Publications

Sam Clothier, Dimitar Kostadinov, Beverley A. Clark, Michael Häusser, L. Federico Rossi (2026). Logic of brain-wide connections with the cerebellar cortex. bioRxiv.

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Dimitar Kostadinov, Beverley A. Clark, Michael Häusser (2025). Fast and slow learning mediated by distinct climbing fiber signals. bioRxiv.

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Jacques Carolan, Michelle A. Land, Xiaoyu Lu, Maxime Beau, Dimitar Kostadinov, François St-Pierre, Beverley A. Clark, Michael Häusser (2025). All-optical voltage interrogation for probing synaptic plasticity in vivo. Nature Communications 16: 8834.

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Maxime Beau, David J. Herzfeld, Francisco Naveros, Marie E Hemelt, Federico D'Agostino, Marlies Oostland, Alvaro Sánchez-López, Young Yoon Chung, Michael Maibach, Stephen Kyranakis, Hannah N. Stabb, M. Gabriela Martínez Lopera, Agoston Lajko, Marie Zedler, Shogo Ohmae, Nathan J. Hall, Beverley A. Clark, Dana Cohen, Stephen G. Lisberger, Dimitar Kostadinov, Court Hull, Michael Häusser, Javier F. Medina (2025). A deep learning strategy to identify cell types across species from high-density extracellular recordings. Cell 188(8): 2218–2234.

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Eren Sezener, Agnieszka Grabska-Barwińska, Dimitar Kostadinov, Maxime Beau, Sanjukta Krishnagopal, David Budden, Marcus Hutter, Joel Veness, Matthew Botvinick, Claudia Clopath, Michael Häusser, Peter E. Latham (2022). A rapid and efficient learning rule for biological neural circuits. bioRxiv.

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Dimitar Kostadinov, Michael Häusser (2022). Reward signals in the cerebellum: origins, targets, and functional implications. Neuron 110(8): 1290-1303. [Perspective].

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Nicholas a Steinmetz, Cagatay Aydin, Anna Lebedeva, Michael Okun, Marius Pachitariu, Dimitar Kostadinov, ..., Timothy D. Harris (2021). Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings. Science 372(6539): eabf4588.

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Dimitar Kostadinov, Maxime Beau, Marta Blanco-Pozo, Michael Häusser (2019). Predictive and reactive reward signals conveyed by climbing fiber inputs to cerebellar Purkinje cells. Nature Neuroscience 22(6): 950-62.

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Dimitar Kostadinov, Alexandre Mathy, Beverley A. Clark (2019). Dynamics of the inferior olive oscillator and cerebellar function. In: Manto M, Gruol D, Schmahmann J, Koibuchi N, Sillitoe R (eds) Handbook of the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders. Springer, Cham. [Textbook chapter].

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Samantha Ing-Esteves, Dimitar Kostadinov, Julie Marocha, Anson D. Sing, Kezia S. Joseph, Mallory A. Laboulaye, Joshua R. Sanes, Julie L. Lefebvre (2018). Combinatorial effects of alpha-and gamma-protocadherins on neuronal survival and dendritic self-avoidance. Journal of Neuroscience 38(11): 2713-29.

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Yi-Rong Peng, Nicholas M. Tran, Arjun Krishnaswamy, Dimitar Kostadinov, Emily M. Martersteck, Joshua R. Sanes (2017). Satb1 regulates contactin 5 to pattern dendrites of a mammalian retinal ganglion cell. Neuron 95(4): 869-83.

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Dimitar Kostadinov, Joshua R. Sanes (2015). Protocadherin-dependent dendritic self-avoidance regulates neural connectivity and circuit function. eLife 4: e08964.

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Dimitar Kostadinov (2015). Mechanism and function of dendritic self-avoidance and self/non-self discrimination in the mammalian nervous system. PhD thesis.

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Julie L. Lefebvre, Dimitar Kostadinov, Weisheng v. Chen, Tom Maniatis, Joshua R. Sanes (2012). Protocadherins mediate dendritic self-avoidance in the mammalian nervous system. Nature 488(7412): 517-21.

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