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Dr. Tamara Boto

Adjunct Assistant Professor (Physiology)

 botot@tcd.ie

 


Research Tags

     BEHAVIOUR   Biology of learning, memory and cognition   DOPAMINE   DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER   MEMORY   NEUROMODULATION   NEURONAL PLASTICITY   SLEEP

Representations

Details Date
PhD External Examiner in the University of Oviedo (Spain)
Journal Reviewer for Nature Communications, Current Biology, eLife, PNAS, Cell Reports, PLoS Biology, Frontiers in Physiology and International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Member of Editorial Review Board in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
Member of Editorial Review Board in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 2022
Grant Review 2023 Reviewer for the European Research Council Consolidator Grant "Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution" panel. 2023 Reviewer for the Wellcome Trust Career Development Award scheme. 2023 External Reviewer for the Research Grants Council (RGC, Hong Kong).

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Spanish Fluent Fluent Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) 2023 current
Neuroscience Ireland 2023 current
Sleep Research Society 2021 current
European Drosophila Society 2021 current
Marquand K, Roselli C, Cervantes-Sandoval I, Boto T, Sleep benefits different stages of memory in Drosophila, Frontiers in Physiology, 19, (14), 2023, p1087025 , Review Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Stahl A, Noyes NC, Boto T, Botero V, Broyles CN, Jing M, Zeng J, King LB, Li Y, Davis RL, Tomchik SM, Associative learning drives longitudinally-graded presynaptic plasticity of neurotransmitter release along axonal compartments, eLife, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Botero, V., Stanhope, B. A., Brown, E. B., Grenci, E. C., Boto, T., Park, S. J., King, L. B., Murphy, K. R., Colodner, K. J., Walker, J. A., Keene, A. C., Ja, W. W., & Tomchik, S. M, Neurofibromin regulates metabolic rate via neuronal mechanisms in Drosophila, Nature Communications, 12, (1), 2021, p4285-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Roselli, C., Ramaswami, M., Boto, T., Cervantes-Sandoval, I, The Making of Long-Lasting Memories: A Fruit Fly Perspective, Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 15, 2021, p662129-, Notes: [Corresponding author], Review Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Boto T, Stahl A, Tomchik SM., Cellular and circuit mechanisms of olfactory associative learning in Drosophila., Journal of neurogenetics, 34, (1), 2020, p36-46 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
King LB, Boto T, Botero V, Aviles AM, Jomsky BM, Joseph C, Walker JA, Tomchik SM., Developmental loss of neurofibromin across distributed neuronal circuits drives excessive grooming in Drosophila., PLoS genetics, 16, (7), 2020, pe1008920 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Boto T, Stahl A, Zhang X, Louis L, Tomchik SM, Independent contribution of discrete dopaminergic circuits to cellular plasticity, memory strength and valence in Drosphila, Cell Reports, 27, 2019, p1 - 8, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Boto T, Tomchik SM., The Excitatory, the Inhibitory, and the Modulatory: Mapping Chemical Neurotransmission in the Brain., Neuron, 101, (5), 2019, p763-765 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Louis T, Stahl A, Boto T, Tomchik SM., 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, 115, (3), 2018, pE448-E457 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Boto T, Louis T, Jindachomthong K, Jalink K, Tomchik SM., Dopaminergic modulation of cAMP drives nonlinear plasticity across the Drosophila mushroom body lobes., Current biology : CB, 24, (8), 2014, p822-831 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Boto, T and Tomchik, SM, 'Imaging Olfactory Learning-Induced Plasticity in Vivo in the Drosophila Brain', Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, 2023, -, Protocol or guideline, PUBLISHED
Boto, T and Tomchik, SM, 'Ex Vivo Brain Imaging in Drosophila', Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, 2023, -, Protocol or guideline, PUBLISHED
Boto, T and Tomchik, SM, Functional Imaging of Learning-Induced Plasticity in the Central Nervous System with Genetically Encoded Reporters in Drosophila, Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, 2023, Review Article, PUBLISHED
Boto T, Ramaswami M, Learning and memory: Clashing engrams in the fly brain, Current Biology, 31, (16), 2021, pR1009 - R1011, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
La percepción olfatoria: contribución de la información periférica y cambios asociados a un entorno dinámico in, La olfacción en España, Editorial SBI, 2006, [Esther Alcorta, Fernando Martín, Jacob Riverón, Tamara Boto and Carolina Gómez-Díaz], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Trinity Research Doctorate Award 01/09/2024
SRSF Career Development Award 2022
Provost PhD Project Award 2020