I missed last week's paper selection, so this is actually two weeks.

• Cohan and Kater (1986). Suppression of Neurite Elongation and Growth Cone Motility by Electrical Activity. In snail neurons, inducing spikes reversibly stops dendritic growth.
• Neely and Nicholls (1995). Electrical activity, growth cone motility and the cytoskeleton. On the interaction between electrical activity and development.
• Voipio et al (1998). Ion-sensitive microelectrodes. I am looking for a way to precisely measure ion concentration. Ideally, I would like to do it in the axon but so far I haven't found anything really usable.
• Connors et al (1982). Activity-dependent K+ accumulation in the developing rat optic nerve. An example use of K+-sensitive microelectrode.
• Astman et al (2006). Persistent Sodium Current in Layer 5 Neocortical Neurons Is Primarily Generated in the Proximal Axon. This gives an indication of Na conductance density in the AIS.
• Tomba and Villard (2015). Brain cells and neuronal networks- Encounters with controlled microenvironments. Cool review on the use of microstructured environments for neurophysiology.
• Safronov and Vogel (199). Electrical Activity of Individual Neurons- Patch-Clamp Techniques. A textbook chapter on patch clamp techniques (starting our own experiments in the lab!).
• Schmidt-Hieber et al (2010). Fast Sodium Channel Gating Supports Localized and Energy-Efficient Axonal Action Potential Initiation. My colleague M. Kole pointed out to me the supplementary text of this paper, where they show that recordings in outside-out patches can actually show a voltage shift.
• Sather et al (1992). Activation and desensitization of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in nucleated outside-out patches from mouse neurones. Then I got interested in nucleated patch, which might be the weirdest patch clamp technique ever – large outside-out patches that enclose the cell's nucleus.
• Happel et al (2007). Scanning ion conductance microscopy–a tool to investigate electrolyte-nonconductor interfaces. This technique seems to be able to provide high-resolution morphological measurements of cells.
• Chen et al (2012). Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy.
• Toselli et al (1996). Functional changes in sodium conductances in the human Neuroblastoma Cell Line SH-SYSY During In Vitro Differentiation. I was training on patching those cells and was wondering whether they produce spikes (they do!).
• Johansson (1994). Graded action potentials generated by differentiated human neuroblastoma cells.
• De Loof et al (2012). The Fading Electricity Theory of Ageing- The missing biophysical principle. I haven't read it yet but it sounds intriguing!
• Mori and Peskin (2009). A Numerical Method for Cellular Electrophysiology based on the Electrodiffusion Equations with Internal Boundary Conditions at Membranes. This describes a method for simulating electrodiffusion in 3D (instead of 1D in the cable equation).
• Yang et al (2007). βIV spectrin is recruited to axon initial segments and nodes of Ranvier by ankyrinG. Showing the molecular development of the AIS in hippocampal neurons.