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Dr. Farris's Publications

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Dudek SM, Phoenix AN, Scappini E, Shepeleva DV, Herbeck YE, Trut LN, Farris S, Kukekova AV. Defining hippocampal area CA2 in the fox (Vulpes vulpes) brain. Hippocampus. 2023 Jun;33(6):700-711. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23546. Epub 2023 May 9. PMID: 37159095; PMCID: PMC10274530.

Samadi M, Hales CA, Lustberg DJ, Farris S, Ross MR, Zhao M, Hepler JR, Harbin NH, Robinson ESJ, Banks PJ, Bashir ZI, Dudek SM. Mechanisms of mGluR-dependent plasticity in hippocampal area CA2. Hippocampus. 2023 Mar 27. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23529. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36971428.

Dudek SM, Alexander GM, Farris S. Introduction to the special issue on: A new view of hippocampal area CA2. Hippocampus. 2023 Mar;33(3):127-132. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23514. PMID: 36826426.

Pannoni KE, Gil D, Cawley ML, Alsalman MM, Campbell LA, Farris S. Layer-specific mitochondrial diversity across hippocampal CA2 dendrites. Hippocampus. 2023 Mar;33(3):182-196. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23512. Epub 2023 Feb 10. PMID: 36762797; PMCID: PMC9974919.

Pannoni KE, Farris S. LEC to CA2: A circuit to remember. Neuron. 2022 May 4;110(9):1443-1445. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.04.006. PMID: 35512637.

Farris S, Hacisuleyman E, Donlin-Asp P, Cioni JM. Editorial: RNA Localization and Localized Translation in Neurons. Front Integr Neurosci. 2022 Jan 12;15:831038. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2021.831038. PMID: 35095435; PMCID: PMC8790039.

Park J, Farris S. Spatiotemporal Regulation of Transcript Isoform Expression in the Hippocampus. Front. Mol. Neurosci., 08 July 2021. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2021.694234  

Campbell LA, Pannoni KE, Savory NA, Lal D, Farris S. Protein-retention expansion microscopy for visualizing subcellular organelles in fixed brain tissue. J Neurosci Methods. 2021 Jul 7;361:109285. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2021.109285. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34242703.

Dudek SM, Alexander GM, Farris S. Rediscovering area CA2: unique properties and functions. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2016 Feb;17(2):89-102. doi: 10.1038/nrn.2015.22. PMID: 26806628; PMCID: PMC4856153.

McCann KE, Lustberg DJ, Shaughnessy EK, Carstens KE, Farris S, Alexander GM, Radzicki D, Zhao M, Dudek SM. Novel role for mineralocorticoid receptors in control of a neuronal phenotype. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 Jan;26(1):350-364. doi: 10.1038/s41380-019-0598-7. Epub 2019 Nov 19. PMID: 31745235; PMCID: PMC7234915.

Shannon Farris, James M. Ward, Kelly E. Carstens, Mahsa Samadi, Yu Wang, Serena M. Dudek. (2019). Hippocampal Subregions Express Distinct Dendritic Transcriptomes that Reveal Differences in Mitochondrial Function in CA2. Cell Reports 29.  [PDF DOWNLOAD]

Steward O, Matsudaira KM, Farris S, Pirbhoy PS, Worley P, Okamura K, Okuno H, Bito H. (2018). Delayed degradation and impaired dendritic delivery of intron-lacking EGFP-Arc/Arg3.1 mRNA in EGFP-Arc transgenic mice. Frontiers Molecular Neuroscience 10(435).

Helton T, Zhao M, Farris S, Dudek SM. (2018). Diversity of dendritic morphology and entorhinal cortex synaptic effectiveness in mouse CA2 pyramidal neurons. Hippocampus.

Fernandez de Velasco EM, Zhang L, Vo B, Tipps M, Farris S, Xia Z, Anderson A, Weaver CD, Dudek SM, Wickman K. (2017). GIRK2 splice variants and neuronal G protein-gated K+ channels: implications for channel function and behavior. Scientific Reports 7(1).

Sarkar P, Dunn CJ, Bailey ER, Farris S, Zhao M, Dudek SM, Saha RN. (2017). Histone hypervariants H2A.Z.1 and H2A.Z.2 play independent and context-specific roles in neuronal activity-induced transcription of Arc/Arg3.1 and other immediate early genes. eNeuro 4(4).

Farris S, Wang Y, Ward JM, Dudek SM. (2017). Optimized method for robust transcriptome profiling of minute tissues using laser capture microdissection and low-input RNA-Seq. Frontiers Molecular Neuroscience 10.

Pirbhoy PS, Farris S, Steward O. (2017). Synaptically-driven phosphorylation of ribosomal protein S6 is differentially regulated at active synapses vs. dendrites and cell bodies by MAPK and PI3K/mTOR signaling pathways. Learning and Memory 24(8): 341-57.

Dudek SM, Alexander GM, Farris S. (2016). Rediscovering area CA2: unique properties and functions. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience 17(2): 89-102.

Alexander GM, Farris S, Pirone JR, Zheng C, Colgin LL, Dudek SM. (2016). Social and novel contexts modify hippocampal CA2 representations of space. Nature Communications 7.

Pirbhoy PS, Farris S, Steward O. (2016). Synaptic activation of ribosomal protein S6 phosphorylation occurs locally in activated dendritic domains. Learning and Memory 23(6): 255-69.

Steward O, Farris S, Darnell J, Van Driesche SJ, Pirbhoy PS. (2015). Localization and local translation of Arc/Arg3.1 mRNA at synapses: some observations and paradoxes. Frontiers Molecular Neurosceince 7(101).