Ami Citri Lab

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Ami Citri

Associate Professor

Phone: +972-2-6584978
Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 1, Room 1106, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
Citri lab for Experience-Dependent Plasticity

Life is a steady stream of experiences, from the smallest events perceived by the senses to life-changing dramatic events. Our brain serves to select the relevant sensory information, and encode salient experiences to long-term memory, modifying our behavior in the future.

In the Citri Lab, we have two major research foci: 1) How a small & mysterious region called the claustrum supports the selection of relevant sensory information AND 2) How, subsequent to the selection of relevant sensory information, the brain encodes experiences, forming the basis of habits, compulsions and drug addiction. To this end we implement a variety of tools, studying these mechanisms at the molecular, synaptic, circuit and behavioral levels. 

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Guy Pozner
Peretz-Rivlin N, Yvgi I, Fatal Y, Terem A, Turm H, Shaham Y, Citri A

Psychopharmacology, 1-13 (2024)

Atlan G, Matosevich N, Rivlin N, Yvgi I, Chen E, Kleinman T, Bleistein N, Scheinbach E, Groysman M, Nir Y, Citri A

Nature Communications, 15 (1):5415 (2024)

Ramsakha N, Ojha P, Pal S, Routh S, Citri A, Bhattacharyya S

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 299, 6, 104837 (2023)

Terem A, Fatal Y, Peretz-Rivlin N, Turm H, Shohat-Koren S, Ashwal-Fluss R, Kitsberg D, Mukherjee D, Habib N, Citri A

Current Biology, 33, 2761–2773 (2023)

Lipton DM, Tamimi M, Shalom I, Sheinfeld T, Gonzales BJ, Groysman M, Citri A

BioRxiv (2023)

Diptendu Mukherjee, Ben Jerry Gonzales, Reut Ashwal-Fluss, Hagit Turm, Maya Groysman, Ami Citri

eLife 2021;10:e65228 (2021)

Anna Terem, Ben Jerry Gonzales, Noa Peretz-Rivlin, Reut Ashwal-Fluss, Noa Bleistein, Maria del Mar Reus-Garcia, Diptendu Mukherjee, Maya Groysman, Ami Citri

Current Biology ISSN 0960-9822 (2020)

Shai Berman, Roey Schurr, Gal Atlan, Ami Citri, Aviv A Mezer

Cerebral Cortex Communications tgaa062 (2020)

David F. Clayton, Ina Anreiter, Maria Aristizabal, Paul W. Frankland, Elisabeth B. Binder, and Ami Citri

PNAS (2019)

Gonzales BJ, Mukherjee D, Ashwal-Fluss R, Loewenstein Y, Citri A

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019)

Lipton DM, Gonzales BJ, Citri A

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 13:28 (2019)

Atlan G, Terem A, Peretz-Rivlin N, Sehrawat K, Gonzales BJ, Pozner G, Tasaka G-i, Goll Y, Refaeli R, Zviran O, Lim BK, Groysman M, Goshen I, Mizrahi A, Nelken I, Citri A,

Current Biology, Volume 28, Issue 17, 10 September 2018, Pages 2752-2762 (2018)

Mukherjee D, Ignatowska-Jankowska BM, Itskovits E, Gonzales BJ, Turm H, Izakson L, Haritan D, Bleistein N, Cohen C, Amit I, Shay T, Grueter BA, Zaslaver A and Citri A

eLife (2018)

Brown S, Mathur B, Olsen S, Luppi PH, Bickford M and Citri A

Journal of Neuroscience, 8 November 2017, 37 (45) 10877-10881 (2017)

Vinograd A, Fuchs-Shlomai Y, Stern M, Mukherjee D, Gao Y, Citri A, Davison I, Mizrahi A.

Cell Reports 21(2):351-365 (2017)

Neuner SM, Garfinkel BP, Wilmott LA, Ignatowska-Jankowska BM, Citri A, Orly J, Lu L, Overall RW, Mulligan MK, Kempermann G, Williams RW, O’Connell KM, Kaczorowski CC.

Neurobiol Aging. 2016 Oct;46:58-67 (2016)

Atlan, G, Terem A, Peretz-Rivlin N, Groysman M, Citri A.

The Journal of comparative neurology (2016)

Citri A, Berretta S

Claustrum, Volume 1, 2016 – Issue 1 (2016)

Liu J, Mukherjee D, Haritan D, Ignatowska-Jankowska B, Liu J, Citri A and Pang ZP

Frontiers in Biology, April 2015, Volume 10, Issue 2, pp 165–176 (2015)

Goll Y, Atlan G and Citri A

Trends in Neuroscience, Volume 38, Issue 8, August 2015, Pages 486-495 (2015)

Turm H, Mukherjee D, Haritan D, Tahor M and Citri A

Journal of Visualized Experiments (2014)

Pang ZP, Yang N, Vierbuchen T, Ostermeier A, Fuentes DR, Yang TQ, Citri A, Sebastiano V, Marro S, Südhof TC, Wernig M.

Nature. 2011 May 26;476(7359):220-3 (2011)

Citri A, Pang ZP, Südhof TC, Wernig M, Malenka RC.

Nat Protoc. 2011 Dec 22;7(1):118-27 (2011)

Postdoctoral fellow to study the role of the claustrum in psychedelic action and cortical ensemble maturation using in-vivo electrophysiology
Postdoctoral fellow to study action selection within the basal ganglia using in-vivo electrophysiology
Honors:
2015 Adelis prize in Neuroscience
2016 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
2018 Member, Child and Brain Development Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
2018 ERC Consolidator award
2020 Prusiner-Abramsky Research Award in Neuroscience
2024 UBC Healthy Aging Visiting Scholar In-residence Award Website:
Lab Website

Public lectures:
2018 – Public lecture, AfiRNE, Paris dubbed in French

2017 – Public lecture, Geneva

2015 Lecture Behavioral Transcriptomics

2015 ELSC coverage of Adelis prize

2015 AFHU coverage of Adelis prize

2014 – Public lecture, Monte Sinai center, Mexico City

2013 – Cinema & Brain week, in Hebrew

2012 – Public lecture, AFIRNE, Paris

2012 ELSC seminar

2020 Public lecture, ‘Zoom to the Brain’  in Hebrew 

2021 Frontiers for Young Minds article

Blog Posts:
https://doi.org/10.25250/thescbr.brk180

https://bold.expert/genes-and-brain-plasticity

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Ami Citri

Associate Professor

Phone: +972-2-6584978
Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 1, Room 1106, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
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