Selected List of recent publications
Weiss, S., Clamon, L. C., Manoim, J. E., Ormerod, K. G., Parnas, M., & Littleton, J. T. (2021). Glial ER and GAP junction mediated Ca2+ waves are crucial to maintain normal brain excitability. Glia. [PDF]
Lerner H., Rozenfeld E., Rozenman B., Huetteroth W., and Parnas, M. (2020). Differential Role for a Defined Lateral Horn Neuron Subset in Naive Odor Valence in Drosophila. Scientific Reports, 10, 6147. [PDF]
Rozenfeld E., Lerner H., and Parnas, M. (2019). Muscarinic Modulation of Antennal Lobe GABAergic Local Neurons Shapes Odor Coding and Behavior. Cell Reports, 29, 3253-3265.e4. [PDF]
Bielopolski N., Amin H., Apostolopoulou AA., Rozenfeld E., Lerner H., Huetteroth W., Lin AC. and Parnas, M. (2019). Inhibitory muscarinic acetylcholine receptors enhance aversive olfactory conditioning in adult Drosophila. eLife, 8. [PDF]
Har-Gil H., Golgher L., Israel S., Kain D., Cheshnovsky O., Parnas, M., and Blinder P. (2018). PySight: plug and play photon counting for fast continuous volumetric intravital microscopy. Optica, 9:1104-1112. [PDF]
Bentzur A., Shmueli A., Omesi L., Ryvkin J., Knapp JM., Parnas, M., Davis FP., Shohat-Ophir G. (2018). Odorant binding protein 69a connects social interaction to modulation of social responsiveness in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics, 9;14(4):e1007328. [PDF]
Parnas, M., Lin, A.C., Huetteroth. W., and Miesenböck, G. (2013). Odor discrimination in Drosophila: From neural population codes to behavior. Neuron, 79:932-944, Featured article. [PDF ;Supplementary]
Parnas, M., Peters, M., and Minke, B. (2009). Linoleic acid inhibits TRP channels with intrinsic voltage sensitivity: Implications on the mechanism of linoleic acid action. Channels 26;3(3). [PDF]
Parnas, M., Katz, B., Lev, S., Tzarfaty, V., Dadon, D., Gordon-Shaag, A., Metzner, H., Yaka, R., and Minke, B. (2009). Membrane lipid modulations remove divalent open channel block from TRPL and NMDA channels. J. Neurosci. 29:2371-83. [PDF]
Commentary in: Sci. Signal., 2009 2:80 (Editor’s choice)
Parnas, M., Peters, M., Dadon, D., Lev, S., Vertkin, I., Slutsky, I., and Minke, B. (2009). Carvacrol is a novel inhibitor of Drosophila TRPL and mammalian TRPM7 channels. Cell Calcium 45:300-9. [PDF]
Parnas, M., Katz, B., and Minke, B. (2007). Open channel block by Ca2+ underlies the voltage dependence of Drosophila TRPL channel. J. Gen. Physiol. 129:17-28. [PDF]