Mark Yeckel, Ph.D.

Mark Yeckel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurobiology,
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

B.A., 1986: Univ. of California, San Diego
Ph.D. 1995: University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests

Information encoding by neurons at the subcellular, cellular, and systems levels, particularly as it relates to learning and memory processes.

Representative Publications

Hagenston, A.M., Fitzpatrick, J.S., and Yeckel, M.F. MGluR-mediated, IP3R-dependent calcium waves into the soma inhibit layer V medial prefrontal cortical pyramidal neurons. Cerebral Cortex, 2007.

Gipson, K.E. and Yeckel, M.F. Coincident glutamatergic and cholinergic inputs transiently depress glutamate release at rat Schaffer collateral synapses. J. Neurophysiol., 2007. 97:4108- 4119.

Nakazawa, K., Quirk, M.C., Chitwood, R.A., Watanbabe, M., Yeckel, M.F., Sun, L.D., Kato, A., Carr, C.A., Johnston, D., Wilson, M.A., Tonegawa, S. Evidence for a crucial role of hippocampal CA3 NMDA receptors in associative memory recall. Science, 2002. 297: 211- 218.

Yeckel, M.F., Kapur, A., and Johnston, D., Multiple forms of LTP in CA3 neurons use a common postsynaptic mechanism. Nature Neuroscience, 1999. 2(7): p. 625-633.

Yeckel, M.F. and Berger, T.W., Spatial distribution of potentiated synapses in hippocampus: dependence on cellular mechanisms and network properties. Journal of Neuroscience,1998. 18(1): p. 438-450.

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