Publications by Rachel Aronoff

Participatory research to monitor lake water pollution

Luc Patiny, Rachel Aronoff, Carlos Vivar Rios

A participatory research team, concerned about water quality around Lake Geneva, particularly in the Montreux Bay region where some were lifeguards, ran sampling campaigns to determine summertime levels of lake water pollution. The participants were brough ...

WILEY2021

Long-range connectivity of mouse primary somatosensory barrel cortex

Bernard Schneider, Carl Petersen, Rachel Aronoff, Céline Matéo, Ferenc Mátyás

The primary somatosensory barrel cortex processes tactile vibrissae information, allowing rodents to actively perceive spatial and textural features of their immediate surroundings. Each whisker on the snout is individually represented in the neocortex by ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Motor control by sensory cortex

Carl Petersen, Rachel Aronoff, Fred Marbach, Céline Matéo, Ferenc Mátyás, Varun Sreenivasan, Catherine Wacongne

Classical studies of mammalian movement control define a prominent role for the primary motor cortex. Investigating the mouse whisker system, we found an additional and equally direct pathway for cortical motor control driven by the primary somatosensory c ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2010

Layer, column and cell-type specific genetic manipulation in mouse barrel cortex

Carl Petersen, Rachel Aronoff

Sensory information is processed in distributed neuronal networks connected by intricate synaptic circuits. Studies of the rodent brain can provide insight into synaptic mechanisms of sensory perception and associative learning. In particular, the mouse wh ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2008

Layer- and column-specific knockout of NMDA receptors in pyramidal neurons of the mouse barrel cortex

Carl Petersen, Rachel Aronoff

Viral vectors injected into the mouse brain offer the possibility for localized genetic modifications in a highly controlled manner. Lentivector injection into mouse neocortex transduces cells within a diameter of approximately 200mum, which closely matche ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2007

Spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical sensorimotor integration in behaving mice

Carl Petersen, Rachel Aronoff

Tactile information is actively acquired and processed in the brain through concerted interactions between movement and sensation. Somatosensory input is often the result of self-generated movement during the active touch of objects, and conversely, sensor ...

2007

Controlled and localized genetic manipulation in the brain

Carl Petersen, Rachel Aronoff

Brain structure and function are determined in part through experience and in part through our inherited genes. A powerful approach for unravelling the balance between activity-dependent neuronal plasticity and genetic programs is to directly manipulate th ...

2006