Optogenetics: Molecules enabling neural control by light

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Boyden, E. S. (2015) Optogenetics and the future of neuroscience (Overview, Optogenetics 10th Anniversary Issue), Nature Neuroscience 18:1200–1201.

Madisen, L., Garner, A.R., Shimaoka, D., Chuong, A.S., Klapoetke, N.C., Li, L., van der Bourg, A., Niino, Y., Egolf, L., Monetti, C., Gu, H., Mills, M., Cheng, A., Tasic, B., Nguyen, T.N., Sunkin, S.M., Benucci, A., Nagy, A., Miyawaki, A., Helmchen, F., Empson, R.M., Knöpfel, T., Boyden, E.S., Reid, R.C., Carandini, M., Zeng, H. (2015) Transgenic Mice for Intersectional Targeting of Neural Sens...

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Boyden, E. S. (2014) Let there be light, Scientific American Mind, November/December 2014.

Chuong, A. S., Miri, M. L.*, Busskamp, V.*, Matthews, G.A.C.*, Acker, L.C.*, Soresnsen, A.T., Young, A., Klapoetke, N. C., Henninger, M.A., Kodandaramaiah, S.B., Ogawa, M., Ramanlal, S. B., Bandler, R. C., Allen, B. D., Forest, C.R., Chow, B.Y., Han, X., Lin, Y., Tye, K.M., Roska, B., Cardin, J.A., Boyden, E. S. (2014) Noninvasive optical inhibition with a red-shifted microbial rhodopsin, Natur...

Hochbaum, D.R.*, Zhao, Y.*, Farhi, S.L., Klapoetke, N.C., Werley, C.A., Kapoor, V., Zou, P., Kralj, J.M., Maclaurin, D., Smedemark-Margulies, N., Saulnier, J., Boulting, G.L., Straub, C., Cho, Y., Melkonian, M., Wong, G.K.-S., Harrison, D. J., Murthy, V.N., Sabatini, B., Boyden, E.S.**, Campbell, R.E.**, Cohen, A.E. (2014) All-optical electrophysiology in mammalian neurons using engineered micr...

Klapoetke, N. C., Murata, Y., Kim S. S., Pulver, S. R., Birdsey-Benson, A., Cho, Y. K., Morimoto, T. K., Chuong, A. S., Carpenter, E. J., Tian, Z., Wang, J., Xie, Y., Yan, Z., Zhang, Y., Chow, B.Y., Surek, B., Melkonian, M., Jayaraman, V., Constantine-Paton, M., Wong, G. K.*, Boyden, E. S.* (2014) Independent Optical Excitation of Distinct Neural Populations, Nature Methods 11:338–346. (* co-co...

Schmidt, D., Tillberg, P. W.*, Chen, F.*, Boyden, E. S. (2014) A fully genetically-encoded protein architecture for optical control of peptide ligand concentration, Nature Communications, 5:3019. (* equal contribution)

Chow, B. Y.* and Boyden, E. S.* (2013) Optogenetics and Translational Medicine, Science Translational Medicine 5(177):177ps5. (* co-corresponding authors)

Chow, B. Y., Han, X., Bernstein, J. G., Monahan, P. E., Boyden, E. S. (2012) Light-Activated Ion Pumps and Channels for Temporally Precise Optical Control of Activity in Genetically Targeted Neurons, p. 305-338, Neuronal Network Analysis: Concepts and Experimental Approaches, edited by Tommaso Fellin and Michael Halassa,Neuromethods Series Volume 67, Humana Press.

Madisen, L., Mao, T., Koch, H., Zhuo, J.-m., Berenyi, A., Fujisawa, S., Hsu, Y.-W., Garcia, A. J., Gu, X., Zanella, S., Kidney, J., Gu, H., Mao, Y., Hooks, B. M., Boyden, E. S., Buzsáki, G., Ramirez, J. M., Jones, A. R., Svoboda, K., Han, X., Turner, E. E., Zeng, H. (2012) A toolbox of Cre-dependent optogenetic transgenic mice for light-induced activation and silencing, Nature Neuroscience 15(5):7

Bernstein, J. G., Garrity, P. A.*, Boyden, E. S.* (2012) Optogenetics and thermogenetics: technologies for controlling the activity of targeted cells within intact neural circuits, Current Opinion in Neurobiology 22(1):61-71. (* co-corresponding authors)

Chow B.Y., Han, X., Boyden, E. S. (2012) Genetically encoded molecular tools for light-driven silencing of targeted neurons, Progress in Brain Research 196:49-61.

Knopfel, T., Boyden, E. S. (2012) Tools for observing and controlling specific molecular or physiological pathways in intact cells and tissues. Preface, Progress in Brain Research 196:vii–viii.

Bernstein, J. G., Boyden, E. S. (2011) Optogenetic tools for analyzing the neural circuits of behavior, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15(12):592-600.

Boyden ES. (2011) Optogenetics: using light to control the brain, Cerebrum 2011:16.

Kleinlogel, S., Terpitz, U., Legrum, B., Gokbuget, D., Boyden, E. S., Bamann, C., Wood, P. G., Bamberg, E. (2011) A gene-fusion strategy for stoichiometric and co-localized expression of light-gated membrane proteins, Nature Methods 8(12):1083-1088.

Doroudchi, M. M., Greenberg, K. P., Zorzos, A. N., Hauswirth, W. W., Fonstad, C. G., Horsager, A., Boyden, E. S. (2011) Towards Optogenetic Sensory Replacement, Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2011:3139-41.

Tsunematsu, T., Kilduff, T., Boyden, E. S., Takahashi, S., Tominaga, M., Yamanaka, A. (2011) Acute optogenetic silencing of orexin/hypocretin neurons induces slow wave sleep in mice, Journal of Neuroscience 31(29): 10529-10539.

Boyden, E. S. (2011) The Birth of Optogenetics, The Scientist, July 2011 Issue. (Cover Story.)

Chow, B. Y. and Boyden, E. S. (2011) Synthetic Physiology, Science 332(6037):1508-1509.

Boyden, E.S. (2011) A history of optogenetics: the development of tools for controlling brain circuits with light, F1000 Biology Reports 3:11.

Han, X.*, Chow, B. Y.*, Zhou, H., Klapoetke, N. C., Chuong, A., Rajimehr, R., Yang, A., Baratta, M. V., Winkle, J., Desimone, R., Boyden, E. S. (2011) A high-light sensitivity optical neural silencer: development and application to optogenetic control of non-human primate cortex, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 5:18. (* co-first authors)

Chow, B. Y.*, Chuong, A. S. *, Klapoetke, N. C. *, Boyden, E. S. (2011) Synthetic Physiology: Strategies for Adapting Tools from Nature for Genetically-Targeted Control of Fast Biological Processes, Methods in Enzymology 497:425-43. (* co-first authors)

Boyden, E. S. (2011) Optogenetics. 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC ’11).

Knopfel, T., Lin, M. Z., Levskaya, A., Tian, L., Lin, J. Y., Boyden, E. S. (2010) Toward the Second Generation of Optogenetic Tools, Journal of Neuroscience 30(45):14998-15004.

Boyden, E. S. (2010) Controlling the Brain with Light. SPIE Newsroom. 6/10/2010.

Boyden, E. S. and Chow, B. Y. (2010) "Defining An Algorithm For Inventing From Nature." Column, Technology Review. 1/19/2010.

Chow, B. Y.*, Han, X.*, Dobry, A. S., Qian, X., Chuong, A. S., Li, M., Henninger, M. A., Belfort, G. M., Lin, Y., Monahan, P. E., Boyden, E. S. (2010) High-performance genetically targetable optical neural silencing by light- driven proton pumps, Nature 463:98-102. (* co-first authors)

Boyden, E. S. (2010) "Molecular Tools for Controlling Brain Circuits with Light," Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology Competition Essay, Science Magazine.

Han X., Qian X., Stern P., Chuong A. and Boyden E.S. (2009) Informational Lesions: Optical Perturbation of Spike Timing and Neural Synchrony Via Microbial Opsin Gene Fusions, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 2:12.

Wang, H., Peca, J., Matsusaki, M., Matsusaki, K., Noguchi, J., Qiu, L., Wang, D., Zhang, F., Boyden, E. S., Deisseroth, K., Kasai, H., Hall, W. C., Feng, G., Augustine, G. J. (2007) High-speed mapping of synaptic connectivity using photostimulation in channelrhodopsin-2 transgenic mice, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(19):8143-848.

Han, X. and Boyden, E. S. (2007) Multiple-color optical activation, silencing, and desynchronization of neural activity, with single-spike temporal resolution, PLoS ONE 2(3): p. e299.

Zhang, F., Wang, L.-P., Boyden, E. S., Deisseroth, K. (2006) Optical control of excitable cells and Channelrhodopsin-2, Nature Methods 3(10):785-92.

Boyden, E. S., Zhang, F., Bamberg, E., Nagel, G., Deisseroth, K. (2005) Millisecond-timescale, genetically-targeted optical control of neural activity, Nature Neuroscience 8(9):1263-1268.