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Carlos Portera-Cailliau, M.D., Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Professor
Department of Neurology
Department of Neurobiology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

 

710 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095

 

Biography

The Portera-Cailliau laboratory investigates how developmental defects in network connectivity at the level of the cerebral cortex directly lead to symptoms of autism, learning disability and intellectual dysfunction. In particular they are studying sensory hypersensitivity in a model of fragile X syndrome, by combining in vivo two-photon calcium imaging, patch-clamp electrophysiology, and head-fixed behavior.  Dr. Portera-Cailliau was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. He obtained a B.A. in Biochemistry & Cell Biology from U.C. San Diego in 1990. He then attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and obtained an MD-PhD degree in 1997. His mentors were Drs. Donald Price and Lee Martin. After finishing a residency in Neurology at The Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston in 2001, Dr. Portera-Cailliau moved to Columbia University for a post-doctoral fellowship in Dr. Rafael Yuste’s laboratory. His second post-doc was with Dr. Karel Svoboda in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He joined the UCLA faculty in November 2004 and has joint appointments in the Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology. He is a member of UCLA’s Brain Research Institute, the Integrated Center for Learning & Memory, and the Neuroscience Theme.  Since 2013 he has served as co-director of the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program.

Alapakkam Sampath, Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Associate Professor in Residence
Department of Ophthalmology
Department of Neurobiology

David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

 

Jules Stein Eye Institute, Room A-200
100 Stein Plaza Driveway,
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Stan Schein, M.D., Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Professor
Department of Psychology
College of Life Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles

 

Franz Hall, Room 8522
502 Portola Plaza,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Mailcode 951563

 

Publications

A selected list of publications:

G Brinkmann, P Goetschalckx, S Schein   Comparing the constructions of Goldberg, Fuller, Caspar, Klug and Coxeter, and a general approach to local symmetry-preserving operations, Proc Roy Soc Lond A , 2017; 2017.0267.

S Schein, AJ Yeh, K Coolsaet, JM Gayed   Decoration of the truncated tetrahedron—an Archimedean polyhedron—to produce a new class of convex equilateral polyhedra with tetrahedral symmetry, Symmetry, 2016; 8: 82-91.
X Zhang, P Ge, X Yu, JM Brannan, G Bi, Q Zhang, S Schein, ZH Zhou   Cryo-EM structure of the mature dengue virus at 3.5-Å resolution, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 2012; 20: 105-110.
Wang Zhi, Su Hai-Feng, Tan Yuan-Zhi, Schein Stan, Lin Shui-Chao, Liu Wei, Wang Shu-Ao, Wang Wen-Guang, Tung Chen-Ho, Sun Di, Zheng Lan-Sun   Assembly of silver Trigons into a buckyball-like Ag180 nanocage Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017; 114(46): 12132-12137.
Schein Stan, Gayed James Maurice   Fourth class of convex equilateral polyhedron with polyhedral symmetry related to fullerenes and viruses Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014; 111(8): 2920-5.
Zhang Xiaokang, Ge Peng, Yu Xuekui, Brannan Jennifer M, Bi Guoqiang, Zhang Qinfen, Schein Stan, Zhou Z Hong   Cryo-EM structure of the mature dengue virus at 3.5-Å resolution Nature structural & molecular biology, 2013; 20(1): 105-10.
Schein S, Ngo IT, Huang TM, Klug K, Sterling P, Herr S   Cone synapses in macaque fovea: I. Two types of non-S cones are distinguished by numbers of contacts with OFF midget bipolar cells Vis Neurosci, 2011; 28(1): 3-16.
Hongrong Liu, Lei Jin, Sok Boon S. Koh, Ivo Atanasov, Stan Schein, Lily Wu, Z. Hong Zhou   Atomic Structure of Human Adenovirus by Cryo-EM Reveals Interactions Among Protein Networks Science, 2010; 329(5995): 1038-1043.
Zhang X, Boyce M, Bhattacharya B, Zhang X, Schein S, Roy P, Zhou ZH   Bluetongue virus coat protein VP2 contains sialic acid-binding domains, and VP5 resembles enveloped virus fusion proteins Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2010; 107(14): 6292-7.
Ge P, Tsao J, Schein S, Green TJ, Luo M, Zhou ZH   Cryo-EM model of the bullet-shaped vesicular stomatitis virus Science, 2010; 327(5966): 689-93.
Schein Stan, Friedrich Tara   A geometric constraint, the head-to-tail exclusion rule, may be the basis for the isolated-pentagon rule in fullerenes with more than 60 vertices Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008; 105(49): 19142-7.
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Stan Schein, Michelle Sands-Kidner, Tara Friedrich   The physical basis for the head-to-tail rule that excludes most fullerene cages from self assembly Biophysical J, 2008; 94: 938-957.
Schein, S. Sands-Kidner, M.   A geometric principle may guide self-assembly of fullerene cages from clathrin triskelia and from carbon atoms Biophysical Journal, 2008; 94(3): 958-976.
S Schein, KM Ahmad   Efficiency of synaptic transmission of single-photoreceptor to rod bipolar dendrite, Biophysical J, 2006; 91: 3257-3267.
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S Schein, KM Ahmad   A clockwork hypothesis: Synaptic release by rod photoreceptors must be regular, Biophysical J, 2005; 89: 3931-3949.
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Schein, S. Sterling, P. Ngo, I. T. Huang, T. M. Herr, S.   Evidence that each S cone in macaque fovea drives one narrow-field and several wide-field blue-yellow ganglion cells Journal of Neuroscience, 2004; 24(38): 8366-8378.
Ahmad, K. M. Klug, K. Herr, S. Sterling, P. Schein, S.   Cell density ratios in a foveal patch in macaque retina Visual Neuroscience, 2003; 20(2): 189-209.
AA Sadun, V Carelli, SR Salomao, A Berezovsky, PA Quiros, F Sadun, AM DeNegri, R Andrade, M Moraes, A Passos, P Kjaer, J Pereira, ML Valentino, S Schein, R Belfort   Extensive investigation of a large Brazilian pedigree of 11778/Haplogroup J Leber American Journal of Ophthalmology, 2003; 136(2): 231-238.
S Herr, KJ Klug, P Sterling, S Schein   Inner S-cone bipolar cells provide all of the central elements for S cones in macaque retina, J Comp Neurol, 2003; 457: 185-201.
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K Klug, S Herr, IT Ngo, P Sterling, S Schein   Macaque retina contains an S-cone OFF midget pathway, J Neurosci, 2003; 23: 9881-9887.
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K Migdale, S Herr, K Klug, K Ahmad, K Linberg, P Sterling, S Schein   Two ribbon synaptic units in rod photoreceptors of macaque, human, and cat, J Comp Neurol, 2003; 455: 100-112.
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Herr, S. Klug, K. Sterling, P. Schein, S.   Inner S-cone bipolar cells provide all of the central elements for S cones in macaque retina Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2003; 457(2): 185-201.
Burris, C. Klug, K. Ngo, I. T. Sterling, P. Schein, S.   How Muller glial cells in macaque fovea coat and isolate the synaptic terminals of cone photoreceptors Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2002; 453(1): 100-111.
AA Sadun, V Carelli, SR Salomao, A Berezovsky, P Quiros, F Sadun, AM DeNegri, R Andrade, S Schein, R Belfort   A very large Brazilian pedigree with 11 778 Leber’s hereditary optic, Trans Ant Ophthalmol Soc, 2002; 100: 169-77.
C Burris, K Klug, IT Ngo, P Sterling, S Schein   How Müller glial cells in macaque fovea coat and isolate the synaptic terminals of cone photoreceptors, J Comp Neurol, 2002; 453: 100-11.
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Robert Prins, Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

 

Robert M. Prins Lab
UCLA Department of Neurosurgery
Edie & Lew Wasserman Building
300 Stein Plaza, Suite 420
Los Angeles, CA 90095

 

Biography

Robert M. Prins is a tumor immunologist with joint faculty appointments in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology. Dr. Prins earned his B.S. in Kinesiology and his M.S. in Physiological Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his Ph.D. in Anatomy and Immunology from the Medical College of Virginia. He completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Cedars-Sinai Neurosurgical Institute and the UCLA Division of Neurosurgery before joining the faculty at UCLA in 2006. Dr. Prins is a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Brain Research Institute, and the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. Dr. Prins is currently the Director of the I3T Seminar Series, the Brain Tumor Immunology Research Lab and for many clinical trials of immunotherapy. His research centers on understanding the immunology of malignant brain tumors and devising new immune-based therapies to treat these deadly tumors.