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Rotem Ruach

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The synaptic organization in the Caenorhabditis elegans neural network suggests significant local compartmentalized computations

R Ruach, N Ratner, SW Emmons… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Neurons are characterized by elaborate tree-like dendritic structures that support local
computations by integrating multiple inputs from upstream presynaptic neurons. It is less clear …

[HTML][HTML] Concerted pulsatile and graded neural dynamics enables efficient chemotaxis in C. elegans

E Itskovits, R Ruach, A Kazakov, A Zaslaver - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
The ability of animals to effectively locate and navigate toward food sources is central for
survival. Here, using C. elegans nematodes, we reveal the neural mechanism underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Irrational behavior in C. elegans arises from asymmetric modulatory effects within single sensory neurons

S Iwanir, R Ruach, E Itskovits, CO Pritz… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
C. elegans worms exhibit a natural chemotaxis towards food cues. This provides a potential
platform to study the interactions between stimulus valence and innate behavioral …

A negative feedback loop in the GPCR pathway underlies efficient coding of external stimuli

R Ruach, S Yellinek, E Itskovits, N Deshe… - Molecular Systems …, 2022 - embopress.org
Efficient navigation based on chemical cues is an essential feature shared by all animals.
These cues may be encountered in complex spatiotemporal patterns and with orders of …

Principles for coding associative memories in a compact neural network

C Pritz, E Itskovits, E Bokman, R Ruach, V Gritsenko… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
A major goal in neuroscience is to elucidate the principles by which memories are stored in
a neural network. Here, we have systematically studied how four types of associative …

An assumption-free quantification of neural responses to electrical stimulations

R Ruach, R Mitelman, E Sherman, O Cohen… - Journal of Neuroscience …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Connectivity between brain regions provides the fundamental infrastructure for
information processing. The standard way to characterize these interactions is to stimulate …

Intricate response dynamics enhances stimulus discrimination in the resource-limited C. elegans chemosensory system

E Bokman, C Pritz, R Ruach, E Itskovits, H Sharvit… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Sensory systems evolved intricate designs to accurately encode perplexing environments.
However, this encoding task may become particularly challenging for animals harboring a …

The synaptic organization in the C. elegans neural network suggests significant local compartmentalized computations

R Ruach, N Ratner, SW Emmons, A Zaslaver - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Neurons are characterized by elaborate tree-like dendritic structures that support local
computations by integrating multiple inputs from upstream presynaptic neurons. It is less clear if …

A GPCR negative feedback loop underlies efficient coding of external stimuli

R Ruach, S Yellinek, E Itskovits, A Zaslaver - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Efficient navigation based on chemical cues is an essential feature shared by all animals.
These cues may be encountered in complex spatio-temporal patterns and with orders of …

Author Correction: Concerted pulsatile and graded neural dynamics enables efficient chemotaxis in C. elegans

E Itskovits, R Ruach, A Kazakov… - Nature …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The original version of this Article omitted from the author list the third author Alexander
Kazakov who is from the ‘Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew …