Dwight Bergles PhD

Professor of Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery




Selected publications (from 2021-present)

Xu YKT, Call CL, Sulam J, and Bergles DE (2021) Automated in vivo tracking of cortical oligodendrocytes. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. ePub, 12 April 2021 

Kellner V, Kersbergen C, Li S, Babola T Saher G, and Bergles DE (2021) Dual metabotropic glutamate receptor signaling enables coordination of astrocyte and neuron activity in developing sensory domains. Neuron. 109:2545-2555.

Call CL and Bergles DE (2021) Cortical neurons exhibit diverse myelination patterns that scale between mouse brain regions and regenerate after demyelination. Nature Communications 12: 4767 (2021). 

Heo D, Ling JP, Molina-Castro GC, Langseth AJ, Waisman A, Nave K-A, Möbius W, Wong PC, and Bergles DE (2022) Stage-specific control of oligodendrocyte survival and morphogenesis by TDP-43. eLife 2022;11:e75230 

Kersbergen CJ, Babola TA, Rock J, and Bergles DE (2022) Developmental spontaneous activity establishes sensory domains, frequency tuning and proper gain in central auditory circuits. Cell Reports. 41:111649. 

Xu YKT, Graves AR, Coste GI, Huganir RL, Bergles DE, Charles AS, Sulam J (2023) Cross-modality supervised image restoration enables nanoscale tracking of synaptic plasticity in living mice. Nature Methods. 20:935-944.

Kersbergen CJ, Babola TA, Kanold PO, and Bergles DE (2023) Preservation of prehearing spontaneous activity enables early auditory system development in deaf mice. PLOS Biology. 21:e3002160.

Lu TY, Hanumaihgari P, Hsu ET, Agarwal A, Kawaguchi R, Calabresi PA, and Bergles DE (2023) Norepinephrine enhances oligodendrocyte precursor cell calcium dynamics in the cerebral cortex during arousal. Nature Neuroscience. 26:1739-1750.

Gau Y-T A, Hsu E, Cha J, Pak RW, Looger LL, Kang JU, and Bergles DE (2024) Multicore fiber optic imaging reveals that astrocyte calcium activity in the cerebral cortex is modulated by internal motivational state. Nature Communications. 15:3039.