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Overview

Reha S. Erzurumlu is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with an emphasis on cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology. Additional interests include social psychology and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their main research topics include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Neuroscience and neural engineering
  • Axon guidance and neuronal signaling
  • Advanced memory and neural computing
  • Anesthesia and neurotoxicity research

Reha S. Erzurumlu has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • How the Barrel Cortex Became a Working Model for Developmental Plasticity: A Historical Perspective, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Wireless Optogenetic Modulation of Cortical Neurons Enabled by Radioluminescent Nanoparticles, 2021, ACS Nano
  • Amyloid Deposition and Dendritic Complexity of Corticocortical Projection Cells in Five Familial Alzheimer's Disease Mouse, 2022, Neuroscience
  • Layers 3 and 4 Neurons of the Bilateral Whisker-Barrel Cortex, 2022, Neuroscience
  • In vivo voltage-sensitive dye imaging of mouse cortical activity with mesoscopic optical tomography, 2020, Neurophotonics

Frequent coauthors in Erzurumlu's collaborations include:

  • Gülgün Şengül
  • Emel Ulupınar
  • Vassiliy Tsytsarev
  • Céline Plachez
  • Shuxin Zhao

Their work is regularly published in scientific venues such as:

  • Neuroscience
  • ACS Nano
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neurophotonics
  • Methods in Molecular Biology

Best Publications

  • Cortex-restricted disruption of NMDAR1 impairs neuronal patterns in the barrel cortex

    Takuji Iwasato;Akash Datwani;Alexander M. Wolf;Hiroshi Nishiyama

  • Whisker-related neuronal patterns fail to develop in the trigeminal brainstem nuclei of NMDAR1 knockout mice

    Yuqing Li;Reha S. Erzurumlu;Chong Chen;Sonal Jhaveri

  • Development and Critical Period Plasticity of the Barrel Cortex

    Reha S. Erzurumlu;Patricia Gaspar;Patricia Gaspar

  • Mapping the face in the somatosensory brainstem

    Reha S. Erzurumlu;Yasunori Murakami;Filippo M. Rijli

  • Neural activity: sculptor of 'barrels' in the neocortex

    Reha S Erzurumlu;Peter C Kind

  • NMDA receptor-dependent refinement of somatotopic maps.

    Takuji Iwasato;Reha S Erzurumlu;Patricio T Huerta;Dong Feng Chen

  • Trigeminal projections to the superior colliculus of the rat

    Herbert P. Killackey;Reha S. Erzurumlu

  • Thalamic axons confer a blueprint of the sensory periphery onto the developing rat somatosensory cortex.

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  • Development of order in the rat trigeminal system.

    Reha S. Erzurumlu;Reha S. Erzurumlu;Herbert P. Killackey;Herbert P. Killackey

  • NMDA receptor-dependent pattern transfer from afferents to postsynaptic cells and dendritic differentiation in the barrel cortex.

    Akash Datwani;Takuji Iwasato;Shigeyoshi Itohara;Reha S. Erzurumlu

  • A Comparison of Pattern Formation by Thalamocortical and Serotonergic Afferents in the Rat Barrel Field Cortex

    M. E. Blue;R. S. Erzurumlu;S. Jhaveri

  • Barrel construction in rodent neocortex: role of thalamic afferents versus extracellular matrix molecules.

    Sonal Jhaveri;Reha S. Erzurumlu;Kathryn Crossin

  • Differential organization of thalamic projection cells in the brain stem trigeminal complex of the rat.

    Reha S. Erzurumlu;Carolyn A. Bates;Herbert P. Killackey

  • Neuropilin 1-Sema signaling regulates crossing of cingulate pioneering axons during development of the corpus callosum.

    Michael Piper;Céline Plachez;Oressia Zalucki;Oressia Zalucki;Thomas Fothergill

  • Neurovascular coupling: in vivo optical techniques for functional brain imaging

    Lun De Liao;Vassiliy Tsytsarev;Ignacio Delgado-Martínez;Meng Lin Li

  • Efferent connections of the brainstem trigeminal complex with the facial nucleus of the rat

    Reha S. Erzurumlu;Herbert P. Killackey

  • NMDA Receptor-Dependent Regulation of Axonal and Dendritic Branching

    Li-Jen Lee;Fu-Sun Lo;Reha S. Erzurumlu

  • Emergence of connectivity in the embryonic rat parietal cortex.

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  • Exuberant thalamocortical axon arborization in cortex-specific NMDAR1 knockout mice.

    Li-Jen Lee;Takuji Iwasato;Shigeyoshi Itohara;Reha S. Erzurumlu

  • Transient patterns of GAP-43 expression during the formation of barrels in the rat somatosensory cortex.

    Reha S. Erzurumlu;Sonal Jhaveri;Larry I. Benowitz

  • Cortical Adenylyl Cyclase 1 Is Required for Thalamocortical Synapse Maturation and Aspects of Layer IV Barrel Development

    Takuji Iwasato;Melis Inan;Hiroaki Kanki;Reha S. Erzurumlu

  • Neurotransmitter release at the thalamocortical synapse instructs barrel formation but not axon patterning in the somatosensory cortex.

    Nicolas Narboux-Nême;Alexis Evrard;Isabelle Ferezou;Reha S. Erzurumlu

  • Role of whiskers in sensorimotor development of C57BL/6 mice.

    Hiroyuki Arakawa;Reha S. Erzurumlu

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda J. Richards
Linda J. Richards Washington University in St. Louis
Mary E. Blue
Mary E. Blue Kennedy Krieger Institute
Alain Chédotal
Alain Chédotal Institut de la Vision
Shigeyoshi Itohara
Shigeyoshi Itohara RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Daniel H. O'Connor
Daniel H. O'Connor Johns Hopkins University
Zhou-Feng Chen
Zhou-Feng Chen Washington University in St. Louis
Chenghua Gu
Chenghua Gu Harvard University
Huanghao Yang
Huanghao Yang Fuzhou University

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