Education

Ph.D in Biomedical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, USA, 2006

Current position

Research Assistant Professor, Departments of Physiology, Pharmacology and Anesthesiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Publications

1. Hsieh, C., Tsokas, P., Serrano, P., Hernandez, A. I., Tian, D., Cottrell, J. E., Shouval, H. Z., Fenton, A. A. and Sacktor, T. C. (2017). Persistent increased PKMzeta in long-term and remote spatial memory. Neurobiol Learn Mem 138: 135-144.
2. Tsokas, P., Hsieh, C., Yao, Y., Lesburgueres, E., Wallace, E. J., Tcherepanov, A., Jothianandan, D., Hartley, B. R., Pan, L., Rivard, B., Farese, R. V., Sajan, M. P., Bergold, P. J., Hernandez, A. I., Cottrell, J. E., Shouval, H. Z., Fenton, A. A. and Sacktor, T. C. (2016). Compensation for PKMzeta in long-term potentiation and spatial long-term memory in mutant mice. Elife 5.
3. Tsokas, P., Blitzer, R. D. (2014). mTOR and the regulation of translational capacity in late forms of synaptic plasticity. In: Sajikumar, S. (Ed). Synaptic Tagging and Capture: From Synapses to Behavior. Springer, 99-132.
4. Eom, T., Muslimov, I. A., Tsokas, P., Berardi, V., Zhong, J., Sacktor, T. C. and Tiedge, H. (2014). Neuronal BC RNAs cooperate with eIF4B to mediate activity-dependent translational control. J Cell Biol 207(2): 237-252.
5. Ma, T., Tzavaras, N., Tsokas, P., Landau, E. M. and Blitzer, R. D. (2011). Synaptic stimulation of mTOR is mediated by Wnt signaling and regulation of glycogen synthetase kinase-3. J Neurosci 31(48): 17537-17546.
6. Neves, S. R., Tsokas, P., Sarkar, A., Grace, E. A., Rangamani, P., Taubenfeld, S. M., Alberini, C. M., Schaff, J. C., Blitzer, R. D., Moraru, II and Iyengar, R. (2008). Cell shape and negative links in regulatory motifs together control spatial information flow in signaling networks. Cell 133(4): 666-680.
7. Tsokas, P., Ma, T., Iyengar, R., Landau, E. M. and Blitzer, R. D. (2007). Mitogen-activated protein kinase upregulates the dendritic translation machinery in long-term potentiation by controlling the mammalian target of rapamycin pathway. J Neurosci 27(22): 5885-5894.
8. Garcia-Osta, A., Tsokas, P., Pollonini, G., Landau, E. M., Blitzer, R. and Alberini, C. M. (2006). MuSK expressed in the brain mediates cholinergic responses, synaptic plasticity, and memory formation. J Neurosci 26(30): 7919-7932.
9. Tsokas, P., Grace, E. A., Chan, P., Ma, T., Sealfon, S. C., Iyengar, R., Landau, E. M. and Blitzer, R. D. (2005). Local protein synthesis mediates a rapid increase in dendritic elongation factor 1A after induction of late long-term potentiation. J Neurosci 25(24): 5833-5843.
10. Powers, J. F., Schelling, K., Brachold, J. M., Tsokas, P., Schayek, H., Friedman, E. and Tischler, A. S. (2002). High-level expression of receptor tyrosine kinase Ret and responsiveness to Ret-activating ligands in pheochromocytoma cell lines from neurofibromatosis knockout mice. Mol Cell Neurosci 20(3): 382-389.
11. Giovannini, M. G., Blitzer, R. D., Wong, T., Asoma, K., Tsokas, P., Morrison, J. H., Iyengar, R. and Landau, E. M. (2001). Mitogen-activated protein kinase regulates early phosphorylation and delayed expression of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in long-term potentiation. J Neurosci 21(18): 7053-7062.
12. Powers, J. F., Evinger, M. J., Tsokas, P., Bedri, S., Alroy, J., Shahsavari, M. and Tischler, A. S. (2000). Pheochromocytoma cell lines from heterozygous neurofibromatosis knockout mice. Cell Tissue Res 302(3): 309-320.
13. Tischler, A. S., Powers, J. F., Pignatello, M., Tsokas, P., Downing, J. C. and McClain, R. M. (1999). Vitamin D3-induced proliferative lesions in the rat adrenal medulla. Toxicol Sci 51(1): 9-18.
14. Powers, J. F., Shahsavari, M., Tsokas, P. and Tischler, A. S. (1999). Nerve growth factor receptor signaling in proliferation of normal adult rat chromaffin cells. Cell Tissue Res 295(1): 21-32.
15. Powers, J. F., Tsokas, P. and Tischler, A. S. (1998). The ret-Activating Ligand GDNF Is Differentiative and Not Mitogenic for Normal and Neoplastic Human Chromaffin Cells In Vitro. Endocr Pathol 9(1): 325-331.
16. Tischler, A. S., Tsokas, P., Shahsavari, M. and Powers, J. F. (1998). Immunoreactivity of normal rabbit serum with epinephrine (E) cells of the rat adrenal medulla after microwave antigen retrieval. Cell Tissue Res 293(3): 563-566.
17. Tischler, A. S., Powers, J. F., Shahsavari, M., Ziar, J., Tsokas, P., Downing, J. and McClain, R. M. (1997). Comparative studies of chromaffin cell proliferation in the adrenal medulla of rats and mice. Fundam Appl Toxicol 35(2): 216-220.