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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 - Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease
  • 1992 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Roberto Malinow is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions to cellular and molecular neuroscience, pharmacology, molecular biology, biological psychiatry, and physiology.

Their work covers several main topics including treatment of major depression, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, tryptophan and brain disorders, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, neural dynamics and brain function, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, and stress responses and cortisol.

Malinow has authored multiple papers, including recent publications such as:

  • "Opioid system is necessary but not sufficient for antidepressive actions of ketamine in rodents" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "PSD-95 protects synapses from β-amyloid" (2021), Cell Reports
  • "Elevated PSD-95 Blocks Ion-flux Independent LTD: A Potential New Role for PSD-95 in Synaptic Plasticity" (2020), Neuroscience
  • "SYNPLA, a method to identify synapses displaying plasticity after learning" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A Machine Learning Method to Identify Genetic Variants Potentially Associated With Alzheimer's Disease" (2021), Frontiers in Genetics

Their frequent coauthors include Matthew Klein, Kim Doré, J. Suresh Chandra, Salma Sheriff, and Marc Marino.

Malinow has published extensively in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cell Reports
  • Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Genetics
  • Biological Psychiatry

Over the course of their career, Roberto Malinow has received several recognitions, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2012) and the National Academy of Medicine (2015). Other distinctions include the Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease (2003) and being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1992).

Best Publications

  • AMPA Receptor Trafficking and Synaptic Plasticity

    Roberto Malinow;Robert C. Malenka

  • APP processing and synaptic function.

    Flavio Kamenetz;Taisuke Tomita;Helen Hsieh;Helen Hsieh;Guy Seabrook

  • Driving AMPA Receptors into Synapses by LTP and CaMKII: Requirement for GluR1 and PDZ Domain Interaction

    Yasunori Hayashi;Song Hai Shi;José A. Esteban;Antonella Piccini

  • Inhibition of postsynaptic PKC or CaMKII blocks induction but not expression of LTP.

    Roberto Malinow;Howard Schulman;Richard W. Tsien

  • Rapid Spine Delivery and Redistribution of AMPA Receptors After Synaptic NMDA Receptor Activation

    Song-Hai Shi;Yasunori Hayashi;Ronald S. Petralia;Shahid H. Zaman

  • Activation of postsynaptically silent synapses during pairing-induced LTP in CA1 region of hippocampal slice

    Dezhi Liao;Neal A. Hessler;Neal A. Hessler;Roberto Malinow;Roberto Malinow

  • Rapid Dendritic Morphogenesis in CA1 Hippocampal Dendrites Induced by Synaptic Activity

    M. Maletic-Savatic;R. Malinow;K. Svoboda

  • Subunit-specific rules governing AMPA receptor trafficking to synapses in hippocampal pyramidal neurons.

    Song-Hai Shi;Yasunori Hayashi;Yasunori Hayashi;José A. Esteban;Roberto Malinow

  • AMPAR removal underlies Abeta-induced synaptic depression and dendritic spine loss.

    Helen Hsieh;Jannic Boehm;Chihiro Sato;Takeshi Iwatsubo

  • Synaptic AMPA Receptor Plasticity and Behavior

    Helmut W. Kessels;Roberto Malinow

  • Engineering a memory with LTD and LTP

    Sadegh Nabavi;Rocky Fox;Christophe D. Proulx;John Y. Lin

  • PKA phosphorylation of AMPA receptor subunits controls synaptic trafficking underlying plasticity

    José A. Esteban;Song Hai Shi;Christopher Wilson;Mutsuo Nuriya

  • Presynaptic enhancement shown by whole-cell recordings of long-term potentiation in hippocampal slices.

    Roberto Malinow;Richard W. Tsien

  • Ras and Rap Control AMPA Receptor Trafficking during Synaptic Plasticity

    J.Julius Zhu;J.Julius Zhu;Yi Qin;Yi Qin;Mingming Zhao;Linda Van Aelst

  • Postsynaptic Receptor Trafficking Underlying a Form of Associative Learning

    Simon Rumpel;Joseph LeDoux;Joseph LeDoux;Anthony Zador;Anthony Zador;Roberto Malinow;Roberto Malinow

  • NMDA receptor subunit composition controls synaptic plasticity by regulating binding to CaMKII.

    Andres Barria;Roberto Malinow

  • Subunit-Specific NMDA Receptor Trafficking to Synapses

    Andres Barria;Roberto Malinow

  • The probability of transmitter release at a mammalian central synapse

    Neal A. Hessler;Aneil M. Shirke;Roberto Malinow

  • Synaptic potentiation onto habenula neurons in the learned helplessness model of depression

    Bo Li;Joaquin Piriz;Martine Mirrione;Martine Mirrione;ChiHye Chung

  • Maturation of a central glutamatergic synapse

    Gangyi Wu;R. Malinow;H. T. Cline

  • Postsynaptic Density 95 controls AMPA Receptor Incorporation during Long-Term Potentiation and Experience-Driven Synaptic Plasticity

    Ingrid Ehrlich;Roberto Malinow

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard W. Tsien
Richard W. Tsien New York University
Robert C. Malenka
Robert C. Malenka Stanford University
Song-Hai Shi
Song-Hai Shi Tsinghua University
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Allen Institute
Richard L. Huganir
Richard L. Huganir Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Zachary F. Mainen
Zachary F. Mainen Champalimaud Foundation
Sangram S. Sisodia
Sangram S. Sisodia University of Chicago
Roger A. Nicoll
Roger A. Nicoll University of California, San Francisco
Anthony M. Zador
Anthony M. Zador Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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