I was born in Israel, served for a few years in the Israeli army, was for a while a professional journalist and editor, and then graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Major: Genetics and Biochemistry, with supplements in modern history). My Ph.D. was in Biophysics (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot), and my postdoctoral studies in neurogenetics and behaviour (Caltech, Pasadena). Upon returning to Israel, I joined the faculty of the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, and over the years, in addition to conducting research, served as the Dean of the Faculty of Biology at the Weizmann Institute and as a member of the National Planning and Grants committee of the Council of Higher Education, Jerusalem. I am currently a Professor of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute, and my research focuses on the processes and mechanisms of learning and memory, at multiple levels of analysis. I am particularly interested in the processes of consolidation and extinction of memory, and in theories of learning and memory.

Lethargus is a Caenorhabditis elegans sleep-like state. Raizen DM, Zimmerman JE, …, Sundaram MV, Pack AI Nature 2008 Jan 31 451(7178):569-72 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Yadin Dudai / Nektarios Tavernarakis Evaluated 15 Jan 2008 Ongoing in vivo experience triggers synaptic metaplasticity in the neocortex. Clem RL, Celikel T, Barth AL Science 2008 Jan 4 319(5859):101-4 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Yadin Dudai / Johannes Hell / Karl-Peter Giese Evaluated 9 Jan 2008 A receptor that mediates the post-mating switch in Drosophila reproductive behaviour. Yapici N, Kim YJ, Ribeiro C, Dickson BJ Nature 2008 Jan 3 451(7174):33-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 9 Jan 2008 Small circuits for large tasks: high-speed decision-making in archerfish. Schlegel T, Schuster S Science 2008 Jan 4 319(5859):104-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Yadin Dudai / Leonard Maler Evaluated 9 Jan 2008 Kalirin-7 controls activity-dependent structural and functional plasticity of dendritic spines. Xie Z, Srivastava DP, …, Surmeier DJ, Penzes P Neuron 2007 Nov 21 56(4):640-56 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 27 Nov 2007 Persistence of long-term memory storage requires a late protein synthesis- and BDNF- dependent phase in the hippocampus. Bekinschtein P, Cammarota M, …, Izquierdo I, Medina JH Neuron 2007 Jan 18 53(2):261-77 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 5 Feb 2007 Storage of spatial information by the maintenance mechanism of LTP. Pastalkova E, Serrano P, …, Fenton AA, Sacktor TC Science 2006 Aug 25 313(5790):1141-4 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Karl-Peter Giese / Edvard I. Moser / John Lisman / Yadin Dudai Evaluated 13 Sep 2006 Tequila, a neurotrypsin ortholog, regulates long-term memory formation in Drosophila. Didelot G, Molinari F, …, Colleaux L, Preat T Science 2006 Aug 11 313(5788):851-3 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 25 Aug 2006 Cannabinoid CB1 receptor mediates fear extinction via habituation-like processes. Kamprath K, Marsicano G, …, Lutz B, Wotjak CT J Neurosci 2006 Jun 21 26(25):6677-86 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 28 Jun 2006 The flight paths of honeybees recruited by the waggle dance. Riley JR, Greggers U, …, Reynolds DR, Menzel R Nature 2005 May 12 435(7039):205-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Martin Giurfa / Yadin Dudai Evaluated 20 May 2005 Remote control of behavior through genetically targeted photostimulation of neurons. Lima SQ, Miesenböck G Cell 2005 Apr 8 121(1):141-52 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Liqun Luo / Yadin Dudai Evaluated 17 May 2005 Acute exposure to a novel object during consolidation enhances cognition. Degroot A, Wolff MC, Nomikos GG Neuroreport 2005 Jan 19 16(1):63-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 12 Jan 2005 Competing for memory: hippocampal LTP under regimes of reduced protein synthesis. Fonseca R, Nägerl UV, Morris RG, Bonhoeffer T Neuron 2004 Dec 16 44(6):1011-20 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Yadin Dudai / Edvard I. Moser / Mark Mayford Evaluated 4 Jan 2005 Floral scents induce recall of navigational and visual memories in honeybees. Reinhard J, Srinivasan MV, Guez D, Zhang SW J Exp Biol 2004 Dec 207(Pt 25):4371-81 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 15 Dec 2004 Memory processes of flight situation awareness: interactive roles of working memory capacity, long-term working memory, and expertise. Sohn YW, Doane SM Hum Factors 2004 46(3):461-75 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 15 Dec 2004 Recollection-like memory retrieval in rats is dependent on the hippocampus. Fortin NJ, Wright SP, Eichenbaum H Nature 2004 Sep 9 431(7005):188-91 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Richard G.M. Morris / Nicola Clayton / Anthony Wagner / Yadin Dudai / Wendy Suzuki / Edvard I. Moser / James Knierim Evaluated 21 Sep 2004 Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist. King RD, Whelan KE, …, Kell DB, Oliver SG Nature 2004 Jan 15 427(6971):247-52 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Torsten Schwede / Yadin Dudai / Hans Lehrach Evaluated 10 Feb 2004 A neuronal isoform of the aplysia CPEB has prion-like properties. Si K, Lindquist S, Kandel ER Cell 2003 Dec 26 115(7):879-91 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Karin Romisch / Linda Huang / David P. Wolfer / Carl Thummel / Rino Rappuoli / Jonathan Flint / Yadin Dudai Evaluated 28 Jan 2004 The similarities and diversities of signal pathways leading to consolidation of conditioning and consolidation of extinction of fear memory. Lin CH, Yeh SH, Lu HY, Gean PW J Neurosci 2003 Sep 10 23(23):8310-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 30 Sep 2003 Does cAMP response element-binding protein have a pivotal role in hippocampal synaptic plasticity and hippocampus-dependent memory? Balschun D, Wolfer DP, …, Frey JU, Lipp HP J Neurosci 2003 Jul 16 23(15):6304-14 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 11 Aug 2003 Single neurons in the monkey hippocampus and learning of new associations. Wirth S, Yanike M, …, Brown EN, Suzuki WA Science 2003 Jun 6 300(5625):1578-81 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Edvard I. Moser / Peter Rapp / James Knierim / Earl Miller / Yadin Dudai / Mark D'Esposito Evaluated 2 Jul 2003 Dopamine-dependent facilitation of LTP induction in hippocampal CA1 by exposure to spatial novelty. Li S, Cullen WK, Anwyl R, Rowan MJ Nat Neurosci 2003 May 6(5):526-31 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article] Selected by | Karl-Peter Giese / Yadin Dudai Evaluated 9 Jun 2003 Long-term memory for a life on the move. Mettke-Hofmann C, Gwinner E Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003 May 13 100(10):5863-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 3 Jun 2003 Do sperm cells remember? Brugger P, Macas E, Ihlemann J Behav Brain Res 2002 Oct 17 136(1):325-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 28 Oct 2002 Coordinated reactivation of distributed memory traces in primate neocortex. Hoffman KL, McNaughton BL Science 2002 Sep 20 297(5589):2070-3 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 14 Oct 2002 Extinction antagonizes olfactory memory at the subcellular level. Schwaerzel M, Heisenberg M, Zars T Neuron 2002 Aug 29 35(5):951-60 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 11 Oct 2002 The contribution of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity to classical conditioning in Aplysia. Antonov I, Antonova I, Kandel ER, Hawkins RD J Neurosci 2001 Aug 15 21(16):6413-22 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text] Selected by | Yadin Dudai Evaluated 25 Oct 2001

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