Our published work!
Vita D.J., Orsi F.S., Stanko N.G., Clark N.A., & Tiriac A. Development and organization of the retinal orientation selectivity map. Nature Communications, 2024
Voufo C., Chen A.Q., Smith B.E., Yan R., Feller M.B., & Tiriac A. Circuit mechanisms underlying embryonic retinal waves. eLife. 2023
Blumberg M.S., Dooley J. & Tiriac A. Sleep, plasticity, and sensory neurodevelopment. Neuron. 2022
Tiriac A. & Feller M.B. Roles of visually evoked and spontaneous activity in the development of retinal direction selectivity maps. Trends in Neurosciences, 45(7):529-538. 2022
Tiriac A., Bistrong K.L., Pitcher M.N., Tworig J., & Feller M.F. The influence of spontaneous and visual activity on the development of direction selectivity maps in mouse retina. Cell Reports, 38, 110225. 2022
Caval-Holme F.S. , Aranda M.L., Chen A.Q., Tiriac A., Zhang Y., Smith B., Birnbaumer L., Schmidt T.M., and Feller M.B. The Retinal Basis of Light Aversion in Neonatal Mice. The Journal of Neuroscience, 8 April 2022, JN-RM-0151-22. 2022
Tiriac A. & Feller M.B. Embryonic neural activity wires the brain. Science, 7;364(6444):933-934, 2019. (Perspective)
Tiriac A., Smith B.E. & Feller M.B. Light prior to eye-opening promotes retinal waves and eye-specific segregation. Neuron, 100(5):1059-1065, 2018.
Tiriac A. & Blumberg M.S. Gating of reafference in the external cuneate nucleus during self-generated movements in wake but not sleep. eLife, 5, p. e18749, 2016.
Tiriac A. & Blumberg M.S. The case of the disappearing spindle burst. Neural Plasticity, 2016.
Blumberg M.S., Sokoloff G., Tiriac A., & Del Rio-Bermudez C. A valuable and promising method for recording brain activity in behaving newborn rodents. Developmental Psychobiology, 57(4):506-517, 2015.
Tiriac A., Sokoloff G., & Blumberg M.S. Myoclonic twitching and sleep-dependent plasticity in the developing sensorimotor system. Current Sleep Medicine Reports, 1: 74-79, 2015.
Tiriac A., Del Rio-Bermudez C., & Blumberg M.S. Self-generated movements with “unexpected” sensory consequences. Current Biology, 24:2136-2141, 2014.
Tiriac A., Uitermarkt B.D., Fanning A., Sokoloff G., & Blumberg M.S. Rapid whisker movements in sleeping newborn rats. Current Biology, 22: 2075-2080, 2012.
Cooke D.F., Goldring A.B., Yamayoshi I., Tsourkas P., Recanzone G.H., Tiriac A., Pan T., Simon S.I., & Krubitzer L.A. Fabrication of an inexpensive, implantable cooling device for reversible brain deactivation in animals ranging from rodents to primates. Journal of Neurophysiology, 12: 3543-3558, 2012.