Lab Funding & Investment
EPSRC Research Grant
Awarded Autumn 2022
£1,000,000
Aston Life & Health Sciences PhD Studentship
Awarded Summer 2020
£58,000
ANI Pump Prime Award
Awarded Summer 2020
£5,000
Keele Research Development Fund
Awarded Summer 2018
£5,000
BBSRC New Investigator Award
Awarded Autumn 2016
£600,000
HEFCE Teaching Equipment Funding (via Keele University)
Awarded Spring 2016
£125,000
Keele University ACORN PhD Studentship Funding
Awarded Summer 2015
£46,000
Pauline Ashley New Investigator Grant
Awarded Autumn 2014
£30,000
Keele ISTM Equipment Grant
Awarded Spring 2014
£5,000
Manuscripts & Book Chapters
Osborn A, Caruana DA, Furness, DN, Evans MG. (2022). Electrical and immunohistochemical properties of cochlear fibrocytes in 3D cell culture and in the excised spiral ligament of mice. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-021-00833-z.
Caruana DA and Dudek SM. (2021). ‘Adenosine A1 Receptor-Mediated Synaptic Depression in the Developing Hippocampal Area CA2’, in Huber M, Paoletti P, Sjöström J (eds.) Latest Advances on Excitatory Synaptic Biology, Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88971-681-4.
Caruana DA and Dudek SM. (2020). Adenosine A1 receptor-mediated synaptic depression in the developing hippocampal area CA2. Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, 12:21. doi: 10.3389/fnsyn.2020.00021.
Pagani JH, Zhao M, Cui Z, Avram SKW, Caruana DA, Dudek SM, Young WS. (2015). Role of the vasopressin 1b receptor in rodent aggressive behavior and synaptic plasticity in hippocampal area CA2. Molecular Psychiatry, 20: 490-499.
Glovaci I, Caruana DA, and Chapman CA (2014). Dopaminergic enhancement of excitatory synaptic transmission in layer II entorhinal neurons is dependent upon D1 receptor-mediated signaling via PKA and protein-phosphatase 1. Neuroscience, 258: 74-83.
Caruana DA, Alexander GM, Dudek SM. (2012). New insights into the regulation of synaptic plasticity from an unexpected place: hippocampal area CA2. Learning & Memory, 19: 391–400.
Simons SB, Caruana DA, Zhao M, Dudek SM. (2012). Caffeine-induced synaptic potentiation in hippocampal CA2 neurons. Nature Neuroscience, 15: 23–25.
Caruana DA, Warburton EC, Bashir ZI. (2011). Induction of activity-dependent LTD requires muscarinic receptor activation in medial prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 31: 18464–18478.
Garden D, Massey PV, Caruana DA, Johnson B, Warburton EC, Aggleton JP, Bashir ZI. (2009). Anterior thalamic lesions stop synaptic plasticity in retrosplenial cortex slices: expanding the pathology of diencephalic amnesia. Brain, 132: 1847–1857.
Caruana DA, Chapman CA. (2008). Dopaminergic suppression of synaptic transmission in the lateral entorhinal cortex. Neural Plasticity, 2008: 203514.
Kourrich S, Glasgow SD, Caruana DA, Chapman CA. (2008). Postsynaptic signals mediating induction of long-term synaptic depression in the entorhinal cortex. Neural Plasticity, 2008: 840374.
Caruana DA, Nesbitt C, Mumby DG, Chapman CA. (2008). Seizure activity in the rat hippocampus, perirhinal and prefrontal cortex associated with transient global cerebral ischemia. Journal of Neural Transmission, 115: 401–411.
Rodaros D, Caruana DA, Amir S, Stewart J. (2007). Corticotropin-releasing factor projections from limbic forebrain and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus to the region of the ventral tegmental area. Neuroscience, 150: 8–13.
Caruana DA, Reed SJ, Sliz DJ, Chapman CA. (2007). Inhibiting dopamine reuptake blocks the induction of long-term potentiation and depression in the lateral entorhinal cortex of awake rats. Neuroscience Letters, 426: 6–11.
Caruana DA, Sorge RE, Stewart J, Chapman CA. (2006). Dopamine has bidirectional effects on synaptic responses to cortical inputs in layer II of the lateral entorhinal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 96: 3006–3015.
Winocur G, Moscovitch M, Caruana DA, Binns MA. (2005). Retrograde amnesia in rats with lesions to the hippocampus on a test of spatial memory. Neuropsychologia, 43: 1580–1590.
Caruana DA, Chapman CA. (2004). Stimulation of the parasubiculum modulates entorhinal cortex responses to piriform cortex inputs in vivo. Journal of Neurophysiology, 92: 1226–1235.