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Saul Kato

Associate Professor, UCSF
Verified email at ucsf.edu
Cited by 2832

[PDF][PDF] Global brain dynamics embed the motor command sequence of Caenorhabditis elegans

S Kato, HS Kaplan, T Schrödel, S Skora, TH Lindsay… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
While isolated motor actions can be correlated with activities of neuronal networks, an
unresolved problem is how the brain assembles these activities into organized behaviors like …

Simultaneous whole-animal 3D imaging of neuronal activity using light-field microscopy

…, YG Yoon, M Hoffmann, N Pak, G Wetzstein, S Kato… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
High-speed, large-scale three-dimensional (3D) imaging of neuronal activity poses a major
challenge in neuroscience. Here we demonstrate simultaneous functional imaging of …

Neuropeptide feedback modifies odor-evoked dynamics in Caenorhabditis elegans olfactory neurons

SH Chalasani, S Kato, DR Albrecht, T Nakagawa… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Many neurons release classical transmitters together with neuropeptide co-transmitters
whose functions are incompletely understood. Here we define the relationship between two …

[PDF][PDF] Temporal responses of C. elegans chemosensory neurons are preserved in behavioral dynamics

S Kato, Y Xu, CE Cho, LF Abbott, CI Bargmann - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Animals track fluctuating stimuli over multiple timescales during natural olfactory behaviors.
Here, we define mechanisms underlying these computations in Caenorhabditis elegans. By …

Pycro-Manager: open-source software for customized and reproducible microscope control

…, DP Shepherd, I Hunt-Isaak, RL Dunn, W Jahr, S Kato… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
To the Editor—Cutting-edge innovations in biological microscopy are increasingly blurring
the line between data acquisition and data analysis. Computational microscopy and machine-…

[PDF][PDF] Soma-targeted imaging of neural circuits by ribosome tethering

…, TW Kuo, YC Lin, M Patel, A Subkhangulova, S Kato… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Neuroscience relies on techniques for imaging the structure and dynamics of neural circuits,
but the cell bodies of individual neurons are often obscured by overlapping fluorescence …

[PDF][PDF] A set of hub neurons and non-local connectivity features support global brain dynamics in C. elegans

K Uzel, S Kato, M Zimmer - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
The wiring architecture of neuronal networks is assumed to be a strong determinant of their
dynamical computations. An ongoing effort in neuroscience is therefore to generate …

[PDF][PDF] Sleep is required to consolidate odor memory and remodel olfactory synapses

…, A Asundi, MA Churgin, C Fang-Yen, M Bremer, S Kato… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Animals with complex nervous systems demand sleep for memory consolidation and synaptic
remodeling. Here, we show that, although the Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system …

Regulation of two motor patterns enables the gradual adjustment of locomotion strategy in Caenorhabditis elegans

I Hums, J Riedl, F Mende, S Kato, HS Kaplan… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.14116.001 In animal locomotion a tradeoff exists between stereotypy and
flexibility: fast long-distance travelling (LDT) requires coherent regular motions, while local …

Optimization and scaling of patient-derived brain organoids uncovers deep phenotypes of disease

…, A Pollen, D Flanzer, D Chao, G Skibinski, S Kato… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Cerebral organoids provide unparalleled access to human brain development in vitro.
However, variability induced by current culture methodologies precludes using organoids as …