1. How are synaptic vesicles clustered?
Daniel Gitler, Department of Physiology and Cell biology, Faculty of Health Sciences and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2. Presynaptic terminal Postsynaptic terminal
Gitler et al., J Neurosci 2004

3. Vesicles redistribute into the axon when synapsins are ablated
500 nm
Orenbuch et al., J Neurosci 2012

4. Measuring vesicle mobility
Darcy at al. 2006
Orenbuch et al., J Neurosci 2012

5. Model for vesicle clustering

6. Synapsins are ATP binding proteins
Crystalographic structure of ATP bound to the central domain of synapsin I
Do mutations in ATP binding sites affect clustering and mobilization of vesicles?
Esser et al., 1998

7. Other topics
Does mobilization of reserve vesicles require endocytosis?
The basis for epilepsy in the synapsin TKO mice and in cases of human familial epilepsy linked to synapsin
The possibility of a functional interaction between synapsin and alpha-synuclein, a protein involved in Parkinsons disease