Doctor Sam Merlin

Journal Articles

• Lawther, A., Zieba, J., Fang, Z., Furlong, T., Conn, I., Govindaraju, H., Choong, L., Turner, N., Siddiqui, K., Bridge, W., Merlin, S., Hyams, T., Killingsworth, M., Eapen, V., Clarke, R. and Walker, A. (2023), 'Antioxidant behavioural phenotype in the IMMP2l gene knock-out mouse', Genes, vol 14, no 9 .
• Leung, B., Merlin, S., Walker, A., Lawther, A., Paxinos, G., Eapen, V., Clarke, R., Balleine, B. and Furlong, T. (2023), 'Immp2l knockdown in male mice increases stimulus-driven instrumental behaviour but does not alter goal-directed learning or neuron density in cortico-striatal circuits in a model of Tourette syndrome and autism spectrum disorder', Behavioural Brain Research, vol 452 .
• Merlin, S. and Vidyasagar, T. (2023), 'Optogenetics in primate cortical networks', Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, vol 17 .
• Federer, F., Ta?afua, S., Merlin, S., Hassanpour, M. and Angelucci, A. (2021), 'Stream-specific feedback inputs to the primate primary visual cortex', Nature Communications, vol 12, no 1 .
• Ho, C., Zimmermann, R., Florez Weidinger, J., Prsa, M., Schottdorf, M., Merlin, S., Okamoto, T., Ikezoe, K., Pifferi, F., Aujard, F., Angelucci, A., Wolf, F. and Huber, D. (2021), 'Orientation preference maps in Microcebus murinus reveal size-invariant design principles in primate visual cortex', Current Biology, vol 31, no 4 , pp 733 - 7417.
• Siu, C., Balsor, J., Merlin, S., Federer, F. and Angelucci, A. (2021), 'A direct interareal feedback-to-feedforward circuit in primate visual cortex', Nature Communications, vol 12, no 1 .
• Wang, C., Furlong, T., Stratton, P., Lee, C., Xu, L., Merlin, S., Nolan, C., Arabzadeh, E., Marek, R. and Sah, P. (2021), 'Hippocampus-prefrontal coupling regulates recognition memory for novelty discrimination', Journal of Neuroscience, vol 41, no 46 , pp 9617 - 9632.
• Habiba, U., Merlin, S., Lim, J., Wong, V., Nguyen, C., Morley, J., Bui, B. and Tayebi, M. (2020), 'Age-specific retinal and cerebral immunodetection of amyloid-? plaques and oligomers in a rodent model of Alzheimer's disease', Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol 76, no 3 , pp 1135 - 1150.
• Nurminen, L., Merlin, S., Bijanzadeh, M., Federer, F. and Angelucci, A. (2018), 'Top-down feedback controls spatial summation and response amplitude in primate visual cortex', Nature Communications, vol 9, no 1 .
• Bijanzadeh, M., Nurminen, L., Merlin, S., Clark, A. and Angelucci, A. (2018), 'Distinct laminar processing of local and global context in primate primary visual cortex', Neuron, vol 100, no 1 , pp 259 - 2744.
• Angelucci, A., Bijanzadeh, M., Nurminen, L., Federer, F., Merlin, S. and Bressloff, P. (2017), 'Circuits and mechanisms for surround modulation in visual cortex', Annual Review of Neuroscience, vol 40 , pp 425 - 451.
• Boutte, R., Merlin, S., Yona, G., Griffiths, B., Angelucci, A., Kahn, I., Shoham, S. and Blair, S. (2017), 'Utah optrode array customization using stereotactic brain atlases and 3-D CAD modeling for optogenetic neocortical interrogation in small rodents and nonhuman primates', Neurophotonics, vol 4, no 4 .
• Merlin, S., Horng, S., Marotte, L., Sur, M., Sawatari, A. and Leamey, C. (2013), 'Deletion of Ten-m3 induces the formation of eye dominance domains in mouse visual cortex', Cerebral Cortex, vol 23, no 4 , pp 763 - 774.
• Federer, F., Williams, D., Ichida, J., Merlin, S. and Angelucci, A. (2013), 'Two projection streams from macaque V1 to the pale cytochrome oxidase stripes of V2', Journal of Neuroscience, vol 33, no 28 , pp 11530 - 11539.
• Leamey, C., Merlin, S., Lattouf, P., Sawatari, A., Zhou, X., Demel, N., Glendining, K., Oohashi, T., Sur, M. and Fassler, R. (2007), 'Ten_m3 regulates eye-specific patterning in the mammalian visual pathway and is required for binocular vision', PLoS Biology, vol 5, no 9 , pp 2077 - 2092.