Wu Z, Kusick GF, Berns MMM, Raychaudhuri S, Itoh K, Walter AM, Chapman ER, Watanabe S., 2024, Synaptotagmin 7 docks synaptic vesicles to support facilitation and Doc2α-triggered asynchronous release, Elife, 12:RP90632. doi: 10.7554/eLife.90632. PMCID: PMC10972563  PubMed

Ogunmowo TH, Jing H, Raychaudhuri S, Kusick GF, Imoto Y, Li S, Itoh K, Ma Y, Jafri H, Dalva MB, Chapman ER, Ha T, Watanabe S, Liu J., 2023, Membrane compression by synaptic vesicle exocytosis triggers ultrafast endocytosis, Nat Commun., 14(1):2888. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38595-2. PMCID: PMC10199930  PubMed

Kusick GF, Ogunmowo TH, Watanabe S., 2022, Transient docking of synaptic vesicles: Implications and mechanisms, Curr Opin Neurobiol., 74:102535. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2022.102535. PMCID: PMC9167714  PubMed

Vevea JD, Kusick GF, Courtney KC, Chen E, Watanabe S, Chapman ER., 2021, Synaptotagmin 7 is targeted to the axonal plasma membrane through γ-secretase processing to promote synaptic vesicle docking in mouse hippocampal neurons, Elife, 10:e67261. doi: 10.7554/eLife.67261. PMCID: PMC8452306. 2021 PubMed

2021 Paul Talalay Research Award

Li, S., Raychaudhuri, S., Lee, SA., Brockmann, MM., Wang, J., Kusick, G., Prater, C., Syed, S., Falahati, H., Ramos, R., Bartol, TM., Hosy, E., Watanabe, S., 2021, Asynchronous release sites align with NMDA receptors in mouse hippocampal synapses, Nat Commun., 12(1):677. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21004-x. PMCID: PMC7846561  PubMed

Watanabe, S., Davis, MW., Kusick, GF., Iwasa, J., Jorgensen, EM., 2020, SynapsEM: Computer-Assisted Synapse Morphometry, Front Synaptic Neurosci, 12:584549. doi: 10.3389/fnsyn.2020.584549. PMCID: PMC7775558  PubMed

Kusick, GF., Chin, M., Raychaudhuri, S., Lippmann, K., Adula, KP., Hujber, EJ., Vu, T., Davis, MW., Jorgensen, EM., Watanabe, S., 2020, Synaptic vesicles transiently dock to refill release sites, Nat Neurosci, 23(11):1329-1338. doi: 10.1038/s41593-020-00716-1 PMID: 32989294  PubMed

2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship