PUBLICATIONS
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
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
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 - 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