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Publications from 2013
Transposition-driven genomic heterogeneity in the Drosophila brain, Paola N. Perrat, Shamik DasGupta, Jie Wang, William E. Theurkauf, Zhiping Weng, Michael Rosbash, and Scott Waddell
Publications from 2012
Wld(S) Prevents Axon Degeneration through Increased Mitochondrial Flux and Enhanced Mitochondrial Ca(2+) Buffering., Michelle A. Avery, Timothy M. Rooney, Jignesh D. Pandya, Thomas M. Wishart, Thomas H. Gillingwater, James W. Geddes, Patrick G. Sullivan, and Marc R. Freeman
The Secreted Immunoglobulin Domain Proteins ZIG-5 and ZIG-8 Cooperate with L1CAM/SAX-7 to Maintain Nervous System Integrity, Claire Y. Benard, Cassandra Blanchette, Janine Recio, and Oliver Hobert
Maternal immune activation alters behavior in adult offspring, with subtle changes in the cortical transcriptome and epigenome, Caroline M. Connor, Aslihan Dincer, Juerg R. Straubhaar, Janina R. Galler, Isaac B. Houston, and Schahram Akbarian
Type 1 ryanodine receptor knock-in mutation causing central core disease of skeletal muscle also displays a neuronal phenotype, Valerie De Crescenzo, Kevin E. Fogarty, Jason J. Lefkowitz, Karl D. Bellve, Elena Zvaritch, David H. MacLennan, and John V. Walsh Jr.
The Acid-Sensitive, Anesthetic-Activated Potassium Leak Channel, KCNK3, Is Regulated By 14-3-3beta-Dependent, PKC-Mediated Endocytic Trafficking, Luke Gabriel, Anatoli Lvov, Demetra Orthodoxou, Ann R. Rittenhouse, William R. Kobertz, and Haley E. Melikian
Inhibitory control of synaptic and behavioral plasticity by octopaminergic signaling, Alex C. Koon and Vivian Budnik
Intrinsic organization of the anesthetized brain, Zhifeng Liang, Jean A. King, and Nanyin Zhang
Negative regulation of glial engulfment activity by Draper terminates glial responses to axon injury, Mary A. Logan, Rachel Hackett, Johnna E. Doherty, Amy E. Sheehan, Sean D. Speese, and Marc R. Freeman
Gender-Specific Reduction of Estrogen-Sensitive Small RNA, miR-30b, in Subjects With Schizophrenia, Nikolaos Mellios, Marzena Galdzicka, Edward Ginns, Stephen P. Baker, Evgeny I. Rogaev, Jun Xu, and Schahram Akbarian
dSarm/Sarm1 is required for activation of an injury-induced axon death pathway, Jeannette M. Osterloh, Jing Yang, Timothy M. Rooney, A. Nicole Fox, Robert Adalbert, Eric H. Powell, Amy E. Sheehan, Michelle A. Avery, Rachel Hackett, Mary A. Logan, Jennifer M. MacDonald, Jennifer S. Ziegenfuss, Stefan Milde, Ying-Ju Hou, Carl Nathan, Aihao Ding, Robert H. Brown Jr., Laura Comforti, Michael Coleman, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Stephan Zuchner, and Marc R. Freeman
The neuroethology of C. elegans escape, Jennifer K. Pirri and Mark J. Alkema
Disruption of gene expression rhythms in mice lacking secretory vesicle proteins IA-2 and IA-2β, Sohan Punia, Kyle K. Rumery, Elizabeth A. Yu, Christopher M. Lambert, Abner L. Notkins, and David R. Weaver
Nuclear envelope budding enables large ribonucleoprotein particle export during synaptic Wnt signaling, Sean D. Speese, James A. Ashley, Vahbiz Jokhi, John J. Nunnari, Romina Barria, Yihang Li, Bulent Ataman, Alex C. Koon, Young-Tae Chang, Qian Li, Melissa J. Moore, and Vivian Budnik
Long-term, efficient inhibition of microRNA function in mice using rAAV vectors, Jun Xie, Stefan L. Ameres, Randall H. Friedline, Jui-Hung Hung, Yu Zhang, Qing Xie, Li Zhong, Qin Su, Ran He, Mengxin Li, Huapeng Li, Xin Mu, Hongwei Zhang, Jennifer A. Broderick, Jason K. Kim, Zhiping Weng, Terence R. Flotte, Phillip D. Zamore, and Guangping Gao
Distinct molecular pathways mediate glial activation and engulfment of axonal debris after axotomy, Jennifer S. Ziegenfuss, Johnna E. Doherty, and Marc R. Freeman
Publications from 2011
Argonaute protein identity and pairing geometry determine cooperativity in mammalian RNA silencing, Jennifer A. Broderick, William E. Salomon, Sean P. Ryder, Neil Aronin, and Phillip D. Zamore
MicroRNA therapeutics, Jennifer A. Broderick and Phillip D. Zamore
Remembering nutrient quality of sugar in Drosophila, Christopher J. Burke and Scott Waddell
White matter neuron alterations in schizophrenia and related disorders, Caroline M. Connor, Benjamin C. Crawford, and Schahram Akbarian
Human cryptochrome exhibits light-dependent magnetosensitivity, Lauren E. Foley, Robert J. Gegear, and Steven M. Reppert
Bioluminescence-based high-throughput screen identifies pharmacological agents that target neurotransmitter signaling in small cell lung carcinoma, Ma. Reina D. Improgo, Christopher W. Johnson, Andrew R. Tapper, and Paul D. Gardner
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated mechanisms in lung cancer, Ma. Reina D. Improgo, Andrew R. Tapper, and Paul D. Gardner
Setdb1-mediated histone H3K9 hypermethylation in neurons worsens the neurological phenotype of Mecp2-deficient mice, Yan Jiang, Anouch Matevossian, Yin Guo, and Schahram Akbarian
Autoregulatory and paracrine control of synaptic and behavioral plasticity by octopaminergic signaling, Alex C. Koon, James A. Ashley, Romina Barria, Shamik DasGupta, Ruth Brain, Scott Waddell, Mark J. Alkema, and Vivian Budnik
Drosophila appetitive olfactory conditioning, Michael Jonathan Krashes and Scott Waddell
Drosophila aversive olfactory conditioning, Michael Jonathan Krashes and Scott Waddell
Uncovering intrinsic connectional architecture of functional networks in awake rat brain, Zhifeng Liang, Jean A. King, and Nanyin Zhang
The C. elegans Touch Response Facilitates Escape From Predacious Fungi, Sean M. Maguire, Christopher M. Clark, Jennifer K. Pirri, John J. Nunnari, and Mark J. Alkema
The Plasma Membrane-Associated GTPase Rin Interacts with the Dopamine Transporter and Is Required for Protein Kinase C-Regulated Dopamine Transporter Trafficking, Deanna M. Navaroli, Zachary H. Stevens, Zeljko Uzelac, Luke Gabriel, Michael J. King, Lawrence M. Lifshitz, Harald H. Sitte, and Haley E. Melikian
A Pair of Inhibitory Neurons Are Required to Sustain Labile Memory in the Drosophila Mushroom Body, Jena L. Pitman, Wolf Huetteroth, Christopher J. Burke, Michael Jonathan Krashes, Sen-Lin Lai, Tzumin Lee, and Scott Waddell
The relationship between duration of initial alcohol exposure and persistence of molecular tolerance is markedly nonlinear, Cristina M. Velazquez-Marrero, Patricia M. Wynne, Alexandra Bernardo, Stephanie Palacio, Gilles E. Martin, and Steven N. Treistman
Disrupting the circadian clock: Gene-specific effects on aging, cancer, and other phenotypes, Elizabeth A. Yu and David R. Weaver
Nicotine-mediated activation of dopaminergic neurons in distinct regions of the ventral tegmental area, Rubing Zhao-Shea, Liwang Liu, Lindsey G. Soll, Ma. Reina D. Improgo, Erin E. Meyers, J. Michael McIntosh, Sharon R. Grady, Michael J. Marks, Paul D. Gardner, and Andrew R. Tapper
Publications from 2010
A dominant mutation in a neuronal acetylcholine receptor subunit leads to motor neuron degeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans, Belinda Barbagallo, Hilary A. Prescott, Patrick Boyle, Jason Climer, and Michael M. Francis
Temporally- and spatially-regulated transcriptional activity of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor beta4 subunit gene promoter., Lei Bruschweiler-Li, Yuly F. Fuentes Medel, Michael D. Scofield, Ellen B. T. Trang, Sarah A. Binke, and Paul D. Gardner
Developmental regulation and individual differences of neuronal H3K4me3 epigenomes in the prefrontal cortex, Iris Cheung, Hennady P. Shulha, Yan Jiang, Anouch Matevossian, Jie Wang, Zhiping Weng, and Schahram Akbarian
A simple method for improving the specificity of anti-methyl histone antibodies, Caroline M. Connor, Iris Cheung, Andrew Simon, Mira Jakovcevski, Zhiping Weng, and Schahram Akbarian
Casein kinase 1 delta (CK1delta) regulates period length of the mouse suprachiasmatic circadian clock in vitro, Jean-Pierre Etchegaray, Elizabeth A. Yu, Premananda Indic, Robert Dallmann, and David R. Weaver
Menage a Trio during BMP-Mediated Retrograde Signaling at the NMJ, Yuly F. Fuentes Medel and Vivian Budnik
Activation of alpha4* nAChRs is necessary and sufficient for varenicline-induced reduction of alcohol consumption, Linzy M. Hendrickson, Rubing Zhao-Shea, Xueyan Pang, Paul D. Gardner, and Andrew R. Tapper
RPP25 is developmentally regulated in prefrontal cortex and expressed at decreased levels in autism spectrum disorder, Hsien-Sung Huang, Iris Cheung, and Schahram Akbarian
ASCL1 regulates the expression of the CHRNA5/A3/B4 lung cancer susceptibility locus, Ma Reina D. Improgo, Nicolette A. Schlichting, Roxana Y. Cortes, Rubing Zhao-Shea, Andrew R. Tapper, and Paul D. Gardner
The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor CHRNA5/A3/B4 gene cluster: dual role in nicotine addiction and lung cancer, Ma Reina D. Improgo, Michael D. Scofield, Andrew R. Tapper, and Paul D. Gardner
From smoking to lung cancer: the CHRNA5/A3/B4 connection, Ma. Reina D. Improgo, Michael D. Scofield, Andrew R. Tapper, and Paul D. Gardner
Setdb1 histone methyltransferase regulates mood-related behaviors and expression of the NMDA receptor subunit NR2B, Yan Jiang, Mira Jakovcevski, Rahul Bharadwaj, Caroline M. Connor, Frederick Albert Schroeder, Cong L. Lin, Juerg R. Straubhaar, Gilles E. Martin, and Schahram Akbarian
Lineage-specific effects of Notch/Numb signaling in post-embryonic development of the Drosophila brain, Suewei Lin, Sen-Lin Lai, Hung-Hsiang Yu, Takahiro Chihara, Liqun Luo, and Tzumin Lee
Differential modulation of N-type calcium channels by micro-opioid receptors in oxytocinergic versus vasopressinergic neurohypophysial terminals, Sonia I. Ortiz-Miranda, Govindan Dayanithi, Cristina M. Velazquez-Marrero, Edward E. Custer Jr., Steven N. Treistman, and Jose R. Lemos
Chromatin protein L3MBTL1 is dispensable for development and tumor suppression in mice, Jinzhong Qin, Denille Van Buren, Hsien-Sung Huang, Lei Zhong, Raul Mostoslavsky, Schahram Akbarian, and Hanno Hock
Activity paradigm to induce Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction growth, Preethi Ramachandran and Vivian Budnik
Electron microscopy of Drosophila larval neuromuscular junctions, Preethi Ramachandran and Vivian Budnik
Fm1-43 labeling of Drosophila larval neuromuscular junctions, Preethi Ramachandran and Vivian Budnik
Internalization and trafficking assay for Drosophila larvae, Preethi Ramachandran and Vivian Budnik
Preparation of early Drosophila embryonic fillets (before cuticle deposition), Preethi Ramachandran and Vivian Budnik
Preparation of late Drosophila embryonic fillets, Preethi Ramachandran and Vivian Budnik
Voltage-dependent kappa-opioid modulation of action potential waveform-elicited calcium currents in neurohypophysial terminals, Cristina M. Velazquez-Marrero, Hector G. Marrero, and Jose R. Lemos
Publications from 2009
Epigenetic regulation in human brain-focus on histone lysine methylation, Schahram Akbarian and Hsien-Sung Huang
Wld S requires Nmnat1 enzymatic activity and N16-VCP interactions to suppress Wallerian degeneration, Michelle A. Avery, Amy E. Sheehan, Kimberly S. Kerr, Jing Wang, and Marc R. Freeman
Cingulate white matter neurons in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Caroline M. Connor, Yin Guo, and Schahram Akbarian
Ensheathing glia function as phagocytes in the adult Drosophila brain, Johnna E. Doherty, Mary A. Logan, Ozge E. Tasdemir, and Marc R. Freeman
A constant light-genetic screen identifies KISMET as a regulator of circadian photoresponses, Raphaëlle Dubruille, Alejandro D. Murad, Michael Rosbash, and Patrick Emery
Casein kinase 1 delta regulates the pace of the mammalian circadian clock, Jean-Pierre Etchegaray, Kazuhiko K. Machida, Elizabeth Noton, Cara M. Constance, Robert Dallmann, Marianne N. Di Napoli, Jason P. DeBruyne, Christopher M. Lambert, Elizabeth A. Yu, Steven M. Reppert, and David R. Weaver
Cocaine-induced metabolic activation in cortico-limbic circuitry is increased after exposure to the histone deacetylase inhibitor, sodium butyrate, Marcelo Febo, Schahram Akbarian, Frederick Albert Schroeder, and Craig F. Ferris
Glia and muscle sculpt neuromuscular arbors by engulfing destabilized synaptic boutons and shed presynaptic debris, Yuly F. Fuentes Medel, Mary A. Logan, James A. Ashley, Bulent Ataman, Vivian Budnik, and Marc R. Freeman
Orientation of palmitoylated CaVbeta2a relative to CaV2.2 is critical for slow pathway modulation of N-type Ca2+ current by tachykinin receptor activation, Tora Mitra Ganguli, Iuliia Vitko, Edward Perez-Reyes, and Ann R. Rittenhouse
Modulation of ethanol drinking-in-the-dark by mecamylamine and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonists in C57BL/6J mice, Linzy M. Hendrickson, Rubing Zhao-Shea, and Andrew R. Tapper
The Ca2+ channel beta subunit determines whether stimulation of Gq-coupled receptors enhances or inhibits N current, John F. Heneghan, Tora Mitra Ganguli, Lee F. Stanish, Liwang Liu, Rubing Zhao, and Ann R. Rittenhouse
Trans-synaptic transmission of vesicular Wnt signals through Evi/Wntless, Ceren Korkut, Bulent Ataman, Preethi Ramachandran, James A. Ashley, Romina Barria, Norberto G. Gherbesi, and Vivian Budnik
WNTs tune up the neuromuscular junction, Ceren Korkut and Vivian Budnik
A neural circuit mechanism integrating motivational state with memory expression in Drosophila, Michael Jonathan Krashes, Shamik DasGupta, Andrew Vreede, Benjamin White, J. Douglas Armstrong, and Scott Waddell
Suppression of Ca2+ syntillas increases spontaneous exocytosis in mouse adrenal chromaffin cells, Jason J. Lefkowitz, Kevin E. Fogarty, Lawrence M. Lifshitz, Karl D. Bellve, Richard A. Tuft, Ronghua ZhuGe, John V. Walsh Jr., and Valerie De Crescenzo
Nuclear receptor unfulfilled regulates axonal guidance and cell identity of Drosophila mushroom body neurons, Suewei Lin, Yaling Huang, and Tzumin Lee
Individual calcium syntillas do not trigger spontaneous exocytosis from nerve terminals of the neurohypophysis, James M. McNally, Valerie De Crescenzo, Kevin E. Fogarty, John V. Walsh Jr., and Jose R. Lemos
Molecular determinants of dysregulated GABAergic gene expression in the prefrontal cortex of subjects with schizophrenia, Nikolaos Mellios, Hsien-Sung Huang, Stephen P. Baker, Marzena Galdzicka, Edward Ginns, and Schahram Akbarian
Neuronal death or dismemberment mediated by Sox14, Jeannette M. Osterloh and Marc R. Freeman
Five siRNAs targeting three SNPs may provide therapy for three-quarters of Huntington's disease patients, Edith L. Pfister, Lori A. Kennington, Juerg R. Straubhaar, Sujata Wagh, Wanzhou Liu, Marian DiFiglia, Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Jean-Paul Vonsattel, Phillip D. Zamore, and Neil Aronin
Huntington's disease: silencing a brutal killer, Edith L. Pfister and Phillip D. Zamore
A Tyramine-Gated Chloride Channel Coordinates Distinct Motor Programs of a Caenorhabditis elegans Escape Response, Jennifer K. Pirri, Adam D. McPherson, Jamie L. Donnelly, Michael M. Francis, and Mark J. Alkema
There are many ways to train a fly, Jena L. Pitman, Shamik DasGupta, Michael J. Krashes, Benjamin Leung, Paola N. Perrat, and Scott Waddell
A critical step for postsynaptic F-actin organization: regulation of Baz/Par-3 localization by aPKC and PTEN, Preethi Ramachandran, Romina Barria, James A. Ashley, and Vivian Budnik
Regulation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels by lipids, Mandy L. Roberts-Crowley, Tora Mitra Ganguli, Liwang Liu, and Ann R. Rittenhouse
Arachidonic acid inhibition of L-type calcium (CaV1.3b) channels varies with accessory CaVbeta subunits, Mandy L. Roberts-Crowley and Ann R. Rittenhouse
Compartmentalized beta subunit distribution determines characteristics and ethanol sensitivity of somatic, dendritic, and terminal large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels in the rat central nervous system, Patricia M. Wynne, Sylvie I. Puig, Gilles E. Martin, and Steven N. Treistman
Twin-spot MARCM to reveal the developmental origin and identity of neurons, Hung-Hsiang Yu, Chun-Hong Chen, Lei Shi, Yaling Huang, and Tzumin Lee
Endodomain diversity in the Drosophila Dscam and its roles in neuronal morphogenesis, Hung-Hsiang Yu, Jacob S. Yang, Jian Wang, Yaling Huang, and Tzumin Lee
Publications from 2008
Rapid activity-dependent modifications in synaptic structure and function require bidirectional Wnt signaling, Bulent Ataman, James A. Ashley, Michael Gorczyca, Preethi Ramachandran, Wernher Fouquet, Stephan J. Sigrist, and Vivian Budnik
Organization and postembryonic development of glial cells in the adult central brain of Drosophila, Takeshi Awasaki, Sen-Lin Lai, Kei Ito, and Tzumin Lee
DNA methylation changes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Caroline M. Connor and Schahram Akbarian
Learned odor discrimination in Drosophila without combinatorial odor maps in the antennal lobe, Shamik DasGupta and Scott Waddell
BK channel subunit composition modulates molecular tolerance to ethanol, Paula Leslie Feinberg-Zadek, Gilles E. Martin, and Steven N. Treistman
Epigenetics in the nervous system, Yan Jiang, Brett Langley, Farah D. Lubin, William Renthal, Marcelo A. Wood, Dag H. Yasui, Arvind Kumar, Eric J. Nestler, Schahram Akbarian, and Andrea C. Beckel-Mitchener
Isolation of neuronal chromatin from brain tissue, Yan Jiang, Anouch Matevossian, Hsien-Sung Huang, Juerg R. Straubhaar, and Schahram Akbarian
Drosophila memory: will Orb(2) predict the future, Michael Jonathan Krashes and Scott Waddell
Rapid consolidation to a radish and protein synthesis-dependent long-term memory after single-session appetitive olfactory conditioning in Drosophila, Michael Jonathan Krashes and Scott Waddell
Clonal analysis of Drosophila antennal lobe neurons: diverse neuronal architectures in the lateral neuroblast lineage, Sen-Lin Lai, Takeshi Awasaki, Kei Ito, and Tzumin Lee
L- and N-current but not M-current inhibition by M1 muscarinic receptors requires DAG lipase activity, Liwang Liu, John F. Heneghan, Gregory J. Michael, Lee F. Stanish, Michaela Egertova, and Ann R. Rittenhouse
Identification of a BK channel auxiliary protein controlling molecular and behavioral tolerance to alcohol, Gilles E. Martin, Linzy M. Hendrickson, Krista L. Penta, Ryan M. Friesen, Andrzej Z. Pietrzykowski, Andrew R. Tapper, and Steven N. Treistman
A set of differentially expressed miRNAs, including miR-30a-5p, act as post-transcriptional inhibitors of BDNF in prefrontal cortex, Nikolaos Mellios, Hsien-Sung Huang, Anastasia P. Grigorenko, Evgeny I. Rogaev, and Schahram Akbarian
Mutation of a TADR protein leads to rhodopsin and Gq-dependent retinal degeneration in Drosophila, Lina Ni, Peiyi Guo, Keith Reddig, Mirna Mitra, and Hong-Sheng Li
Posttranscriptional regulation of BK channel splice variant stability by miR-9 underlies neuroadaptation to alcohol, Andrzej Z. Pietrzykowski, Ryan M. Friesen, Gilles E. Martin, Sylvie I. Puig, Cheryl L. Nowak, Patricia M. Wynne, Hava T. Siegelmann, and Steven N. Treistman