Selected Publications:

Preprints:

• Mishchanchuk, K., Gregoriou, G., Qü, A.J.,  Kastler, A., Huys, H.J.M., Wilbrecht, L., and MacAskill A.F. (2024) Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in ventral hippocampus. bioRxiv 2024.05.17.594673; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.17.594673
  

• Qu. A.J., Tai L-H, Hall, C.D., Tu E.M, Eckstein, M.K., Mischanchuk, K., Lin, W.C., Chase, J.B., MacAskill, A.F., Collins, A.G.E., Gershman, S.J., Wilbrecht L. (2023) Nucleus accumbens dopamine release reflects Bayesian inference during instrumental learning. bioRxiv 2023.11.10.566306; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.10.566306

 

• Sánchez-Bellot C. and MacAskill A.F. (2023) Genetically distinct parallel projection populations from ventral hippocampus to prefrontal cortex.
  bioRxiv 2023.02.18.529052; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.18.529052

 
Published:

• Wee, R. W., Mishchanchuk, K., AlSubaie, R. & MacAskill, A. F.(2023) Internal state dependent control of feeding behaviour via hippocampal ghrelin signalling. Neuron (in press), also bioRxiv (2021) doi:10.1101/2021.11.05.467326

 

• Sánchez-Bellot C. et al. (2022). Two opposing hippocampus to prefrontal cortex pathways for the control of approach and avoidance behavior. Nature Communications 13, 339. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-27977-7

 

• AlSubaie, R. et al. (2021). Control of parallel hippocampal output pathways by amygdalar long-range inhibition. Elife 10, e74758.

 

• Wee R. W. and MacAskill AF. (2020) Biased connectivity of brain-wide inputs to ventral subiculum output neurons Cell Reports 30, 3644–3654 (also bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/726406)

 

• MacAskill, A. F., Cassel, J. M., & Carter, A. G. (2014). Cocaine exposure reorganizes cell type- and input-specific connectivity in the nucleus accumbens. Nat Neurosci. doi:10.1038/nn.3783
  
  
• Santini, E., Huynh, T. N., MacAskill, A. F., Carter, A. G., Pierre, P., Ruggero, D., . . . Klann, E. (2013). Exaggerated translation causes synaptic and behavioural aberrations associated with autism. Nature, 493 (7432), 411-415. doi:10.1038/nature11782
  
  
  
• MacAskill, A. F., Little, J. P., Cassel, J. M., & Carter, A. G. (2012). Subcellular connectivity underlies pathway-specific signaling in the nucleus accumbens. Nat Neurosci, 15 (12), 1624-1626. doi:10.1038/nn.3254
  
  
  
• MacAskill, A. F., & Kittler, J. T. (2010). Control of mitochondrial transport and localization in neurons. Trends Cell Biol, 20 (2), 102-112. doi:10.1016/j.tcb.2009.11.002
  
  
  
• Twelvetrees, A. E., Yuen, E. Y., Arancibia-Carcamo, I. L., MacAskill, A. F., Rostaing, P., Lumb, M. J., . . . Kittler, J. T. (2010).Delivery of GABAARs to synapses is mediated by HAP1-KIF5 and disrupted by mutant huntingtin. Neuron, 65 (1), 53-65. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2009.12.007

 

• Muir, J., Arancibia-Carcamo, I. L., MacAskill, A. F., Smith, K. R., Griffin, L. D., & Kittler, J. T. (2010). NMDA receptors regulate GABAA receptor lateral mobility and clustering at inhibitory synapses through serine 327 on the γ2 subunit. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107 (38), 16679-16684. doi:10.1073/pnas.1000589107
  
  

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• Macaskill, A. F., Rinholm, J. E., Twelvetrees, A. E., Arancibia-Carcamo, I. L., Muir, J., Fransson, A., . . . Kittler, J. T. (2009). Miro1 is a calcium sensor for glutamate receptor-dependent localization of mitochondria at synapses. Neuron, 61 (4), 541-555. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2009.01.030