Shigeki Watanabe PhD

Associate Professor of Cell Biology




Watanabe, S., Flash-and-freeze: coordinating optogenetic stimulation with rapid freezing to visualize membrane dynamics at synapses with millisecond resolution, Front. Synaptic Neurosci. 8:24. doi: 10.3389/fnsyn.2016.00024
 
Watanabe, S. (2015). Slow or fast? A tale of synaptic vesicle recycling. Science, 350, 46-7.
 
Watanabe, S., T. Trimbuch, M. Camacho-Pérez, B.R. Rost, B. Brokowski, B. Söhl-Kielczynski, A. Felies, M.W. Davis, C. Rosenmund, and E.M. Jorgensen. 2014. Clathrin regenerates synaptic vesicles from edosomes. Nature 515, p228-33,  DOI 10.1038/nature13846. PMCID: PMC4291189.
 
Watanabe, S., Q. Liu, M.W. Davis , N. Thomas, J. Richards, G. Hollopeter, M. Gu, N.B. Jorgensen and E.M. Jorgensen. 2013. Ultrafast endocytosis at the C. elegans neuromuscular junction.  eLife  2:e00723.  PMCID: PMC3762212.
 
Gu, M., Q. Liu, S. Watanabe, L. Sun, B. Grant, and E.M. Jorgensen. 2013. AP2 hemicomplexes contribute independently to synaptic vesicle endocytosis. eLife 2, p00190.  PMCID: PMC3591783.
 
Shao, Z., Watanabe, S., Christensen, R., Jorgensen, E.M., and Colón-Ramos, D.A., (2013). Synapse location during growth depends on glia location, Cell 154, 337-350. PMCID: PMC3808971.
 
Watanabe, S., B. Rost., M. Camacho, M. W. Davis, B. Söhl-Kielczynski, A. Felies, C. Rosenmund and E.M. Jorgensen. 2013. Ultrafast endocytosis at mouse hippocampal synapses.  Nature. 504, 242-7.  doi: 10.1038/12809. PMCID: PMC3957339.
 
Watanabe, S., Richards, J., Hollopeter, G., Hobson, R.J., Davis, M.W., and Jorgensen, E.M. 2012. Nano-fEM: protein localization using correlative photo-activated localization microscopy and electron microscopy. Journal of Visual Experiments 3, e3995. doi: 10.3791/3995. PMCID: PMC3566706.
 
Hobson, R.J., Q. Liu, S. Watanabe and E.M. Jorgensen. 2011. Complexin maintains vesicles in the primed state in C. elegans. Current Biology 21, p106-113. PMCID: PMC348763.
 
Watanabe, S., A. Punge , G. Hollopeter , K.I. Willig, R.J. Hobson  , M.W. Davis , S.W. Hell , and E.M. Jorgensen. 2011. Protein localization in electron micrographs using fluorescence nanoscopy.  Nature Methods 8, p80-84. PMCID: PMC3059187.
 
Oikonomou, G., Perens, E. A., Lu, Y., Watanabe, S., Jorgensen, E. M., and Shaham, S. (2011). Opposing activities of LIT-1/NLK and DAF-6/patched-related direct sensory compartment morphogenesis in C. elegans. PLoS Biol. 9, e1001121. PMCID: PMC3153439.
 
Ou, C.-Y., Poon, V. Y., Maeder, C. I., Watanabe, S., Lehrman, E. K., Fu, A. K. Y., Park, M., Fu, W.-Y., Jorgensen, E. M., Ip, N. Y., et al. (2010). Two cyclin-dependent kinase pathways are essential for polarized trafficking of presynaptic components. Cell 141, 846–858. PMCID: PMC3168554.
 
Hammarlund, M., Palfreyman, M. T., Watanabe, S., Olsen, S., and Jorgensen, E. M. (2007). Open syntaxin docks synaptic vesicles. PLoS Biol. 5, e198. PMCID: PMC3048763.