Publications

2025

• Hinz J*, Mahn M*, Mueller S, Szonyi A, Eichlisberger T, & Luthi A.
  Stimulus-specific and adaptive value representations in the basolateral amygdala in male mice. 
  Nat Commun 16, 5239 (2025).
  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60414-z
  *equal contribution

2023

• Printz, Y, Patil, P, Mahn, M, Benjamin A, Litvin A, Levy R, Bringmann M, & Yizhar O.
  Determinants of functional synaptic connectivity among amygdala-projecting prefrontal cortical neurons in male mice.
  Nat Commun 14, 1667 (2023).
  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37318-x

2022

• d’Aquin S, Szonyi A, Mahn M, Krabbe S, Gründemann J, & Lüthi A.
  Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity during associative learning.
  Science, 2022, 376, eabf7052.
  https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf7052

2021

• Hagihara KM*, Bukalo O*, Zeller M, Aksoy-Aksel A, Karalis N, Limoges A, Rigg T, Campbell T, Mendez A, Weinholtz C, Mahn M, Zweifel LS, Palmiter RD, Ehrlich I, Lüthi A^#, & Holmes A^#.
  Intercalated amygdala clusters orchestrate a switch in fear state.
  Nature 594, 403–407 (2021).
  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03593-1
  *equal contribution; ^#corresponding author.

• Mahn M*, Saraf-Sinik I*, Patil P*, Pulin M*, Bitton E, Karalis N, Bruentgens F, Palgi S, Gat A, Dine J, Wietek J, Davidi I, Levy R, Litvin A, Zhou F, Sauter K, Soba P, Schmitz D, Lüthi A, Rost BR, Wiegert JS, Yizhar O.
  Efficient optogenetic silencing of neurotransmitter release with a mosquito rhodopsin.
  Neuron 109, 1621-1635 (2021).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.03.013
  *equal contribution

• Mahn M*^#, Gibor L*, Patil P, Cohen-Kashi Malina K, Oring S, Printz Y, Levy R, Lampl I, Yizhar O^#.
  High-efficiency optogenetic silencing with soma-targeted anion-conducting Channelrhodopsins.
  Nat Commun. 2018 Oct 8;9(1):4125.
  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06511-8
  *equal contribution; ^#corresponding author.

• Forli A, Vecchia D, Binini N, Succol F, Bovetti S, Moretti C, Nespoli F, Mahn M, Baker CA, Bolton MM, Yizhar O & Fellin T. Two-Photon Bidirectional Control and Imaging of Neuronal Excitability with High Spatial Resolution In Vivo.
  Cell Reports, Volume 22, Issue 11, 3087-3098 (2018).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2018.02.063

• Mahn M, Prigge M, Ron S, Levy R & Yizhar O.
  Biophysical constraints of optogenetic inhibition at presynaptic terminals.
  Nat. Neurosci. 19, 554556 (2016).
  https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4266

• Shemesh Y, Forkosh O, Mahn M, Anpilov S, Sztainberg Y, Manashirov S, Shlapobersky T, Elliott E, Tabouy L, Ezra G, Adler ES, Ben-Efraim YJ, Gil S, Kuperman Y, Haramati S, Dine J, Eder M, Deussing JM, Schneidman E, Yizhar O & Chen A.
  Ucn3 and CRF-R2 in the medial amygdala regulate complex social dynamics.
  Nat Neurosci 19, 1489–1496 (2016).
  https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4346