Shigeki Watanabe PhD

Professor of Cell Biology




Pepper, R., Griswold, J.M., Middleton-Davis, F., Syed, S., Imoto, Y., Tran, L., Park, E., Xu, Y.K.T., Bergles, D., Buchanan, J., and Watanabe, S., (2026) Microglia extract neuronal proteolytic organelles via skoupocytosis, BioRxiv, DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.22.740182
 
Eddings, C., Fan, M., Imoto, Y., Itoh, K., McDonald, X., Eilers, J., Anderson, W.S., Worley, P.F., Lippmann, K., Nauen, D.W., Watanabe, S., (2026) Ultrastructural membrane dynamics of mouse and human cortical synapses, Neuron, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.10.030
 
Ogunmowo, T., Hoffmann, C., Pepper, R., Wang, H., Gowrisankaran, S., Ho, A., Raychaudhuri, S., Cooper, B.H., Milosevic, I., Milovanovic, D., Watanabe, S., (2025) Intersectin and Endophilin condensates prime synaptic vesicles for release site replenishment, Nature Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-02002-4. 
 
Griswold, J.M., Bonilla-Quintana, M., Pepper, R., Lee, C.T., Raychaudhuri, S., Ma, S., Gan, Q., Syed, S., Zhu, C., Bell, M., Suga, M., Yamaguchi, Y., Chéreau, R., Nägerl, U.V., Knott, G., Rangamani, P.*, Watanabe, S.*, (2024) Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function, Nature Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1038/s41593-024-01813-1. 
 
Wu, Z., Kusick, G.F., Raychaudhuri, S., Itoh, K., Chapman, E.R.*, Watanabe, S.*, (2024) Synaptotagmin 7 supplies docked vesicles for Doc2ɑ-triggered asynchronous neurotransmitter release, eLife, 12:RP90632, DOI: 10.7554/eLife.90632 
 
Ogunmowo, T., Hoffmann, C., Pepper, R., Wang, H., Gowrisankaran, S., Ho, A., Raychaudhuri, S., Cooper, B.H., Milosevic, I., Milovanovic, D., Watanabe, S., (2023) Intersectin and Endophilin condensates prime synaptic vesicles for release site replenishment, DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.22.554276. BioRxiv
 
Imoto, Y., Raychaudhuri, S.*, Ma, Y.*, Fenske, P., Sandoval, E., Itoh, K., Blumrich, E., Matsubayashi, H.T.,  Mamer, L., Zarebidaki, F., Söhl-Kielczynski, B., Trimbuch, T., Nayak, Shraddha, Iwasa, J., Liu, J., Wu, B., Ha, T., Inoue, T., Jorgensen, E.M., Cousin, M., Rosenmund, C., Watanabe, S., (2022), Dynamin is primed at endocytic sites for ultrafast endocytosis, Neuron, S0896-6273(22)00548-7. 
 
Li, S., Raychaudhuri, S., Lee, S.A., Wang, J., Kusick, G.F., Prater, C., Syed, S., Falahati, H., Ramos, R., Bartol, T.M., Hosy, E., and Watanabe., S., (2021) Asynchronous release sites are aligned with NMDA receptors at mouse hippocampal synapses. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21004-x. 
 
Kusick, G. F. Chin, M., Lippmann, K., Adula, K.P., Davis, M.W., Jorgensen, E.M., and Watanabe, S. (2020) Synaptic vesicles transiently dock to refill release sites. Nature Neuroscience, 23,  1329–1338, DOI: 10.1038/s41593-020-00716-1  
 
Watanabe S, Trimbuch T, Camacho-Perez M, Rost BR, Brokowski B, Söhl-Kielczynski B, Felies A, Rosenmund C, Jorgensen EM. Clathrin regenerates synaptic vesicles from endosomes, Nature 2014;515: 228-233. 
 
Watanabe S, Rost BR, Camacho-Perez M, Davis MW, Söhl-Kielczynski B, Rosenmund C, Jorgesen EM. Ultrafast endocytosis at mouse hippocampal synapses, Nature 2013:504; 242-247.