Fergil Mills

Fergil Mills, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Neurobiology

Education History

Undergraduate University of Northern British Columbia
 BSc
Doctoral Training University of British Columbia
 PhD
Postdoctoral Fellowship Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellowship Salk Institute for Biological Studies
 Postdoctoral Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Leppla CA, Keyes LR, Glober G, Matthews GA, Batra K, Jay M, Feng Y, Chen HS, Mills F, Delahanty J, Olson JM, Nieh EH, Namburi P, Wildes C, Wichmann R, Beyeler A, Kimchi EY, Tye KM (2023). Thalamus sends information about arousal but not valence to the amygdala. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 240(3), 477-499.
  2. Dhume SH, Connor SA, Mills F, Tari PK, Au-Yeung SHM, Karimi B, Oku S, Roppongi RT, Kawabe H, Bamji SX, Wang YT, Brose N, Jackson MF, Craig AM, Siddiqui TJ (2022). Distinct but overlapping roles of LRRTM1 and LRRTM2 in developing and mature hippocampal circuits. Elife, 11.
  3. Siciliano CA, Mills F, Tye KM (2018). Double threat in striatal dopamine signaling. Nat Neurosci, 21(10), 1296-1297.
  4. Allsop SA, Wichmann R, Mills F, Burgos-Robles A, Chang CJ, Felix-Ortiz AC, Vienne A, Beyeler A, Izadmehr EM, Glober G, Cum MI, Stergiadou J, Anandalingam KK, Farris K, Namburi P, Leppla CA, Weddington JC, Nieh EH, Smith AC, Ba D, Brown EN, Tye KM (2018). Corticoamygdala Transfer of Socially Derived Information Gates Observational Learning. Cell, 173(6), 1329-1342.e18.
  5. Mills F, Globa AK, Liu S, Cowan CM, Mobasser M, Phillips AG, Borgland SL, Bamji SX (2017). Cadherins mediate cocaine-induced synaptic plasticity and behavioral conditioning. Nat Neurosci, 20(4), 540-549.
  6. Liu S, Globa AK, Mills F, Naef L, Qiao M, Bamji SX, Borgland SL (2016). Consumption of palatable food primes food approach behavior by rapidly increasing synaptic density in the VTA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 113(9), 2520-5.
  7. Mills F, Bartlett TE, Dissing-Olesen L, Wisniewska MB, Kuznicki J, Macvicar BA, Wang YT, Bamji SX (2014). Cognitive flexibility and long-term depression (LTD) are impaired following ß-catenin stabilization in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 111(23), 8631-6.
  8. Petoukhov E, Fernando S, Mills F, Shivji F, Hunter D, Krieger C, Silverman MA, Bamji SX (2013). Activity-dependent secretion of progranulin from synapses. J Cell Sci, 126(Pt 23), 5412-21.
  9. Diering GH, Mills F, Bamji SX, Numata M (2011). Regulation of dendritic spine growth through activity-dependent recruitment of the brain-enriched Na¿/H¿ exchanger NHE5. Mol Biol Cell, 22(13), 2246-57.
  10. Tapia L, Milnerwood A, Guo A, Mills F, Yoshida E, Vasuta C, Mackenzie IR, Raymond L, Cynader M, Jia W, Bamji SX (2011). Progranulin deficiency decreases gross neural connectivity but enhances transmission at individual synapses. J Neurosci, 31(31), 11126-32.
  11. Tafech A, Bennett WR, Mills F, Lee CH (2007). Identification of c-myc coding region determinant RNA sequences and structures cleaved by an RNase1-like endoribonuclease. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1769(1), 49-60.
  12. Padilla-Coreano N, Batra K, Patarino M, Chen Z, Rock RR, Zhang R, Hausmann SB, Weddington JC, Patel R, Zhang YE, Fang HS, Mishra S, LeDuke DO, Revanna J, Li H, Borio M, Pamintuan R, Bal A, Keyes LR, Libster A, Wichmann R, Mills F, Taschbach FH, Matthews GA, Curley JP, Fiete IR, Lu C, Tye KM (2022). Cortical ensembles orchestrate social competition through hypothalamic outputs. Nature, 603(7902), 667-671.