Selected Publications

Dickman DK, Tong A, and Davis, GW (2012). Snapin is critical for presynaptic homeostatic plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience 32(25): 8716-24.

Bergquist S, Dickman DK, and Davis GW (2010). A hierarchy of cell intrinsic and target-derived homeostatic signaling. Neuron 66(2): 220-234.

Dickman DK and Davis GW (2009). The schizophrenia susceptibility gene dysbindin controls synaptic homeostasis. Science 326(5956): 1127-1130.

Dickman* DK, Kurshan* P, and Schwarz TL (2008). Mutations in a Drosophila α2δ voltage-gated calcium channel subunit reveal a crucial synaptic function. Journal of Neuroscience 28(1): 31-38.  * Equal contribution

Dickman DK, Lu Z, Meinertzhagen IA, and Schwarz TL (2006). Altered synaptic development and active zone spacing at the neuromuscular junctions of endocytosis mutants. Current Biology 16: 591-598.

Dickman DK, Horne JA, Meinertzhagen IA, and Schwarz TL (2005). A slowed classical pathway rather than kiss-and-run mediates endocytosis at synapses lacking synaptojanin and endophilin. Cell 123: 521-533.



  • Dion K Dickman
  • USC Park Campus
  • Hedco Neuroscience Building
  • Los Angeles, CA