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

Chris MV, Mark AS, George P, Clyde FP, Santamaria F.(2009) Cholesterol homeostasis markers are localized to mouse hippocampal pyramidal and granule layers. Hippocampus (in press).

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

F. Santamaria and J. M. Bower. Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience: Hodgkin-Huxley models. The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier, 2008.

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.

Here’s my

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.