Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2024.2335146
Baruch Minke
{"title":"The pioneering use of the PDA phenotype by Bill Pak for screening a network of phototransduction genes and the associated signaling pathways.","authors":"Baruch Minke","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2335146","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2335146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":" ","pages":"150-156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141419576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-06-24DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2024.2366455
Paulo A Ferreira
{"title":"Personal essay of a rookie's journey with Bill Pak and his legacy: tales and perspectives on PI-PLC, NorpA and cyclophilin, NinaA - William L. Pak, PhD., 1932-2023: in memoriam.","authors":"Paulo A Ferreira","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2366455","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2366455","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The neurogenetics and vision community recently mourned William L. Pak, PhD, whose pioneering work spearheaded the genetic, electrophysiological, and molecular bases of biological processes underpinning vision. This essay provides a historical background to the daunting challenges and personal experiences that carved the path to seminal findings. It also reflects on the intellectual framework, mentoring philosophy, and inspirational legacy of Bill Pak's research. An emphasis and perspectives are placed on the discoveries and implications to date of the phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC), NorpA, and the cyclophilin, NinaA of the fruit fly, <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>, and their respective mammalian homologues, PI-PLCβ4, and cyclophilin-related protein, Ran-binding protein 2 (Ranbp2) in critical biological processes and diseases of photoreceptors and other neurons.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":" ","pages":"165-174"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141446376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2024.2380297
Barry Ganetzky
{"title":"A tribute to Bill Pak, unsung hero of neurogenetics.","authors":"Barry Ganetzky","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2380297","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2380297","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":" ","pages":"145-149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141748442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-12-30DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2024.2448092
Chun-Fang Wu
{"title":"Tribute to Dr. William L. Pak and the origins of the Cold Spring Harbor summer course on <i>Drosophila</i> neurobiology.","authors":"Chun-Fang Wu","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2448092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2024.2448092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"38 4","pages":"135"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142950277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-12-02DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2024.2419107
Randall Shortridge
{"title":"Enthusiasm meets opportunity: in memoriam of William L. Pak, 1932-2023.","authors":"Randall Shortridge","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2419107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2024.2419107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"38 4","pages":"178-179"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148874523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2024.2393315
W L Pak
{"title":"The initial years of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory summer course on the neurobiology of <i>Drosophila</i>.","authors":"W L Pak","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2393315","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2393315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":" ","pages":"136-139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142567062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2024.2393884
Ralph J Greenspan
{"title":"Memoir of the early years of the CSHL summer <i>Drosophila</i> neurobiology course: 1984-1985.","authors":"Ralph J Greenspan","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2393884","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2393884","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":" ","pages":"140-143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142108251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-07-08DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2024.2374054
Martin G Burg
{"title":"Bill Pak: reflections on mentoring.","authors":"Martin G Burg","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2374054","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2374054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":" ","pages":"175-177"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141555027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-26DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2024.2428949
Dora Varvara, Serena Lattante, Stefania Magri, Francesca Balistreri, Francesca De Razza, Franco Taroni, Salvatore Mauro
{"title":"A familial form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (type 2d) caused by a previously unreported variant in <i>GARS1</i>.","authors":"Dora Varvara, Serena Lattante, Stefania Magri, Francesca Balistreri, Francesca De Razza, Franco Taroni, Salvatore Mauro","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2428949","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2428949","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Genetic variants in <i>GARS1</i> gene, encoding for the glycyl tRNA synthetase 1, cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, type 2D (CMT2D). Here we describe a 14-year-old boy affected by neuropathy with prominent weakness in the upper extremities carrying two <i>in cis</i> missense variants in <i>GARS1</i> gene: the c.803C > T, p.Thr268Ile and the c.842T > A, p.Met281Lys. The mutated allele segregates in affected member of the family, thus supporting its pathogenic role. Although a combined role of these variants cannot be excluded, we suggest a strong association of the variant c.842T > A (p.Met281Lys), never reported in patients neither in controls, with the disease. In Italian patients, pathogenic variants in <i>GARS1</i> are very rare, so our result expands the mutational spectrum of the gene and the genetic epidemiology of CMT2D.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":" ","pages":"184-186"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142729262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The roles of blur and eye convergence in distance estimation in larval zebrafish.","authors":"Biswadeep Khan, Julie Lee Semmelhack","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2432033","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01677063.2024.2432033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Animals use an array of visual cues to gauge distance, and their underlying neural mechanisms remain largely unknown. Zebrafish larvae execute different hunting behaviors depending on distance to the prey, providing a simple model system in which to study this process. To identify distance cues, we presented equivalent prey stimuli at increasing distance and recorded hunting behaviors. We found that the initial convergence angle was lower for more distant prey, suggesting that they are able to gauge distance to the prey via monocular cues. We investigated blur as a possible monocular cue, and found that by artificially blurring the stimulus, we were able to reduce initial convergence and strike probability. This implicates blur as a distance cue in zebrafish prey capture, adds to our knowledge of how larvae are able to visually target and accurately capture prey.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":" ","pages":"195-200"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142769847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}