Publications

  • Deng Z, Oosterboer S, Wei W. Short-term plasticity and context-dependent circuit function: Insights from retinal circuitry. Review. Sci Adv. 2024 Sep 20;10(38):eadp5229. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adp5229. Epub 2024 Sep 20. PMID: 39303044; PMCID: PMC11414732.
  • DePiero VJ*, Deng Z*, Chen C, Savier EL, Chen H, Wei W^, Cang J^. Transformation of Motion Pattern Selectivity from Retina to Superior Colliculus. J Neurosci. 2024 May 15;44(20):e1704232024. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1704-23.2024. PMID: 38569924; PMCID: PMC11097260. * Equal contribution, ^ Co-corresponding
  • Acarón Ledesma, H., Ding, J., Oosterboer, S. et al. Dendritic mGluR2 and perisomatic Kv3 signaling regulate dendritic computation of mouse starburst amacrine cells. Nat Commun 15, 1819 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46234-7
  • Jiang, Q., Litvina, E.Y., Acarón Ledesma, H., Shu, G., Sonoda, T., Wei, W., and Chen, C. Functional convergence of on-off direction-selective ganglion cells in the visual thalamus. Current Biology. 2022 Jul 25;32(14):3110-3120.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.023. Epub 2022 Jul 5. PMID: 35793680; PMCID: PMC9438454.
  • Huang (黄晓霖) X, Kim AJ, Acarón Ledesma H, Ding J, Smith RG, Wei W (2022) Visual stimulation induces distinct forms of sensitization of On-Off direction-selective ganglion cell responses in the dorsal and ventral retina. J Neurosci:JN-RM-1391-21 Available at: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2022/04/26/JNEUROSCI.1391-21.2022.abstract.
  • Ding J, Chen A, Chung J, Acaron Ledesma H, Wu M, Berson DM, Palmer SE, Wei W. Spatially displaced excitation contributes to the encoding of interrupted motion by a retinal direction-selective circuit. Elife. 2021 Jun 7;10:e68181. doi: 10.7554/eLife.68181. PMID: 34096504; PMCID: PMC8211448.
  • Chen Q, Smith RG, Huang X, Wei W. Preserving inhibition with a disinhibitory microcircuit in the retina. Elife. 2020 Dec 3;9:e62618. doi: 10.7554/eLife.62618. PMID: 33269700.
  • Fang Y, Prominski A, Rotenberg MY, Meng L, Acarón Ledesma H, Lv Y, Yue J, Schaumann E, Jeong J, Yamamoto N, Jiang Y, Elbaz B, Wei W, Tian B. Micelle-enabled self-assembly of porous and monolithic carbon membranes for bioelectronic interfaces. Nat Nanotechnol. 2020 Dec 7. doi: 10.1038/s41565-020-00805-z. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33288948.
  • Ding J, Wei W. Dampening light sensitivity. (Perspective) Science. 2020;368(6490):471-472. doi:10.1126/science.abb7529
  • Wei W. (2019). Decreasing influence of retinal inputs on the developing visual cortex. Neuron 104, 629–631. (Preview)
  • Huang, X., Rangel, M., Briggman, K.L., and Wei, W. (2019). Neural mechanisms of contextual modulation in the retinal direction selective circuit. Nat. Commun. 10, 2431. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10268-z
  • Acarón Ledesma, H., Li, X., Carvalho-de-Souza, J.L., Wei, W., Bezanilla, F., and Tian, B. (2019). An atlas of nano-enabled neural interfaces. Nat. Nanotechnol. 14, 645–657. (Review)
  • Bleckert A, Zhang C, Turner MH, Koren D, Berson DM, Park SJH, Demb JB, Rieke F, Wei W, Wong RO. GABA release selectively regulates synapse development at distinct inputs on direction-selective retinal ganglion cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci. (2018) Dec 3. pii: 201803490. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1803490115. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30509993
  • Wei Wei. (2018). Neural Mechanisms of Motion Processing in the Mammalian Retina. Annual Review of Vision Science4(1), (Review) annurev-vision-091517-034048. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-091517-034048
  • Qiang Chen, Wei Wei. “Stimulus-dependent engagement of neural mechanisms for reliable motion detection in the mouse retina”. (Review) J Neurophysiol. 2018 Jun 13. doi: 10.1152/jn.00716.2017.https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.00716.2017
  • Wei, W. Compartmentalized dendritic signaling in a multitasking retinal interneuron. (Commentary), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.201715503 (2017). doi:10.1073/pnas.1715503114 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/10/11/1715503114
  • David Koren, James Grove, Wei Wei.  “Cross-compartmental modulation of dendritic signals for retinal direction selectivity”. Neuron (2017), http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(17)30642-6
  • Xuefeng Shi, Jad Barchini, Hector Acaron Ledesma, David Koren, Yanjiao Jin, Xiaorong Liu, Wei Wei and Jianhua Cang. 2017 “Retinal Origin of Direction Selectivity in the Superior Colliculus”. Nature Neuroscience 2017 doi: 10.1038/nn.4498  http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nn.4498
  • Qiang Chen, Zhe Pei, David Koren, and Wei Wei. 2016 “Stimulus-dependent recruitment of lateral inhibition underlies retinal direction selectivity.” eLife 2016; 10.7554/elife.21053   https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e21053
  • Zhe Pei, Qiang Chen, David Koren, Benno Giammarinaro, Hector Acaron Ledesma and Wei Wei. 2015 “Conditional Knock-Out of Vesicular GABA Transporter Gene from Starburst Amacrine Cells Reveals the Contributions of Multiple Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Direction Selectivity in the Retina.” J. Neurosci.  23 September 2015, 35(38): 13219-13232. http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/38/13219.short
  • Jason W Triplett,  Wei Wei,  Cristina Gonzalez,  Neal T Sweeney,  Andrew D Huberman, Marla B Feller, David Feldheim. 2014 “Dendritic and axonal targeting patterns of a genetically-specified class of retinal ganglion cells that participate in image-forming circuits.” Neural Development vol. 9 (1) p. 2
  • Michal Rivlin-Etzion, Wei Wei and Marla Feller. 2012 “Visual stimulation reverses the directional preference of direction selective retinal ganglion cells.” Neuron 76, 518-525
  • Wei Wei and Marla B. Feller. 2011 “Organization and development of direction selective circuits in the retina” (Review). Trends in Neurosciences Dec;34(12):638-45. Epub 2011 Aug 26.
  • Michal Rivlin-Etzion, Kaili Zhou, Wei Wei, Justin Elstrott, Phong Nguyen, Ben Barres, Andrew Huberman, and Marla Feller. 2011 “Transgenic mice reveal unexpected diversity of On-Off direction selective retinal ganglion cell subtypes and brain structures involved in motion processing.”  J. Neurosci.  Jun 15; 31(24):8760-9.
  • Wei Wei, Aaron M. Hamby, Kaili Zhou, Marla B. Feller. 2011. “Development of asymmetric inhibition underlying retinal direction selectivity in the retina.” Nature 469(7330):402-6.
  • Wei Wei, Justin Elstrott, & Marla B. Feller. 2010. “Two-photon targeted recording of GFP-expressing neurons for light responses and live-cell imaging in the mouse retina.” Nature Protocols 5, 1347– 1352.
  • Wei Wei, Louis N. Nguyen, Helmut W. Kessels, Hiroaki Hagiwara, Sangram Sisodia and Roberto Malinow. 2009. “Amyloid-Beta from Dendrites and Axons Reduces Local Spine Number and Plasticity.” Nature Neuroscience 13, 190 – 196.
  • Peter G. Fuerst, Freyja Bruce, Miao Tian, Wei Wei, Justin Elstrott, Marla B. Feller, Lynda Erskine, Joshua H. Singer, and Robert W. Burgess. 2009. “DSCAM and DSCAML1 Function in Self-Avoidance in Multiple Cell Types in the Developing Mouse Retina.” Neuron 64(4):484-97.
  • Huberman A*, Wei W*, Elstrott J*, Stafford B, Feller MB, Barres B. 2009. “Genetic identification of On-Off direction selective retinal ganglion cells reveals a layer specific subcortical map of posterior motion.” Neuron 62: 327-334. (* equal contribution).
  •  Malinow R, Hsieh H, Wei, W. 2008. “Impact of beta amyloid on excitatory synaptic transmission and plasticity.”  In Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer’s Disease 63-68 (Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2008).
  • Kopec CD, Li B, Wei W, Boehm J, Malinow R. 2006. “Glutamate receptor exocytosis and spine enlargement during chemically induced long-term potentiation.” J. Neurosci. Feb 15;26(7):2000-9.