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Adema Ribic

Adema Ribic

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

Primary Location
485 McCormick Rd
Gilmer Hall 181A
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Bio & Overview

Our team studies how neurons assemble into circuits and how those circuits adapt to the environment. We use state-of-the-art neuroscience tools in the rodent visual system to ultimately understand how learning occurs at the level of molecules that build synapses.

Academic Information

Department
Neuroscience

Primary Education

  • PhD, University of Gottingennull

Other Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Psychology

Other Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor, Arts & Sciences
  • Psychology
  • BIMS
  • BIMS
  • Neuroscience Graduate Program

Research Interests

Assembly and Plasticity of Neural Circuits

Research Disciplines

  • Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
  • Neuroscience

Research Opportunities

  • Cell Biology
  • Molecular and Systems Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience

PhD Programs

  • Neuroscience

Selected Publications

2023

Witteveen, I. F., McCoy, E., Holsworth, T. D., Shen, C. Z., Chang, W., Nance, M. G., . . . Ribic, A. (2023). Preterm birth accelerates the maturation of spontaneous and resting activity in the visual cortex.. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2023.01.20.524993

de Arce, K. P., Ribic, A., Chowdhury, D., Watters, K., Thompson, G. J. J., Sanganahalli, B. G. G., . . . Biederer, T. (2023). Concerted roles of LRRTM1 and SynCAM 1 in organizing prefrontal cortex synapses and cognitive functions. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 14(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36042-w

2020

Ribic, A. (2020). Stability in the Face of Change: Lifelong Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Sensory Cortex. FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE, 14. doi:10.3389/fncel.2020.00076

2019

Carbone, B. E., Abouleish, M., Watters, K. E., Vogel, S., Ribic, A., Schroeder, O. H. -U., . . . Biederer, T. (2020). Synaptic Connectivity and Cortical Maturation Are Promoted by the ω-3 Fatty Acid Docosahexaenoic Acid. CEREBRAL CORTEX, 30(1), 226-240. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhz083

Ribic, A., Crair, M. C., & Biederer, T. (2019). Synapse-Selective Control of Cortical Maturation and Plasticity by Parvalbumin-Autonomous Action of SynCAM 1. CELL REPORTS, 26(2), 381-+. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2018.12.069

Ribic, A., & Biederer, T. (2019). Emerging Roles of Synapse Organizers in the Regulation of Critical Periods. NEURAL PLASTICITY, 2019. doi:10.1155/2019/1538137

2016

De Roo, M., & Ribic, A. (2017). Analyzing Structural Plasticity of Dendritic Spines in Organotypic Slice Culture. SYNAPSE DEVELOPMENT, 1538, 277-289. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-6688-2_19

Park, K. A., Ribic, A., Gaupp, F. M. L., Coman, D., Huang, Y., Dulla, C. G., . . . Biederer, T. (2016). Excitatory Synaptic Drive and Feedforward Inhibition in the Hippocampal CA3 Circuit Are Regulated by SynCAM 1. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, 36(28), 7464-7475. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0189-16.2016

2015

Guo, X., Wang, S. -B., Xu, H., Ribic, A., Mohns, E. J., Zhou, Y., . . . Chen, B. (2015). A short N-terminal domain of HDAC4 preserves photoreceptors and restores visual function in retinitis pigmentosa. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 6. doi:10.1038/ncomms9005

2014

Ribic, A., Liu, X., Crair, M. C., & Biederer, T. (2014). Structural Organization and Function of Mouse Photoreceptor Ribbon Synapses Involve the Immunoglobulin Protein Synaptic Cell Adhesion Molecule 1. JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY, 522(4), 900-920. doi:10.1002/cne.23452

2011

Yee, N., Ribic, A., de Roo, C. C., & Fuchs, E. (2011). Differential effects of maternal immune activation and juvenile stress on anxiety-like behaviour and physiology in adult rats: No evidence for the "double-hit hypothesis". BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH, 224(1), 180-188. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2011.05.040

Ribic, A., Fluegge, G., Schlumbohm, C., Maetz-Rensing, K., Walter, L., & Fuchs, E. (2011). Activity-dependent regulation of MHC class I expression in the developing primary visual cortex of the common marmoset monkey. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN FUNCTIONS, 7. doi:10.1186/1744-9081-7-1

2010

Ribic, A., Zhang, M., Schlumbohm, C., Maetz-Rensing, K., Uchanska-Ziegler, B., Fluegge, G., . . . Fuchs, E. (2010). Neuronal MHC Class I Molecules are Involved in Excitatory Synaptic Transmission at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapses of Marmoset Monkeys. CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY, 30(6), 827-839. doi:10.1007/s10571-010-9510-3