Selected Publications

Cohen LD, Ziv T, Ziv NE. Synapse integrity and function: Dependence on protein synthesis and identification of potential failure points. 2022. Front. Mol. Neurosci. 15:1038614

Kasai H, Ziv NE, Okazaki H, Yagishita S, Toyoizumi T. Spine dynamics in the brain, mental disorders and artificial neural networks. 2021. Nat Rev Neurosci. doi: 10.1038/s41583-021-00467-3

Ziv NE, Ciechanover A. A possible non-proteolytic role of ubiquitin conjugation in alleviating the pathology of Huntingtin’s aggregation. 2020. Cell Death Differ. 28:814-817

Hakim-Eshed V, Boulos A, Cohen-Rosenzweig C, Yu-Taeger L, Ziv T, Kwon YT, Riess O, Phuc Nguyen HH, Ziv NE, Ciechanover A. Site-specific ubiquitination of pathogenic huntingtin attenuates its deleterious effects2020. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jul 16:20200766

Cohen LD, Boulos A, Ziv NE. A Non-Fluorescent HaloTag Blocker for Improved Measurement and Visualization of Protein Synthesis in Living Cells2020. F1000Res. 9:ISF-302.

Hazan L, Ziv NE.  Activity Dependent and Independent Determinants of Synaptic Size Diversity. 2020.  J Neurosci. 40:2828-2848.

Cohen LD, Ziv NE.  Neuronal and synaptic protein lifetimes. 2019. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 57:9-16.

Ziv NE, Brenner N. Synaptic Tenacity or Lack Thereof: Spontaneous Remodeling of Synapses. 2018. Trends Neurosci. 41:89-99.

Ziv NE. Maintaining the active zone: Demand, supply and disposal of core active zone proteins. 2018. Neurosci Res. 127:70-77.

Hazan H, Ziv NE. Closed Loop Experiment Manager (CLEM)—An Open and Inexpensive Solution for Multichannel Electrophysiological Recordings and Closed Loop Experiments. 2017. Front. Neurosci. 11:579.

Shomar A, Geyrhofer L, Ziv NE, Brenner N. Cooperative stochastic binding and unbinding explain synaptic size dynamics and statistics. 2017. PLoS Comput Biol. 13:e1005668.

Cohen LD, Ziv NE. Recent insights on principles of synaptic protein degradation. 2017. F1000Res. 6:675.

Dvorkin R, Ziv NE. Relative Contributions of Specific Activity Histories and Spontaneous Processes to Size Remodeling of Glutamatergic Synapses. 2016.  PLoS Biol. 14(10):e1002572.
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Hakim V, Cohen LD, Zuchman R, Ziv T, Ziv NE. The effects of proteasomal inhibition on synaptic proteostasis. 2016. EMBO J. 35:2238-2262.

Rubinski A, Ziv NE. Remodeling and Tenacity of Inhibitory Synapses: Relationships with Network Activity and Neighboring Excitatory Synapses. 2015. PLoS Comput Biol. 11(11):e1004632.

Statman A, Kaufman M, Minerbi A, Ziv NE, Brenner N. Synaptic Size Dynamics as an Effectively Stochastic Process. 2014. PLoS Comput Biol. 10(10):e1003846.

Kaufman M, Reinartz S, Ziv NE. Adaptation to prolonged neuromodulation in cortical cultures: an invariable return to network synchrony. 2014. BMC Biol. 12:83.

Ziv NE, Fisher-Lavie A. Presynaptic and postsynaptic scaffolds: dynamics fast and slow . 2014. Neuroscientist. 20(5):439-52.

Fisher-Lavie A, Ziv NE. Matching dynamics of presynaptic and postsynaptic scaffolds. 2013.  J Neurosci. 7;33(32):13094-100.

Cohen LD, Zuchman R, Sorokina O, Müller A, Dieterich DC, Armstrong JD, Ziv T, Ziv NE. Metabolic turnover of synaptic proteins kinetics, interdependencies and implications for synaptic maintenance. 2013. PLoS One. 2;8(5):e63191.
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Levy O, Ziv NE, Marom S. Enhancement of neural representation capacity by modular architecture in networks of cortical neurons . 2012. Eur J Neurosci. 35(11):1753-60.

Kaufman M, Corner MA, Ziv NE. Long-term Relationships between Cholinergic Tone, Synchronous Bursting and Synaptic Remodeling. 2012. PLoS One. 7(7).

Zeidan A, Ziv NE.  Neuroligin-1 loss is associated with reduced tenacity of excitatory synapses. 2012. PLoS One. 7(7):e42314.

Fisher-Lavie A, Zeidan A, Stern M, Garner CC, Ziv NE. Use dependence of presynaptic tenacity. 2011.  J Neurosci. .16;31(46):16770-80.

Minerbi A, Kahana R, Goldfeld L, Kaufman M, Marom S, Ziv NE. Long-Term Relationships between Synaptic Tenacity, synaptic remodeling, and network activity. 2009. PLoS Biol. 23;7(6).Access the recommendation on F1000Prime

Tsuriel S, Fisher A, Wittenmayer N, Dresbach T, Garner CC, Ziv NE. Exchange and redistribution dynamics of the cytoskeleton of the active zone molecule bassoon. 2009. J Neurosci.14;29(2):351-8.

Tsuriel S, Geva R, Zamorano P, Dresbach T, Boeckers T, Gundelfinger ED, Garner CC, Ziv NE. Local sharing as a predominant determinant of synaptic matrix molecular dynamics. 2006. PLoS Biol. 4(9):e271.
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Kalla S, Stern M, Basu J, Varoqueaux F, Reim K, Rosenmund C, Ziv NE, Brose N. Molecular dynamics of a presynaptic active zone protein studied in Munc13-1-enhanced yellow fluorescent protein knock-in mutant mice. 2006. J Neurosci. 13;26(50):13054-66.

Eytan D, Minerbi A, Ziv N, Marom S. Dopamine-induced dispersion of correlations between action potentials in networks of cortical neurons. 2004. 92(3):1817-24.

Ziv NE, Garner CC .Cellular and molecular mechanisms of presynaptic assembly. 2004. Nat Rev Neurosci. 5(5):385-99.

Bresler T, Shapira M, Boeckers T, Dresbach T, Futter M, Garner CC, Rosenblum K, Gundelfinger ED, Ziv NE. Postsynaptic density assembly is fundamentally different from presynaptic active zone assembly . 2004. J Neurosci. 24:1507-1520.

Shapira M, Zhai RG, Dresbach, T, Bresler T, Torres VI, Gundelfinger ED, Ziv NE,  Garner CC. Unitary assembly of presynaptic active zones from Piccolo Bassoon transport vesicles. 2003. Neuron. 38:237–252.. 2006. PLoS Biol. 4(9):e271.
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Zhai R, Vardinon Friedman H, Cases-Langhoff C, Becker B. Eckart D. Gundelfinger ED, Ziv N.E. and Garner CC. Assembling the presynaptic active zone: Characterization of an active zone precursor vesicle. 2001. Neuron 29:131-143.

Bresler T, Ramati Y, Zamorano PL,  Zhai R, Garner CC and Ziv NE. The dynamics of SAP90 PSD-95 recruitment to new synaptic junctions. 2001. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 18: 149-167.. 2003. Neuron. 38:237–252.. 2006. PLoS Biol. 4(9):e271.
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Vardinon Friedman H, Bresler T, Garner CC. and Ziv NE.Assembly of new individual excitatory synapses: Time course and temporal order of synaptic molecule recruitment. 2000. Neuron. 27:57-79.