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Timothy Gomez Ph.D. 1995 Thesis Title: Regulation of Growth Cone Migration Advisor: Paul Letourneau

Thesis Publications:

Gomez TM, Letourneau PC. (1994) Filopodia initiate choices made by sensory neuron growth cones at laminin/fibronectin borders in vitro. J Neurosci 14:5959-572.

Gomez TM, Snow DM, Letourneau PC. (1995) Characterization of spontaneous calcium transients in nerve growth cones and their effect on growth cone migration. Neuron 14:1233-246.

Gomez TM, Roche FK, Letourneau PC. (1996) Chick sensory neuronal growth cones distinguish fibronectin from laminin by making substratum contacts that resemble focal contacts. J Neurobiol 29:18-34.

Other Publications:

Gomez, T. M. and Zheng, J. (2006). The molecular basis for Calcium-dependent axon pathfinding. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7, 115-125.

Woo, S. W. and Gomez, T. M. (2006). Rac1 and RhoA promote neurite outgrowth through formation and stabilization of growth cone point contacts. J Neurosci. 26(5), 1418-1428.

Jacques-Fricke, B.T., Seow, Y., Gottlieb, P. A., Sachs, F. and Gomez, T. M. (2006). Opposing regulation of neurite growth by Ca2+ influx through a mechanosensitive channel and release from intracellular stores. J Neurosci. 26(21), 5656-5664.

Robles, E. and Gomez, T. M. (2006). Focal adhesion kinase signaling at sites of integrin mediated adhesion controls axon pathfinding. Nat Neurosci. 9, 1274-1283.

Robles, E., A. Huttenlocher, and T.M. Gomez. 2003. Filopodial calcium transients regulate growth cone motility and guidance through local activation of calpain. Neuron 38: 597-609

Gomez TM, Robles E, Poo M, Spitzer NC. (2001) Filopodial calcium transients promote substrate-dependent growth cone turning. Science 291:1983-1987.