Carlos Portera-Cailliau, M.D., Ph.D.
710 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES
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.
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.