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Lukas Mesik

Johns Hopkins University

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Visual deprivation in adulthood engages presynaptic plasticity of thalamocortical synapses

Sachiko Murase, Daniel Severín, Andrew Pranger, Louis Dye, Cristian Moreno, Lukas Mesik, Ji Liu, Alfredo Kirkwood, Elizabeth M. Quinlan

This study shows that adult mice can exhibit reversible presynaptic plasticity at thalamocortical synapses through visual deprivation and light reintroduction.

bioRxiv · Aug 21, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Prolonged visual deprivation in adults induces non-homeostatic plasticity of feed-forward excitation from visual thalamus to cortex

Sachiko Murase, Daniel Severín, Louis Dye, Lukas Mesik, Cristian Moreno, Alfredo Kirkwood, Elizabeth M. Quinlan

This study shows that prolonged visual deprivation in adult mice induces reversible, non-homeostatic plasticity at thalamocortical synapses in layer 4 pyramidal neurons.

bioRxiv · Dec 4, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience

Norepinephrine Potentiates and Serotonin Depresses Visual Cortical Responses by Transforming Eligibility Traces

Su Z. Hong, Lukas Mesik, Cooper D. Grossman, Jeremiah Y. Cohen, Boram Lee, Daniel Severín, Hey‐Kyoung Lee, Johannes Wilhelm Hell, Alfredo Kirkwood

Nature Communications · Jun 9, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

A genetically-encoded fluorescent acetylcholine indicator

Miao Jing, Peng Zhang, Guangfu Wang, Jiesi Feng, Lukas Mesik, Jianzhi Zeng, Huoqing Jiang, Shaohua Wang, Jess C Looby, Nick A. Guagliardo, Linda W. Langma, Ju Lu, Yi Zuo, David A. Talmage, Lorna W. Role, , Yulong Li

This paper develops GACh sensors, genetically-encoded fluorescent indicators for acetylcholine, validated across multiple cell types and species, revealing new insights into cholinergic transmission.

Nature Biotechnology · Jul 9, 2018Peer-reviewedNeuroscience