Alon Poleg-Polsky, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Physiology & Biophysics

Publications

  • Budoff SA, Poleg-Polsky A. En face Cryosectioning of Mouse Retina for High-dimensional Spatial Molecular Analysis. J Vis Exp. 2025 Jul 8;(221). PubMed PMID: 40720504
  • Hunt JB, Buteau A, Barreto J, Hanson S, Scholl B, Poleg-Polsky A, Felsen G. Diverse and dynamic influences of saccades on visual representations in the mouse superior colliculus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Jul 22;122(29):e2425788122. PubMed PMID: 40668831
  • Poleg-Polsky A. Machine Learning Discovers Numerous New Computational Principles Supporting Elementary Motion Detection. bioRxiv. 2025 May 29. PubMed PMID: 40502138
  • Budoff SA, Poleg-Polsky A. A Complete Spatial Map of Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells Reveals Density and Gene Expression Specializations. bioRxiv. 2025 Feb 12. PubMed PMID: 39990332
  • Della-Flora Nunes G, Osso LA, Haynes JA, Conant L, Thornton MA, Stockton ME, Brassell KA, Morris A, Mancha Corchado YI, Gaynes JA, Chavez AR, Woerner MB, MacKenna DA, Alavi A, Danks A, Poleg-Polsky A, Gandhi R, Vivian JA, Denman DJ, Hughes EG. Incomplete remyelination via therapeutically enhanced oligodendrogenesis is sufficient to recover visual cortical function. Nat Commun. 2025 Jan 16;16(1):732. PubMed PMID: 39820244
  • Hunt JB, Buteau A, Hanson S, Poleg-Polsky A, Felsen G. Neural substrates for saccadic modulation of visual representations in mouse superior colliculus. bioRxiv. 2024 Sep 23. PubMed PMID: 39386422
  • Thornton MA, Futia GL, Stockton ME, Budoff SA, Ramirez AN, Ozbay B, Tzang O, Kilborn K, Poleg-Polsky A, Restrepo D, Gibson EA, Hughes EG. Long-term in vivo three-photon imaging reveals region-specific differences in healthy and regenerative oligodendrogenesis. Nat Neurosci. 2024 May;27(5):846-861. PubMed PMID: 38539013
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
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