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  • Viviana del Carmen Valadez Graham Instituto de Biotecnología, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
    Meyer-Nava, S., Torres, A., Zurita, M. and Valadez-Graham, V. (2020). Molecular effects of dADD1 misexpression in chromatin organization and transcription. BMC Mol Cell Biol 21(1): 17. PubMed ID: 32293240

    Gutierrez-Perez, I., Rowley, M. J., Lyu, X., Valadez-Graham, V., Vallejo, D. M., Ballesta-Illan, E., Lopez-Atalaya, J. P., Kremsky, I., Caparros, E., Corces, V. G. and Dominguez, M. (2019). Ecdysone-Induced 3D Chromatin Reorganization Involves Active Enhancers Bound by Pipsqueak and Polycomb. Cell Rep 28(10): 2715-2727 e2715. PubMed ID: 31484080

    Bucio-Mendez, A., Cruz-Becerra, G., Valadez-Graham, V., Dinkova, T. D. and Zurita, M. (2019). The Dmp8-Dmp18 bicistron messenger RNA enables unusual translation during cellular stress. J Cell Biochem 120(3): 3887-3897. PubMed ID: 30270456

  • Susanna Valanne Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, Finland
    Jarvela-Stolting, M., Vesala, L., Maasdorp, M. K., Ciantar, J., Ramet, M. and Valanne, S. (2021). Proteasome α6 Subunit Negatively Regulates the JAK/STAT Pathway and Blood Cell Activation in Drosophila melanogaster. Front Immunol 12: 729631. PubMed ID: 35003057

    Valanne, S. (2013) Functional genomic analysis of the Drosophila immune response. Dev Comp Immunol. PubMed ID: 23707784

    Sampson, C. J., Valanne, S., Fauvarque, M. O., Hultmark, D., Ramet, M. and Williams, M. J. (2012). The RhoGEF Zizimin-related acts in the Drosophila cellular immune response via the Rho GTPases Rac2 and Cdc42. Dev Comp Immunol 38: 160-168. PubMed ID: 22634526

    Vanha-Aho, L. M., Kleino, A., Kaustio, M., Ulvila, J., Wilke, B., Hultmark, D., Valanne, S. and Ramet, M. (2012). Functional characterization of the infection-inducible peptide Edin in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One 7: e37153. PubMed ID: 22606343

    Gronholm, J., Kaustio, M., Myllymaki, H., Kallio, J., Saarikettu, J., Kronhamn, J., Valanne, S., Silvennoinen, O. and Ramet, M. (2012). Not4 enhances JAK/STAT pathway-dependent gene expression in Drosophila and in human cells. FASEB J 26: 1239-1250. PubMed ID: 22159038

  • Pedro Vale Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Labs, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh
    Anderson, L., Camus, M. F., Monteith, K. M., Salminen, T. S. and Vale, P. F. (2022). Variation in mitochondrial DNA affects locomotor activity and sleep in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb). PubMed ID: 35764697

    Siva-Jothy, J. A. and Vale, P. F. (2021). Dissecting genetic and sex-specific sources of host heterogeneity in pathogen shedding and spread. PLoS Pathog 17(1): e1009196. PubMed ID: 33465160

    White, L. A., Siva-Jothy, J. A., Craft, M. E. and Vale, P. F. (2020). Genotype and sex-based host variation in behaviour and susceptibility drives population disease dynamics. Proc Biol Sci 287(1938): 20201653. PubMed ID: 33171094

  • Ron Vale Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UC San Francisco
    Williamson, A. P. and Vale, R. D. (2018). Spatial control of Draper receptor signaling initiates apoptotic cell engulfment. J Cell Biol. PubMed ID: 30139739

    Greenan, G. A., Keszthelyi, B., Vale, R. D. and Agard, D. A. (2018). Insights into centriole geometry revealed by cryotomography of doublet and triplet centrioles. Elife 7. PubMed ID: 30080137

    Ribeiro, S. A., D'Ambrosio, M. V. and Vale, R. D. (2014). Induction of Focal Adhesions and Motility in Drosophila S2 cells. Mol Biol Cell. PubMed ID: 25273555

    Moutinho-Pereira, S., Stuurman, N., Afonso, O., Hornsveld, M., Aguiar, P., Goshima, G., Vale, R. D. and Maiato, H. (2013). Genes involved in centrosome-independent mitotic spindle assembly in Drosophila S2 cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110: 19808-19813. PubMed ID: 24255106

    D'Ambrosio, M. V. and Vale, R. D. (2010). A whole genome RNAi screen of Drosophila S2 cell spreading performed using automated computational image analysis. J Cell Biol 191: 471-478. PubMed ID: 21041442

  • Mark VanBerkum Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit
    Cheong, H. S. J., Nona, M., Guerra, S. B. and VanBerkum, M. F. (2020). The first quarter of the C-terminal domain of Abelson regulates the WAVE regulatory complex and Enabled in axon guidance. Neural Dev 15(1): 7. PubMed ID: 32359359

    Cheong, H. S. J. and VanBerkum, M. F. A. (2017). Long disordered regions of the C-terminal domain of Abelson tyrosine kinase have specific and additive functions in regulation and axon localization. PLoS One 12(12): e0189338. PubMed ID: 29232713

    Patel, M.V., Zhu, J.Y., Jiang, Z., Richman, A., VanBerkum, M.F. and Han, Z. (2016). Gia/Mthl5 is an aorta specific GPCR required for Drosophila heart tube morphology and normal pericardial cell positioning. Dev Biol [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 26994946

    Patel, M. V., Hallal, D. A., Jones, J. W., Bronner, D. N., Zein, R., Caravas, J., Husain, Z., Friedrich, M. and Vanberkum, M. F. (2012). Dramatic expansion and developmental expression diversification of the methuselah gene family during recent Drosophila evolution. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 318: 368-387. PubMed ID: 22711569

  • Mark Van Doren Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
    Bhaskar, P. K., Southard, S., Baxter, K. and Van Doren, M. (2022). Germline sex determination regulates sex-specific signaling between germline stem cells and their niche. Cell Rep 39(1): 110620. PubMed ID: 35385723

    Zhou, H., Whitworth, C., Pozmanter, C., Neville, M. C. and Van Doren, M. (2021). Doublesex regulates fruitless expression to promote sexual dimorphism of the gonad stem cell niche. PLoS Genet 17(3): e1009468. PubMed ID: 33788836

    Primus, S., Pozmanter, C., Baxter, K. and Van Doren, M. (2019). Tudor-domain containing protein 5-like promotes male sexual identity in the Drosophila germline and is repressed in females by Sex lethal. PLoS Genet 15(7): e1007617. PubMed ID: 31329582

    Camara, N., Whitworth, C., Dove, A. and Van Doren, M. (2019). Doublesex controls specification and maintenance of the gonad stem cell niches in Drosophila. Development. PubMed ID: 31043421

    Yang, S. Y., Chang, Y. C., Wan, Y. H., Whitworth, C., Baxter, E. M., Primus, S., Pi, H. and Van Doren, M. (2017). Control of a novel spermatocyte-promoting factor by the male germline sex determination factor PHF7 of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 28588035

    Whitworth, C., Jimenez, E. and Van Doren, M. (2012). Development of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila testis. Spermatogenesis 2: 129-136. PubMed ID: 23087832

    Yang, S. Y., Baxter, E. M. and Van Doren, M. (2012). Phf7 controls male sex determination in the Drosophila germline. Dev Cell 22: 1041-1051. PubMed ID: 22595675

    Jemc, J. C., Milutinovich, A. B., Weyers, J. J., Takeda, Y. and Van Doren, M. (2012). raw Functions through JNK signaling and cadherin-based adhesion to regulate Drosophila gonad morphogenesis. Dev Biol 367: 114-125. PubMed ID: 22575490

    Van Doren, M. (2011). Development. Determining sexual identity. Science 333: 829-830. PubMed ID: 21836003

    Casper, A. L., Baxter, K. and Van Doren, M. (2011). no child left behind encodes a novel chromatin factor required for germline stem cell maintenance in males but not females. Development 138: 3357-3366. PubMed ID: 21752937

  • Don van Meyel Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal,
    Wu, Q., Akhter, A., Pant, S., Cho, E., Zhu, J. X., Garner, A., Ohyama, T., Tajkhorshid, E., van Meyel, D. J. and Ryan, R. M. (2022). Ataxia-linked SLC1A3 mutations alter EAAT1 chloride channel activity and glial regulation of CNS function. J Clin Invest 132(7). PubMed ID: 35167492

    Davla, S., Artiushin, G., Li, Y., Chitsaz, D., Li, S., Sehgal, A. and van Meyel, D. J. (2020). AANAT1 functions in astrocytes to regulate sleep homeostasis. Elife 9. PubMed ID: 32955431

    Parinejad, N., Peco, E., Ferreira, T., Stacey, S.M. and van Meyel, D.J. (2016). Disruption of an EAAT-mediated chloride channel in a Drosophila model of Ataxia. J Neurosci 36: 7640-7647. PubMed ID: 27445142

    Peco, E., Davla, S., Camp, D., Stacey, S., Landgraf, M. and van Meyel, D. (2016). Drosophila astrocytes cover specific territories of CNS neuropil and are instructed to differentiate by Prospero, a key effector of Notch. Development [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 26893340

    Ferreira, T., Ou, Y., Li, S., Giniger, E. and van Meyel, D. J. (2014). Dendrite architecture organized by transcriptional control of the F-actin nucleator Spire. Development 141: 650-660. PubMed ID: 24449841

    Stochmanski, S. J., Therrien, M., Laganiere, J., Rochefort, D., Laurent, S., Karemera, L., Gaudet, R., Vyboh, K., Van Meyel, D. J., Di Cristo, G., Dion, P. A., Gaspar, C. and Rouleau, G. A. (2012). Expanded ATXN3 frameshifting events are toxic in Drosophila and mammalian neuron models. Hum Mol Genet 21: 2211-2218. PubMed ID: 22337953

    Camp, D., Currie, K., Labbe, A., van Meyel, D. J. and Charron, F. (2010). Ihog and Boi are essential for Hedgehog signaling in Drosophila. Neural Dev 5: 28. PubMed ID: 21044292

  • Ronald Van Rij Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, the Netherlands
    Bronkhorst, A. W., Vogels, R., Overheul, G. J., Pennings, B., Gausson-Dorey, V., Miesen, P. and van Rij, R. P. (2019). A DNA virus-encoded immune antagonist fully masks the potent antiviral activity of RNAi in Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 116(48): 24296-24302. PubMed ID: 31712431

    Merkling, S. H., Riahi, H., Overheul, G. J., Schenck, A. and van Rij, R. P. (2019). Peroxisome-associated Sgroppino links fat metabolism with survival after RNA virus infection in Drosophila. Sci Rep 9(1): 2065. PubMed ID: 30765784

    Joosten, J., Miesen, P., Taskopru, E., Pennings, B., Jansen, P. W., Huynen, M. A., Vermeulen, M. and Van Rij, R. P. (2018). The Tudor protein Veneno assembles the ping-pong amplification complex that produces viral piRNAs in Aedes mosquitoes. Nucleic Acids Res. PubMed ID: 30566680

    Palmer, W. H., Joosten, J., Overheul, G. J., Jansen, P. W., Vermeulen, M., Obbard, D. J. and Van Rij, R. P. (2018). Induction and suppression of NF-kappaB signalling by a DNA virus of Drosophila. J Virol. PubMed ID: 30404807

    Merkling, S. H., Bronkhorst, A. W., Kramer, J. M., Overheul, G. J., Schenck, A. and Van Rij, R. P. (2015). The epigenetic regulator g9a mediates tolerance to RNA virus infection in Drosophila. PLoS Pathog 11: e1004692. PubMed ID: 25880195

    Bronkhorst, A. W., van Cleef, K. W., Venselaar, H. and van Rij, R. P. (2014). A dsRNA-binding protein of a complex invertebrate DNA virus suppresses the Drosophila RNAi response. Nucleic Acids Res [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 25274730

    van Mierlo, J. T., Overheul, G. J., Obadia, B., van Cleef, K. W., Webster, C. L., Saleh, M. C., Obbard, D. J. and van Rij, R. P. (2014). Novel Drosophila Viruses Encode Host-Specific Suppressors of RNAi. PLoS Pathog 10: e1004256. PubMed ID: 25032815

    Bronkhorst, A. W., Miesen, P. and van Rij, R. P. (2013). Small RNAs tackle large viruses: RNA interference-based antiviral defense against DNA viruses in insects. Fly (Austin) 7. PubMed ID: 23974177

    Bronkhorst, A. W., van Cleef, K. W., Vodovar, N., Ince, I. A., Blanc, H., Vlak, J. M., Saleh, M. C. and van Rij, R. P. (2012). The DNA virus Invertebrate iridescent virus 6 is a target of the Drosophila RNAi machinery. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109: E3604-3613. PubMed ID: 23151511

    Merkling, S. H. and van Rij, R. P. (2013). Beyond RNAi: antiviral defense strategies in Drosophila and mosquito. J Insect Physiol 59: 159-170. PubMed ID: 22824741

  • Bas van Steensel Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
    Chen, T. and van Steensel, B. (2017). Comprehensive analysis of nucleocytoplasmic dynamics of mRNA in Drosophila cells. PLoS Genet 13(8): e1006929. PubMed ID: 28771467

    van Bemmel, J. G., Filion, G. J., Rosado, A., Talhout, W., de Haas, M., van Welsem, T., van Leeuwen, F., van Steensel, B. (2013) A network model of the molecular organization of chromatin in Drosophila. Mol Cell 49: 759-771. PubMed ID: 23438860

    Tolhuis, B., Blom, M., Kerkhoven, R. M., Pagie, L., Teunissen, H., Nieuwland, M., Simonis, M., de Laat, W., van Lohuizen, M. and van Steensel, B. (2011). Interactions among Polycomb domains are guided by chromosome architecture. PLoS Genet 7: e1001343. PubMed ID: 21455484

    van Bemmel, J. G., Pagie, L., Braunschweig, U., Brugman, W., Meuleman, W., Kerkhoven, R. M. and van Steensel, B. (2010). The insulator protein SU(HW) fine-tunes nuclear lamina interactions of the Drosophila genome. PLoS One 5: e15013. PubMed ID: 21124834

    Pauli, A., van Bemmel, J. G., Oliveira, R. A., Itoh, T., Shirahige, K., van Steensel, B. and Nasmyth, K. (2010). A direct role for cohesin in gene regulation and ecdysone response in Drosophila salivary glands. Curr Biol 20: 1787-1798. PubMed ID: 20933422

  • Bruno van Swinderen Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia
    Hines, A. D. and van Swinderen, B. (2021). Tracking single molecule dynamics in the adult Drosophila brain. eNeuro. PubMed ID: 33875453

    Leung, A., Cohen, D., van Swinderen, B. and Tsuchiya, N. (2021). Integrated information structure collapses with anesthetic loss of conscious arousal in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Comput Biol 17(2): e1008722. PubMed ID: 33635858

    Tainton-Heap, L. A. L., Kirszenblat, L. C., Notaras, E. T., Grabowska, M. J., Jeans, R., Feng, K., Shaw, P. J. and van Swinderen, B. (2020). A Paradoxical Kind of Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster. Curr Biol. PubMed ID: 33238155

    Grabowska, M. J., Jeans, R., Steeves, J. and van Swinderen, B. (2020). Oscillations in the central brain of Drosophila are phase locked to attended visual features. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. PubMed ID: 33177231

    Karunanithi, S., Lin, Y. Q., Odierna, G. L., Menon, H., Gonzalez, J. M., Neely, G. G., Noakes, P. G., Lavidis, N. A., Moorhouse, A. J. and van Swinderen, B. (2020). Activity-dependent global downscaling of evoked neurotransmitter release across glutamatergic inputs in Drosophila. J Neurosci. PubMed ID: 32928887

    Ertekin, D., Kirszenblat, L., Faville, R. and van Swinderen, B. (2020). Down-regulation of a cytokine secreted from peripheral fat bodies improves visual attention while reducing sleep in Drosophila. PLoS Biol 18(8): e3000548. PubMed ID: 32745077

    Karunanithi, S., Cylinder, D., Ertekin, D., Zalucki, O. H., Marin, L., Lavidis, N. A., Atwood, H. L. and van Swinderen, B. (2020). Proportional downscaling of glutamatergic release sites by the general anesthetic propofol at Drosophila motor nerve terminals. eNeuro. PubMed ID: 32019872

    Kirszenblat, L., Yaun, R. and van Swinderen, B. (2019). Visual experience drives sleep need in Drosophila. Sleep. PubMed ID: 31100151

    Grabowska, M. J., Steeves, J., Alpay, J., van de Poll, M., Ertekin, D. and van Swinderen, B. (2018). Innate visual preferences and behavioral flexibility in Drosophila. J Exp Biol. PubMed ID: 30322983

    Troup, M., Yap, M. H., Rohrscheib, C., Grabowska, M. J., Ertekin, D., Randeniya, R., Kottler, B., Larkin, A., Munro, K., Shaw, P. J. and van Swinderen, B. (2018). Acute control of the sleep switch in Drosophila reveals a role for gap junctions in regulating behavioral responsiveness. Elife 7. PubMed ID: 30109983

    Cohen, D., van Swinderen, B. and Tsuchiya, N. (2018). Isoflurane Impairs Low-Frequency Feedback but Leaves High-Frequency Feedforward Connectivity Intact in the Fly Brain. eNeuro 5(1). PubMed ID: 29541686

  • David Van Vactor Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
    McNeill, E. M., Warinner, C., Alkins, S., Taylor, A., Heggeness, H., DeLuca, T. F., Fulga, T. A., Wall, D. P., Griffith, L. C. and Van Vactor, D. (2020). The conserved microRNA miR-34 regulates synaptogenesis via coordination of distinct mechanisms in presynaptic and postsynaptic cells. Nat Commun 11(1): 1092. PubMed ID: 32107390

    McNeill, E. M., Thompson, C., Berke, B., Chou, V. T., Rusch, J., Duckworth, A., DeProto, J., Taylor, A., Gates, J., Gertler, F., Keshishian, H. and Van Vactor, D. (2020). Drosophila enabled promotes synapse morphogenesis and regulates active zone form and function. Neural Dev 15(1): 4. PubMed ID: 32183907

    Donelson, N. C., Dixit, R., Pichardo-Casas, I., Chiu, E. Y., Ohman, R. T., Slawson, J. B., Klein, M., Fulga, T. A., Van Vactor, D. and Griffith, L. C. (2019). MicroRNAs regulate multiple aspects of locomotor behavior in Drosophila. G3 (Bethesda). PubMed ID: 31694853

    Chou, V. T., Johnson, S., Long, J., Vounatsos, M. and Van Vactor, D. (2019). dTACC restricts bouton addition and regulates microtubule organization at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). PubMed ID: 31702858

    Goodwin, P. R., Meng, A., Moore, J., Hobin, M., Fulga, T. A., Van Vactor, D. and Griffith, L. C. (2018). MicroRNAs regulate sleep and sleep homeostasis in Drosophila. Cell Rep 23(13): 3776-3786. PubMed ID: 29949763

    You, S., Fulga, T. A., Van Vactor, D. and Jackson, F. R. (2018). Regulation of Circadian Behavior by Astroglial MicroRNAs in Drosophila. Genetics 208(3): 1195-1207. PubMed ID: 29487148

    Khodaei, Z. S., Barmchi, M. P., Gilbert, M. M., Samarasekera, G., Fulga, T. A., Van Vactor, D. and Auld, V. J. (2016). The tricellular junction protein Gliotactin auto-regulates mRNA levels via BMP signaling induction of miR-184. J Cell Sci [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 26906422

    Fulga, T. A., McNeill, E. M., Binari, R., Yelick, J., Blanche, A., Booker, M., Steinkraus, B. R., Schnall-Levin, M., Zhao, Y., DeLuca, T., Bejarano, F., Han, Z., Lai, E. C., Wall, D. P., Perrimon, N. and Van Vactor, D. (2015). A transgenic resource for conditional competitive inhibition of conserved Drosophila microRNAs. Nat Commun 6: 7279. PubMed ID: 26081261

    Busto, G.U., Guven-Ozkan, T., Fulga, T.A., Van Vactor, D. and Davis, R.L. (2015). microRNAs that promote or inhibit memory formation in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 200: 569-580. PubMed ID: 26088433

    Guarani, V., McNeill, E. M., Paulo, J. A., Huttlin, E. L., Frohlich, F., Gygi, S. P., Van Vactor, D. and Harper, J. W. (2015). QIL1 is a novel mitochondrial protein required for MICOS complex stability and cristae morphology. Elife 4. PubMed ID: 25997101

    Mugat, B., Akkouche, A., Serrano, V., Armenise, C., Li, B., Brun, C., Fulga, T.A., Van Vactor, D., Pélisson, A. and Chambeyron, S. (2015). MicroRNA-dependent transcriptional silencing of transposable elements in Drosophila follicle cells. PLoS Genet 11: e1005194. PubMed ID: 25993106

  • Juanma Vaquerizas Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany
    Ing-Simmons, E., Vaid, R., Bing, X. Y., Levine, M., Mannervik, M. and Vaquerizas, J. M. (2021). Independence of chromatin conformation and gene regulation during Drosophila dorsoventral patterning. Nat Genet 53(4): 487-499. PubMed ID: 33795866

    Galan, S., Machnik, N., Kruse, K., Diaz, N., Marti-Renom, M. A. and Vaquerizas, J. M. (2020). CHESS enables quantitative comparison of chromatin contact data and automatic feature extraction. Nat Genet 52(11): 1247-1255. PubMed ID: 33077914

    Mallik, M., Catinozzi, M., Hug, C. B., Zhang, L., Wagner, M., Bussmann, J., Bittern, J., Mersmann, S., Klambt, C., Drexler, H. C. A., Huynen, M. A., Vaquerizas, J. M. and Storkebaum, E. (2018). Xrp1 genetically interacts with the ALS-associated FUS orthologue caz and mediates its toxicity. J Cell Biol. PubMed ID: 30209068

    Hug, C. B., Grimaldi, A. G., Kruse, K. and Vaquerizas, J. M. (2017). Chromatin architecture emerges during zygotic genome activation independent of transcription. Cell 169(2): 216-228.e219. PubMed ID: 28388407

    Conrad, T., Cavalli, F. M., Vaquerizas, J. M., Luscombe, N. M. and Akhtar, A. (2012). Drosophila dosage compensation involves enhanced Pol II recruitment to male X-linked promoters. Science 337(6095): 742-746. PubMed ID: 22821985

    Lam, K. C., Muhlpfordt, F., Vaquerizas, J. M., Raja, S. J., Holz, H., Luscombe, N. M., Manke, T. and Akhtar, A. (2012). The NSL complex regulates housekeeping genes in Drosophila. PLoS Genet 8(6): e1002736. PubMed ID: 22723752

  • Jishy Varghese Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram
    Pathak, H. and Varghese, J. (2021). Edem1 activity in the fat body regulates insulin signalling and metabolic homeostasis in Drosophila. Life Sci Alliance 4(8). PubMed ID: 34140347

    Rehman, N. and Varghese, J. (2021). Larval nutrition influences adult fat stores and starvation resistance in Drosophila. PLoS One 16(2): e0247175. PubMed ID: 33606785

    Pathak, H., Maya, A. V., Tanari, A. B., Sarkar, S. and Varghese, J. (2021). Lint, a transmembrane serine protease, regulates growth and metabolism in Drosophila. Genetics. PubMed ID: 33693655

    Rehman, N. and Varghese, J. (2021). Larval nutrition influences adult fat stores and starvation resistance in Drosophila. PLoS One 16(2): e0247175. PubMed ID: 33606785

    >Sudhakar, S. R., Pathak, H., Rehman, N., Fernandes, J., Vishnu, S. and Varghese, J. (2020). Insulin signalling elicits hunger-induced feeding in Drosophila. Dev Biol 459(2): 87-99. PubMed ID: 31770521

  • Maria Vartiainen Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki
    Sokolova, M., Moore, H. M., Prajapati, B., Dopie, J., Merilainen, L., Honkanen, M., Matos, R. C., Poukkula, M., Hietakangas, V. and Vartiainen, M. K. (2018). Nuclear Actin Is Required for Transcription during Drosophila Oogenesis. iScience 9: 63-70. PubMed ID: 30384134

    Kristo, I., Bajusz, C., Borsos, B. N., Pankotai, T., Dopie, J., Jankovics, F., Vartiainen, M. K., Erdelyi, M. and Vilmos, P. (2017). The actin binding cytoskeletal protein Moesin is involved in nuclear mRNA export. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res 1864(10): 1589-1604. PubMed ID: 28554770

    Dopie, J., Rajakyla, E. K., Joensuu, M. S., Huet, G., Ferrantelli, E., Xie, T., Jaalinoja, H., Jokitalo, E. and Vartiainen, M. K. (2015). Genome-wide RNAi screen for nuclear actin reveals a network of cofilin regulators. J Cell Sci 128(13): 2388-2400. PubMed ID: 26021350

  • Maria Vasconcelos Neurosciences, Centro Champalimaud, Lisboa, Portugal
    Mezzera, C., Brotas, M., Gaspar, M., Pavlou, H. J., Goodwin, S. F. and Vasconcelos, M. L. (2020). Ovipositor Extrusion Promotes the Transition from Courtship to Copulation and Signals Female Acceptance in Drosophila melanogaster. Curr Biol. PubMed ID: 32795437

    Aranha, M. M., Herrmann, D., Cachitas, H., Neto-Silva, R. M., Dias, S. and Vasconcelos, M. L. (2017). apterous brain neurons control receptivity to male courtship in Drosophila melanogaster females. Sci Rep 7: 46242. PubMed ID: 28401905

    Bracker, L. B., Siju, K. P., Varela, N., Aso, Y., Zhang, M., Hein, I., Vasconcelos, M. L. and Grunwald Kadow, I. C. (2013). Essential role of the mushroom body in context-dependent CO(2) avoidance in Drosophila. Curr Biol 23(13): 1228-1234. PubMed ID: 23770186

    Ruta, V., Datta, S. R., Vasconcelos, M. L., Freeland, J., Looger, L. L. and Axel, R. (2010). A dimorphic pheromone circuit in Drosophila from sensory input to descending output. Nature 468(7324): 686-690. PubMed ID: 21124455

  • Jack Vaughn Department of Biology, Cell Molecular and Structural Biology Program, Miami University, Oxford, OH
    Ghosh, S., Wang, Y., Cook, J. A., Chhiba, L. and Vaughn, J. C. (2013). A molecular, phylogenetic and functional study of the mRNA truncated isoform during embryonic development reveals an editing-independent function. Open J Anim Sci 3: 20-30. PubMed ID: 25414802

    Chen, J., Yang, J. T., Doctor, D. L., Rawlins, B. A., Shields, B. C. and Vaughn, J. C. (2013). 5'-UTR mediated translational control of splicing assembly factor RNP-4F expression during development of the Drosophila central nervous system. Gene. PubMed ID: 23892091

    Lakshmi, G. G., Ghosh, S., Jones, G. P., Parikh, R., Rawlins, B. A. and Vaughn, J. C. (2012). An RNA electrophoretic mobility shift and mutational analysis of rnp-4f 5'-UTR intron splicing regulatory proteins in Drosophila reveals a novel new role for a dADAR protein isoform. Gene 511: 161-168. PubMed ID: 23026215

    Chen, J., Lakshmi, G. G., Hays, D. L., McDowell, K. M., Ma, E. and Vaughn, J. C. (2009). Spatial and temporal expression of dADAR mRNA and protein isoforms during embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Differentiation 78: 312-320. PubMed ID: 19720447

  • Chantal Vaury Genetique Reproduction & Development, Clermont Université Clermont-Ferrand, France,
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    Fonseca, N. A., Vieira, C. P., Schlotterer, C. and Vieira, J. (2012). The DAIBAM MITE element is involved in the origin of one fixed and two polymorphic Drosophila virilis phylad inversions. Fly (Austin) 6: 71-74. PubMed ID: 22561870

  • Cristina Vieira-Hedd Laboratoire de Biometrie et Biologie Evolutive, Lyon
    Vela, D., Fontdevila, A., Vieira, C. and Garcia Guerreiro, M. P. (2014). A genome-wide survey of genetic instability by transposition in Drosophila hybrids. PLoS One 9: e88992. PubMed ID: 24586475

    Fablet, M., Akkouche, A., Braman, V. and Vieira, C. (2013). Variable expression levels detected in the Drosophila effectors of piRNA biogenesis. Gene. PubMed ID: 24361206

    Carareto, C. M., Hernandez, E. H. and Vieira, C. (2013). Genomic regions harboring insecticide resistance-associated Cyp genes are enriched by transposable element fragments carrying putative transcription factor binding sites in two sibling Drosophila species. Gene. PubMed ID: 24361809

    Akkouche, A., Grentzinger, T., Fablet, M., Armenise, C., Burlet, N., Braman, V., Chambeyron, S., Vieira, C. (2013) Maternally deposited germline piRNAs silence the tirant retrotransposon in somatic cells. EMBO Rep. PubMed ID: 23559065

    Rebollo, R., Horard, B., Begeot, F., Delattre, M., Gilson, E. and Vieira, C. (2012). A snapshot of histone modifications within transposable elements in Drosophila wild type strains. PLoS One 7: e44253. PubMed ID: 22962605

    Vieira, C., Fablet, M., Lerat, E., Boulesteix, M., Rebollo, R., Burlet, N., Akkouche, A., Hubert, B., Mortada, H. and Biemont, C. (2012). A comparative analysis of the amounts and dynamics of transposable elements in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. J Environ Radioact 113: 83-86. PubMed ID: 22659421

    Fonseca, N. A., Vieira, C. P., Schlotterer, C. and Vieira, J. (2012). The DAIBAM MITE element is involved in the origin of one fixed and two polymorphic Drosophila virilis phylad inversions. Fly (Austin) 6: 71-74. PubMed ID: 22561870

  • Luigi Viggiano Department of Biology, Universita degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", 70125 Bari, Italy.
    Minervini, C. F., Berloco, M. F., Marsano, R. M. and Viggiano, L. (2022). The Ribosomal Protein RpL22 Interacts In Vitro with 5'-UTR Sequences Found in Some Drosophila melanogaster Transposons. Genes (Basel) 13(2). PubMed ID: 35205350

    Berloco, M. F., Minervini, C. F., Moschetti, R., Palazzo, A., Viggiano, L. and Marsano, R. M. (2021). Evidence of the Physical Interaction between Rpl22 and the Transposable Element Doc5, a Heterochromatic Transposon of Drosophila melanogaster. Genes (Basel) 12(12). PubMed ID: 34946947

    Moschetti, R., Palazzo, A., Lorusso, P., Viggiano, L. and Marsano, R. M. (2020). "What You Need, Baby, I Got It": Transposable Elements as Suppliers of Cis-Operating Sequences in Drosophila. Biology (Basel) 9(2). PubMed ID: 32028630

  • Jim Vigoreaux Deparment of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington
    Menard, L. M., Wood, N. B. and Vigoreaux, J. O. (2021). Contiguity and Structural Impacts of a Non-Myosin Protein within the Thick Filament Myosin Layers. Biology (Basel) 10(7). PubMed ID: 34356468

    Chakravorty, S., Tanner, B. C. W., Foelber, V. L., Vu, H., Rosenthal, M., Ruiz, T. and Vigoreaux, J. O. (2017). Flightin maintains myofilament lattice organization required for optimal flight power and courtship song quality in Drosophila. Proc Biol Sci 284(1854). PubMed ID: 28469022

    Chakravorty, S., Vu, H., Foelber, V. and Vigoreaux, J. O. (2014). Mutations of the Drosophila Myosin regulatory light chain affect courtship song and reduce reproductive success. PLoS One 9: e90077. PubMed ID: 24587213

    Soto-Adames, F. N., Alvarez-Ortiz, P. and Vigoreaux, J. O. (2014). An evolutionary analysis of flightin reveals a conserved motif unique and widespread in Pancrustacea. J Mol Evol 78: 24-37. PubMed ID: 24271855

    Chakravorty, S., Wajda, M. P. and Vigoreaux, J. O. (2012). Courtship song analysis of Drosophila muscle mutants. Methods 56: 87-94. PubMed ID: 21945578

  • Péter Vilmos Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary
    Bajusz, C., Kristo, I., Abonyi, C., Venit, T., Vedelek, V., Lukacsovich, T., Farkas, A., Borkuti, P., Kovacs, Z., Bajusz, I., Marton, A., Vizler, C., Lipinszki, Z., Sinka, R., Percipalle, P. and Vilmos, P. (2021). The nuclear activity of the actin-binding Moesin protein is necessary for gene expression in Drosophila. Febs j. PubMed ID: 33606336

    Kristo, I., Bajusz, C., Borsos, B. N., Pankotai, T., Dopie, J., Jankovics, F., Vartiainen, M. K., Erdelyi, M. and Vilmos, P. (2017). The actin binding cytoskeletal protein Moesin is involved in nuclear mRNA export. Biochim Biophys Acta 1864(10): 1589-1604. PubMed ID: 28554770

    Takacs, Z., Jankovics, F., Vilmos, P., Lenart, P., Roper, K. and Erdelyi, M. (2017). The spectraplakin Short stop is an essential microtubule regulator involved in epithelial closure in Drosophila. J Cell Sci 130(4): 712-724. PubMed ID: 24896584

  • K. VijayRaghavan National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
    Trisal, S., Aranha, M., Chodankar, A., VijayRaghavan, K. and Ramaswami, M. (2022). A Drosophila Circuit for Habituation Override. J Neurosci 42(14): 2930-2941. PubMed ID: 35232763

    Chen, N., Zhang, Y., Adel, M., Kuklin, E. A., Reed, M. L., Mardovin, J. D., Bakthavachalu, B., VijayRaghavan, K., Ramaswami, M. and Griffith, L. C. (2022). Local translation provides the asymmetric distribution of CaMKII required for associative memory formation. Curr Biol 32(12): 2730-2738. PubMed ID: 35545085

    Aggarwal, A., Reichert, H. and VijayRaghavan, K. (2019). A locomotor assay reveals deficits in heterozygous Parkinson's disease model and proprioceptive mutants in adult Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. PubMed ID: 31748267

    Gowda, S. B. M., Paranjpe, P. D., Reddy, O. V., Thiagarajan, D., Palliyil, S., Reichert, H. and VijayRaghavan, K. (2018). GABAergic inhibition of leg motoneurons is required for normal walking behavior in freely moving Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115(9): E2115-e2124. PubMed ID: 29440493

    Bohra, A. A., Kallman, B. R., Reichert, H. and VijayRaghavan, K. (2018). Identification of a single pair of interneurons for bitter taste processing in the Drosophila brain. Curr Biol 28(6): 847-858.e843. PubMed ID: 29502953

    Chaturvedi, D., Reichert, H., Gunage, R. D. and VijayRaghavan, K. (2017). Identification and functional characterization of muscle satellite cells in Drosophila. Elife 6. PubMed ID: 29072161

    Kendroud, S., Bohra, A. A., Kuert, P. A., Nguyen, B., Guillermin, O., Sprecher, S. G., Reichert, H., VijayRaghavan, K. and Hartenstein, V. (2017). Structure and development of the subesophageal zone of the Drosophila brain. II. Sensory compartments. J Comp Neurol. PubMed ID: 28875566

    Schwarz, O., Bohra, A. A., Liu, X., Reichert, H., VijayRaghavan, K. and Pielage, J. (2017). Motor control of Drosophila feeding behavior. Elife 6 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 28211791

    Gupta, T., Kumar, A., Pierre, C., VijayRaghavan, K. and Giangrande, A. (2016). The Glide/Gcm fate determinant controls initiation of collective cell migration by regulating Frazzled. Elife 5 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 27740455

    Syed, D.S., Bm, S., Reddy, O.V., Reichert, H. and VijayRaghavan, K. (2016). Glial and neuronal Semaphorin signaling instruct the development of a functional myotopic map for Drosophila walking. Elife [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 26926907

    Tiwari, P., Kumar, A., Das, R. N., Malhotra, V. and VijayRaghavan, K. (2015). A tendon cell specific RNAi screen reveals novel candidates essential for muscle tendon interaction. PLoS One 10: e0140976. PubMed ID: 26488612

    Dhanyasi, N., Segal, D., Shimoni, E., Shinder, V., Shilo, B.Z., VijayRaghavan, K. and Schejter, E.D. (2015). Surface apposition and multiple cell contacts promote myoblast fusion in Drosophila flight muscles. J Cell Biol 211: 191-203. PubMed ID: 26459604

  • Alain Vincent Center for Integrative Biology, Toulouse
    Recasens-Alvarez, C., Alexandre, C., Kirkpatrick, J., Nojima, H., Huels, D. J., Snijders, A. P. and Vincent, J. P. (2021). Ribosomopathy-associated mutations cause proteotoxic stress that is alleviated by TOR inhibition. Nat Cell Biol 23(2): 127-135. PubMed ID: 33495632

    Stapornwongkul, K. S., de Gennes, M., Cocconi, L., Salbreux, G. and Vincent, J. P. (2020). Patterning and growth control in vivo by an engineered GFP gradient. Science 370(6514): 321-327. PubMed ID: 33060356

    Yu, J. J. S., Maugarny-Calas, A., Pelletier, S., Alexandre, C., Bellaiche, Y., Vincent, J. P. and McGough, I. J. (2020). Frizzled-Dependent Planar Cell Polarity without Secreted Wnt Ligands. Dev Cell 54(5): 583-592.e585. PubMed ID: 32888416

    Carayon, A., Bataille, L., Lebreton, G., Dubois, L., Pelletier, A., Carrier, Y., Wystrach, A., Vincent, A. and Frendo, J. L. (2020). Intrinsic control of muscle attachment sites matching. Elife 9. PubMed ID: 32706334

    Bataille, L., Colombie, N., Pelletier, A., Paululat, A., Lebreton, G., Carrier, Y., Frendo, J. L. and Vincent, A. (2020). Alary muscles and TARMs, a novel type of striated muscles maintaining internal organs positions. Development. PubMed ID: 32188630

    Louradour, I., Sharma, A., Morin-Poulard, I., Letourneau, M., Vincent, A., Crozatier, M. and Vanzo, N. (2017). Reactive oxygen species-dependent Toll/NF-kappaB activation in the Drosophila hematopoietic niche confers resistance to wasp parasitism. Elife 6. PubMed ID: 29091025

    Augustin, H., McGourty, K., Allen, M. J., Madem, S. K., Adcott, J., Kerr, F., Wong, C. T., Vincent, A., Godenschwege, T., Boucrot, E. and Partridge, L. (2017). Reduced insulin signaling maintains electrical transmission in a neural circuit in aging flies. PLoS Biol 15(9): e2001655. PubMed ID: 28902870

    Sanchez Bosch, P., Ziukaite, R., Alexandre, C., Basler, K. and Vincent, J. B. (2017). Dpp controls growth and patterning in Drosophila wing precursors through distinct modes of action. Elife 6. PubMed ID: 28675374

    Bataille, L., Boukhatmi, H., Frendo, J. L. and Vincent, A. (2017). Dynamics of transcriptional (re)-programming of syncytial nuclei in developing muscles. BMC Biol 15(1): 48. PubMed ID: 28599653

    Augustin, H., McGourty, K., Steinert, J. R., Cocheme, H. M., Adcott, J., Cabecinha, M., Vincent, A., Halff, E. F., Kittler, J. T., Boucrot, E. and Partridge, L. (2017). Myostatin-like proteins regulate synaptic function and neuronal morphology. Development [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 28533206

    Ducuing, A. and Vincent, S. (2016). The actin cable is dispensable in directing dorsal closure dynamics but neutralizes mechanical stress to prevent scarring in the Drosophila embryo. Nat Cell Biol. PubMed ID: 27749820
  • Jean-Paul Vincent MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London
    Crossman, S. H., Streichan, S. J. and Vincent, J. P. (2018). EGFR signaling coordinates patterning with cell survival during Drosophila epidermal development. PLoS Biol 16(10): e3000027. PubMed ID: 30379844

    Baena-Lopez, L. A., Arthurton, L., Bischoff, M., Vincent, J. P., Alexandre, C. and McGregor, R. (2018). Novel initiator caspase reporters uncover unknown features of caspase-activating cells. Development. PubMed ID: 30413561

    de Taffin, M., Carrier, Y., Dubois, L., Bataille, L., Painset, A., Le Gras, S., Jost, B., Crozatier, M. and Vincent, A. (2015). Genome-Wide Mapping of Collier In Vivo Binding Sites Highlights Its Hierarchical Position in Different Transcription Regulatory Networks. PLoS One 10: e0133387. PubMed ID: 26204530

    Vincent, J. P. (2014). Modulating and measuring wingless signalling. Methods. PubMed ID: 24675402

    Baena-Lopez, L. A., Alexandre, C., Mitchell, A., Pasakarnis, L. and Vincent, J. P. (2013). Accelerated homologous recombination and subsequent genome modification in Drosophila. Development. PubMed ID: 24154526

    Beckett, K., Monier, S., Palmer, L., Alexandre, C., Green, H., Bonneil, E., Raposo, G., Thibault, P., Le Borgne, R. and Vincent, J. P. (2013). Drosophila S2 cells secrete wingless on exosome-like vesicles but the wingless gradient forms independently of exosomes. Traffic 14: 82-96. PubMed ID: 23035643

    Kolahgar, G., Bardet, P. L., Langton, P. F., Alexandre, C. and Vincent, J. P. (2011). Apical deficiency triggers JNK-dependent apoptosis in the embryonic epidermis of Drosophila. Development 138: 3021-3031. PubMed ID: 21693518

  • Stéphane Vincent Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
    Ducuing, A., Mollereau, B., Axelrod, J. D. and Vincent, S. (2013). Absolute requirement of cholesterol binding for Hedgehog gradient formation in Drosophila. Biol Open 2: 596-604. PubMed ID: 23789110

    Vincent, S., Perrimon, N. and Axelrod, J. D. (2008). Hedgehog and Wingless stabilize but do not induce cell fate during Drosophila dorsal embryonic epidermal patterning. Development 135: 2767-2775. PubMed ID: 18614578

  • Neus Visa Department of Molecular Biosciences, Stockholm University
    Yu, S., Jordan-Pla, A., Ganez-Zapater, A., Jain, S., Rolicka, A., Ostlund Farrants, A. K. and Visa, N. (2018). SWI/SNF interacts with cleavage and polyadenylation factors and facilitates pre-mRNA 3' end processing. Nucleic Acids Res. PubMed ID: 29860334

    Jordan-Pla, A., Yu, S., Waldholm, J., Kallman, T., Ostlund Farrants, A. K. and Visa, N. (2018). SWI/SNF regulates half of its targets without the need of ATP-driven nucleosome remodeling by Brahma. BMC Genomics 19(1): 367. PubMed ID: 29776334

    Eberle, A.B., Jordán-Pla, A., Gañez-Zapater, A., Hessle, V., Silberberg, G., von Euler, A., Silverstein, R.A. and Visa, N. (2015). An interaction between RRP6 and SU(VAR)3-9 targets RRP6 to heterochromatin and contributes to heterochromatin maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genet 11: e1005523. PubMed ID: 26389589

    Marin-Vicente, C., Domingo-Prim, J., Eberle, A.B. and Visa, N. (2015). RRP6/EXOSC10 is required for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks by homologous recombination. J Cell Sci [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 25632158

    Yu, S., Waldholm, J., Bohm, S. and Visa, N. (2014). Brahma regulates a specific trans-splicing event at the mod(mdg4) locus of Drosophila melanogaster. RNA Biol 11. PubMed ID: 24526065

    Waldholm, J., Wang, Z., Brodin, D., Tyagi, A., Yu, S., Theopold, U., Farrants, A. K. and Visa, N. (2011). SWI/SNF regulates the alternative processing of a specific subset of pre-mRNAs in Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Mol Biol 12: 46. PubMed ID: 22047075

  • Talila Volk Weizmann Institute of Science
    Unnikannan, C. P., Reuveny, A., Grunberg, D. and Volk, T. (2020). Recruitment of BAF to the nuclear envelope couples the LINC complex to endoreplication. Development. PubMed ID: 33168584

    Ben-Zvi, D. S. and Volk, T. (2019). Escort cell encapsulation of Drosophila germline cells is maintained by irre cell recognition module proteins. Biol Open 8(3). PubMed ID: 30837217

    Wang, S., Stoops, E., Cp, U., Markus, B., Reuveny, A., Ordan, E. and Volk, T. (2018). Mechanotransduction via the LINC complex regulates DNA replication in myonuclei. J Cell Biol. PubMed ID: 29650775

    Vanhoutte, D., Schips, T. G., Kwong, J. Q., Davis, J., Tjondrokoesoemo, A., Brody, M. J., Sargent, M. A., Kanisicak, O., Yi, H., Gao, Q. Q., Rabinowitz, J. E., Volk, T., McNally, E. M. and Molkentin, J. D. (2016). Thrombospondin expression in myofibers stabilizes muscle membranes. Elife 5 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 27669143

    Ordan, E. and Volk, T. (2016). Amontillado is required for Drosophila Slit processing and for tendon-mediated muscle patterning. Biol Open 5(10):1530-1534. PubMed ID: 27628033

    Wang, S. and Volk, T. (2015). Composite biopolymer scaffolds shape muscle nucleus: Insights and perspectives from Drosophila. Bioarchitecture [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 26605802

    Ordan, E. and Volk, T. (2015). Cleaved Slit directs embryonic muscles. Fly (Austin): 0. PubMed ID: 26554435

    Ordan, E. and Volk, T. (2015). A non-signaling role of Robo2 in tendons is essential for Slit processing and muscle patterning. Development. PubMed ID: 26400093

    Wang, S., Reuveny, A. and Volk, T. (2015). Nesprin provides elastic properties to muscle nuclei by cooperating with spectraplakin and EB1. J Cell Biol 209: 529-538. PubMed ID: 26008743

    Ordan, E., Brankatschk, M., Dickson, B., Schnorrer, F. and Volk, T. (2015). Slit cleavage is essential for producing an active, stable, non-diffusible short-range signal that guides muscle migration. Development [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 25813540

    Volk, T., Wang, S., Rotstein, B. and Paululat, A. (2014). Matricellular proteins in development: Perspectives from the Drosophila heart. Matrix Biol. PubMed ID: 24726952White, L. A., Siva-Jothy, J. A., Craft, M. E. and Vale, P. F. (2020). Genotype and sex-based host variation in behaviour and susceptibility drives population disease dynamics. Proc Biol Sci 287(1938): 20201653. PubMed ID: 33171094 v

  • Pelin Volkan Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC
    Barish, S., Nuss, S., Strunilin, I., Bao, S., Mukherjee, S., Jones, C. D. and Volkan, P. C. (2018). Combinations of DIPs and Dprs control organization of olfactory receptor neuron terminals in Drosophila. PLoS Genet 14(8): e1007560. PubMed ID: 30102700

    Pan, J. W., McLaughlin, J., Yang, H., Leo, C., Rambarat, P., Okuwa, S., Monroy-Eklund, A., Clark, S., Jones, C. D. and Volkan, P. C. (2017). Comparative analysis of behavioral and transcriptional variation underlying CO2 sensory neuron function and development in Drosophila. Fly (Austin): 0. PubMed ID: 28644712

    Barish, S., Li, Q., Pan, J. W., Soeder, C., Jones, C. and Volkan, P. C. (2017). Transcriptional profiling of olfactory system development identifies distal antenna as a regulator of subset of neuronal fates. Sci Rep 7: 40873. PubMed ID: 28102318

    Li, Q., Barish, S., Okuwa, S., Maciejewski, A., Brandt, A. T., Reinhold, D., Jones, C. D. and Volkan, P. C. (2016). A functionally conserved gene regulatory network module governing olfactory neuron diversity. PLoS Genet 12: e1005780. PubMed ID: 26765103

    Li, Q., Barish, S., Okuwa, S. and Volkan, P. C. (2015). Examination of endogenous Rotund expression and function in developing Drosophila olfactory system using CRISPR-Cas9 mediated protein tagging. G3 (Bethesda). PubMed ID: 26497147

    Barish, S. and Volkan, P. C. (2015). Mechanisms of olfactory receptor neuron specification in Drosophila. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Dev Biol [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 26088441

    Li, Q., Ha, T. S., Okuwa, S., Wang, Y., Wang, Q., Millard, S. S., Smith, D. P. and Volkan, P. C. (2013). Combinatorial Rules of Precursor Specification Underlying Olfactory Neuron Diversity. Curr Biol. PubMed ID: 24268416

  • Leslie Vosshall
    Yapici, N., Cohn, R., Schusterreiter, C., Ruta, V. and Vosshall, L.B. (2016). A taste circuit that regulates ingestion by integrating food and hunger signals. Cell [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed ID: 27040496

    Bussell, J. J., Yapici, N., Zhang, S. X., Dickson, B. J. and Vosshall, L. B. (2014). Abdominal-B Neurons Control Drosophila Virgin Female Receptivity. Curr Biol. PubMed ID: 24998527

    Ito, K., Shinomiya, K., Ito, M., Armstrong, J. D., Boyan, G., Hartenstein, V., Harzsch, S., Heisenberg, M., Homberg, U., Jenett, A., Keshishian, H., Restifo, L. L., Rossler, W., Simpson, J. H., Strausfeld, N. J., Strauss, R., Vosshall, L. B. and Insect Brain Name Working, G. (2014). A systematic nomenclature for the insect brain. Neuron 81: 755-765. PubMed ID: 24559671

    Crickmore, M. A. and Vosshall, L. B. (2013). Opposing dopaminergic and GABAergic neurons control the duration and persistence of copulation in Drosophila. Cell 155: 881-893. PubMed ID: 24209625

    Gasque, G., Conway, S., Huang, J., Rao, Y. and Vosshall, L. B. (2013). Small molecule drug screening in Drosophila identifies the 5HT2A receptor as a feeding modulation target. Sci Rep 3: srep02120. PubMed ID: 23817146

    Nakagawa, T., Pellegrino, M., Sato, K., Vosshall, L. B. and Touhara, K. (2012). Amino acid residues contributing to function of the heteromeric insect olfactory receptor complex. PLoS One 7: e32372. PubMed ID: 22403649

    Farhadian, S. F., Suarez-Farinas, M., Cho, C. E., Pellegrino, M. and Vosshall, L. B. (2012). Post-fasting olfactory, transcriptional, and feeding responses in Drosophila. Physiol Behav 105: 544-553. PubMed ID: 21945372 The sensation of hunge

    Pellegrino, M., Steinbach, N., Stensmyr, M. C., Hansson, B. S. and Vosshall, L. B. (2011). A natural polymorphism alters odour and DEET sensitivity in an insect odorant receptor. Nature 478: 511-514. PubMed ID: 21937991


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