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Grant Kusick
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Grant Kusick
Grant Kusick
gkusick1@jhmi.edu
BS, SUNY-Geneseo
Thesis Lab:
Watanabe Lab
Graduation Year:
2022
Associated BCMB Faculty Member(s)
Name
Lab Website
Shigeki Watanabe
Lab website
Publications
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