Carrie Stine

The paper introduces OCaMP, an orange fluorescent calcium indicator that improves sensitivity and performance compared to existing green and red indicators for neural imaging.

The paper identifies a stress-sensitive N/OFQ-containing neuronal population in the pnVTA and characterizes its functional inputs from the lateral hypothalamus.

The paper identifies striosomal populations in the dorsal striatum expressing Pnoc mRNA, which are dopamine receptor D1-expressing medium spiny neurons with direct projections to midbrain dopamine neurons.

This paper develops a genetically encoded sensor, NOPLight, to detect endogenous N/OFQ release with high spatial and temporal resolution in vitro and in vivo.