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+ Ziv Y, Burns LD, Cocker ED, Hamel EO, Ghosh KK, Kitch LJ, El Gamal A, and Schnitzer MJ. (2013) Long-term dynamics of CA1 hippocampal place codes. Nature Neuroscience. Epub ahead of print. See accompanying Movie.

+ Wilt BA, Fitzgerald JE, and Schnitzer MJ. (2013) Photon Shot Noise Limits on Optical Detection of Neuronal Spikes and Estimation of Spike Timing. Biophys J. 104:51-62.

+ Prakash R, Yizhar O, Grewe B, Ramakrishnan C, Wang N, Goshen I, Packer AM, Peterka DS, Yuste R, Schnitzer MJ, and Deisseroth K. (2012) Two-photon optogenetic toolbox for fast inhibition, excitation and bistable modulation. Nat Methods. 9(12):1171-9.

+ Barretto RP and Schnitzer MJ. (2012) In vivo microendoscopy of the hippocampus. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2012(10).

+ Barretto RP and Schnitzer MJ. (2012) In Vivo Optical Microendoscopy for Imaging Cells Lying Deep within Live Tissue. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2012(10).

+ Mukamel EA and Schnitzer MJ. (2012) Unified Resolution Bounds for Conventional and Stochastic Localization Fluorescence Microscopy. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109(16):168102.

+ Lam AJ, St-Pierre F, Gong Y, Marshall JD, Cranfill PJ, Baird MA, McKeown MR, Wiedenmann J, Davidson MW, Schnitzer MJ, Tsien RY, Lin MZ. (2012) Improving FRET dynamic range with bright green and red fluorescent proteins. Nature Methods. 9(10):1005-12.

+ Fitzgerald JE, Lu J, Schnitzer MJ. (2012) Estimation Theoretic Measure of Resolution for Stochastic Localization Microscopy. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 048102.

+ Ghosh KK, Burns LD, Cocker ED, Nimmerjahn A, Ziv Y, Gamal AE, Schnitzer MJ. (2011) Miniaturized integration of a fluorescence microscope. Nat Methods. 8(10):871-8. See accompanying Photo.

+ Lecoq J, Schnitzer MJ. (2011) An infrared fluorescent protein for deeper imaging. Nat Biotechnol. 29(8):715-6.

+ Fitzgerald, JE, Katsov, AY, Clandinin, TR, Schnitzer, MJ. (2011) Symmetries in stimulus statistics shape the form of
visual motion estimators. PNAS. 108(31):12909-14.

+ Clark DA, Bursztyn L, Horowitz MA, Schnitzer MJ, Clandinin TR. (2011) Defining the computational structure of the motion detector in Drosophila. Neuron. 70(6):1165-77.

+ Barretto RP, Schnitzer MJ. (2011) "In Vivo Optical Microendoscopy for Imaging Cells Lying Deep within Live Tissue" in Imaging: A Laboratory Manual, ed. Rafael Yuste, Columbia University (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press).

+ Barretto RP, Ko TH, Jung JC, Wang TJ, Capps G, Waters AC, Ziv Y, Attardo A, Recht L, Schnitzer MJ. (2011) Time-lapse imaging of disease progression in deep brain areas using fluorescence microendoscopy. Nat Med. 17(2):223-8. See accompanying Cover Image.

+ Schnitzer MJ. (2010) Journal club. A neuroscientist learns about algorithms for motor learning. Nature. 463(7279):273.

+ Mukamel EA, Nimmerjahn A, Schnitzer MJ. (2009) Automated analysis of cellular signals from large-scale calcium imaging data. Neuron. 63(6):747-60. Supplemental tools: Cell Sorting Software Toolbox.

+ Piyawattanametha W, Cocker ED, Burns LD, Barretto RP, Jung JC, Ra H, Solgaard O, Schnitzer MJ. (2009) In vivo brain imaging using a portable 2.9 g two-photon microscope based on a microelectromechanical systems scanning mirror. Opt Lett. 34(15):2309-11.

+ Wilt BA, Burns LD, Wei Ho ET, Ghosh KK, Mukamel EA, Schnitzer MJ. (2009) Advances in light microscopy for neuroscience. Annu Rev Neurosci. 32:435-506.

+ Barretto RPJ, Messerschmidt B, Schnitzer MJ. (2009) In vivo fluorescence imaging with high-resolution microlenses. Nature Methods. 6(7):511-2.

+ Nimmerjahn A, Mukamel EA, Schnitzer MJ. (2009) Motor behavior activates Bergmann glial networks. Neuron. 62(3):400-12.

+ Flusberg BA, Nimmerjahn A, Cocker ED, Mukamel EA, Barretto RP, Ko TH, Burns LD, Jung JC, Schnitzer MJ. (2008) High-speed, miniaturized fluorescence microscopy in freely moving mice. Nat Methods. 5(11):935-8. See accompanying News and Views.

+ Wetmore DZ, Mukamel EA, Schnitzer MJ. (2008) Lock-and-key mechanisms of cerebellar memory recall based on rebound currents. J Neurophysiol 100: 2328-2347.

+ Llewellyn ME, Barretto RPJ, Delp SL & Schnitzer MJ. (2008) Minimally invasive high-speed imaging of sarcomere contractile dynamics in mice and humans. Nature. 454 784-788.

+ Miyawaki A and Schnitzer MJ. (2007) New technologies for neuroscience. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 17(5):565-6.

+ Deisseroth K, Feng G, Majewska AK, Miesenbock G, Ting A, Schnitzer MJ. (2006) Next-generation optical technologies for illuminating genetically targeted brain circuits. J Neurosci. 26(41):10380-6.

+ Piyawattanametha W, Barretto RP, Ko TH, Flusberg BA, Cocker ED, Ra H, Lee D, Solgaard O, Schnitzer MJ. (2006) Fast-scanning two-photon fluorescence imaging based on a microelectromechanical systems two- dimensional scanning mirror. Opt Lett. 31(13):2018-20.

+ Monfared A, Blevins NH, Cheung EL, Jung JC, Popelka G, Schnitzer MJ. (2006) In vivo imaging of mammalian cochlear blood flow using fluorescence microendoscopy. Otol Neurotol. 27(2):144-52.

+ Flusberg BA, Cocker ED, Piyawattanametha W, Jung JC, Cheung EL, Schnitzer MJ. (2005) Fiber-optic fluorescence imaging. Nat Methods. 2(12):941-50.

+ Flusberg BA, Jung JC, Cocker ED, Anderson EP, Schnitzer MJ. (2005) In vivo brain imaging using a portable 3.9 gram two-photon fluorescence microendoscope. Opt Lett. 30(17):2272-4.

+ Shaevitz JW, Block SM, Schnitzer MJ. (2005) Statistical kinetics of macromolecular dynamics. Biophys J. 89(4):2277-85.

+ Mukamel EA, Schnitzer MJ. (2005) Retinal coding of visual scenes - repetitive and redundant too? Neuron. 46(3):357-9.

+ Jung JC, Mehta AD, Aksay E, Stepnoski R, Schnitzer MJ. (2004) In vivo mammalian brain imaging using one- and two-photon fluorescence microendoscopy. J Neurophysiol. 92(5):3121-33.

+ Mehta AD, Jung JC, Flusberg BA, Schnitzer MJ. (2004) Fiber optic in vivo imaging in the mammalian nervous system. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 14(5):617-28.

+ Jung JC, Schnitzer MJ. (2003) Multiphoton endoscopy. Opt Lett. 28(11):902-4.

+ Schnitzer MJ, Meister M. (2003) Multineuronal firing patterns in the signal from eye to brain. Neuron. 37(3):499-511.

+ Reed, William A., Man F. Yan, and Mark J. Schnitzer. Gradient-index fiber-optic microprobes for minimally invasive in vivo low-coherence interferometry. October 15, 2002. Optics Letters 27: 20.

+ Schnitzer MJ. (2002) Biological computation: amazing algorithms. Nature. 416(6882):683.

+ Schnitzer MJ. (2001) Molecular motors. Doing a rotary two-step. Nature. 410(6831):878-9, 881.

+ Schnitzer MJ, Visscher K, Block SM. (2000) Force production by single kinesin motors. Nat Cell Biol. 2(10):718-23.

+ Visscher K, Schnitzer MJ, Block SM. (1999) Single kinesin molecules studied with a molecular force clamp. Nature. 400(6740):184-9.

+ Wang MD, Schnitzer MJ, Yin H, Landick R, Gelles J, Block SM. (1998) Force and velocity measured for single molecules of RNA polymerase. Science. 282(5390):902-7.

+ Schnitzer MJ, Block SM. (1997) Kinesin hydrolyses one ATP per 8-nm step. Nature. 388(6640):386-90.

+ Schnitzer, M.J . and Block, S.M. (1995). Statistical kinetics of processive enzymes. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 60: 793-802.

+ Schnitzer, M.J. (1993). Theory of continuum random walks and application to chemotaxis. Phys. Rev. E. 48: 2553-2568.

+ Schnitzer, M.J., Block, S.M, Berg, H.C., and Purcell, E.M. (1990). Strategies for chemotaxis. Symp. Soc. Gen. Microbiol. 46: 15-33.

+ Wen, X., Schnitzer, M.J., and Meyer, R.B. (1990). "An automated light scattering system scanning in two spherical dimensions." Rev. Sci. Instrum. 61: 2069-2072.