Shigeki Watanabe PhD

Associate Professor of Cell Biology




 

  1. 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., (2024) Ultrastructural membrane dynamics of mouse and human cortical synapses, BioRxiv, DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.26.630393v1 bioRxiv
  2. 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. link BioRxiv Science cover story  ScienceNews Hopkins News MBL News
  3. 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 link pdf BioRxiV
  4. 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
  5. 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. link pdf BioRxiV
  6. 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. link pdf BioRxiV
  7. 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  link pdf BioRxiV
  8. Watanabe, S., Mamer, L.E., Raychaudhuri, S., Luvsanjav, D., Eisen, J., Trimbuch, T., Söhl-Kielczynski, B., Fenske, P., Milosevic, I., Rosenmund, C., and Jorgensen, E.M. (2018). Synaptojanin and endophilin mediate neck formation during ultrafast endocytosis. Neuron. 98(6), 1184-1197. link pdf
  9. 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. link pdf
  10. 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.   link pdf