Recent Publications 2025

Noncanonical circuits, states, and computations of the hippocampus.
Farrell JS, Soltesz I.
Science. 2025 Sep 11. doi: 10.1126/science.adv4420.

Relative roles of HCN4 and synaptic excitation in pyramidal neuron firing rates in a hyperactive Rheb-mTOR condition.
Chatzikalymniou AP, Getz SA, Xu Y, Patel DR, Soltesz I, Bordey A.
Epilepsia. 2025 Sep. doi: 10.1111/epi.18456.

Artificial intelligence in epilepsy phenotyping.
Knight A, Gschwind T, Galer P, Worrell GA, Litt B, Soltesz I, Beniczky S.
Epilepsia. 2025, Sep. doi.org/10.1111/epi.17833.

Integrating endocannabinoid signaling, CCK interneurons, and hippocampal circuit dynamics in behaving animals.
Malhotra S, Donneger F, Farrell JS, Dudok B, Losonczy A, Soltesz I.
Neuron. 2025, Jun 18;113(12):1862-1885. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.03.016. 

LoCS-Net: Localizing convolutional spiking neural network for fast visual place recognition.
Akcal U, Raikov IG, Gribkova ED, Choudhuri A, Kim SH, Gazzola M, Gillette R, Soltesz I, Chowdhary G.
Front Neurorobot. 2025, January 29. doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2024.1490267.

Synthetic GPCRs for programmable sensing and control of cell behaviour.
Kalogriopoulos NA, Tei R, Yan Y, Klein PM, Ravalin M, Cai B, Soltesz I, Li Y, Ting AY.
Nature. 2025 January 27. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08607-w.

Recent Publications 2024

Inhibitory plasticity supports replay generalization in the hippocampus.
Liao, Z., Terada, S., Raikov, I. G., Hadjiabadi, D., Szoboszlay, M., Soltesz, I., Losonczy, A.
Nature Neuroscience. 2024, September 3. doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01745-w.

Optimized ultrasound neuromodulation for non-invasive control of behavior and physiology.om constraints on online dynamics.
Murphy, K. R., Farrell, J. S., Bendig, J., Mitra, A., Luff, C., Stelzer, I. A., Yamaguchi, H., Angelakos, C. C., Choi, M., Bian, W., DiIanni, T., Pujol, E. M., Matosevich, N., Airan, R., Gaudillière, B., Konofagou, E. E., Butts-Pauly, K., Soltesz, I., de Lecea, L.
Neuron. 2024, August 02. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.07.002.

Presynaptic nanoscale components of retrograde synaptic signaling.
Benjámin Barti, Barna Dudok, Kata Kenesei, Miklós Zöldi, Vivien Miczán, Gyula Y Balla, Diana Zala, Mariana Tasso, Claudia Sagheddu, Máté Kisfali, Blanka Tóth, Marco Ledri, E Sylvester Vizi, Miriam Melis, László Barna, Zsolt Lenkei, Iván Soltész, István Katona.
Science Advances. 2024, May 29. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ado0077.

The fasciola cinereum of the hippocampal tail as an interventional target in epilepsy.
Jamiolkowski RM, Nguyen QA, Farrell JS, McGinn RJ, Hartmann DA, Nirschl JJ, Sanchez MI, Buch VP, Soltesz I.
Nature Medicine. 2024, April 17. doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-02924-9.

Neural and behavioural state switching during hippocampal dentate spikes.
Farrell JS, Hwaun E, Dudok B, Soltesz I.
Nature. 2024, March 13. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07192-8.

Retrograde endocannabinoid signaling at inhibitory synapses in vivo.
Barna Dudok, Linlin Fang, Jordan S. Farrell, Shreya Malhortra, Jesslyn Homidan, Doo Kyung Kim, Celestine Wendy, Chart Ramakrishnan, Yulong Li, Karl Deisseroth, Ivan Soltesz.
Science. 2024, Feb 29. doi.org/10.1126/science.adk3863.

Acetylcholine receptor based chemogenetics engineered for neuronal inhibition and seizure control assessed in mice.
Nguyen, Q. A., Klein, P. M., Xie, C., Benthall, K. N., Iafrati, J., Homidan, J., Bendor, J. T., Dudok, B., Farrell, J. S., Gschwind, T., Porter, C. L., Keravala, A., Dodson, G. S., Soltesz, I.
Nature Communications. 2024, Jan 18. doi/10.1038/s41467-024-44853-8.

Selected Publications 2020-2023

Creation of an albino squid line by CRISPR-Cas9 and its application for in vivo functional imaging of neural activity.
Ahuja N, Hwaun E, Pungor JR, Rafiq R, Nemes S, Sakmar T, Vogt MA, Grasse B, Diaz Quiroz J, Montague TG, Null RW, Dallis DN, Gavriouchkina D, Marletaz F, Abbo L, Rokhsar DS, Niell CM, Soltesz I, Albertin CB, Rosenthal JJC.
Curr Biol. 2023, Jul 10. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.066.

Hidden behavioral fingerprints in epilepsy.
Tilo Gschwind, Ayman Zeine, Ivan Raikov, Jeffrey E. Markowitz, Winthrop F. Gillis, Sylwia Felong, Lori L. Isom, Sandeep Robert Datta, Ivan Soltesz.
Neuron. 2023, Feb 24. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.003.

Galactic cosmic radiation exposure causes multifaceted neurocognitive impairments.
Alaghband, Y., Klein, P.M., Kramár, E.A. et al.
Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 2023, Jan 6. doi.org/10.1007/s00018-022-04666-8. PMID: 36607431.

A tool for monitoring cell type-specific focused ultrasound neuromodulation and control of chronic epilepsy.
Murphy, K. R., Farrell, J. S., Gomez, J. L., Stedman, Q. G., Li, N., Leung, S. A., Good, C. H., Qiu, Z., Firouzi, K., Butts Pauly, K., Khuri-Yakub, B. P., Michaelides, M., Soltesz, I., de Lecea, L.
PNAS. 2022, Nov 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2206828119. PMID: 36343238.

A consensus statement on detection of hippocampal sharp wave ripples and differentiation from other fast oscillations.
Liu, A. A., Henin, S., Abbaspoor, S., Bragin, A., Buffalo, E. A., Farrell, J. S., Foster, D. J., Frank, L. M., Gedankien, T., Gotman, J., Guidera, J. A., Hoffman, K. L., Jacobs, J., Kahana, M. J., Li, L., Liao, Z., Lin, J. J., Losonczy, A., Malach, R., van der Meer, M. A., McClain, K., McNaughton, B. L., Norman, Y., Navas-Olive, A., de la Prida, L. M., Rueckemann, J. W., Sakon, J. J., Skelin, I., Soltesz, I., Staresina, B. P., Weiss, S. A., Wilson, M. A., Zaghloul, K. A., Zugaro, M., Buzsaki, G.
Nature Communications. 2022, Oct 12. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-33536-x. PMID: 36224194.

From single-neuron dynamics to higher-order circuit motifs in control and pathological brain networks.
Darian Hadjiabadi, Ivan Soltesz.
The Journal of Physiology. 2022, July 11. doi.org/10.1113/JP282749.

The Neurodata Without Borders ecosystem for neurophysiological data science.
Rubel, O., Tritt, A., Ly, R., Dichter, B. K., Ghosh, S., Niu, L., Baker, P., Soltesz, I., Ng, L., Svoboda, K., Frank, L., Bouchard, K. E.
eLife. 2022, Oct 4. doi: 10.7554/eLife.78362. PMID: 36193886.

Offline memory replay in recurrent neuronal networks emerges from constraints on online dynamics.
Aaron D. Milstein, Sarah Tran, Grace Ng, Ivan Soltesz.
The Journal of Physiology. 2022, July 30. doi: 10.1113/JP283216.

From single-neuron dynamics to higher-order circuit motifs in control and pathological brain networks.
Darian Hadjiabadi, Ivan Soltesz.
The Journal of Physiology. 2022, July 11. doi: 10.1113/JP282749.

Ripple-selective GABAergic projection cells in the hippocampus.
Gergely G. Szabo, Jordan S. Farrell, Barna Dudok, Wen-Hsien Hou, Anna L. Ortiz, Csab aVarga, Prannath Moolchand,
Cafer Ikbal Gulsever, Tilo Gschwind, Jordane Dimidschstein, Marco Capogna, IvanSoltesz.
Neuron. 2022, June 15. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.04.002.

Topological supramolecular network enabled high-conductivity, stretchable organic bioelectronics.
Yuanwen Jiang, Zhitao Zhang, Yi-Xuan Wang, Deling Li, Charles-Théophile Coen, Ernie Hwaun, Gan Chen, Hung-Chin Wu, Donglai Zhong, Simiao Niu, Weichen Wang, Aref Saberi, Jian-Cheng Lai, Yilei Wu, Yang Wang, Artem A. Trotsyuk, Kang Yong Loh, Chien-Chung Shih,
Wenhui Xu, Kui Liang, Kailiang Zhang, Yihong Bai, Gurupranav Gurusankar, Wenping Hu, Wang Jia, Zhen Cheng, Reinhold H. Dauskardt, Geoffrey C. Gurtner, Jeffrey B.-H. Tok, Karl Deisseroth, Ivan Soltesz, Zhenan Bao.
Science. 2022, Mar 25. doi: 10.1126/science.abj7564. Epub 2022 Mar 24.

Imaging the endocannabinoid signaling system. 
Dudok B, Soltesz I.
J Neurosci Meth. 2021, Dec 15. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2021.109451.

Toward Understanding the Diverse Roles of Perisomatic Interneurons in Epilepsy. 
Dudok B, Klein PM, Soltesz I.
Epilepsy Currents. 2021, Oct 31. doi: 10.1177/15357597211053687.

Supramammillary regulation of locomotion and hippocampal activity.
Farrell JS, Lovett-Barron M, Klein PM, Sparks FT, Gschwind T, Ortiz AL, Ahanonu B, Bradbury S, Terada S, Oijala M, Hwaun E, Dudok B,
Szabo G, Schnitzer MJ, Deisseroth K, Losonczy A, Soltesz I.
Science. 2021, Dec 16. doi: 10.1126/science.abh4272.

Bidirectional synaptic plasticity rapidly modifies hippocampal representations.
Milstein AD, Li Y, Bittner KC, Grienberger C, Soltesz I, Magee JC, Romani S.
Elife. 2021, Dec 9. doi: 10.7554/eLife.73046. PMID: 34882093.

A fluorescent sensor for spatiotemporally resolved imaging of endocannabinoid dynamics in vivo.
Dong A, He K, Dudok B, Farrell JS, Guan W, Liput DJ, Puhl HL, Cai R, Wang H, Duan J, Albarran E, Ding J, Lovinger DM, Li B, Soltesz I, Li Y.
Nat Biotechnol. 2021, Nov 11. doi: 10.1038/s41587-021-01074-4.

Recruitment and inhibitory action of hippocampal axo-axonic cells during behavior.
Barna Dudok, Miklos Szoboszlay, Anirban Paul, Peter M. Klein, Zhenrui Liao, Ernie Hwaun, Gergely G. Szabo, Tristan Geiller, Bert Vancura,
Bor-Shuen Wang, Sam McKenzie, Jesslyn Homidan, Lianne M.F. Klaver, Daniel F. English, Z. Josh Huang, György Buzsáki, Attila Losonczy,
Ivan Soltesz.
Neuron. 2021, Oct 13. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.09.033.

Acute, Low-Dose Neutron Exposures Adversely Impact Central Nervous System Function.
Peter M. Klein, Yasaman Alaghband, Ngoc-Lien Doan, Ning Ru, Olivia G. G. Drayson, Janet E. Baulch, Enikö A. Kramár, Marcelo A. Wood,
Ivan Soltesz, Charles L. Limoli.
International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021, Aug 21. doi: 10.3390/ijms22169020.

In vivo endocannabinoid dynamics at the timescale of physiological and pathological neural activity.
Jordan S Farrell, Roberto Colangeli, Ao Dong, Antis G George, Kwaku Addo-Osafo, Philip J Kingsley, Maria Morena, Marshal D Wolff, Barna Dudok, Kaikai He, Toni A Patrick, Keith A Sharkey, Sachin Patel, Lawrence J Marnett, Matthew N Hill, Yulong Li, G Campbell Teskey,
Ivan Soltesz.
Neuron. 2021, Aug 4. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.05.026.

Maximally selective single-cell targetfor circuit control in epilepsy models.
Darian Hadjiabadi, Matthew Lovett-Barron, Ivan Georgiev Raikov, Fraser T. Sparks, Zhenrui Liao, Scott C. Baraban, Jure Leskovec, Attila Losonczy, Karl Deisseroth, Ivan Soltesz.
Neuron. 2021, Jun 30. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.06.007.

Epistemic Autonomy: Self-supervised Learning in the Mammalian Hippocampus.
Santos-Pata, D., Amil, A.F., Raikov, I.G., Rennó-Costa, C., Mura, A., Soltesz, I., Verschure, P.F.M.J.
Trends in Cognitive Science, 2021 Apr 24. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.03.016.

Entorhinal mismatch: A model of self-supervised learning in the hippocampus.
Santos-Pata, D., Amil, A.F., Raikov, I.G., Rennó-Costa, C., Mura, A., Soltesz, I., Verschure, P.F.M.J.
iScience 2021, March 26. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102364.

Alternating sources of perisomatic inhibition during behavior.
Barna Dudok, Peter M. Klein, Ernie Hwaun, Brian R. Lee, Zizhen Yao, Olivia Fong, John C. Bowler, Satoshi Terada, Fraser T. Sparks, Gergely G. Szabo, Jordan S. Farrell, Jim Berg, Tanya L. Daigle, Bosiljka Tasic, Jordane Dimidschstein, Gord Fishell, Attila Losonczy, Hongkui Zeng,
Ivan Soltesz.
Neuron, 2021 Feb 1. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.01.003.

Detrimental impacts of mixed-ion radiation on nervous system function.
Klein PM, Parihar VK, Szabo GG, Zöldi M, Angulo MC, Allen BD, Amin AN, Nguyen QA, Katona I, Baulch JE, Limoli CL, Soltesz I.
Neurobiol Dis. 2021 Apr. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2021.105252. Epub 2021 Jan 5.

Transcriptional readout of neuronal activity via an engineered Ca2+-activated protease.
Mateo I. Sanchez, Quynh-Anh Nguyen, Wenjing Wanga, Ivan Soltesz, Alice Y. Ting.
PNAS. 2020 Dec 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2006521117.

Hippocampal adult-born granule cells drive network activity in a mouse model of chronic temporal lobe epilepsy.
Sparks FT, Liao Z, Li W, Grosmark A, Soltesz I, Losonczy A.
Nat Commun. 2020 Dec 1. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19969-2.

Deep brain optogenetics without intracranial surgery.
Chen R, Gore F, Nguyen QA, Ramakrishnan C, Patel S, Kim SH, Raffiee M, Kim YS, Hsueh B, Krook-Magnusson E, Soltesz I, Deisseroth K.
Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Oct 5. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0679-9. PMID: 33020604.

GABA-glutamate supramammillary neurons control theta and gamma oscillations in the dentate gyrus during paradoxical (REM) sleep.
Billwiller F, Castillo L, Elseedy H, Ivanov AI, Scapula J, Ghestem A, Carponcy J, Libourel PA, Bras H, Abdelmeguid NE, Krook-Magnuson E, Soltesz I, Bernard C, Luppi PH, Esclapez M.
Brain Struct Funct. 2020 Sept 24. doi: 10.1007/s00429-020-02146-y. PMID: 32970253.

In vivo assessment of mechanisms underlying the neurovascular basis of postictal amnesia.
Farrell JS, Colangeli R, Dudok B, Wolff MD, Nguyen SL, Jackson J, Dickson CT, Soltesz I, Teskey GC.
Sci Rep. 2020 Sep 14. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71935-6. PMID: 32929133.

Connecting Pathological Cellular Mechanisms to Large-Scale Seizure Structures.
Nguyen QA, Moolchand P, Soltesz I.
Trends Neurosci. 2020 Aug. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2020.04.006. PMID: 32376035.

Mitigation of helium irradiation-induced brain injury by microglia depletion.
Allen BD, Syage AR, Maroso M, Baddour AAD, Luong V, Minasyan H, Giedzinski E, West BL, Soltesz I, Limoli CL, Baulch JE, Acharya MM.
J Neuroinflammation. 2020 May 19. doi: 10.1186/s12974-020-01790-9. PMID: 32429943.

Neurological Impairments in Mice Subjected to Irradiation and Chemotherapy.
Dey D, Parihar VK, Szabo GG, Klein PM, Tran J, Moayyad J, Ahmed F, Nguyen QA, Murry A, Merriott D, Nguyen B, Goldman J, Angulo MC, Piomelli D, Soltesz I, Baulch JE, Limoli CL.
Radiat Res. 2020 March. doi: 10.1667/RR15540.1. PMID: 32134362.

Optogenetic intervention of seizures improves spatial memory in a mouse model of chronic temporal lobe epilepsy.
Kim HK, Gschwind T, Nguyen TM, Bui AD, Felong S, Ampig K, Suh D, Ciernia AV, Wood MA, Soltesz I.
Epilepsia. 2020 Mar. doi: 10.1111/epi.16445. PubMed PMID: 32072628; NIHMSID: NIHMS1552790.