Selected Publications

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# co-corresponding authors
Wong HH#, Watt AJ, & Sjöström PJ#. (2025). Laser microsurgery for presynaptic interrogation. Nature Protocols 20(8), 2345-2367 [Link]

• Cover image

Chou CYC, Wong HH, Guo C, Boukoulou KE, Huang C, Jannat J, Klimenko T, Li VY, Liang TA, Wu VC and Sjöström PJ. (2025). Principles of visual cortex excitatory microcircuit organization. The Innovation 6(1), 100735 [Link]

Wong HH#, Watt AJ and Sjöström PJ#. (2024). Synapse-specific burst coding sustained by local axonal translation. Neuron 112(2), 264-276 e266 [Link]

• Featured article in Neuron 112(2)
• Featured in Research Highlights by Shari Wiseman, Chief Editor, in Nature Neuroscience 27(9) [Link]
• Press release [Link] 

Wong HH#, Rannio S, Jones V, Thomazeau A# and Sjöström PJ#. (2021). NMDA receptors in axons: there's no coincidence. The Journal of Physiology 599(2), 367-387 [Link]

• Editor’s choice

Cagnetta R, Wong HH, Frese CK, Mallucci GR, Krijgsveld J and Holt CE. (2019). Noncanonical Modulation of the eIF2 Pathway Controls an Increase in Local Translation during Neural Wiring. Molecular Cell 73(3), 474-489 e475 [Link]

Cioni JM, Wong HH, Bressan D, Kodama L, Harris WA and Holt CE. (2018). Axon-Axon Interactions Regulate Topographic Optic Tract Sorting via CYFIP2-Dependent WAVE Complex Function. Neuron 97(5), 1078-1093 e1076 [Link]

• Highlighted by Faculty of 1000 [Link]

Wong HH, Lin JQ*, Ströhl F*, Roque CG, Cioni JM, Cagnetta R, Turner-Bridger B, Laine RF, Harris WA, Kaminski CF and Holt CE. (2017). RNA Docking and Local Translation Regulate Site-Specific Axon Remodeling In Vivo. Neuron 95(4), 852-868 e8586 [Link]

• Featured article in Neuron 95(4)
• Highlighted 5 times by Faculty of 1000 [Link]
• Featured in Cell Press Selections 2017: The Dynamic Neuron [Link]

Publications

  1. Garrido-Charles A, Bosch M, Lee H, Rovira X, Pittolo S, Llobet A, Wong HH, Trapero A, Matera C, Papotto C, Serra C, Llebaria A, Soriano E, Sanchez-Vives MV, Holt CE and Gorostiza P. (2025). Photoswitching endogenous glutamate receptors in neural ensembles and single synapses in vivo. Brain Stimulation [Link]
  2. Wong HH#, Watt AJ and Sjöström PJ#. (2025). Laser microsurgery for presynaptic interrogation. Nature Protocols 20(8), 2345-2367 [Link]
  3. Thomazeau A, Rannio S, Brock JA, Wong HH and Sjöström PJ. (2025). Neocortical layer-5 tLTD relies on non-ionotropic presynaptic NMDA receptor signaling. eLife 14 [Link]
  4. Chou CYC, Wong HH, Guo C, Boukoulou KE, Huang C, Jannat J, Klimenko T, Li VY, Liang TA, Wu VC and Sjöström PJ. (2025). Principles of visual cortex excitatory microcircuit organization. The Innovation 6(1), 100735 [Link]
  5. Wong HH#, Watt AJ and Sjöström PJ#. (2024). Synapse-specific burst coding sustained by local axonal translation. Neuron 112(2), 264-276 e266 [Link]
  6. Wong HH, Chou CYC, Watt AJ and Sjöström PJ. (2023). Comparing mouse and human brains. eLife 12 [Link]
  7. Wong HH#, Watt AJ and Sjöström PJ#. (2022). Local axonal translation sustains synapse-type-specific neurotransmission. bioRxiv, 2022.2006.2027.497827 [Link]
  8. Wong HH#, Rannio S, Jones V, Thomazeau A# and Sjöström PJ#. (2021). NMDA receptors in axons: there's no coincidence. The Journal of Physiology 599(2), 367-387 [Link]
  9. Wong HH, Camire O and Sjöström PJ. (2021). The secret life of memory receptors. eLife 10 [Link]
  10. Ströhl F, Lin JQ, van Tartwijk FW, Wong HH, Holt CE and Kaminski CF. (2020). A Protocol for Single-Molecule Translation Imaging in Xenopus Retinal Ganglion Cells. In N Yamamoto, and Y Okada (Eds.), Single Molecule Microscopy in Neurobiology (pp. 295-308). Springer US. [Link]
  11. Shigeoka T, Koppers M, Wong HH*, Lin JQ*, Cagnetta R*, Dwivedy A, de Freitas Nascimento J, van Tartwijk FW, Ströhl F, Cioni JM, Schaeffer J, Carrington M, Kaminski CF, Jung H, Harris WA and Holt CE. (2019). On-Site Ribosome Remodeling by Locally Synthesized Ribosomal Proteins in Axons. Cell Reports 29(11), 3605-3619 e3610 [Link]
  12. Cagnetta R, Wong HH, Frese CK, Mallucci GR, Krijgsveld J and Holt CE. (2019). Noncanonical Modulation of the eIF2 Pathway Controls an Increase in Local Translation during Neural Wiring. Molecular Cell 73(3), 474-489 e475 [Link]
  13. Wong HH and Holt CE. (2018). Targeted Electroporation in the CNS in Xenopus Embryos. Methods in Molecular Biology 1865, 119-131 [Link]
  14. Turner-Bridger B, Jakobs M, Muresan L, Wong HH, Franze K, Harris WA and Holt CE. (2018). Single-molecule analysis of endogenous beta-actin mRNA trafficking reveals a mechanism for compartmentalized mRNA localization in axons. Proc Natl Acad Sci 115(41), E9697-E9706 [Link]
  15. Leung KM*, Lu B*, Wong HH*, Lin JQ, Turner-Bridger B and Holt CE. (2018). Cue-Polarized Transport of beta-actin mRNA Depends on 3'UTR and Microtubules in Live Growth Cones. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 12, 300 [Link]
  16. Cioni JM, Wong HH, Bressan D, Kodama L, Harris WA and Holt CE. (2018). Axon-Axon Interactions Regulate Topographic Optic Tract Sorting via CYFIP2-Dependent WAVE Complex Function. Neuron 97(5), 1078-1093 e1076 [Link]
  17. Wong HH, Lin JQ, Ströhl F, Roque CG, Cioni JM, Cagnetta R, Turner-Bridger B, Laine RF, Harris WA, Kaminski CF and Holt CE. (2017). RNA Docking and Local Translation Regulate Site-Specific Axon Remodeling In Vivo. Neuron 95(4), 852-868 e858 [Link]
  18. Ströhl F, Wong HH, Holt CE and Kaminski CF. (2017). Total internal reflection fluorescence anisotropy imaging microscopy: setup, calibration, and data processing for protein polymerization measurements in living cells. Methods and Applications in Fluorescence 6(1), 014004 [Link]
  19. Ströhl F, Lin JQ, Laine RF, Wong HH, Urbancic V, Cagnetta R, Holt CE and Kaminski CF. (2017). Single Molecule Translation Imaging Visualizes the Dynamics of Local beta-Actin Synthesis in Retinal Axons. Scientific Reports 7(1), 709 [Link]
  20. Roque CG, Wong HH, Lin JQ and Holt CE. (2016). Tumor protein Tctp regulates axon development in the embryonic visual system. Development 143(7), 1134-1148 [Link]
  21. Konopacki FA, Wong HH, Dwivedy A, Bellon A, Blower MD and Holt CE. (2016). ESCRT-II controls retinal axon growth by regulating DCC receptor levels and local protein synthesis. Open Biology 6(4), 150218 [Link]
  22. Fu AK, Hung KW, Wong HH, Fu WY and Ip NY. (2013). Cdk5 phosphorylates a component of the HDAC complex and regulates histone acetylation during neuronal cell death. Neuro-Signals 21(1-2), 55-60 [Link]

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