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Rob Bonin

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Associate ProfessorUniversity of Toronto

Rob Bonin

Associate Professor

Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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23 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 8 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Latest papers

Non-Ionotropic NMDA Receptor Signaling in Mechanistically Distinct Forms of Hippocampal Depotentiation
Journal of Neuroscience · 2026 · senior author
Spinal cord Ca 2+ imaging reveals glial-driven central sensitization in post-traumatic osteoarthritis
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026 · senior author
INVESTIGATING THE PUTATIVE ROLE OF TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL MELASTATIN 8-EXPRESSING NEURONS IN OA PAIN REGULATION BY DELTA-9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage · 2026

All 77 publications

77 publications.

Non-Ionotropic NMDA Receptor Signaling in Mechanistically Distinct Forms of Hippocampal Depotentiation

Quinn Pauli, Juliet Arsenault, Nevatha Kingsley, Rachel Ha, Samuel W. Fung, Amy J. Ramsey, Robert P. Bonin

Journal of Neuroscience2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0380-25.2026 PMID: 42191352

Spinal cord Ca 2+ imaging reveals glial-driven central sensitization in post-traumatic osteoarthritis

Samuel W. Fung, Erika K. Harding, Jenny K. Cheung, Hantao Zhang, Julieanne L. T. Dalsgaard, Stephanie M. Norlock, Jeff Biernaskie, John R. Matyas, Michael E. Hildebrand, Jo Anne Stratton, Robert P. Bonin

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.01.729291

INVESTIGATING THE PUTATIVE ROLE OF TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL MELASTATIN 8-EXPRESSING NEURONS IN OA PAIN REGULATION BY DELTA-9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL

Anca Maglaviceanu, Jason S. Rockel, Helena F. Filippini, Maham Zain, Ewa Wasilewski, Melissa Lewis-Bakker, Shabana Vohra, Katrina Hueniken, Osvaldo Espin‐Garcia, Chiara Pastrello, Pratibha Potla, Yangqing Deng, Keemo D. Santos, Starlee S. Lively, Nikita Looby, Johana Garcia, Evan P. Tahiri, Behdad Ravarian, Jian Wang, Michael Fehlings, Rajiv Gandhi, Nizar Mahomed, Timothy Sean Leroux, Rachel Miller, Igor Jurišica, Lakshmi P. Kotra, Robert P. Bonin, Hance A. Clarke, Mohit Kapoor

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.01.055

Reframing nociplastic pain research and treatment using post-traumatic stress disorder‐inspired conceptual models

Alexia Coulombe-Lévêque, Robert P. Bonin, Guillaume Léonard

Pain2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000004013 PMID: 42289101

Targeting spinal mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 2 alleviates inflammatory and neuropathic pain.

Wong C, Rodriguez-Hernandez LD, Lister KC, Gu N, Cai W, Hooshmandi M, Fan J, Brown N, Nguyen V, Ribeiro-da-Silva A, Bonin RP, Khoutorsky A

Brain : a journal of neurology20256 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/brain/awae275 PMID: 39167538

Making memories malleable: The role and regulation of synaptic depotentiation in engram alteration

Quinn Pauli, Robert P. Bonin

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews20252 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106481 PMID: 41260503

Metaplastic priming enables non-ionotropic NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic depotentiation in the hippocampus

Quinn Pauli, Juliet Arsenault, Samuel W. Fung, Amy J. Ramsey, Robert P. Bonin

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)2025Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.28.640846

DELTA-9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL MODIFIES THE TRANCRIPTOMES OF JOINT-INNERVATING DORSAL ROOT GANGLIA CELLS AND THE SYSTEMIC METABOLOME IN MOUSE MODELS OF OA

Anca Maglaviceanu, Jason S. Rockel, Helena Fetter Filippini, Ewa Wasilewski, Melissa M. Lewis‐Bakker, Shabana Vohra, Katrina Hueniken, Osvaldo Espin‐Garcia, Chiara Pastrello, Pratibha Potla, Yangqing Deng, Keemo Delos Santos, Starlee Lively, Nikita Looby, Johana Garcia, Evan P. Tahiri, Behdad Ravarian, Jian Wang, Michael George Fehlings, Rajiv Gandhi, Nizar N. Mahomed, Timothy Sean Leroux, Rachel E. Miller, Igor Jurišica, Lakshmi P. Kotra, Robert P. Bonin, Hance A. Clarke, Mohit Kapoor

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2025.02.066

The State of Synthetic Cannabinoid Medications for the Treatment of Pain.

Maglaviceanu A, Peer M, Rockel J, Bonin RP, Fitzcharles MA, Ladha KS, Bhatia A, Leroux T, Kotra L, Kapoor M, Clarke H

CNS drugs202413 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s40263-024-01098-9 PMID: 38951463

Exploiting spatiotemporal regulation of FZD5 during neural patterning for efficient ventral midbrain specification.

Yang A, Chidiac R, Russo E, Steenland H, Pauli Q, Bonin R, Blazer LL, Adams JJ, Sidhu SS, Goeva A, Salahpour A, Angers S

Development (Cambridge, England)20248 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1242/dev.202545 PMID: 38358799

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Rob Bonin

Research

Latest papers

Non-Ionotropic NMDA Receptor Signaling in Mechanistically Distinct Forms of Hippocampal Depotentiation

Spinal cord Ca 2+ imaging reveals glial-driven central sensitization in post-traumatic osteoarthritis

INVESTIGATING THE PUTATIVE ROLE OF TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL MELASTATIN 8-EXPRESSING NEURONS IN OA PAIN REGULATION BY DELTA-9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL

Reframing nociplastic pain research and treatment using post-traumatic stress disorder‐inspired conceptual models

Targeting spinal mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 2 alleviates inflammatory and neuropathic pain.

Making memories malleable: The role and regulation of synaptic depotentiation in engram alteration

Metaplastic priming enables non-ionotropic NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic depotentiation in the hippocampus

DELTA-9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL MODIFIES THE TRANCRIPTOMES OF JOINT-INNERVATING DORSAL ROOT GANGLIA CELLS AND THE SYSTEMIC METABOLOME IN MOUSE MODELS OF OA

The State of Synthetic Cannabinoid Medications for the Treatment of Pain.

Exploiting spatiotemporal regulation of FZD5 during neural patterning for efficient ventral midbrain specification.

Frequent collaborators

Robert Bonin

Beverley Orser

Yves De Koninck

Loren Martin

Hance Clarke

Erika Harding

Lakshmi Kotra

Timothy Leroux

Jaideep Bains

Mohit Kapoor

Alfredo Ribeiro-Da-Silva

Derek van der Kooy

James Nagy

Jeffrey Mogil

Igor Jurisica

Duminda Wijeysundera

Daniel Côté

Joel Katz

Arkady Khoutorsky

Amy Ramsey

Sinziana Avramescu