Sugino, K., Hempel, C., Miller, M., Hattox, A., Huang, ZJ.,  and Nelson, SB (2006) Molecular taxonomy of major neuronal classes in the mouse forebrain. Nature Neuroscience. 9(1):99-107.

Huang, ZJ., (2006) Subcellular organization of GABAergic synapses: role of ankyrins and L1 cell adhesion molecules. Nature Neuroscience. 9(2):163-6.

Dumitriu, D., Cossart, R., Huang, ZJ., Yuste, R. (2006) Correlation between axonal morphology and synaptic input kinetics in neocortical interneurons. Cerebral Cortex, in press

Huang ZJ. (2006) GABA(B)rReceptor isoforms caught in action at the scene. Neuron. 200618;50(4):521-4.

Chattopadhayaya, B., DiCristo, G.,  Wu, C., Kuhlman, S., Palmiter, R.D., Huang, Z.J., (2006) Regulation of GABAergic synaptic innervation by GAD67-mediated GABA synthesis and signaling. Submitted.

DiCristo, G.,  Chattopadhayaya, B., Wu, C., Kuhlman, S.,  Huang, Z.J., (2006) Activity-dependent PSA-NCAM expression regulates the maturation of perisomatic GABAergic innervation and onset of critical period of ocular dominance plasticity in visual cortex. In preparation.

Kuhlman, S.,  Brody, C., Huang, Z.J., (2006) Maturation of GABAergic inhibition promotes synaptic competition among converging inputs in the visual cortex. In preparation.

Ango, F., Schachner, M., Huang, ZJ., (2006)  Role of CHL1 (CLOSE HOMOLOGUE OF L1) and Bergman glia in the dendrite-targed GABAergic innervation of cerebellar Purkinje neurons. In preparation.

2.  RESEARCH SUPPORT

Federal Duration of Grant Direct Costs
RO1-EY13564-01,                                   8/1/01 – 7/31/06   $1,250,000/yr
Principal Investigator: Z. Josh Huang 
Title: GABAergic Circuits Regulate Critical Period in Visual Cortex
Agency: NEI/NIH

NOTEY02001                                           12/1/02 – 11/30/03    $ 372,275
Supplement for Technology Enhancement
Principal Investigator: Hollis Cline, Z. Josh Huang 
Title:  Two-photon imaging of living visual system neurons
Agency: NEI/NIH

R01 NS052784-01,
Principal Investigator: Z. Josh Huang         8/1/05 – 7/31/0 $1,250,000/yr
Agency: NINDS/NIH
Title: Molecular mechanisms of subcellular synapse targeting

Pending RO1
Principal Investigator: Z. Josh Huang 
GABA regulates GABAergic synapse and circuit development.
Submitted Oct 1, 2005

Pending UO1
Principal Investigator: Z. Josh Huang (CSHL), Sacha Nelson (Brandeis Univ)
RFA: “Development of Recombinase-Expressing (“driver”) Mouse Lines for Studying the Nervous System” – Cre expressing mouse lines in the GABAergic system
To be Submitted on Jan 19, 2006

International
EJLB Foundation                                         1/1/04 – 1/1/07 CAN$300,000
PI: Z. Josh Huang
Title: L1 Immunoglobulin Cell Adhesion Molecules and Subcellular Synapse Targeting

Private
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation  7/1/04 – 6/30/07 $287,408
PI: Z. Josh Huang
Title: Role of L1 Immunoglobulin Cell Adhesion Molecules in the Subcellular Synapse Targeting

The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
                                                                     8/1/04-7/30/07 $200,000
PI: Z. Josh Huang
Title: Molecular mechanisms underlying subcellular synapse targeting

Pew Foundation                                         7/1/02 – 6/30/07 $240,000
PI: Z. Josh Huang
Title: Development and plasticity of GABAergic circuits in visual cortex

Whitehall Foundation                                7/1/01 – 6/30/04 $225,000
PI: Z. Josh Huang
Title: GABAergic circuits regulate critical period plasticity in visual cortex

Postdoc Fellowships
NARSAD Foundation (2) 04 –06, 05-07                    $60,000 x 2
Human Frontier  02  - 05                              $108,000
EMBO 02 – 04                              $73,648
NRSA (2) 02 – 05, 05-08                   $130,234 x 2
Cold Spring Harbor Association 01                                      $35,000
Cold Spring Harbor Association 04                                      $35,000

3. STUDENTS AND TRAINEES

UnderGraduate Research Program (URP)
 
Name Year Institution   
Joe Markson 2001 Harvard   
Jonathan Hertz 2002 MIT   
Daniel Jones 2003 Pomona College   
Nick Wall 2004 Caltech 

Current Trainees
 
Name Post/Pre Date Institution Grant  Current Position   
Hiroki Taniguchi Postdoc 11/05- Univ. of Osaka,
Japan     
Hong Yang Postdoc 7/03- Harvard Medical School CSH Association postdoc fellowship;
NRSA fellowship    
Sandra Kuhlman Postdoc 8/01- Univ. of Kentucky,
Med. Sch. NRSA postdoctoral fellowship    
Anirban Paul Postdoc 12/05 Howard Univ.     
Caizhi Wu Postdoc 12/02- Shandong
Medical School/Weismann Inst, Isreal     
Xiaoyun Wu Predoc 7/05- FuDan Univ.
Shanghai, China   

Past Trainees
 
Name Post/Pre Date Institution Grant  Current Position   
Graziella Di Cristo Postdoc 4/01-3/06 Scuola Normale Superior, Pisa, Italy EMBO Long term fellow; NARSAD postdoc fellowship Assistant Professor
Dept. of Physiology
Univ. Montreal, Canada   
Fabrice Ango Postdoc 1/02-11/05 Center CNRS-INSERM HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowship; NARSAD postdoc fellowship Assistant Professor
Inst of Functional Genomics,
CNRS, Montpellier, France   
Bidisha Chattopadhyaya Predoc 7/00-12/05   Postdoc Fellow, Max Planck Inst. Medicine, Heidelberg 

4.  INVITED DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS
Date Department, Institution, City, State (partial list)
11/2/06 Dept of Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, MA
10/19/06 Dept of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, New York
4/5/06 Dept of Cell Biology, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, CT
3/15/06 Dept of Neuroscience, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington DC
3/1/06 Program in Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical School, New York City
2/24/06 Dept of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
1/25/06 Program in Neuroscience, University of Vanderbilt, Tennasee
1/12/06 Program in Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, CA

11/29/05 Dept of Physiology, Columbia University College of P&S, New York City
11/7/05 Skirball Institute,  New York University Medical School, New York City
4/27/05 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
4/20/05  Dept of Neuroscience Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, NY
2/28/05 Dept. of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, CA
2/24/05 Neuroscience Program, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2/4/05 Division of Cellular and Systems Neurobiology, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Neurobiologie, Munchen-Martinsried, GermanyMunich
2/3/05 Dept Neurobiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical ResearchMax Plank Institute, Heidelberg, Germany
2/2/05 Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie, University of Hamburg, Germany
1/31/05 Max-Delbrueck-Centrum fuer Molekulare Medizin, Berlin, Germany