Robert Hill

Selected Publications

• Doty ME, Tuckerman EC, Piedra ET, and Hill RA. Myelin sheaths persist for weeks following axon degeneration. Science Advances. (2026) 12(10):eaeb2628 PMID: 41779849

• Pietramale AN, Bame X, Doty ME, Schwarz KE, Hill RA. Mitochondria are absent from microglial processes performing surveillance, chemotaxis, and phagocytic engulfment. Nature Communications (2025) Dec 12;16(1):11104. PMID: 41387721.

• Kamen Y, Chapman TW, Piedra ET, Ciolkowski ME, Hill RA. Transient upregulation of procaspase-3 during oligodendrocyte fate decisions. The Journal of Neuroscience. (2025) Jan 21:e2066242025. PMID: 39837665.

• Bame X and Hill RA. Mitochondrial network reorganization and transient expansion during oligodendrocyte generation Nature Communications. (2024) doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51016-2 PMID: 39143079

• Olveda GE, Barasa MN, and Hill RA. Microglial phagocytosis of single dying oligodendrocytes is mediated by CX3CR1 but not MERTK. Cell Reports. (2024) doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114385 PMID: 38935500

• Chapman TW, Kamen Y, Piedra ET, and Hill RA. Oligodendrocyte maturation alters the cell death mechanisms that cause demyelination. The Journal of Neuroscience (2024) doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1794-23.2024 PMID: 38395617

• Chapman TW, Olveda GE, Bame Xh, Pereira E, and Hill RA. Oligodendrocyte death initiates synchronous remyelination to restore cortical myelin patterns in mice. Nature Neuroscience (2023) doi: 10.1038/s41593-023-01271-1 PMID: 36928635, highlighted by Dartmouth News

• Hill RA#, Li AM, and Grutzendler J# Lifelong cortical myelin plasticity and age-related degeneration in the live mammalian brain. Nature Neuroscience. (2018) 21 (5), 683-695 PMID: 29556031, highlighted by Neuron, Nature Reviews Neuroscience and Yale News. #co-corresponding author

• Hill RA, Damisah EC, Chen F, Kwan AC, and Grutzendler J. Targeted two-photon chemical apoptotic ablation of defined cell types in vivo. Nature Communications. (2017) 8,15837 PMID: 28621306.

• Damisah EC*, Hill RA*, Tong L, Murray KN, and Grutzendler J. A fluoro-Nissl dye identifies pericytes as distinct vascular mural cells during in vivo brain imaging. Nature Neuroscience. (2017)  20(7), 1023-1032. PMID: 28504673, highlighted by Alzforum *co-first author

• Hill RA*, Tong L*, Yuan P*, Murikinati S, Gupta S, and Grutzendler J. Regional blood flow in the normal and ischemic brain is controlled by arteriolar smooth muscle cell contractility and not by capillary pericytes. Neuron.  (2015) 87(1), 95-110. PMID: 26119027,  highlighted by Neuron, Alzforum, and ScienceNews. *co-first author

• Hill RA and Grutzendler J. In vivo imaging of oligodendrocytes with sulforhodamine 101. Nature Methods.  (2014) 11(11), 1082-1083. PMID: 25357236

• Hill RA#, Patel KD, Goncalves CM, Grutzendler J, and Nishiyama A# Modulation of oligodendrocyte generation during a critical temporal window after NG2 cell division. Nature Neuroscience. (2014) 17(11), 1518-1527. PMID: 25262495, Faculty of 1000 recommended, #co-corresponding author

• Schain AJ, Hill RA, and Grutzendler J. Label-free in vivo imaging of myelinated axons in health and disease with spectral confocal reflectance microscopy. Nature Medicine. (2014) 20(4), 443-449. PMID: 24681598, Faculty of 1000 recommended, highlighted by Nature Methods and Yale News