Tomchik, Seth

Faculty Member

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2018 - Associate Professor, Neuroscience , Scripps Research
2012 - Faculty Member, Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences , Scripps Research
2012 - 2018 Assistant Professor, Neuroscience , Scripps Research
2009 - 2012 Senior Research Associate with Dr. Ronald L. Davis, Neuroscience , Scripps Research
2007 - 2009 W.M. Keck Center BMDTP Fellow with Dr. Ronald L. Davis, Baylor College of Medicine
2006 - 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Stephen D. Roper, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami

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- King, L. B., Boto, T., Botero, V., Aviles, A. M., Jomsky, B. M., Joseph, C., Walker, J. A., Tomchik, S. M. Developmental loss of neurofibromin across distributed neuronal circuits drives excessive grooming inDrosophila PLoS Genetics 2020 16 DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008920 PMID:32697780 PMCID:PMC7398555
- Boto, T., Stahl, A., Tomchik, S. M. Cellular and circuit mechanisms of olfactory associative learning in Drosophila Journal of Neurogenetics 2020 34:36-46 DOI:10.1080/01677063.2020.1715971 PMID:32043414 PMCID:PMC7147969
- Boto, T., Stahl, A., Zhang, X., Louis, T., Tomchik, S. M. Independent contributions of discrete dopaminergic circuits to cellular plasticity, memory strength, and valence in Drosophila Cell Reports 2019 27:2014-2021 DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2019.04.069 PMID:31091441
- Boto, T., Tomchik, S. M. The excitatory, the inhibitory, and the modulatory: mapping chemical neurotransmission in the brain Neuron 2019 101:763-765 DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.02.021
- Yu, D., Tan, Y., Chakraborty, M., Tomchik, S., Davis, R. L. Elongator complex is required for long-term olfactory memory formation in Drosophila Learning & Memory 2018 25:183-196 DOI:10.1101/lm.046557.117 PMID:29545390 PMCID:PMC5855525
- Louis, T., Stahl, A., Boto, T., Tomchik, S. M. Cyclic AMP-dependent plasticity underlies rapid changes in odor coding associated with reward learning Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2018 115:E448-E457 DOI:10.1073/pnas.1709037115 PMID:29284750 PMCID:PMC5776964
- Murphy, K. R., Deshpande, S. A., Yurgel, M. E., Quinn, J. P., Weissbach, J. L., Keene, A. C., Dawson-Scully, K., Huber, R., Tomchik, S. M., Ja, W. W. Postprandial sleep mechanics in Drosophila Elife 2016 5 DOI:10.7554/eLife.19334 PMID:27873574 PMCID:PMC5119887
- King, L. B., Koch, M., Murphy, K., Velazquez, Y., Ja, W. W., Tomchik, S. M. Neurofibromin loss of function drives excessive grooming in Drosophila G3-Genes Genomes Genetics 2016 6:1083-1093 DOI:10.1534/g3.115.026484 PMID:26896440 PMCID:PMC4825643
- Louis, T., Tomchik, S. M. Neurons and behavior: ex uno, plures Cell 2014 159:713-714 DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.030 PMID:25417147
- Boto, T., Louis, T., Jindachomthong, K., Jalink, K., Tomchik, S. M. Dopaminergic modulation of cAMP drives nonlinear plasticity across the Drosophila mushroom body lobes Current Biology 2014 24:822-831 DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.021 PMID:24684937 PMCID:PMC4019670
- Tomchik, S. M. Dopaminergic neurons encode a distributed, asymmetric representation of temperature in drosophila Journal of Neuroscience 2013 33:2166-2176A DOI:10.1523/jneurosci.3933-12.2013 PMID:23365252
- Tomchik, S. M., Davis, R. L. Dynamics of learning-related cAMP signaling and stimulus integration in the Drosophila olfactory pathway Neuron 2009 64:510-521 DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2009.09.029 PMID:19945393 PMCID:PMC4080329
- Tomchik, S. M., Davis, R. L. Behavioural neuroscience: Out of sight, but not out of mind Nature 2008 453:1192-1194 DOI:10.1038/4531192a PMID:18580936
- Tomchik, S. M., Davis, R. L. Cyclic AMP imaging sheds light on PDF signaling in circadian clock neurons Neuron 2008 58:161-163 DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2008.04.008 PMID:18439399
- Dvoryanchikov, G., Tomchik, S. M., Chaudharv, N. Biogenic amine synthesis and uptake in rodent taste buds Journal of Comparative Neurology 2007 505:302-313 DOI:10.1002/cne.21494 PMID:17879273
- Tomchik, S. M., Berg, S., Kim, J. W., Chaudhari, N., Roper, S. D. Breadth of tuning and taste coding in mammalian taste buds Journal of Neuroscience 2007 27:10840-10848 DOI:10.1523/jneurosci.1863-07.2007 PMID:17913917
- Tomchik, S. M., Lu, Z. M. Modulation of auditory signal-to-noise ratios by efferent stimulation Journal of Neurophysiology 2006 95:3562-3570 DOI:10.1152/jn.00063.2006 PMID:16554519
- Tomchik, S. M. Appetite for destruction: neuron ablations, prey capture, and sensorimotor integration in larval zebrafish Journal of Neuroscience 2006 26:1329-1330 DOI:10.1523/jneurosci.4401-05.2006 PMID:16452655
- Tomchik, S. M., Lu, Z. M. Auditory physiology and anatomy of octavolateral efferent neurons in a teleost fish Journal of Comparative Physiology a-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 2006 192:51-67 DOI:10.1007/s00359-005-0050-0 PMID:16180037
- Tomchik, S. M., Lu, Z. M. Octavolateral projections and organization in the medulla of a teleost fish, the sleeper goby (Dormitator latifrons) Journal of Comparative Neurology 2005 481:96-117 DOI:10.1002/cne.20363 PMID:15558734
- Lu, Z., Tomchik, S. M. Effects of a red-tide toxin on fish hearing Journal of Comparative Physiology a-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 2002 188:807-813 DOI:10.1007/s00359-002-0369-8 PMID:12466956
thesis
- Auditory role of the octavolateral efferent system in a teleost fish 2005

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