Carlos Portera-Cailliau
Professor, Neurology, University of California Los Angeles
Professor, Neurobiology, University of California Los Angeles
Interests
autism, fragile X syndrome, circuit, calcium imaging, development, sensory processing
Education and Training
Columbia Univ. | Fellowship | 06/2004 | Movement disorders |
Mass. General/Brigham | Residency | 06/2001 | Neurology |
Johns Hopkins Sch. of Med. | MD, PhD | 06/1997 | Medicine/Neuroscience |
Publications
- Dobler Z, Suresh A, Chari T, Mula S, Tran A, Buonomano DV, Portera-Cailliau C. Adapting and facilitating responses in mouse somatosensory cortex are dynamic and shaped by experience.. Current biology : CB, 2024.
- Kourdougli N, Nomura T, Wu MW, Heuvelmans A, Dobler Z, Contractor A, Portera-Cailliau C. The NKCC1 Inhibitor Bumetanide Restores Cortical Feedforward Inhibition and Lessens Sensory Hypersensitivity in Early Postnatal Fragile X Mice.. Biological psychiatry, 2024.
- Chari T, Hernandez A, Couto J, Portera-Cailliau C. A failure to discriminate social from non-social touch at the circuit level may underlie social avoidance in autism.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024.
- Wu MW, Kourdougli N, Portera-Cailliau C. Network state transitions during cortical development.. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2024.
- Rahmatullah N, Schmitt LM, De Stefano L, Post S, Robledo J, Chaudhari G, Pedapati E, Erickson C, Portera-Cailliau C, Goel A. Hypersensitivity to Distractors in Fragile X Syndrome from Loss of Modulation of Cortical VIP Interneurons.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2023.
- Chari T, Hernandez A, Portera-Cailliau C. A Novel Head-Fixed Assay for Social Touch in Mice Uncovers Aversive Responses in Two Autism Models.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2023.
- Goel A, Cantu DA, Guilfoyle J, Chaudhari GR, Newadkar A, Todisco B, de Alba D, Kourdougli N, Schmitt LM, Pedapati E, Erickson CA, Portera-Cailliau C. Author Correction: Impaired perceptual learning in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome is mediated by parvalbumin neuron dysfunction and is reversible.. Nature neuroscience, 2023.
- Kourdougli N, Suresh A, Liu B, Juarez P, Lin A, Chung DT, Graven Sams A, Gandal MJ, Martínez-Cerdeño V, Buonomano DV, Hall BJ, Mombereau C, Portera-Cailliau C. Improvement of sensory deficits in fragile X mice by increasing cortical interneuron activity after the critical period.. Neuron, 2023.
- Kourdougli N, Portera-Cailliau C. aGABRacadabra: A surprising new role for GABAA receptors in cortical development.. Neuron, 2023.
- Chari T, Hernandez A, Portera-Cailliau C. A novel head-fixed assay for social touch in mice uncovers aversive responses in two autism models.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
- Rahmatullah N, Schmitt LM, De Stefano L, Post S, Robledo J, Chaudhari GR, Pedapati E, Erickson CA, Portera-Cailliau C, Goel A. Hypersensitivity to distractors in Fragile X syndrome from loss of modulation of cortical VIP interneurons.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
- Grienberger C, Giovannucci A, Zeiger W, Portera-Cailliau C. Two-photon calcium imaging of neuronal activity.. Nature reviews. Methods primers, 2022.
- Contractor A, Ethell IM, Portera-Cailliau C. Cortical interneurons in autism.. Nature neuroscience, 2021.
- Zeiger WA, Marosi M, Saggi S, Noble N, Samad I, Portera-Cailliau C. Barrel cortex plasticity after photothrombotic stroke involves potentiating responses of pre-existing circuits but not functional remapping to new circuits.. Nature communications, 2021.
- Cantu DA, Wang B, Gongwer MW, He CX, Goel A, Suresh A, Kourdougli N, Arroyo ED, Zeiger W, Portera-Cailliau C. EZcalcium: Open-Source Toolbox for Analysis of Calcium Imaging Data.. Frontiers in neural circuits, 2020.
- Karpf S, Riche CT, Di Carlo D, Goel A, Zeiger WA, Suresh A, Portera-Cailliau C, Jalali B. Spectro-temporal encoded multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging at kilohertz frame-rates.. Nature communications, 2020.
- Goel A, Portera-Cailliau C. Autism in the Balance: Elevated E-I Ratio as a Homeostatic Stabilization of Synaptic Drive.. Neuron, 2019.
- Goel A, Cantu DA, Guilfoyle J, Chaudhari GR, Newadkar A, Todisco B, de Alba D, Kourdougli N, Schmitt LM, Pedapati E, Erickson CA, Portera-Cailliau C. Author Correction: Impaired perceptual learning in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome is mediated by parvalbumin neuron dysfunction and is reversible.. Nature neuroscience, 2019.
- Arroyo ED, Fiole D, Mantri SS, Huang C, Portera-Cailliau C. Dendritic Spines in Early Postnatal Fragile X Mice Are Insensitive to Novel Sensory Experience.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2018.
- Goel A, Cantu DA, Guilfoyle J, Chaudhari GR, Newadkar A, Todisco B, de Alba D, Kourdougli N, Schmitt LM, Pedapati E, Erickson CA, Portera-Cailliau C. Impaired perceptual learning in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome is mediated by parvalbumin neuron dysfunction and is reversible.. Nature neuroscience, 2018.
- He CX, Arroyo ED, Cantu DA, Goel A, Portera-Cailliau C. A Versatile Method for Viral Transfection of Calcium Indicators in the Neonatal Mouse Brain.. Frontiers in neural circuits, 2018.
- Caracciolo L, Marosi M, Mazzitelli J, Latifi S, Sano Y, Galvan L, Kawaguchi R, Holley S, Levine MS, Coppola G, Portera-Cailliau C, Silva AJ, Carmichael ST. CREB controls cortical circuit plasticity and functional recovery after stroke.. Nature communications, 2018.
- Ricard C, Arroyo ED, He CX, Portera-Cailliau C, Lepousez G, Canepari M, Fiole D. Two-photon probes for in vivo multicolor microscopy of the structure and signals of brain cells.. Brain structure & function, 2018.
- He Q, Arroyo ED, Smukowski SN, Xu J, Piochon C, Savas JN, Portera-Cailliau C, Contractor A. Critical period inhibition of NKCC1 rectifies synapse plasticity in the somatosensory cortex and restores adult tactile response maps in fragile X mice.. Molecular psychiatry, 2018.
- O'Donnell C, Gonçalves JT, Portera-Cailliau C, Sejnowski TJ. Beyond excitation/inhibition imbalance in multidimensional models of neural circuit changes in brain disorders.. eLife, 2017.
- Gao J, Marosi M, Choi J, Achiro JM, Kim S, Li S, Otis K, Martin KC, Portera-Cailliau C, Tontonoz P. The E3 ubiquitin ligase IDOL regulates synaptic ApoER2 levels and is important for plasticity and learning.. eLife, 2017.
- He CX, Cantu DA, Mantri SS, Zeiger WA, Goel A, Portera-Cailliau C. Tactile Defensiveness and Impaired Adaptation of Neuronal Activity in the Fmr1 Knock-Out Mouse Model of Autism.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2017.
- O'Donnell C, Gonçalves JT, Whiteley N, Portera-Cailliau C, Sejnowski TJ. The Population Tracking Model: A Simple, Scalable Statistical Model for Neural Population Data.. Neural computation, 2016.
- Contractor A, Klyachko VA, Portera-Cailliau C. Altered Neuronal and Circuit Excitability in Fragile X Syndrome.. Neuron, 2015.
- Miquelajauregui A, Kribakaran S, Mostany R, Badaloni A, Consalez GG, Portera-Cailliau C. Layer 4 pyramidal neurons exhibit robust dendritic spine plasticity in vivo after input deprivation.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2015.
- Mostany R, Miquelajauregui A, Shtrahman M, Portera-Cailliau C. Two-photon excitation microscopy and its applications in neuroscience.. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2015.
- Bordelon Y, Portera-Cailliau C. Atypical parkinsonian disorders. Preface.. Seminars in neurology, 2014.
- Cruz-Martin A, Portera-Cailliau C. In vivo imaging of axonal and dendritic structures in neonatal mouse cortex.. Cold Spring Harbor protocols, 2014.
- Gonçalves JT, Anstey JE, Golshani P, Portera-Cailliau C. Circuit level defects in the developing neocortex of Fragile X mice.. Nature neuroscience, 2013.
- Mostany R, Anstey JE, Crump KL, Maco B, Knott G, Portera-Cailliau C. Altered synaptic dynamics during normal brain aging.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2013.
- Holtmaat A, de Paola V, Wilbrecht L, Trachtenberg JT, Svoboda K, Portera-Cailliau C. Imaging neocortical neurons through a chronic cranial window.. Cold Spring Harbor protocols, 2012.
- Rousso DL, Pearson CA, Gaber ZB, Miquelajauregui A, Li S, Portera-Cailliau C, Morrisey EE, Novitch BG. Foxp-mediated suppression of N-cadherin regulates neuroepithelial character and progenitor maintenance in the CNS.. Neuron, 2012.
- He CX, Portera-Cailliau C. The trouble with spines in fragile X syndrome: density, maturity and plasticity.. Neuroscience, 2012.
- Johnston DG, Denizet M, Mostany R, Portera-Cailliau C. Chronic in vivo imaging shows no evidence of dendritic plasticity or functional remapping in the contralesional cortex after stroke.. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2012.
- Cruz-Martín A, Crespo M, Portera-Cailliau C. Glutamate induces the elongation of early dendritic protrusions via mGluRs in wild type mice, but not in fragile X mice.. PloS one, 2012.
- Portera-Cailliau C. Which comes first in fragile X syndrome, dendritic spine dysgenesis or defects in circuit plasticity?. The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry, 2011.
- Mostany R, Portera-Cailliau C. Absence of large-scale dendritic plasticity of layer 5 pyramidal neurons in peri-infarct cortex.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2011.
- Cheng A, Gonçalves JT, Golshani P, Arisaka K, Portera-Cailliau C. Simultaneous two-photon calcium imaging at different depths with spatiotemporal multiplexing.. Nature methods, 2011.
- Martin SM, O'Brien GS, Portera-Cailliau C, Sagasti A. Wallerian degeneration of zebrafish trigeminal axons in the skin is required for regeneration and developmental pruning.. Development (Cambridge, England), 2010.
- Mostany R, Chowdhury TG, Johnston DG, Portonovo SA, Carmichael ST, Portera-Cailliau C. Local hemodynamics dictate long-term dendritic plasticity in peri-infarct cortex.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2010.
- Miquelajáuregui A, Varela-Echavarría A, Ceci ML, García-Moreno F, Ricaño I, Hoang K, Frade-Pérez D, Portera-Cailliau C, Tamariz E, De Carlos JA, Westphal H, Zhao Y. LIM-homeobox gene Lhx5 is required for normal development of Cajal-Retzius cells.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2010.
- Cruz-Martín A, Crespo M, Portera-Cailliau C. Delayed stabilization of dendritic spines in fragile X mice.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2010.
- Chowdhury TG, Jimenez JC, Bomar JM, Cruz-Martin A, Cantle JP, Portera-Cailliau C. Fate of cajal-retzius neurons in the postnatal mouse neocortex.. Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2010.
- O'Brien GS, Martin SM, Söllner C, Wright GJ, Becker CG, Portera-Cailliau C, Sagasti A. Developmentally regulated impediments to skin reinnervation by injured peripheral sensory axon terminals.. Current biology : CB, 2009.
- Golshani P, Gonçalves JT, Khoshkhoo S, Mostany R, Smirnakis S, Portera-Cailliau C. Internally mediated developmental desynchronization of neocortical network activity.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2009.
- Holtmaat A, Bonhoeffer T, Chow DK, Chuckowree J, De Paola V, Hofer SB, Hübener M, Keck T, Knott G, Lee WC, Mostany R, Mrsic-Flogel TD, Nedivi E, Portera-Cailliau C, Svoboda K, Trachtenberg JT, Wilbrecht L. Long-term, high-resolution imaging in the mouse neocortex through a chronic cranial window.. Nature protocols, 2009.
- O'Brien GS, Rieger S, Martin SM, Cavanaugh AM, Portera-Cailliau C, Sagasti A. Two-photon axotomy and time-lapse confocal imaging in live zebrafish embryos.. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2009.
- Golshani P, Portera-Cailliau C. In vivo 2-photon calcium imaging in layer 2/3 of mice.. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2008.
- Mostany R, Portera-Cailliau C. A method for 2-photon imaging of blood flow in the neocortex through a cranial window.. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2008.
- Mostany R, Portera-Cailliau C. A craniotomy surgery procedure for chronic brain imaging.. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2008.
- Portera-Cailliau C, Russ C, Brown RH, Budson AE, Vonsattel JP, Folkerth RD, Corbo JC. A familial form of pallidoluysionigral degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with divergent clinical presentations.. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology, 2007.
- Portera-Cailliau C, Victor D, Frucht S, Fahn S. Movement disorders fellowship training program at Columbia University Medical Center in 2001-2002.. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 2006.
- Portera-Cailliau C, Weimer RM, De Paola V, Caroni P, Svoboda K. Diverse modes of axon elaboration in the developing neocortex.. PLoS biology, 2005.
- Portera-Cailliau C, Pan DT, Yuste R. Activity-regulated dynamic behavior of early dendritic protrusions: evidence for different types of dendritic filopodia.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2003.
- Portera-Cailliau C, Doherty CP, Buonanno FS, Feske SK. Middle cerebral artery territory infarction sparing the precentral gyrus: report of three cases.. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2003.
- Portera-Cailliau C, Hedreen JC, Price DL, Koliatsos VE. Evidence for apoptotic cell death in Huntington disease and excitotoxic animal models.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 1995.