Key Publications: Lora Sweeney

Lora Sweeney

Key Publications

1: Salamatina A, Yang JH, Brenner-Morton S, Bikoff JB, Fang L, Kintner CR, Jessell TM, and Sweeney LB. Differential Loss of Spinal Interneurons in a Mouse Model of ALS. Neuroscience. 2020 Aug 25; S0306-4522(20)30520-0. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.08.011.

2: Sweeney LB, Bikoff JB*, Gabitto MI*, Brenner-Morton S, Baek M, Yang JH, Tabak E, Dasen JS, Kintner CR, and Jessell TM. Origin and Segmental Diversity of Spinal Inhibitory Interneurons. Neuron. 2018 Jan17;97(2):341-355.

3: Sweeney LB and Darcy B. Kelley. Harnessing Vocal Patterns for Social Communication. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2014 Oct;28:34-41.

4: Joo WJ, Sweeney LB, Liang L, Luo L. Linking Cell Fate, Trajectory Choice, and Target Selection: Genetic Analysis of Sema-2b in Olfactory Targeting. Neuron. 2013 May22;78(4):673-86.

5: Sweeney LB, Chou Y*, Wu Z*, Joo W*, Komiyama T, Potter C, Kolodkin A, Garcia KC, Luo L. Secreted Semaphorins from Degenerating Larval ORN Axons Pattern Developing Projection Neuron Dendrites. Neuron. 2011 Dec 8;72(5):734-47.

6: Wu Z, Sweeney LB, Ayoob JC, Chak K, Andreone BJ, Ohyama T, Kerr R, Luo L, Zlactic M, Kolodkin A. A Combinatorial Semaphorin Code Instructs The Initial Steps of Sensory Circuit Assembly In The Drosophila CNS. Neuron. 2011 Apr 28;70(2):281-98.

7: Sweeney LB and Liqun Luo. ‘Fore-brain: A hint of the ancestral cortex.  Cell. 2010 Sep 3;142(5):679-81.

8: Sweeney LB*, Couto A, Chou Y, Berdnick D, Dickson BJ, Luo L, and Komiyama T*.  Temporal Target Restriction of Olfactory Receptor Neurons by Semaphorin-1a/PlexinA Mediated Axon-axon Interactions. Neuron. 2007 Jan 26;128(2):399-410.

9: Komiyama T, Sweeney LB, Schuldiner O, and Luo L. Graded Expression of Semaphorin-1a Cell-Autonomously Instructs Dendritic Targeting of Olfactory Projection Neurons. Cell. 2007 Jan 18;53(2):185-200.