Our publications

Research articles:

  • Kveim VA, Salm L, Ulmer T, Lahr M, Kandler S, Imhof F, Donato F. “Divergent Recruitment of Developmentally Defined Neuronal Ensembles Supports Memory Dynamics”. Science, 385, 730 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk0997

  • Bhandari K, Kanodia H, Donato F, Caroni P. “Selective vulnerability of the ventral hippocampus-prelimbic cortex axis parvalbumin interneuron network underlies learning deficits of fragile X mice”. Cell Rep. 2024 Apr 16;43(5):114124. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114124.

  • Gonzalo Cogno S, Obenhaus HA, Lautrup A, Jacobsen RI, Clopath C, Andersson SO, Donato F*, Moser MB*, Moser EI*. “Minute-scale oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex.” Nature. 2024 Jan;625(7994):338-344. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06864-1.

    Research Highlights: Nature 2024 Jan; 625(7994):244-245.

  • Jacobsen RI, Nair RR, Obenhaus HA, Donato F, Slettmoen T, Moser MB, Moser EI. “All-viral tracing of monosynaptic inputs to single birthdate-defined neurons in the intact brain”. Cell Rep Methods. 2022 May 23;2(5):100221. doi: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2022.100221. eCollection 2022

  • Obenhaus HA, Zong W, Jacobsen RI, Rose T, Donato F, Chen L, Cheng H, Bonhoeffer T, Moser MB, Moser EI. “Functional network topography of the medial entorhinal cortex”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Feb 15;119(7):e2121655119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121655119.

  • Donato F†, Jacobsen RI, Moser M-B, Moser EI†, “Stellate cells drive the maturation of the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit”. Science 2017 Mar 17; 355 (6330).

    Research Highlights: Current Biology. 2017 Jun5;27(11)

  • Karunakaran S*, Chowdhury A*, Donato F, Quairiaux C, Michel CM, Caroni P, “PV plasticity sustained through D1/5 dopamine signaling required for long-term memory consolidation”. Nature Neuroscience. 2016 Mar; 19(3):454-64

  • Donato F*, Chowdhury A*, Lahr M, Caroni P, “Early and late-born parvalbumin basket cells subpopulations exhibiting distinct regulations and roles in learning”. Neuron 2015 Feb;85(4)

  • Donato F, Rompani SB, Caroni P, “Parvalbumin-expressing basket-cell network plasticity induced by experience regulates adult learning”. Nature 2013 Dec 12; 504(7479):272-6.

    Research Highlights: Nature. 2013 Dec12; 504(7479), Cell. 2014 Jan 16;156(1-2):17-9.

  • Ruediger S*, Spirig D*, Donato F* and Caroni P, “Goal-oriented searching mediated by ventral hippocampus in trial-and-error learning”. Nature Neuroscience. 2012 Sep 23;15(11):1563-71.

  • Degouchi Y*, Donato F*, Galimberti I*, Cabuy E and Caroni P, “Temporally matched subpopulations of selectively interconnected principal neurons in the hippocampus”. Nature Neuroscience. 2011 Apr 14(4):495-504.

    Research Highlights: Nat Neuroscience. 2011Apr;14(4):407-8.

  • Galimberti I*, Bednarek E*, Donato F and Caroni P, “EphA4 signaling in juveniles establishes topographic specificity of structural plasticity in the hippocampus”. Neuron. 2010 Mar;65(5):627-42.

    Reviews, essays, and commentaries

  • Donato F†, Xu Schwartzlose A, Viana Mendes RA. “How Do You Build a Cognitive Map? The Development of Circuits and Computations for the Representation of Space in the Brain”. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2023 Jul 10; 46:281-299. doi: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-090922-010618.

  • Donato F†, Ryan TJ†. “Framing the future of neuroscience in a time of great upheaval: Introducing a series of essays by the scholars of the FENS-Kavli network”. Eur J Neurosci. 2022 Jul 7. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15763.

  • Ohana O, Alberini CM, Donato F†. “Introduction to the special issue on the ontogeny of hippocampal functions”. Hippocampus. 2022 Feb;32(2):69-72. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23406.

  • Donato F†, “A gatekeeper for learning”. Science, 2020 Dec 18; 370(6523):1410-1411.

  • Donato F†, Alberini CM, Amso D, Dragoi G, Dranovsky A, Newcombe NS. “The ontogeny of hippocampus-dependent memories”. J Neurosci. 2020 Dec 15:JN-SY-1651-20

  • Lahr M, Donato F†. “Navigation: how spatial cognition is transformed into action”. Current Biology. 2020 May 18;30(10):R430-R432.

  • Donato F†, “Motor Control: Head-Turning Modular Organization of the Superior Colliculus”. Current Biology. 2019 Sep 9;29(17): R829-R831.                                                                                   

  • Baram TZ, Donato F, Holmes GL. “Construction and disruption of spatial memory networks during development”. Learn Mem. 2019 Jun 17;26(7):206-218.

  • Donato F†, “Assembling the brain from deep within”. Science. 2017 Oct 27; 358(6362):456-7.

  • Donato F and Moser EI, “A world away from reality”. Nature. 2016 May 19;533(7603):324-5.

  • Caroni P, Donato F, and Muller D, “Structural plasticity upon learning: regulation and functions”. Nature Review Neuroscience. 2012 Jun 20;13(7):478-90.