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Paul S. Katz is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Neuroscience and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Ocean Engineering, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics of their work include Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry, Neural dynamics and brain function, Cell Image Analysis Techniques, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Paul S. Katz has contributed to a variety of scientific publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neurophysiology, Current Biology, Brain Sciences, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Their recent papers include:

  • Behavior-related gene regulatory networks: A new level of organization in the brain, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • mEMbrain: an interactive deep learning MATLAB tool for connectomic segmentation on commodity desktops, 2023, Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • Evolution of cephalopod nervous systems, 2023, Current Biology
  • The Consistency of Gastropod Identified Neurons Distinguishes Intra-Individual Plasticity From Inter-Individual Variability in Neural Circuits, 2022, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • A chromosome-level genome for the nudibranch gastropod Berghia stephanieae helps parse clade-specific gene expression in novel and conserved phenotypes, 2024, BMC Biology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with:

  • M. Desmond Ramirez
  • Akira Sakurai
  • Brandon Drescher
  • Jeff W. Lichtman
  • Deirdre C. Lyons

Best Publications

  • Neurons, networks, and motor behavior

    Paul S Katz

  • Serotonergic/cholinergic muscle receptor cells in the crab stomatogastric nervous system. I. Identification and characterization of the gastropyloric receptor cells.

    P. S. Katz;M. H. Eigg;R. M. Harris-Warrick

  • The evolution of neuronal circuits underlying species-specific behavior.

    Paul S Katz;Ronald M Harris-Warrick

  • Intrinsic neuromodulation: altering neuronal circuits from within

    Paul S. Katz;William N. Frost

  • Evolution of central pattern generators and rhythmic behaviours.

    Paul S. Katz

  • Serotonergic/cholinergic muscle receptor cells in the crab stomatogastric nervous system. II. Rapid nicotinic and prolonged modulatory effects on neurons in the stomatogastric ganglion.

    P. S. Katz;R. M. Harris-Warrick

  • Actions of identified neuromodulatory neurons in a simple motor system

    Paul S. Katz;Ronald M. Harris-Warrick

  • Dynamic neuromodulation of synaptic strength intrinsic to a central pattern generator circuit

    Paul S. Katz;Peter A. Getting;William N. Frost

  • Beyond neurotransmission : neuromodulation and its importance for information processing

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  • Single neuron control over a complex motor program

    William N. Frost;Paul S. Katz

  • NSF workshop report: discovering general principles of nervous system organization by comparing brain maps across species.

    Georg F. Striedter;T. Grant Belgard;Chun-Chun Chen;Fred P. Davis

  • Intrinsic and extrinsic neuromodulation of motor circuits

    Paul S Katz

  • Neural mechanisms underlying the evolvability of behaviour.

    Paul S. Katz

  • Neuromodulation of the crab pyloric central pattern generator by serotonergic/cholinergic proprioceptive afferents

    Paul S. Katz;Ronald M. Harris-Warrick

  • Intrinsic neuromodulation in the Tritonia swim CPG: the serotonergic dorsal swim interneurons act presynaptically to enhance transmitter release from interneuron C2

    Paul S. Katz;William N. Frost

  • Intrinsic neuromodulation in the Tritonia swim CPG: serotonin mediates both neuromodulation and neurotransmission by the dorsal swim interneurons

    P. S. Katz;W. N. Frost

  • Facilitation and depression at different branches of the same motor axon: evidence for presynaptic differences in release

    PS Katz;Kirk;CK Govind

  • Homology and homoplasy of swimming behaviors and neural circuits in the Nudipleura (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia).

    James M. Newcomb;Akira Sakurai;Joshua L. Lillvis;Charuni A. Gunaratne

  • Homologues of serotonergic central pattern generator neurons in related nudibranch molluscs with divergent behaviors

    James M. Newcomb;James M. Newcomb;Paul S. Katz

  • The effect of oral 5-HTP administration on 5-HTP and 5-HT immunoreactivity in monoaminergic brain regions of rats

    Christina P Lynn-Bullock;Kristy Welshhans;Sarah L Pallas;Paul S Katz

  • Different functions for homologous serotonergic interneurons and serotonin in species-specific rhythmic behaviours.

    James M Newcomb;Paul S Katz

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald M. Harris-Warrick
Ronald M. Harris-Warrick Cornell University
William B. Kristan
William B. Kristan University of California, San Diego
Shaun P. Collin
Shaun P. Collin La Trobe University
Julie A. Harris
Julie A. Harris University of California, San Francisco
Nicholas J. Strausfeld
Nicholas J. Strausfeld University of Arizona
Onur Güntürkün
Onur Güntürkün Ruhr University Bochum
Georg F. Striedter
Georg F. Striedter University of California, Irvine
R. Glenn Northcutt
R. Glenn Northcutt University of California, San Diego
Harvey J. Karten
Harvey J. Karten University of California, San Diego
Andrew N. Iwaniuk
Andrew N. Iwaniuk University of Lethbridge

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