Professor Maithe Arruda-Carvalho

Maithe Arruda-Carvalho

Assistant Professor


Campus

UTSC

CSB Appointment

Full

Research Areas

Animal Biology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Systems Biology

Education

PhD University of Toronto 2012,
MSc Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 2007,
BSc Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 2004

Primary Undergraduate Department

Psychology

Graduate Programs

Psychology
Cell & Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research Description

Our lab uses a systems level approach to explore the relationship between the maturation of sensitive brain circuits, the emergence of complex behaviour, and stress sensitivity in mice.


Contact Information

Office Phone: 416-208-8130
Office: SW533
Lab: SW332
Email

Mailing Address

1265 Military Trail
Science Wing, Room SW533
Toronto, ON M1C 1A4
Canada

Visit lab’s website


Publications

Arruda-Carvalho M, Clem RL. Prefrontal-amygdala fear networks come into focus.
Front Syst Neurosci 9:145, 2015.
PMID:26578902

Arruda-Carvalho M, Clem RL. Pathway-selective adjustment of prefrontal-amygdala transmission during fear encoding.
Journal of Neuroscience 34(47):15601-9, 2014
PMID:25411488

Arruda-Carvalho M, Akers KG, Guskjolen A, Sakaguchi M, Josselyn SA, Frankland PW. Post-training ablation of adult-generated olfactory granule cells degrades odor-reward memories.
Journal of Neuroscience 34(47):15793-803, 2014
PMID:25411506

Arruda-Carvalho M, Restivo L, Guskjolen A, Epp JR, Elgersma Y, Josselyn SA, Frankland PW. Conditional Deletion of α-CaMKII Impairs Integration of Adult-Generated Granule Cells into Dentate Gyrus Circuits and Hippocampus-Dependent Learning.
Journal of Neuroscience 34(36): 11919-28 (2014)
PMID:25186740

Akers KG, Arruda-Carvalho M, Josselyn SA, Frankland PW. Ontogeny of contextual fear memory formation, specificity, and persistence in mice.
Learning & Memory. 19(12):598-604 (2012).
PMID:23161449

Gu Y, Arruda-Carvalho M, Wang J, Janoschka S, Josselyn SA, Frankland PW, Ge S. Optical controlling reveals time-dependent roles for adult-born dentate granule cells.
Nature Neuroscience 15(12):1700-6. (2012)
PMID:23143513

Arruda-Carvalho M, Sakaguchi M, Akers KG, Josselyn SA, Frankland PW. Posttraining ablation of adult-generated neurons degrades previously acquired memories.
Journal of Neuroscience 31(42):15113-27(2011)
Comment in Nature 478 (7370) 431.
PMID:22016545

Sakaguchi M, Arruda-Carvalho M, Kang NH, Imaizumi Y, Poirier F, Okano H, Frankland PW. Impaired spatial and contextual memory formation in galectin-1 deficient mice.
Molecular Brain. 4(1):33 (2011)
PMID:21884595

Leslie AT, Akers KG, Krakowski AD, Stone SSD, Sakaguchi M, Arruda-Carvalho M, Frankland PW. Impact of early adverse experience on complexity of adult-generated neurons.
Translational Psychiatry 1, e35 (2011)
PMID:22832609

Ribas VT, Arruda-Carvalho M, Linden R, Chiarini LB. Early c-Jun N-terminal kinase-dependent phosphorylation of activating transcription factor-2 is associated with degeneration of retinal ganglion cells.
Neuroscience 180:64-74 (2011)
PMID:21300140

Akers KG, Sakaguchi M, Arruda-Carvalho M. Functional contribution of adult-generated olfactory bulb interneurons: odor discrimination versus odor memory.
Journal of Neuroscience 30(13):4523-5 (2010)
PMID:20357101

Frankland PW, Sakaguchi M, Arruda-Carvalho M. Starting at the endophenotype: A role for alpha-CaMKII in schizophrenia?
Molecular Brain. 1(1):5 (2008)
PMID:18803858

Arruda-Carvalho M, Njaine B, Silveira MS, Linden R, Chiarini LB. Hop/STI1 modulates retinal proliferation and cell death independent of PrPC. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 361(2):474-80 (2007)
PMID:17651690