Alon Poleg-Polsky, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Physiology & Biophysics


Publications

  • Kumar A, Schiff O, Barkai E, Mel BW, Poleg-Polsky A, Schiller J. NMDA spikes mediate amplification of inputs in the rat piriform cortex. Elife. 2018 Dec 21;7. PubMed PMID: 30575520
  • Poleg-Polsky A, Ding H, Diamond JS. Functional Compartmentalization within Starburst Amacrine Cell Dendrites in the Retina. Cell Rep. 2018 Mar 13;22(11):2898-2908. PubMed PMID: 29539419
  • Bacmeister CM, Huang R, Osso LA, Thornton MA, Conant L, Chavez AR, Poleg-Polsky A, Hughes EG. Motor learning drives dynamic patterns of intermittent myelination on learning-activated axons. Nat Neurosci. 2022 Oct;25(10):1300-1313. PubMed PMID: 36180791
  • Gaynes JA, Budoff SA, Grybko MJ, Hunt JB, Poleg-Polsky A. Classical center-surround receptive fields facilitate novel object detection in retinal bipolar cells. Nat Commun. 2022 Sep 26;13(1):5575. PubMed PMID: 36163249
  • Otor Y, Achvat S, Cermak N, Benisty H, Abboud M, Barak O, Schiller Y, Poleg-Polsky A, Schiller J. Dynamic compartmental computations in tuft dendrites of layer 5 neurons during motor behavior. Science. 2022 Apr 15;376(6590):267-275. PubMed PMID: 35420959
  • Dendritic Spikes Expand the Range of Well Tolerated Population Noise Structures. Poleg-Polsky A. J Neurosci. 2019 Nov 13;39(46):9173-9184. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0638-19.2019. Epub 2019 Sep 26. PMID: 31558617
  • Gaynes JA, Budoff SA, Grybko MJ, Poleg-Polsky A. Heterogeneous presynaptic receptive fields contribute to directional tuning in starburst amacrine cells. Elife. 2023 Dec 27;12:RP90456. doi: 10.7554/eLife.90456. PMID: 38149980; PMCID: PMC10752589.