Dr. Mark A. Rutherford

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsMolecular Biology and Physiology of Neurons and Glial Cells,Otolaryngology, Phoniatrics and Audiology,Sensory and Behavioural Biology
Keywordsspiral ganglion neuron, synaptic transmission, spike generation, hair cell, inner ear

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CitySt. Louis
InstitutionWashington University
InstituteSchool of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology
Homepagehttp://oto.wustl.edu/FacultyPhysicians/RutherfordBio.aspx

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Tobias MoserInnerEarLab, Department of Otolaryngology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2010

Programme(s)

2009Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2013Wong, A.B., Jing, Z., Rutherford, M.A., Frank, T., Strenzke, N., Moser, T.: Concurrent maturation of inner hair cell synaptic Ca2+ influx and auditory nerve spontaneous activity around hearing onset in mice. In: Journal of Neuroscience, 2013, 10661
2013Jing, Z., Rutherford, M.A., Takago, H., Frank, T., Fejtova, A., Khimich, D., Moser, T., Strenzke, N.: Disruption of the Presynaptic Cytomatrix Protein Bassoon Degrades Ribbon Anchorage, Multi-quantal Release, and Sound Encoding at the Hair Cell Afferent Synapse. In: Journal of Neuroscience, 2013, 4456
2012von Ameln, S., Wang, G., Boulouiz, R., Rutherford, M.A., Smith, G.M., Li, Y., Pogoda, H.M., Nürnberg, G., Volk, A.E., Stiller, B., Hong, J.S., Goodyear, R.J., Nürnberg, P., Richardson, G.P., Hammerschmidt, M., Moser, T., Wollnik, B., Koehler, C.M., Teitell, M.A., Barakat, A., Kubisch, C.: A Mutation in PNPT1, Encoding Mitochondrial-RNA-Import Protein PNPase, Causes Hereditary Hearing Loss. In: The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2012, 919
2012Mark A. Rutherford, Tina Pangršič: Molecular Anatomy and Physiology of Exocytosis in Sensory Hair Cells. In: Cell Calcium, 2012, 327
2012Mark A. Rutherford, Nikolai M. Chapochnikov, Tobias Moser: Spike Encoding of Neurotransmitter Release Timing by Spiral Ganglion Neurons of the Cochlea. In: The Journal of Neuroscience, 2012, 4773-4789
2010Thomas Frank, Mark A. Rutherford, Nicola Strenzke, Andreas Neef, Tina Pangršič, Darina Khimich, Anna Fetjova, Eckart D. Gundelfinger, M. Charles Liberman, Benjamin Harke, Keith E. Bryan, Amy Lee, Alexander Egner, Dietmar Riedel, Tobias Moser: Bassoon and the Synaptic Ribbon Organize Ca2+ Channels and Vesicles to Add Release Sites and Promote Refilling. In: Neuron, 2010, 724-738