Santamaria Lab

One UTSA circle, Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78458

Fidel.santamaria@utsa.edu Phone: +1 (210) 458-6910

Publications

Kereselidze Z, Romero VH, Peralta XG, Santamaria F. (2012) Gold Nanostar Synthesis with a Silver Seed Mediated Growth Method. Journal of Visualized Experiments. DOI: 10.3791/3570

Santamaria F, Wils S, De Schutter E, Augustine GJ. (2011). The diffusional properties of dendrites depend on the density of dendritic spines. Eur. J. Neurosci. DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07785.x.

Commentary: Anomalous diffusion imposed by dendritic spines (Commentary on Santamaria et al.) DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07809.x

Valdez CM, Smith MA, Perry G, Phelyx DF, Santamaria F (2011) Modeling cholesterol metabolism by gene expression profiling in the hippocampus. Mol. Biosyst., DOI:10.1039/C0MB00282H

Santamaria F, Gonzalez J, Augustine GJ, and Ragavachari S. (2010). Quantifying the effects of elastic collisions and non-covalent binding on glutamate receptor trafficking in the post-synaptic density. PLoS Comp. Bio. 6(5):e1000780. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000780

Coop AD, Cornelis H, and Santamaria F (2010). Dendritic excitability modulates dendritic information processing in a Purkinje cell model. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 4:6. doi:10.3389/fncom.2010.00006.

Valdez CM , Smith MA, Perry G, Phelyx CF, Santamaria F (2010). Cholesterol homeostasis markers are localized to mouse hippocampal pyramidal and granule layers. Hippocampus. doi: 10.1002/hipo.20743.

Augustine GJ, Santamaria F, Wils S, DeSchutter E (2009) Trapping of diffusing molecules by dendritc spines Journal of Neurochemistry. pp 69-69.

Santamaria F and Bower JM (2008). Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience: Hodgkin-Huxley models. The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier.

Tanaka K, Khiroug L, Santamaria F, Doi T, Ogasawara H, Ellis-Davies GC, Kawato M, Augustine GJ (2007) Ca2+ requirements for cerebellar long-term synaptic depression: role for a postsynaptic leaky integrator. Neuron 54: 787-800.

Santamaria F, Tripp PG, Bower JM (2007) Feedforward inhibition controls the spread of granule cell-induced Purkinje cell activity in the cerebellar cortex. J Neurophysiol 97: 248-263.

Santamaria F, Wils S, De Schutter E, Augustine GJ (2006) Anomalous diffusion in Purkinje cell dendrites caused by spines. Neuron 52: 635-648.

Santamaria F, Bower JM (2005) Background synaptic activity modulates the response of a modeled purkinje cell to paired afferent input. J Neurophysiol 93: 237-250.

Augustine GJ, Santamaria F, Tanaka K (2003) Local calcium signaling in neurons. Neuron 40: 331-346.

Santamaria F, Jaeger D, De Schutter E, Bower JM (2002) Modulatory effects of parallel fiber and molecular layer interneuron synaptic activity on purkinje cell responses to ascending segment input: a modeling study. J Comput Neurosci 13: 217-235.

Mocanu OD, Oliver J, Santamaria F, Bower JM (2000) Branching point effects on the passive properties of the cerebellar granule cell axon. Neurocomputing. pp 207-212.

Santamaria F, Marsalek P (1998) Investigating spike backpropagation induced Ca2+ influx in models of hippocampal and cortical pyramidal neurons. Biosystems (48)1-3:147-156.

Wikipedia pages in Spanish:

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Anomalous diffusion (Difusión Anómala)

Long term depression (Depresión a largo plazo)

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (Espectroscopia de correlación fluorescente)

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Reference guide to techniques and concepts in Computational Neuroscience

This document contains the concepts and questions that I expect my students to know after a year of being in my lab. If you want to know the answers then join the PhD program and take my Computational Neuroscience class.