Associate Member
John’s research interests include understanding the neurophysiological basis of memory and translating these findings to ameliorate memory dysfunction in humans.
Contact: jsakon _at_ mednet.ucla.edu
Publications:
Sakon, J.J., Halpern, D.J., Schonhaut, D.R. & Kahana, M.J. Hippocampal ripples signal encoding of episodic memories. Journal of Neuroscience, 44 (2024). Link, Open Science Framework pre-registration.
Sakon, J.J. & Kahana, M.J. Hippocampal ripples signal contextually-mediated episodic recall. PNAS, 119 (2022). Link, Open Science Framework pre-registration.
Sakon, J.J. & Kiani, R. Differences in memory for what, where, and when components of recently-formed episodes. Journal of Neurophysiology (2022). Link
Sakon, J.J. & Suzuki, W.A. Neural evidence for recognition of naturalistic videos in monkey hippocampus. Hippocampus (2021). Link
Sakon, J.J. & Suzuki, W.A. A neural signature of pattern separation in the monkey hippocampus. PNAS, 116 (2019). Link
Sakon, J.J., Naya, Y., Wirth, S. & Suzuki, W.A. Context-dependent incremental timing cells in the primate hippocampus. PNAS, 111 (2014). Link
Sakon, J.J. & Weninger, K.R. Detecting the conformation of individual proteins in live cells. Nature Methods, 7, 203-205 (2010). Link
Sakon, J.J., Ribeill, G.J., Garguilo, J.M., Perkins, J., Weninger, K.R. & Nemanich, R.J. Fluorescence quenching effects of nanocrystalline diamond surfaces. Diamond and Related Materials, 18, 82-87 (2009). Link
Sakon, J.J. & Burnap, R.L. An analysis of potential photosynthetic life on Mars. International Journal of Astrobiology, 5, 171-180 (2006). Link
Liu, A.A., Henin, S., …Sakon, J.J., …& Buzsaki, G. A consensus statement on detection of hippocampal sharp wave ripples and differentiation from other fast oscillations. Nature Communications, 13 (2022). Link
Larsen, J.B., Rosholm, K.R., Kennard, C., Pedersen, S.L., Munch, H.K., Tkach V., Sakon, J.J., Bjornholm, T., Weninger, K.R., Bendix, P.M., Jensen, K.J., Hatzakis, N.S., Uline, M.J. & Stamou, D. How membrane geometry regulates protein sorting independently of mean curvature. ACS Cent. Sci., 6, 1159-1168 (2020). Link
Lim, S.F., Karpusenko, A., Sakon, J.J., Hook, J.A., Lamar, T.A. & Riehn, R. DNA methylation profiling in nanochannels. Biomicrofluidics, 5, 034106 (2011). Link
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Under review:
-Ding, Y.*, Dunn, S.L.*, Sakon, J.J.*, Duan, C, Zhang, Y., Nourski, K.V., Kawasaki, H., Howard III, M.A., Rowchowdhury, V.P. & Fried, I. Decoding episodic memory retrieval from human neural recordings. bioRxiv coming soon!
*co-first authors
Education:
-PhD, physics. North Carolina State University. Thesis: Detecting the Conformation of Individual Proteins in Live Cells using Single Molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer.
-BS, major: physics, minor: math. The College of William and Mary.
