Matthijs Constantijn Dorst, PhD.

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Researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway. Chiefly interested in in vivo voltage imaging in the basal ganglia, with a side interest in ex vivo patch clamp electrophysiology. Studying the role of striatal interneurons in action selection.

Former associate editor for Neuroscience, Nature Communications.

Earlier: PhD in the Silberberg lab at the Karolinska Institutet. Since 2026 also on dorst-lab.org.

Some analysis tools are on Github, 3D printing designs on Thingiverse.

Publications:

Dorst, M.C., Fuzik, J., Grimm, C., Kannan, M., McCluskey, K., Šarauskytė, L. and Szücs, G.M. 2026. Advances and Applications in Population Voltage Imaging. The European Journal of Neuroscience 64(7), p.e70697.

El-Serafi, I., Berglund, S., BenKessou, F., Codita, A., Saghafian, M., Lindskog, D., Dorst, M.C., Silberberg, G., Abedi-Valugerdi, M., Zheng, W. and He, R. 2025. Mechanisms underlying seizures and hypothermia during busulphan administration Bone Marrow Transplantation pp.1-9.

Dorst, M.C. and Vervaeke, K. 2024. A low-cost perfusion heating system for slice electrophysiology Scientific Reports 14.1: 28521.

Dorst, M.C., Díaz-Moreno, M., Oliveira Dias, D., Guimarães, E. L., Holl, D., Kalkitsas, J., Silberberg, G. and Göritz, C. 2021. Astrocyte-derived neurons provide excitatory input to the adult striatal circuitry Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(33).

Dorst, M.C., Tokarska, A., Zhou, M., Lee, K., Stagkourakis, S., Broberger, C., Masmanidis, S. and Silberberg, G. 2020. Polysynaptic inhibition between striatal cholinergic interneurons shapes their network activity patterns in a dopamine-dependent manner. Nature Communications, 11, 5113.

Hjorth, J., Kozlov, A.K., Carannante, I., Frost-Nylén, J., Lindroos, R., Johansson, Y., Tokarska, A., Dorst, M.C., Suryanarayana, S.M., Silberberg, G., Hellgren Kotaleski, J., and Grillner, S. 2020. The microcircuits of striatum in silico. PNAS, 202000671,

Papathanou, M., Creed, M., Dorst, M.C., Bimpisidis, Z., Dumas, S., Pettersson, H., Bellone, C., Silberberg, G., Lüscher, C. and Wallén-Mackenzie, Å., 2018. Targeting VGLUT2 in mature dopamine neurons decreases mesoaccumbal glutamatergic transmission and identifies a role for glutamate co-release in synaptic plasticity by increasing baseline AMPA/NMDA ratio. Frontiers in neural circuits, 12, p.64.

Lindroos, R., Dorst, M.C., Du, K., Filipović, M., Keller, D., Ketzef, M., Kozlov, A.K., Kumar, A., Lindahl, M., Nair, A.G. and Pérez-Fernández, J., 2018. Basal Ganglia Neuromodulation Over Multiple Temporal and Structural Scales—Simulations of Direct Pathway MSNs Investigate the Fast Onset of Dopaminergic Effects and Predict the Role of Kv4. 2. Frontiers in neural circuits, 12, p.3.

Garas, F.N., Shah, R.S., Kormann, E., Doig, N.M., Vinciati, F., Nakamura, K.C., Dorst, M.C., Smith, Y., Magill, P.J. and Sharott, A., 2016. Secretagogin expression delineates functionally-specialized populations of striatal parvalbumin-containing interneurons. Elife, 5, p.e16088.