For an up-to-date list, please see my Google Scholar or ORCID.

Latest preprints

2024

Research articles

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
 

2018

  • 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.
 

2016

  • 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
 

Reviews and book chapters

2022

  • Authors listed in alphabetical order:
    Emiliani V, Entcheva E, Hedrich R, Hegemann P, Konrad KR, Lüscher C, Mahn M, Pan Z-H, Sims RR, Vierock J, & Yizhar O.
    Optogenetics for light control of biological systems.
    Nat Rev Methods Primers 2, 55 (2022).
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-022-00136-4
 
 2020
  • Mahn M, Klavir O & Yizhar O.
    Optogenetic modulation of neural circuits.
    Book Chapter In: Handbook of Neurophotonics. CRC Press (2020), eBook ISBN: 9780429194702.
    https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429194702
 

2017

 

2014

  • Mahn M, Ron S & Yizhar O.
    Viral vector-based techniques for optogenetic modulation in vivo.
    Book Chapter in: Viral Vector Approaches in Neurobiology and Brain Diseases, (NM,volume 82), 289-310 (2014).
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-610-8_15
 
 

Patents

2021

  • Yizhar O, Mahn M.
    Bistable type II opsins and uses thereof. Patent number: US20210403518A1