Dendrites

Greg Stuart is currently Head of the Eccles Institute of Neuroscience at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. He did his undergraduate at Monash University (Melbourne), before doing a PhD in Neuroscience at the ANU. After his PhD he worked for 5 years at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. During this time he developed methods for making electrical recordings from dendrites. He is considered a world expert on the physiology of neuronal dendrites and has made a number of seminal contributions to understanding how information is processed by individual nerve cells within the brain.Nelson Spruston is currently Scientific Program Director and Laboratory Head at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus. He completed his B.Sc. at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) and his Ph.D. at the Baylor College of Medicine (Houston). He did postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. While there, he performed the first dendritic patch-clamp recordings from hippocampal pyramidal neurons. In his own lab (first at Northwestern University and now at Janelia), Spruston studies the role of dendrites in synaptic integration and plasticity. He has also made a number of discoveries concerning the functional properties of a variety of cell types in the hippocampus.Michael Häusser is Professor of Neuroscience at University College London and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. He received his PhD from Oxford University under the supervision of Julian Jack. He subsequently worked with Bert Sakmann at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and with Philippe Ascher at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. He established his own laboratory at UCL in 1997 and became Professor of Neuroscience in 2001. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of the cellular basis of neural computation in the mammalian brain using a combination of experiments and theory, with a special focus on the role of dendrites. His group has helped to pioneer several new approaches for probing the function of single neurons and neural circuits in the intact brain.

• 1: Kristen M. Harris and Josef Spacek: Dendrite structure2: Samuel S.-H. Wang, Anthony E. Ambrosini, and Gayle M. Wittenberg: Evolution and Scaling of Dendrites3: Hollis T. Cline: Dendrite Development4: Franck Polleux, Anirvan Ghosh, and Wesley B. Grueber: Molecular Determinants of Dendrite and Spine Development5: Irena Vlatkovic and Erin M. Schuman: Local translation in dendrites6: Natasha K. Hussain and Richard L. Huganir: Structure and Molecular Organization of the Postsynaptic Density7: Zoltan Nusser: Subcellular Distribution of Ligand- and Voltage-Gated Ion Channels8: R. Angus Silver, Andrew F. MacAskill, and Mark Farrant: Neurotransmitter-gated ion channels in dendrites9: Jeffrey C. Magee: Dendritic Voltage-gated Ion Channels10: Fritjof Helmchen and U. Valentin Nägerl: Biochemical compartmentalization in dendrites11: Adam Carter and Bernardo Sabatini: Spine Calcium Signaling12: Nelson Spruston, Greg Stuart, and Michael Häusser: Principles of Dendritic Integration13: Lucy Palmer, Masanori Murayama, and Matthew Larkum: Dendritic integration in vivo14: Wilfrid Rall: Modeling dendrites: A personal perspective15: Etay Hay, Albert Gidon, Michael London, and Idan Segev: A theoretical view of the neuron as an input-output computing device16: Bartlett W. Mel: Towards a simplified model of an active dendritic tree17: Hermann Cuntz: Modelling dendrite shape18: Jérôme Maheux, Robert C. Froemke, and P. Jesper Sjöström: Functional Plasticity at Dendritic Synapses19: Tobias Bonhoeffer and Pico Caroni: Structural plasticity in dendrites and spines20: Ryohei Yasuda: Molecular signaling during plasticity of dendritic spines21: Nathaniel Urban and Troy W. Margrie: Dendrites as Transmitters22: Kevin M. Boergens, Manuel Berning, Moritz Helmstaedter: Dendritic connectomics23: Richard B. Dewell, Fabrizio Gabbiani: Linking Dendritic Processing to Computation and Behavior in Invertebrates24: Daniel Johnston, Andreas Frick, and Nicholas Poolos: Dendrites and Disease25: Michael Häusser, Nelson Spruston, and Greg Stuart: The Future of Dendrite Research

It provides a fascinating insight into the structure and function of dendrites, and the input structures of nerve cells.