Our published work

2025

• Yeager K.M., Gupta R.K., Gauthier E.A., Fisch A.J., Clark N.A., Orsi F.S., Tiriac A. (2025) A toolbox for navigating and analyzing the spatiotemporal properties of retinal waves. BioRxiv.

• Gupta R.K., Clark N.a, Yeager K.M., Fisch A.J., Tiriac A. (2025) High-density Multielectrode Array Recordings of Retinal Waves Using An Electrophysiology Platform. J Vis Exp.

2024

• Vita D.J., Orsi F.S., Stanko N.G., Clark N.A., & Tiriac A. (2024) Development and organization of the retinal orientation selectivity map. Nature Communications

  • Also on bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.27.585774v1

2023

• Voufo C., Chen A.Q., Smith B.E., Yan R., Feller M.B., & Tiriac A. (2023) Circuit mechanisms underlying embryonic retinal waves. eLife.

2022

• Blumberg M.S., Dooley J. & Tiriac A. (2022) Sleep, plasticity, and sensory neurodevelopment. Neuron.

• Tiriac A. & Feller M.B. (2022) Roles of visually evoked and spontaneous activity in the development of retinal direction selectivity maps. Trends in Neurosciences, 45(7):529-538.

• Tiriac A., Bistrong K.L., Pitcher M.N., Tworig J., & Feller M.F. (2025) The influence of spontaneous and visual activity on the development of direction selectivity maps in mouse retina. Cell Reports, 38, 110225.

• Caval-Holme F.S. , Aranda M.L., Chen A.Q., Tiriac A., Zhang Y., Smith B., Birnbaumer L., Schmidt T.M., and Feller M.B. (2022) The Retinal Basis of Light Aversion in Neonatal Mice. The Journal of Neuroscience, 8 April 2022, JN-RM-0151-22.

2020 and before

• Tiriac A. & Feller M.B. (2019) Embryonic neural activity wires the brain. Science, 7;364(6444):933-934, (Perspective)

• Tiriac A., Smith B.E. & Feller M.B. (2018) Light prior to eye-opening promotes retinal waves and eye-specific segregation. Neuron, 100(5):1059-1065.

• Tiriac A. & Blumberg M.S. (2016) Gating of reafference in the external cuneate nucleus during self-generated movements in wake but not sleep. eLife, 5, p. e18749.

• Tiriac A. & Blumberg M.S. (2016) The case of the disappearing spindle burst. Neural Plasticity.

• Blumberg M.S., Sokoloff G., Tiriac A., & Del Rio-Bermudez C. (2015) A valuable and promising method for recording brain activity in behaving newborn rodents. Developmental Psychobiology, 57(4):506-517.

• Tiriac A., Sokoloff G., & Blumberg M.S. (2015) Myoclonic twitching and sleep-dependent plasticity in the developing sensorimotor system. Current Sleep Medicine Reports, 1: 74-79.

• Tiriac A., Del Rio-Bermudez C., & Blumberg M.S. (2014) Self-generated movements with “unexpected” sensory consequences. Current Biology, 24:2136-2141.

• Tiriac A., Uitermarkt B.D., Fanning A., Sokoloff G., & Blumberg M.S. (2012) Rapid whisker movements in sleeping newborn rats. Current Biology, 22: 2075-2080.

• Cooke D.F., Goldring A.B., Yamayoshi I., Tsourkas P., Recanzone G.H., Tiriac A., Pan T., Simon S.I., & Krubitzer L.A. (2012) Fabrication of an inexpensive, implantable cooling device for reversible brain deactivation in animals ranging from rodents to primates. Journal of Neurophysiology, 12: 3543-3558.