Grant Kusick


BS, SUNY-Geneseo

Watanabe Lab

2022

Associated BCMB Faculty Member(s)

Name Lab Website
Shigeki Watanabe Lab website

Publications

  • 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
  • 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

Awards and Distinctions

  • 2021 Paul Talalay Research Award
  • 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship