“…STORM imaging enabled the discovery of aligned nanocolumns of clustered presynaptic release machinery and postsynaptic receptors apposed across the synaptic cleft, an arrangement that promotes efficient neurotransmission ( Figure 5K; Tang et al, 2016). These subsynaptic domains (SSDs) have been further investigated using STED (Nair et al, 2013;Broadhead et al, 2016;Dzyubenko et al, 2016;Hruska et al, 2018;Masch et al, 2018;Wegner et al, 2018;Wiesner et al, 2020), SMLM (MacGillavry et al, 2013Nair et al, 2013;Specht et al, 2013;Broadhead et al, 2016;Pennacchietti et al, 2017;Sinnen et al, 2017;Kellermayer et al, 2018;Inavalli et al, 2019;Ferreira et al, 2020;Goncalves et al, 2020;Yang et al, 2020), PAINT (Nair et al, 2013), and SIM (Crosby et al, 2019). Subsynaptic clusters of glutamatergic receptors are developmentally-regulated (Kellermayer et al, 2018) and SSDs containing receptors and critical synaptic machinery show activity-dependent changes in response to stimulation protocols for inducing synaptic potentiation, depression, and homeostatic plasticity (MacGillavry et al, 2013;Tang et al, 2016;Pennacchietti et al, 2017;Sinnen et al, 2017;Ferreira et al, 2020;Wiesner et al, 2020;Yang et al, 2020).…”