Selected Publications

pdficon_large2023 PNAS

Activity-induced MeCP2 phosphorylation regulates retinogeniculate synapse refinement

Christopher P. Tzeng*, Tess Whitwam*, Lisa D. Boxer*, Emmy Li, Andrew Silberfeld, Sara Trowbridge, Kevin Mei, Cindy Lin, Rebecca Shamah, Eric C. Griffith, William Renthal, Chinfei Chen, Michael E. Greenberg

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2023 Oct 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2310344120


pdficon_large2023 Science

The midnolin-proteasome pathway catches proteins for ubiquitination-independent degradation

Xin Gu*, Christopher Nardone*, Nolan Kamitaki, Aoyue Mao, Stephen J. Elledge, Michael E. Greenberg

Science 2023 Aug 25. doi: 10.1126/science.adh5021


pdficon_large2023 Nature

A NPAS4–NuA4 complex couples synaptic activity to DNA repair

Elizabeth A. Pollina, Daniel T. Gilliam, Andrew T. Landau, Cindy Lin, Naomi Pajarillo, Christopher P. Davis, David A. Harmin, Ee-Lynn Yap, Ian R. Vogel, Eric C. Griffith, M. Aurel Nagy, Emi Ling, Erin E. Duffy, Bernardo L. Sabatini, Charles J. Weitz, Michael E. Greenberg

Nature 2023 Feb 15. doi: 10.1038/10.1038/s41586-023-05711-7


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2022 Nature Neuroscience

Developmental dynamics of RNA translation in the human brain.

Erin E. Duffy, Benjamin Finander, GiHun Choi, Ava C. Carter, Iva Pritisanac, Aqsa Alam, Victor Luria, Amir Karger, William Phu, Maxwell A. Sherman, Elena G. Assad, Naomi Pajarillo, Alexandra Khitun, Elizabeth E. Crouch, Sanika Ganesh, Jin Chen, Bonnie Berger, Nenad Sestan, Anne O’Donnell-Luria, Eric J. Huang, Eric C. Griffith, Julie D. Forman-Kay, Alan M. Moses, Brian T. Kalish, Michael E. Greenberg

Nature Neuroscience 2022 Sep 28. doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01164-9


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2022 eLife

Characterization of sequence determinants of enhancer function using natural genetic variation.

Marty G Yang, Emi Ling, Christopher J Cowley, Michael E Greenberg, Thomas Vierbuchen

eLife 2022 Aug 31. doi: 10.7554/eLife.76500


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2021 Nature Neuroscience

Activity-dependent regulome of human GABAergic neurons reveals new patterns of gene regulation and neurological disease heritability.

Gabriella L. Boulting*, Ershela Durresi*, Bulent Ataman*, Maxwell A. Sherman*, Kevin Mei , David A. Harmin, Ava C. Carter, Daniel R. Hochbaum , Adam J. Granger, Jesse M. Engreitz, Sinisa Hrvatin , Michael R. Blanchard, Marty G. Yang, Eric C. Griffith, Michael E. Greenberg

Nature Neuroscience 2021 Feb 4. doi: 10.1038/s41593-020-00786-1


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2021 Nature Neuroscience

Maternal immune activation in mice disrupts proteostasis in the fetal brain.

Brian T. Kalish* , Eunha Kim *, Benjamin Finander, Erin E. Duffy , Hyunju Kim, Casey K. Gilman, Yeong Shin Yim, Lilin Tong , Randal J. Kaufman, Eric C. Griffith, Gloria B. Choi, Michael E. Greenberg, Jun R. Huh

Nature Neuroscience 2021. 24:204–213 doi:10.1038/s41593-020-00762-9


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2020 Nature

Bidirectional perisomatic inhibitory plasticity of a Fos neuronal network.

Ee-Lynn Yap, Noah L. Pettit, Christopher P. Davis, M. Aurel Nagy, David A. Harmin, Emily Golden, Onur Dagliyan, Cindy Lin, Stephanie Rudolph, Nikhil Sharma, Eric C. Grifith, Christopher D. Harvey, Michael E. Greenberg

Nature 2020 Dec 9. 1-7. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-3031-0


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2020 Neuron

Sensory Experience Engages Microglia to Shape Neural Connectivity through a Non-Phagocytic Mechanism.

Lucas Cheadle, Samuel A. Rivera, Jasper S. Phelps, Katelin A. Ennis, Beth Stevens, Linda C. Burkly, Wei-Chung Allen Lee, and Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 2020 Nov 11. 108, 1–18. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.08.002


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2020 Neuron

An Activity-Mediated Transition in Transcription in Early Postnatal Neurons.

Hume Stroud, Marty G. Yang, Yael N. Tsitohay, Christopher P. Davis, Maxwell A. Sherman, Sinisa Hrvatin, Emi Ling, Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 2020 Jun 24. S0896-6273(20)30437-2. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.06.008


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2020 Nature

Neurons that regulate mouse torpor.

Sinisa Hrvatin,* Senmiao Sun,* Oren F. Wilcox, Hanqi Yao, Aurora J. Lavin-Peter, Marcelo Cicconet, Elena G. Assad, Michaela E. Palmer, Sage Aronson, Alexander S. Banks, Eric C. Griffith, Michael E. Greenberg

Nature 2020 Jun 11. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2387-5


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2020 PNAS

Single-nucleus RNA sequencing of mouse auditory cortex reveals critical period triggers and brakes.

Brian T. Kalish,* Tania R. Barkat, * Erin E. Diel,* Elizabeth J. Zhang, Michael E. Greenberg, Takao K. Hensch.

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2020 May 26, 2020 117(21):11744-11752. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1920433117.


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2020 Molecular Cell

MeCP2 Represses the Rate of Transcriptional Initiation of Highly Methylated Long Genes.

Lisa D. Boxer,* William Renthal,* Alexander W. Greben, Tess Whitwam, Andrew Silberfeld, Hume Stroud, Emmy Li, Marty G. Yang, Benyam Kinde, Eric C. Griffith, Boyan Bonev, Michael E. Greenberg

Mol Cell 2020 Jan 16;77(2):294-309.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.10.032.


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2019 eLife

A scalable platform for the development of cell-type-specific viral drivers.

Sinisa Hrvatin, Christopher P. Tzeng, M. Aurel Nagy, Hume Stroud, Charalampia Koutsioumpa, Oren F. Wilcox, Elena G. Assad, Jonathan Green, Christopher D. Harvey, Eric C. Griffith, Michael E. Greenberg

eLife 2019 Sep 23;8. pii: e48089. doi: 10.7554/eLife.48089.


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2019 Neuron

ARNT2 Tunes Activity-Dependent Gene Expression through NCoR2-Mediated Repression and NPAS4-Mediated Activation.

Nikhil Sharma,* Elizabeth A. Pollina,* M. Aurel Nagy,* Ee-Lynn Yap, Florence A. DiBiase, Sinisa Hrvatin, Linda Hu, Cindy Lin, Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 2019 Apr 17;102(2):390-406.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.02.007.


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2018 Nature Neuroscience

Characterization of human mosaic Rett syndrome brain tissue by single-nucleus RNA sequencing.

William Renthal,* Lisa D. Boxer,* Sinisa Hrvatin, Emmy Li, Andrew Silberfeld, M. Aurel Nagy, Eric C. Griffith, Thomas Vierbuchen, Michael E. Greenberg

Nat Neurosci 2018 Dec;21(12):1670-1679. doi: 10.1038/s41593-018-0270-6.


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2018 Neuron

Activity-Regulated Transcription: Bridging the Gap between Neural Activity and Behavior

Ee-Lynn Yap, Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 2018 Oct 24;100(2):330-348. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.10.013.


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2018 Neuron

Visual Experience-Dependent Expression of Fn14 Is Required for Retinogeniculate Refinement

Lucas Cheadle,* Christopher P. Tzeng,* Brian T. Kalish, David A. Harmin, Samuel Rivera, Emi Ling, M. Aurel Nagy, Sinisa Hrvatin, Linda Hu, Hume Stroud, Linda C. Burkly, Chinfei Chen, Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 2018; 99(3):525-539.e10. NIHMSID: NIHMS979359


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2018 PNAS

Single-cell transcriptomics of the developing lateral geniculate nucleus reveals insights into circuit assembly and refinement.

Brian T. Kalish,* Lucas Cheadle,* Sinisa Hrvatin, M. Aurel Nagy, Samuel Rivera, Megan Crow, Jesse Gillis, Rory Kirchner, and Michael E. Greenberg

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2018; 115(5):E1051-E1060. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1717871115.


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2018 Nature Neuroscience

Single-cell analysis of experience-dependent transcriptomic states in the mouse visual cortex.

Sinisa Hrvatin,* Daniel R. Hochbaum ,* M. Aurel Nagy,* Marcelo Cicconet, Keiramarie Robertson, Lucas Cheadle, Rapolas Zilionis, Alex Ratner, Rebeca Borges-Monroy, Allon M. Klein, Bernardo L. Sabatini , Michael E. Greenberg

Nat Neurosci 2018 Jan;21(1):120-129. doi: 10.1038/s41593-017-0029-5.


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2017 Molecular Cell

AP-1 Transcription Factors and the BAF Complex Mediate Signal-Dependent Enhancer Selection.

Thomas Vierbuchen,* Emi Ling,* Christopher J. Cowley, Cameron H.Couch, Xiaofeng Wang, David A. Harmin, Charles W.M. Roberts, Michael E.Greenberg

Mol Cell 2017 Dec 21;68(6):1067-1082.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.11.026.


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2017 Cell

Early-Life Gene Expression in Neurons Modulates Lasting Epigenetic States

Hume Stroud, Susan C. Su, Sinisa Hrvatin, Alexander W. Greben, William Renthal, Lisa D. Boxer, M. Aurel Nagy, Daniel R. Hochbaum, Benyam Kinde, Harrison W. Gabel, Michael E. Greenberg

Cell 2017 Nov 16;171(5):1151-1164.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.09.047.



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2016 Nature

Evolution of Osteocrin as an activity-regulated factor in the primate brain.

Bulent Ataman*, Gabriella L Boulting*, David A. Harmin, Marty G. Yang, Mollie Baker-Salisbury, Ee-Lynn Yap, Athar N. Malik, Kevin Mei, Alex A. Rubin, Ivo Spiegel, Ershela Durresi, Nikhil Sharma, Linda S. Hu, Mihovil Pletikos, Eric C. Griffith, Jennifer N. Partlow, Christine R. Stevens, Mazhar Adli, Maria Chahrour, Nenad Sestan, Christopher A. Walsh, Vladimir K. Berezovskii, Margaret S Livingstone, Michael E Greenberg

Nature 2016 Nov 9;539(7628):242-247. doi: 10.1038/nature20111



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2016 Nature

Sensory experience regulates cortical inhibition by inducing IGF1 in VIP neurons.

Alan R. Mardinly*, Ivo Spiegel*, A. Patrizi, E. Centofante, J. E. Bazinet, C. P. Tzeng, C. Mandel-Brehm, D. A. Harmin, H. Adesnik, M. Fagiolini & M. E. Greenberg

Nature 2016, DOI: 10.1038/nature17187, PMID: 26958833


pdficon_large2015 Neuron

MEF2D drives photoreceptor development through a genome-wide competition for tissue-specific enhancers.

Milena M. Andzelm*, Timothy J. Cherry*, David A. Harmin, Annabel C. Boeke, Charlotte Lee, Martin Hemberg, Basil Pawlyk, Athar N. Malik, Steven W. Flavell, Michael A. Sandberg, Elio Raviola and Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 86, 247-263, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.02.038 (2015).


pdficon_large2015 Nature

Disruption of DNA-methylation-dependent long gene repression in Rett syndrome.

Harrison W. Gabel*, Benyam Kinde*, Hume Stroud, Caitlin S. Gilbert, David A. Harmin, Nathaniel R. Kastan, Martin Hemberg, Daniel H. Ebert and Michael E. Greenberg

Nature 522, 89-93, doi:10.1038/nature14319 (2015).


pdficon_large2015 PNAS

Reading the unique DNA methylation landscape of the brain: Non-CpG methylation, hydroxymethylation, and MeCP2.

Benyam Kinde*, Harrison W. Gabel*, Caitlin S. Gilbert, Eric C. Griffith, and Michael E. Greenberg

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, 6800-6806, doi:10.1073/pnas.1411269112 (2015).


pdficon_large2015 PNAS

Seizure-like activity in a juvenile Angelman syndrome mouse model is attenuated by reducing Arc expression.

Mandel-Brehm, C., Salogiannis, J., Dhamne, S. C., Rotenberg, A., and Greenberg, M. E

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, 5129-5134, doi:10.1073/pnas.1504809112 (2015).


pdficon_large2014 Nature Neuroscience

Genome-wide identification and characterization of functional neuronal activity-dependent enhancers.

Athar N. Malik*, Thomas Vierbuchen*, Martin Hemberg, Alex A. Rubin, Emi Ling, Cameron H. Couch, Hume Stroud, Ivo Spiegel, Kyle Kai-How Farh, David A. Harmin, and Michael E. Greenberg

Nature neuroscience 17, 1330-1339, doi:10.1038/nn.3808 (2014).


pdficon_large2014 Cell

Npas4 regulates excitatory-inhibitory balance within neural circuits through cell-type-specific gene programs.

Ivo Spiegel*, Alan R. Mardinly*, Harrison W. Gabel, Jeremy E. Bazinet, Cameron H. Couch, Christopher P. Tzeng, David A. Harmin, and Michael E. Greenberg

Cell 157, 1216-1229, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.03.058 (2014).


pdficon_large2013 Nature

The activity-dependent transcription factor NPAS4 regulates domain-specific inhibition.

Brenda L. Bloodgood*, Nikhil Sharma*, N., Browne, H. A., Trepman, A. Z., and Greenberg, M. E.

Nature 503, 121-125, doi:10.1038/nature12743 (2013).


pdficon_large2013 Nature

Activity-dependent neuronal signalling and autism spectrum disorder.

Ebert, D. H. and Greenberg, M. E.

Nature 493, 327-337, doi:10.1038/nature11860 (2013).


pdficon_large2013 Nature

Activity-dependent phosphorylation of MeCP2 threonine 308 regulates interaction with NCoR.

Daniel H. Ebert, Harrison W. Gabel, Nathaniel D.Robinson, Nathaniel R.Kastan, Linda S. Hu, Sonia Cohen, Adrija J.Navarro, Matthew J. Lyst, Robert Ekiert, Adrian P. Bird, and Michael E. Greenberg

Nature 499, 341-345, doi:10.1038/nature12348 (2013).


pdficon_large2012 Nature Neuroscience

A chemical genetic approach reveals distinct EphB signaling mechanisms during brain development.

Michael J Soskis*, Hsin-Yi Henry Ho*, Brenda L Bloodgood, Michael A Robichaux, Athar N Malik, Bulent Ataman, Alex A Rubin, Janine Zieg, Chao Zhang, Kevan M Shokat, Nikhil Sharma, Christopher W Cowan & Michael E Greenberg

Nature neuroscience. 2012, DOI: 10.1038/nn.3249, PMID: 23143520


2012 PNASpdficon_large

Wnt5a-Ror-Dishevelled signaling constitutes a core developmental pathway that controls tissue morphogenesis.

Hsin-Yi Henry Ho*, Michael W. Susman*, Jay B. Bikoff, Yun Kyoung Ryu, Andrea M. Jonas, Linda Hu, Rejji Kuruvilla, and Michael Eldon Greenberg

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, 4044-4051, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200421109 (2012).


pdficon_large2011 Neuron

The nogo receptor family restricts synapse number in the developing hippocampus.

Zachary P. Wills, Caleigh Mandel-Brehm, Alan R. Mardinly, Alejandra E. McCord, Roman J. Giger, and Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 73, 466-481, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.11.029 (2012).


pdficon_large2011 Neuron

Genome-wide activity-dependent MeCP2 phosphorylation regulates nervous system development and function.

Sonia Cohen*, Harrison W. Gabel*, Martin Hemberg, Ashley N. Hutchinson, L. Amanda Sadacca, Daniel H. Ebert, David A. Harmin, Rachel S. Greenberg, Vanessa K. Verdine, Zhaolan Zhou, William C. Wetsel, Anne E. West, and Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 72, 72-85, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.08.022 (2011).


2011 Neuronpdficon_large

Bhlhb5 and Prdm8 form a repressor complex involved in neuronal circuit assembly.

Sarah E. Ross, Alejandra E. McCord, Cynthia Jung, Denize Atan, Stephanie I. Mok, Martin Hemberg, Tae-Kyung Kim, John Salogiannis, Linda Hu, Sonia Cohen, Yingxi Lin, Dana Harrar, Roderick R. McInnes, and Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 73, 292-303, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.09.035 (2012).


pdficon_large2011 CSH

Neuronal activity-regulated gene transcription in synapse development and cognitive function.

West, A. E. & Greenberg, M. E.

Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology 3, doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a005744 (2011).


pdficon_large2010 Neuron

Loss of inhibitory interneurons in the dorsal spinal cord and elevated itch in Bhlhb5 mutant mice.

Sarah E. Ross, Alan R. Mardinly, Alejandra E. McCord, Jonathan Zurawski, Sonia Cohen, Cynthia Jung, Linda Hu,Stephanie I. Mok, Anar Shah, Erin M. Savner, Christos Tolias, Roman Corfas, Suzhen Chen, Perrine Inquimbert, Yi Xu, Roderick R. McInnes, Frank L. Rice, Gabriel Corfas, Qiufu Ma, Clifford J. Woolf,and Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 65, 886-898, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2010.02.025 (2010).


pdficon_large2010 Nature

Widespread transcription at neuronal activity-regulated enhancers.

Tae-Kyung Kim*, Martin Hemberg*, Jesse M. Gray*, Allen M. Costa, Daniel M. Bear, Jing Wu, David A. Harmin, Mike Laptewicz, Kellie Barbara-Haley, Scott Kuersten, Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, Dietmar Kuhl, Haruhiko Bito, Paul F. Worley, Gabriel Kreiman, and Michael E. Greenberg

Nature 465, 182-187, doi:10.1038/nature09033 (2010).


pdficon_large2010 Cell

The Angelman Syndrome protein Ube3A regulates synapse development by ubiquitinating arc.

Paul L. Greer, Rikinari Hanayama, Brenda L. Bloodgood, Alan R. Mardinly, David M. Lipton, Steven W. Flavell, Tae-Kyung Kim, Eric C. Griffith, Zachary Waldon, Rene Maehr, Hidde L. Ploegh, Shoaib Chowdhury, Paul F. Worley, Judith Steen, and Michael E. Greenberg

Cell 140, 704-716, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2010.01.026 (2010).


pdficon_large2010 Cell

EphB-mediated degradation of the RhoA GEF Ephexin5 relieves a developmental brake on excitatory synapse formation.

Seth S. Margolis*, John Salogiannis*, David M. Lipton, Caleigh Mandel-Brehm, Zachary P. Wills, Alan R. Mardinly, Linda Hu, Paul L. Greer, Jay B. Bikoff, Hsin-Yi Henry Ho, Michael J. Soskis, Mustafa Sahin, and Michael E. Greenberg

Cell 143, 442-455, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2010.09.038 (2010).


pdficon_large2008 Neuron

Genome-wide analysis of MEF2 transcriptional program reveals synaptic target genes and neuronal activity-dependent polyadenylation site selection.

Steven W. Flavell*, Tae-Kyung Kim*, Jesse M. Gray, David A. Harmin, Martin Hemberg, Elizabeth J. Hong, Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, Daniel M. Bear, and Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 60, 1022-1038, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2008.11.029 (2008).


pdficon_large2008 Neuron

Regulation of motor neuron specification by phosphorylation of neurogenin 2.

Yong-Chao Ma, Mi-Ryoung Song, Jin P. Park, Hsin-Yi Henry Ho, Linda Hu, Martin V. Kurtev, Janine Zieg, Qiufu Ma, Samuel L. Pfaff, and Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 58, 65-77, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2008.01.037 (2008).


pdficon_large2008 Nature

Activity-dependent regulation of inhibitory synapse development by Npas4.

Yingxi Lin, Brenda L. Bloodgood, Jessica L. Hauser, Ariya D. Lapan, Alex C. Koon, Tae-Kyung Kim, Linda S. Hu, Athar N. Malik, and Michael E. Greenberg

Nature 455, 1198-1204, doi:10.1038/nature07319 (2008).


pdficon_large2008 Neuron

A biological function for the neuronal activity-dependent component of Bdnf transcription in the development of cortical inhibition.

Elizabeth J. Hong, Alejandra E. McCord, and Michael E. Greenberg

Neuron 60, 610-624, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2008.09.024 (2008).