Sam Cooke, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow e-mail tel. 617-324-7008

EDUCATION

1993-6 – Batchelor’s degree in Philosophy and Psychology – The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

1997-8 – Research Masters in Neurological Science - Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, UCL, United Kingdom.

1998-2002 - PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience – Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, UCL, United Kingdom.

PUBLICATIONS

Plath N, Ohana O, Dammermann B, Errington ML, Gross C, Mao X, Engelsberg A, Mahlke C, Welzl H, Kobalz U, Fernandez E, Husi H, Waltereit R, Bick-Sander A, Therstappen E, Cooke SF, Blanquet V, Wurst W, Salmen B, Bösl MR, Lipp HP, Schmitz D, Grant SGN, Bliss TVP, Wolfer DP, Kuhl D (2006) Arc/Arg3.1 is essential for the consolidation of synaptic plasticity and memories. Neuron. 9; 52(3):437-44.

Cooke SF, Wu J, Plattner F, Errington M, Rowan M, Peters M, Hirano A, Bradshaw KD, Anwyl R, Bliss TVP and Giese KP (2006) Autophosphorylation of ?CaMKII is not a general effector mechanism for NMDA-dependent long-term potentiation in the adult mouse. J.Physiol. 574.3: 805-18.

O'Doherty A, Ruf S, Mulligan C, Hildreth V, Errington ML, Cooke S, Sesay A, Modino S, Vanes L, Hernandez D, Linehan JM, Sharpe PT, Brandner S, Bliss TV, Henderson DJ, Nizetic D, Tybulewicz VL, Fisher EM (2005) An aneuploid mouse strain carrying human chromosome 21 with Down syndrome phenotypes. Science 309(5743): 2033-7.

Fragkouli F, Hearn C, Errington M, Cooke S, Grigoriou M, Bliss T, Stylianopoulou F and Pachnis V (2005) Loss of forebrain cholinergic neurons and impairment in spatial learning and memory in LHX7-deficient mice. Eur J Neurosci. 21(11): 2923-38.

Cooke SF, Attwell PJ and Yeo CH (2004) Temporal properties of cerebellar-dependent memory consolidation. J. Neurosci. 24: 2934-41.

Attwell PJ, Cooke SF and Yeo CH (2002) Cerebellar function in consolidation of a motor memory Neuron 34: 1011-20.

Guo S, Wilson SW, Cooke S, Chitnis AB, Driever W and Rosenthal A (1999) Mutations in the zebrafish unmask shared regulatory pathways controlling the development of catecholaminergic neurons. Developmental biology 208: 473-87.

REVIEWS

Cooke SF and Bliss TVP (2006) Plasticity in the human nervous system. Brain 129 (7): 1659-73.

Cooke SF and Bliss TVP (2005) Long-term potentiation and cognitive drug discovery. Current opinion in drug discovery 6(1): 25-34.

Cooke SF and Bliss TVP (2003) The genetic enhancement of memory. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 60: 1-5.