Here is a sampling of some recent papers our lab has published.



Hastings MH, Qiu A, Zha2, Farah CA, Mahdid Y, Ferguson, L, and Sossin WS (2018) The zinc fingers of the Small Optic Lobes (SOL) calpain bind polyubiquitin. J. Neurochem doi: 10.1111/jnc.14473


Dunn TW, Fan X, Ase AR, Séguéla P, Sossin WS (2018) The CaV2a1 EF-hand F helix tyrosine, a highly conserved locus for GPCR inhibition of CaV2 channels. Sci. Reports doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21586-5


Hu, J Adler, K Farah CA Hastings M Sossin, WS Schacher, S.(2017). Cell-specific PKM isoform contribute to the maintenance of different forms of persistent long-term synaptic plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience. J Neurosci. 2017 Mar 8;37(10):2746-2763.


Graber, TE Freemantle, E Hebert-Seropian, S  Anadolu, M  MacAdam, R  Shin, U #Lacaille, JC #Sossin, WS Co-corresponding authors. (2017). UPF1 governs synaptic plasticity through association with a STAU2 RNA granule. Journal of Neuroscience. J Neurosci. 2017 IN Press


Hu J, Ferguson L, Adler K, Farah CA, Hastings MH, Sossin WS, Schacher S. (2017) Selective erasure of distinct forms of long-term synaptic plasticity underlying different forms of memory in the same postsynaptic neuron. Current Biology, 27(13):1888-1899.e4


Farah CA, Hastings MH, Dunn TW, Gong K, Baker-Andresen D, Sossin WS (2017) A PKM generated by calpain cleavage of a classical PKC is required for activity-dependent intermediate-term facilitation in the presynaptic sensory neuron of Aplysia Learning and Memory 24:1-13


McAdam RL, Varga KT, Jiang, Z, Youmg FB, Blandford V, McPherson PS, Gong LW and Sossin WS.  (2015) The juxtamembrane region of synaptotagmin 1 interacts with dynamin 1 and regulates vesicle fission during compensatory endocytosis in endocrine cells. J. Cell Sci. 128: 2229-2235


McCamphill PK, Farah CA, Anadolu MN, Hoque S and Sossin WS. (2015) Bidirectional control of eEF2 phosphorylation controls synaptic plasticity by decoding neuronal activity patterns. J. Neurosci. 35; 4403-4417


Graber TE, Hebert-Seropian S, Khoutorsky A, David, A Yewdell JW, Lacaille J-C, Sossin WS. (2013) Reactivation of stalled polyribosomes in synaptic plasticity. PNAS. Oct 1;110(40):16205-10


Bougie JK, Cai D, Hastings M, Farah CA, Chen S, Fan X, McCamphill PK, Glanzman DL, Sossin WS. (2012) Serotonin-Induced Cleavage of the Atypical Protein Kinase C Apl III in Aplysia J Neurosci. 32:14630-14640.


Naqib F, Farah, CA, Pak, CC and Sossin WS. (2011) The rates of protein synthesis and degradation account for the differential response of neurons to spaced and massed training protocols. PLOS Computation. 7:e1002324


Weatherill, D, Dyer JR and Sossin WS. (2010) Ribosomal protein S6 kinase is a critical downstream effector of the target of rapamycin complex 1 for long-term facilitation in Aplysia J. Biol. Chem. 285: 12255-12567


Abi-Farah C, Weatherill DW, Tyler, WJ and Sossin WS. PKC differentially translocates during spaced and massed training in Aplysia. J. Neurosci. 29:10281-6


Wang DO, Kim S, Zhao Y, Hwang H, Mioru S, Sossin WS and Martin KC (2009)Synapse- and stimulus-specific local translation during long-term neuronal plasticity Science 324:1536-40


Bougie JK, Lim T, Abi Farah C, Manjunath V, Nagakura I, Ferraro  GB and Sossin WS (2009) The Atypical Protein Kinase C in Aplysia can form a PKM by cleavage. J. Neurochem 109:1129-1143


Gobert D, Topolnik L, Azzil M, Huang L, Badeaux F, DesGroseillers L, Sossin WS and Lacaille L-C (2007) Forskolin induction of late-LTP and up-regulation of 5’TOP nRNAs translation via mTOR in hippocampal pyramidal cells.  J Neurochem 106:1160-1174


Lebeau G, Maher-Laporte M, Topolnik L Laurent CE, Sossin WS, DesGroseillers L and Lacaille J-C (2008) Staufen1 regulation of protein synthesis-dependent long-term potentiation and synaptic function in hippocampal pyramidal cells. Mol. Cell. Biol.  28:2896-2907. 


Costa-Mattioli M,  Gobert D, Stern E, Gamache K, Colina R, Cuello C, Sossin W, Kaufman R,  Pelletier J, Rosenblum K, Krnjević K, Lacaille J-C, Nader K, N Sonenberg (2007) eIF2a phosphorylation bidirectionaly regulates the switch from short to long-term synaptic plasticity and memory.  Cell 129(1):195-206.


Zhao Y, Leal K, Abi-Farah C, Martin KC, Sossin WS, Klein M. (2006) Isoform specificity of PKC translocation in living Aplysia sensory neurons and a role for Ca2+-dependent PKC APL I in the induction of intermediate-term facilitation. J Neurosci. 26:8847-8856.


Elvira G, Wasiak S, Blandford V, Tong, X-K, Serrano, A, Fan X, del Rayo Sanchez-Carbente M, Servant F, Bell AW, Boismenu D, Lacaille, J-C,  McPherson P, DesGroseillers L, Sossin WS. (2006) Characterization of a putative RNA granule from developing brain.  Mol. Cell. Proteomics 5:635-651..


Costa-Mattioli, M, Gobert D, Harding H, Herdy B, Azzi M, Bruno M, Bidnosti M, Ben-Mamou C, Marcinkiewicz E, Yoshida M, Imataka H, Cuello A.C., Seidah N, Sossin WS, Lacaille J-C, Ron D, Nader K, Sonenberg N. (2005) Translational control of hippocampal synaptic plasticity and memory by the eIF2a  kinase, GCN2. Nature 436:1166-73


Ormond J, Hislop J,  Zhao Y, Webb N, Villaincourt F, Dyer JR,  Ferraro J. Barker, P, Martin KC and Sossin WS. (2004) ApTrkl, a Trk-like receptor, mediates serotonin-dependent ERK activation and long-term facilitation in Aplysia sensory neurons. Neuron 44:715-728


Dyer JR, Michel S, Lee W, Castellucci VC, Wayne, N and Sossin WS. (2003) An activity dependent switch to cap-independent translation triggered by eIF4E dephosphorylation in neurons. Nature Neuroscience 6:219-220