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Joseph Zak

Assistant Professor (Biological sciences; Neurosciences)

Chicago, IL

Publications

  • Optical Manipulations Reveal Strong Reciprocal Inhibition But Limited Recurrent Excitation within Olfactory Bulb Glomeruli
  • Neurotransmitter regulation rather than cell‐intrinsic properties shapes the high‐pass filtering properties of olfactory bulb glomeruli
  • Metabotropic glutamate receptors promote disinhibition of olfactory bulb glomeruli that scales with input strength
  • Antagonistic odor interactions in olfactory sensory neurons are widespread in freely breathing mice
  • Balancing Extrasynaptic Excitation and Synaptic Inhibition within Olfactory Bulb Glomeruli
  • Distinct information conveyed to the olfactory bulb by feedforward input from the nose and feedback from the cortex
  • Longitudinal imaging of individual olfactory sensory neurons in situ
  • Olfactory marker protein (OMP) regulates formation and refinement of the olfactory glomerular map
  • A computational framework for temporal sharpening of stimulus input in the olfactory system
  • Antagonism in olfactory receptor neurons and its implications for the perception of odor mixtures
  • Distinct information conveyed to the olfactory bulb by feedforward input from the nose and feedback from the cortex
  • Neural Circuits for Fast Poisson Compressed Sensing in the Olfactory Bulb
  • Calcium-activated chloride channels clamp odor-evoked spike activity in olfactory receptor neurons
  • Mitral Cells in the Olfactory Bulb Are Mainly Excited through a Multistep Signaling Path
  • MeCP2 Is Required for Normal Development of GABAergic Circuits in the Thalamus
  • Thresholding of sensory inputs by extrasynaptic glutamate receptors in olfactory bulb glomeruli
  • Calcium-activated chloride channels clamp odor-evoked spike activity in olfactory receptor neurons
  • Antagonistic odor interactions in olfactory sensory neurons are widespread in freely breathing mice
  • How neuroscience labs can limit their environmental impact
  • Optical manipulations reveal strong reciprocal inhibition but limited recurrent excitation within olfactory bulb glomeruli
  • Neurotransmitter regulation rather than cell-intrinsic properties shape the high-pass filtering properties of olfactory bulb glomeruli
  • Reduction of Neuroinflammation and Seizures in a Mouse Model of CLN1 Batten Disease using the Small Molecule Enzyme Mimetic, N-Tert-Butyl Hydroxylamine
  • Shaping smell: chloride currents dictate the kinetics of olfactory transduction
  • Amplification of olfactory transduction currents implements sparse stimulus encoding
  • Perception and neural representation of intermittent odor stimuli in mice
  • Amplification of Olfactory Transduction Currents Implements Sparse Stimulus Encoding

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