OK JEYIFOUS
ojeyifou@bsd.uchicago.edu

LAB: Dr. William Green

RESEARCH TOPIC: Molecular mechanisms underlying developmental, synaptic, and drug-induced plasticity. Specifically, the characterization of pathways directing membrane insertion and retrieval of glutamate receptors.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Jeyifous O, Waites CL, Specht CG, Fujisawa S, Schubert M, Lin EI, Marshall J, Aoki C, de Silva T, Montgomery JM, Garner CC, Green WN. SAP97 and CASK mediate sorting of NMDA receptors through a previously unknown secretory pathway. Nat Neurosci. 2009 Aug; 12(8):1011-19. Paper

Waites CL, Specht CG, Hartel K, Leal-Ortiz S, Genoux D, Li D, Drisdel RC, Jeyifous O, Cheyne JE, Green WN, Montgomery JM, Garner CC. Synaptic SAP97 isoforms regulate AMPA receptor dynamics and access to presynaptic glutamate. J Neurosci. 2009 Apr. 8; 29(14):4332-45. Paper

SELECTED ABSTRACTS/PRESENTATIONS:

Jeyifous O, Waites CL, Specht CG, Fugisawa S, Aoki C, Montgomery JM, Garner CC, Green WN (2009) SAP97 and CASK mediate sorting of NMDA receptors through a novel secretory pathway. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Vezina P, Wilke G, Jeyifous O, Bayer KU, Neve RL, Loweth JA (2009) Viral-mediated overexpression of an inactive mutant form of alpha-CaMKII in the NAcc shell inhibits the expression of sensitized locomotor responding to amphetamine. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Simonson PD, Alexander J, Jeyifous O, Green WN, Selvin PR (2009) Single-molecule imaging of AMPA and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in mammalian cells. 2009 Biophysical Society Meeting.

Jeyifous O, Garner CC, Green WN (2007) A role for SAP97 in NMDA receptor sorting and trafficking. Metagroup meeting, Chemical synapses: Assembly, maintenance and functional dynamics.

Jeyifous O, Garner CC, Green WN (2006) A role for SAP97 in NMDA receptor sorting and trafficking. Gordon Research Conference - Cell Biology of the Neuron.

Jeyifous O & Green WN (2004) Trafficking of NMDA receptors by MAGUK proteins. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Jeyifous O & Green WN (2002) Differential targeting of AMPA and NMDA receptors after assembly with SAP97. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Jeyifous O & Green WN (2002) Differential targeting of AMPA and NMDA receptors after assembly with SAP97. Society for General Physiologists Annual Meeting: Trafficking of Transporters.

Thiesen TM, Jeyifous O (1996) Chronic treatment with NMDA ligands and channel blockers modulates NR1 protein expression. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Aanonsen L, Bowles W, Jeyifous O, Hargreaves KM (1996) Effect of nerve growth factor in spinally-mediated antinociception on rodents. IASP - 8th World Congress on Pain Abstracts.