2022 - bioRxiv

Detecting rapid pan-cortical voltage dynamics in vivo with a brighter and faster voltage indicator

Xiaoyu Lu, Yunmiao Wang, Zhuohe Liu, Yueyang Gou, Dieter Jaeger & François St-Pierre

2022 - Nature Scientific Reports

A red fluorescent protein with improved monomericity enables ratiometric voltage imaging with ASAP3

Benjamin B. Kim, Haodi Wu, Yukun A. Hao, Michael Pan, Mariya Chavarha, Yufeng Zhao, Michael Westberg, François St-Pierre, Joseph C. Wu & Michael Z. Lin 

2021 - Science Advances

Ancestral circuits for vertebrate color vision emerge at the first retinal synapse

Takeshi Yoshimatsu, Philipp Bartel, Cornelius Schroder, Filip K. Janiak, François St-Pierre, Philipp Berens & Tom Baden

2019 - Cell

Ultrafast Two-Photon Imaging of a High-Gain Voltage Indicator in Awake Behaving Mice

Vincent Villette, Mariya Chavarha, Ivan K.Dimov, Jonathan Bradley, Lagnajeet Pradhan, Benjamin Mathieu, Stephen W.Evans, Simon Chamberland, Dongqing Shi, Renzhi Yang, Benjamin B.Kim, Annick Ayon, Abdelali Jalil, François St-Pierre, Mark J.Schnitzer, Guoqiang Bi, Katalin Toth, Jun Ding, Stéphane Dieudonné & Michael Z. Lin

2016 - Cell

Cell-Type-Specific Optical Recording of Membrane Voltage Dynamics in Freely Moving Mice

Jesse D Marshall, Jin Zhong Li, Yanping Zhang, Yiyang Gong, François St-Pierre, Michael Z Lin & Mark J Schnitzer

2014 - Nature Neuroscience

High-fidelity optical reporting of neuronal electrical activity with an ultrafast fluorescent voltage sensor

François St-Pierre, Jesse D Marshall, Ying Yang, Yiyang Gong, Mark J Schnitzer & Michael Z Lin

2012 - Nature Methods

Improving FRET dynamic range with bright green and red fluorescent proteins

Amy J Lam, François St-Pierre, Yiyang Gong, Jesse D Marshall, Paula J Cranfill, Michelle A Baird, Michael R McKeown, Jörg Wiedenmann, Michael W Davidson, Mark J Schnitzer, Roger Y Tsien & Michael Z Lin

2022 - Cell

Sustained deep-tissue voltage recording using a fast indicator evolved for two-photon microscopy

Zhuohe Liu, Xiaoyu Lu, Vincent Villette, Yueyang,Gou, Kevin L. Colbert, Shujuan Lai, Sihui Guan, Michelle A. Land, Jihwan Lee, Tensae Assefa, Daniel R. Zollinger, Maria M. Korympidou, Anna L. Vlasits, Michelle M. Pang, Sharon Su, Changjia Cai, Emmanouil Froudarakis, Na Zhou, Saumil S. Patel, Cameron L. Smith, Annick Ayon, Pierre Bizouard, Jonathan Bradley, Katrin Franke, Thomas R. Clandinin, Andrea Giovannucci, Andreas S. Tolias, Jacob Reimer, Stéphane Dieudonné & François St-Pierre

2022 - Current Biology

Retinal horizontal cells use different synaptic sites for global feedforward and local feedback signaling

Christian Behrens, Shubhash Chandra Yadav, Maria M. Korympidou, Yue Zhang, Silke Haverkamp, Stephan Irsen, Anna Schaedler, Xiaoyu Lu, Zhuohe Liu, Jan Lause, François St-Pierre, Katrin Franke, Anna Vlasits, Karin Dedek, Robert G. Smith, Thomas Euler, Philipp Berens & Timm Schubert

2021 - Nature Communications

A synthetic circuit for buffering gene dosage variation between individual mammalian cells

Ji Yang, Jihwan Lee, Michelle A. Land, Shujuan Lai, Oleg A. Igoshin & François St-Pierre 

2017 - Elife

Fast two-photon imaging of subcellular voltage dynamics in neuronal tissue with genetically encoded indicators

Simon Chamberland, Helen H Yang, Michael M Pan, Stephen W Evans, Sihui Guan, Mariya Chavarha, Ying Yang, Charleen Salesse, Haodi Wu, Joseph C Wu, Thomas R Clandinin , Katalin Toth , Michael Z Lin & François St-Pierre 

2016 - Cell

Subcellular Imaging of Voltage and Calcium Signals Reveals Neural Processing In Vivo

Helen H Yang, François St-Pierre, Xulu Sun, Xiaozhe Ding, Michael Z Lin & Thomas R Clandinin

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2013 - ACS Synthetic Biology

One-step cloning and chromosomal integration of DNA

François St-Pierre, Lun Cui, David G. Priest, Drew Endy, Ian B. Dodd & Keith E. Shearwin

2008 - PNAS

Determination of cell fate selection during phage lambda infection

François St-Pierre & Drew Endy

2022 - Nature Neuroscience

Kallum channelrhodopsins are natural light-gated potassium channels that mediate optogenetic inhibition

Elena G. Govorunova, Yueyang Gou, Oleg A. Sineshchekov, Hai Li, Yumei Wang, Leonid S. Brown, Mingshan Xue & John L. Spudich

2021 - Nature Reviews Chemistry

A blueprint for glow tag engineering

Jihwan Lee & François St-Pierre

2020 - Science Advances

Versatile phenotype-activated cell sorting

Jihwan Lee, Zhuohe Liu, Peter H. Suzuki, John F. Ahrens, Shujuan Lai, Xiaoyu Lu, Sihui Guan & François St-Pierre

2016 - Journal of Neuroscience

Genetically encoded voltage indicators: Opportunities and Challenges

Helen H. Yang & François St-Pierre

2015 - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Designs and sensing mechanisms of genetically encoded fluorescent voltage indicators

François St-Pierre, Mariya Chavarha & Michael Z Lin

2013 - Future Microbiology

Repurposing site-specific recombinases for synthetic biology

Lun Cui, François St-Pierre & Keith Shearwin