    Corey S. Goodman;Corey S. Goodman;Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Calcium Signaling in Neuronal Development

    Sheila S. Rosenberg;Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Calcium Signaling in Cardiac Myocytes

    Claire J. Fearnley;H. Llewelyn Roderick;Martin D. Bootman

  • Filopodial Calcium Transients Promote Substrate-Dependent Growth Cone Turning

    Timothy M. Gomez;Estuardo Robles;Mu-ming Poo;Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Spontaneous neuronal calcium spikes and waves during early differentiation

    Xiaonan Gu;Eric C. Olson;Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Neurotransmitter switching in the adult brain regulates behavior.

    Davide Dulcis;Pouya Jamshidi;Stefan Leutgeb;Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • The development of the action potential mechanism of amphibian neurons isolated in culture.

    Nicholas C. Spitzer;Janet E. Lamborghini

  • The changing view of neural specificity

    SS Easter;D Purves;P Rakic;NC Spitzer

  • Ion channels in development.

    Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Regulation of intracellular Cl- levels by Na(+)-dependent Cl- cotransport distinguishes depolarizing from hyperpolarizing GABAA receptor-mediated responses in spinal neurons

    Jeffrey Rohrbough;Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Dynamic interactions of cyclic AMP transients and spontaneous Ca(2+) spikes.

    Yuliya V. Gorbunova;Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Development of voltage-dependent calcium, sodium, and potassium currents in Xenopus spinal neurons.

    Diane K O'Dowd;Angeles B Ribera;Nicholas C Spitzer

  • Modeling non-syndromic autism and the impact of TRPC6 disruption in human neurons

    K. Griesi-Oliveira;A. Acab;A. R. Gupta;D. Y. Sunaga

  • A developmental handshake: Neuronal control of ionic currents and their control of neuronal differentiation

    Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Developmental changes in the inward current of the action potential of Rohon‐Beard neurones

    Paola I. Baccaglini;Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Calcium-induced release of calcium regulates differentiation of cultured spinal neurons.

    Janet Holliday;Richard J. Adams;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Nicholas C. Spitzer

  • Fundamental Neuroscience: Fourth Edition

    Larry R. Squire;Larry R. Squire;Darwin Berg;Floyd E. Bloom;Sascha Du Lac

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Bixby
John L. Bixby University of Miami
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Terrence J. Sejnowski Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Larry R. Squire
Larry R. Squire University of California, San Diego
Stefan Leutgeb
Stefan Leutgeb University of California, San Diego
Mu-ming Poo
Mu-ming Poo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yehezkel Ben-Ari
Yehezkel Ben-Ari Neurochlore (France)
Roger B. H. Tootell
Roger B. H. Tootell Harvard University
William S. Kremen
William S. Kremen University of California, San Diego
Guo Li Ming
Guo Li Ming University of Pennsylvania
Terry L. Jernigan
Terry L. Jernigan University of California, San Diego

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