The Students

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Current Students’ Publications
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Alumni Publications

Current Students

Name E-mail Mentor
Josh Adams Benjamin Deneen
Callison Alcott Huda Zoghbi
Onur Birol Andy Groves
Rogers Brown Andy Groves
Jeffrey Carlson Benjamin Deneen
Tiantian Cai Andy Groves
Lesley Chaboub Benjamin Deneen
Kuchuan Chen Hugo Bellen
Sungwoo Choi David Moore
William Choi Mirjana Maletic-Savetic
Sean Cullen Peggy Goodell
Gabriela David Hugo Bellen
Antonia De Maio Huda Zoghbi
Jonathon Duffy rotation
Renee Edlund Andy Groves
Andrew Folick Meng Wang
Upasana Gala Hugo Bellen
Isabella Garcia Ben Arenkiel
Nele Haelterman Hugo Bellen
Alexander Herman Ben Arenkiel
Matthew Hill James Martin
Tammy Szu-Yu Ho Matt Rasband
Yung-Hsin Huang Peggy Goodell
Teng-Wei Huang Jeffrey Neul
Hsin-I Jen Andy Groves
Tony (Yajian) Jiang rotation
Jordan Kho Brendan Lee
Dylan Laug Ben Deneen
Tongchao Li Andy Groves
Cheng-Hsin Liu rotation
Hsiang-Chih (Sean) Lu Huda Zoghbi
Dongxue Mao Hugo Bellen
Nirva Mumcuyan rotation
Rebecca Murdaugh rotation
Joshua Ortiz Ben Arenkiel
Sena Ozseker Meng Wang
Valencia Potter   rotation
Martin Powers rotation
Sandra Riad rotation
Marissa Scavuzzo Malgorzata (Gosia) Borowiak
Fatih Semerci Mirjana Maletic-Savetic
Mumine Senturk Hugo Bellen
Sishir Subedi Huda Zoghbi
Kai Li Tan Hugo Bellen
Burak Tepe Ben Arenkiel
Chang-Ru Tsai Michael Galko
Berrak Ugur Hugo Bellen
Kevin Ung Ben Arenkiel
Gabriel Vazquez Velez rotation
Zer Vue Richard Behringer
Shiuan (Kevin) Wang Hugo Bellen
Szu-Ying (Sam) Yeh Huda Zoghbi
Shuo-Ting Yen Richard Behringer
Huan-Chang Zeng Brendan Lee

Current Students’ Publications

 

Cai T, Seymour ML, Zhang H, Pereira FA, Groves AK (2013) Conditional deletion of atoh1 reveals distinct critical periods for survival and function of hair cells in the organ of corti. Journal of Neuroscience 33:10110-10122.


Chaboub LS, Deneen B (2012) Developmental origins of astrocyte heterogeneity: the final frontier of CNS development. Developmental Neuroscience 34:379-388.

Chaboub LS, Deneen B (2013) Astrocyte form and function in the developing central nervous system. Seminars in Pediatric Neurology 20:230-235.

Molofsky AV, Glasgow SM, Chaboub LS, Tsai HH, Murnen AT, Kelley KW, Fancy SP, Yuen TJ, Madireddy L, Baranzini S, Deneen B, Rowitch DH, Oldham MC (2013) Expression profiling of Aldh1l1-precursors in the developing spinal cord reveals glial lineage-specific genes and direct Sox9-Nfe2l1 interactions. Glia 61:1518-1532.


Chen YC, Lin YQ, Banerjee S, Venken K, Li J, Ismat A, Chen K, Duraine L, Bellen HJ, Bhat MA (2012) Drosophila Neuroligin 2 is required presynaptically and postsynaptically for proper synaptic differentiation and synaptic transmission. Journal of Neuroscience 32:16018-16030.

Charng WL, Yamamoto S, Jaiswal M, Bayat V, Xiong B, Zhang K, Sandoval H, David G, Gibbs S, Lu HC, Chen K, Giagtzoglou N, Bellen HJ (2014) Drosophila Tempura, a novel protein prenyltransferase α subunit, regulates Notch signaling via Rab1 and Rab11. PLoS Biology 12:e1001777.


Peterson C, Vannucci M, Karakas C, Choi W, Ma L, Maletić-Savatić M (2013) Inferring metabolic networks using the Bayesian adaptive graphical lasso with informative priors. Statistics and Its Interface 6:547-558.

Pang K, Wan YW, Choi WT, Donehower LA, Sun J, Pant D, Liu Z (2014) Combinatorial therapy discovery using mixed integer linear programming. Bioinformatics 30:1456-1463.


Cullen SM, Goodell MA (2013) Rising from the crypt: Decreasing DNA methylation during differentiation of the small intestine. Genome Biology 14:116-118.

Cullen SM, Mayle A, Rossi L, Goodell MA (2014) Hematopoietic stem cell development: An epigenetic journey. Current Topics in Developmental Biology 107:39-75.

Challen GA, Jeong M, Sun D, Mayle A, Luo M, Rodriquez B, Mallaney C, Yang L, Xia Z, Cullen SM, Darlington GJ, Li W, Goodell MA (2014) Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b have overlapping and distinct functions in hematopoietic stem cells (submitted).


Acar M, Jafar-Nejad H, Giagtzoglou N, Yallampalli S, David G, He Y, Delidakis C, Bellen HJ (2006) Senseless physically interacts with proneural proteins and functions as a transcriptional co-activator. Development 133:1979-1989.

Xiong B, Bayat V, Jaiswal M, Zhang K, Sandoval H, Charng W-L, Li TC, David G, Duraine L, Lin YQ, Neely GG, Yamamoto S, Bellen HJ (2012) Crag is a GEF for Rab11 required for rhodopsin trafficking and maintenance of adult photoreceptor cells. PLoS Biology 10:e1001438.

Yamamoto S, Charng W-L, Rana NA, Kakuda S, Jaiswal M, Bayat V, Xiong B, Zhang K, Sandoval H, David G, Wang H, Haltiwanger RS, Bellen HJ (2012) A mutation in EGF repeat 8 of Notch discriminates between Serrate/Jagged and Delta family ligands. Science 338:1229-1232.

Zhang K, Li Z, Jaiswal M, Bayat V, Xiong B, Sandoval H, Charng WL, David G, Haueter C, Yamamoto S, Graham BH, Bellen HJ (2013) The C8ORF38 homologue Sicily is a cytosolic chaperone for a mitochondrial complex I subunit. Journal of Cell Biology 200:807-820.


Folick A, Oakley HD, Yu Y, Armstrong EH, Kumari M, Sanor L, Moore DD, Zechner R, Ortlund EA, Wang MC (2014) Lysosomal signaling molecules regulate longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature (in revision).

Folick A, Min W, Wang MC (2011) Label-free imaging of lipid dynamics using Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) and Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) microscopy. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 2:585-590.


Garcia I, Huang L, Ung K, Arenkiel BR (2012) Tracing synaptic connectivity onto embryonic stem cell-derived neurons. Stem Cells 30:2140-2151.

Garcia I, Kim C, Arenkiel BR (2012) Genetic strategies to investigate neuronal circuit properties using stem cell-derived neurons. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscince 6:59.

Huang L, Garcia I, Jen HI, Arenkiel BR (2013) Reciprocal connectivity between mitral cells and external plexiform layer interneurons in the mouse olfactory bulb. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 7:23.

Garcia I, Kim C, Arenkiel BR (2013) Revealing neuronal circuitry using stem cell-derived neurons. Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology Chapter 2:Unit 2D.15.

Herman AM, Huang L, Murphey DK, Garcia I, Arenkiel BR (2014) Cell type-specific and time-dependent light exposure contribute to silencing in neurons expressing Channelrhodopsin-2. eLife 3:e01481.

Garcia I, Quast KB, Selever J, Huang L, Bhullar PK, Herman AM, Justice NJ, Arenkiel BR (2014) Local CRH signaling promotes synaptogenesis and circuit integration of adult-born neurons (in revision).


Venken KJ, Schulze KL, Haelterman NA, Pan H, He Y, Evans-Holm M, Carlson JW, Levis RW, Spradling AC, Hoskins RA, Bellen HJ (2011) MiMIC: a highly versatile transposon insertion resource for engineering Drosophila melanogaster genes. Nature Methods 8:737-743.

Jusiak B, Abulimiti A, Haelterman N, Chen R, Mardon G (2012) MAPK target sites of eyes absent are not required for eye development or survival in Drosophila. PLoS One 7:e50776.

Haelterman NA, Yoon WH, Sandoval H, Jaiswal M, Shulman JM, Bellen HJ (2014) A mitocentric view of Parkinson’s Disease. Annual Review of Neuroscience 37:137-159.

Haelterman NA, Jiang L, Li Y, Bayat V, Ugur B, Tan KL, Zhang K, Bei D, Xiong B, Charng WL, David G, Sandoval H, Jaiswal M, Venken KJT, Yamamoto S, Chen R, Bellen HJ (2014) Large-scale identification of chemically induced mutations in Drosophila melanogaster Genome Research (in press).


Herman AM, Huang L, Murphey DK, Garcia I, Arenkiel BR (2014) Cell type-specific and timedependent light exposure contribute to neuronal silencing in neurons expressing Channelrhodopsin-2. eLife 3:e01481.


Ho TS, Rasband MN (2011) Maintenance of neuronal polarity. Developmental Neurobiology 71:474-482.

Gasser A, Ho TS, Cheng X, Chang KJ, Waxman SG, Rasband MN, Dib-Hajj SD (2012) An ankyrinG-binding motif is necessary and sufficient for targeting Nav1.6 sodium channels to axon initial segments and nodes of Ranvier. Journal of Neuroscience 32:7232-7243.

Galiano MR, Jha S, Ho TS, Zhang C, Ogawa Y, Chang KJ, Stankewich MC, Mohler PJ, Rasband MN (2012) A distal axonal cytoskeleton forms an intra-axonal boundary that controls axon initial segment assembly. Cell 149:1125-1139.

Duman J, Tzeng C, Tu Y-K, Munjal T, Schwechter B, Ho TS, Tolias K (2013) The adhesion- GPCR BAI1 regulates synaptogenesis by controlling the recruitment of the Par3/Tiam1 polarity complex to synaptic sites. Journal of Neuroscience 33:6964-6978.

Ho TS, Zollinger DR, Chang KJ, Xu M, Cooper EC, Stankewich MC, Bennett V, Rasband MN (2014) A hierarchy of ankyrin/spectrin complexes clusters sodium channels at nodes of Ranvier (submitted).


McCauley MD, Wang T, Mike E, Herrera J, Beavers DL, Huang TW, Ward CS, Skinner S, Percy AK, Glaze DG, Wehrens XH, Neul JL (2011) Pathogenesis of lethal cardiac arrhythmias in Mecp2 mutant mice: implication for therapy in Rett syndrome. Science Translational Medicine 3:113ra125.

Ward CS, Arvide EM, Huang TW, Yoo J, Noebels JL, Neul JL (2011) MeCP2 is critical within HoxB1-derived tissues of mice for normal lifespan. Journal of Neuroscience 31:10359-10370.

Huang WH, Tupal S, Huang TW Ward CS, Neul JL, Klisch TJ, Gray PA, Zoghbi HY (2012) Atoh1 governs the migration of postmitotic neurons that shape respiratory effectiveness at birth and chemoresponsiveness in adulthood. Neuron 75:799-809.


Huang L, Garcia I, Jen HI, Arenkiel BR (2013) Reciprocal connectivity between mitral cells and external plexiform layer interneurons in the mouse olfactory bulb. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 7:23.


Glasgow SM, Laug D, Brawley VS, Zhang Z, Corder A, Yin Z, Wong STC, Li X, Foster A, Ahmed N, Deneen B (2013) The miR-223/Nuclear Factor I-A axis regulates glial precursor proliferation and tumorigenesis in the CNS. Journal of Neuroscience 33:13560-13568.


Xiong B, Bayat V, Jaiswal M, Zhang K, Sandoval H, Charng W-L, Li TC, David G, Duraine L, Lin YQ, Neely GG, Yamamoto S, Bellen HJ (2012) Crag is a GEF for Rab11 required for rhodopsin trafficking and maintenance of adult photoreceptor cells. PLoS Biology 10:e1001438.

Giagtzoglou N, Li T, Yamamoto S, Bellen HJ (2013) Drosophila EHBP1 regulates Scabrous secretion during Notch-mediated lateral inhibition. Journal of Cell Science 126:3686-3696.


Kim E, Lu HC, Zoghbi HY, Song JJ (2013) Structural basis of protein complex formation and reconfiguration by polyglutamine disease protein Ataxin-1 and Capicua. Genes and Development 27:590-595.

Park J, Al-Ramahi I, Tan Q, Mollema N, Diaz-Garcia JR, Gallego-Flores T, Lu HC, Lagalwar S, Duvick L, Kang H, Lee Y, Jafar-Nejad P, Sayegh LS, Richman R, Liu X, Gao Y, Shaw CA, Arthur JS, Orr HT, Westbrook TF, Botas J, Zoghbi HY (2013) RAS-MAPK-MSK1 pathway modulates ataxin 1 protein levels and toxicity in SCA1. Nature 498:325-331.


Rodgers JT, King KY, Brett JO, Cromie MJ, Charville GW, Maguire KK, Brunson C, Mastey N, Liu L, Tsai CR, Goodell MA, Rando TA (2014) mTORC1 controls the adaptive transition of quiescent stem cells from G0 to GAlert. Nature (in press).


Ung K, Arenkiel BR (2012) Fiber-optic implantation for chronic optogenetic stimulation of brain tissue. Journal of Visualized Experiments 68:e50004.


Lee TV, Fan Y, Wang S, Srivastava M, Broemer M, Meier P, Bergmann A (2011) Drosophila IAP1-mediated ubiquitylation controls activation of the initiator caspase DRONC independent of protein degradation. PLoS Genetics 7:e1002261.

Fan Y, Wang S, Hernandez J, Sahin V, Hertlein G, Fogarty CE, Lindblad JL, Bergmann A (2014) Genetic models of apoptosis-induced proliferation decipher activation of JNK and identify a requirement of EGFR signaling for tissue regenerative responses in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics 10:e1004131.

Wang S, Liu W, Agosto MA, Xiong B, Yamamoto S, Tang FL, Tan KL, Sandoval H, Jaiswal M, Bayat V, Zhang K, Charng WL, David G, Duraine L, Venkatachalam K, Wensel TG, Xiong WC, Bellen HJ (2014) The retromer complex is required for rhodopsin recycling and loss of retromer subunits leads to photoreceptor degeneration. PLoS Biology 12:e1001847.


Chen YT, Tsai MS, Yang TL, Ku AT, Huang KH, Huang CY, Chou FJ, Fan HH, Hong JB, Yen ST, Wang WL, Lin CC, Hsu YC, Su KY, Su IC, Jang CW, Behringer RR, Favaro R, Nicolis SK, Chien CL, Lin SW, Yu IS (2012) R26R-GR: a Cre-activable dual fluorescent protein reporter mouse. PLoS One 7:e46171.


Bae Y, Yang T, Zeng HC, Campeau PM, Chen Y, Bertin T, Dawson BC, Munivez E, Tao J, Lee BH (2012) miRNA-34c regulates Notch signaling during bone development. Human Molecular Genetics 21:2991-3000.


Alumni

Name Current Position
Radwan Abu-Issa Assistant Professor
University of Michigan, Dearborn
Melih Acar Assistant Instructor
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Hillary Andrews Postdoctoral Fellow
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Joanna Asprer Postdoctoral Fellow and Product Management Intern
Keck Graduate Institute and Life Technologies, Inc., San Diego Area
Mardelle Atkins Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Leuven, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Belgium
Xiaoying Bai Assistant Professor
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Travis Bailey Assistant Professor
The State University of New York, Geneseo
Carlos Ballester Postdoctoral Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine
Steven Baker Resident in Pathology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Vafa Bayat Resident in Pathology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Jacob Berry Postdoctoral Fellow
The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL
Tammy Chan Field Applications Scientist
Molecular Devices, Dallas, TX
Hua Chang Senior Research Scientist
Metamark Genetics, Cambridge, MA
Kae-Jiun Chang Postdoctoral Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine
Wu-Lin Charng Postdoctoral Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine
Bob Chen Assistant Professor
National Taiwan University, Taipei
Rui Chen Assistant Professor, Human Genome Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Caterina Clementi Postdoctoral Fellow
New York University Medical Center
Daisy Dai Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Colorado, Denver
Onkar Dhande Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Diego
Tania Dutta Project Manager
Center for Medical Technology Policy, Baltimore, MD
Guy Eakin Vice President of Scientific Affairs
BrightFocus Foundation, Clarksburg, MD
Aysegul Verim Ergun Postdoctoral Fellow
National Institutes of Health, Washington DC
Stephanie Greene Scientist Assay Development
Epic Sciences, San Diego, CA
Shannon Griswold AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
Fisun Hamaratoglu Group Leader
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Ya-chieh Hsu Assistant Professor, Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology
Harvard University
Cheng-Chiu Huang Postdoctoral Fellow
Washington University, St Louis
Wei-Hsiang (Shawn) Huang Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University
Eric Hyun Resident in Internal Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Melis Inan Postdoctoral Fellow
Weill Cornell Medical College, NY
Chuan-Wei Jang Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Carolina Jorgez Assistant Professor in Urology
Baylor College of Medicine
Barbara Jusiak Postdoctoral Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kirsten Kibler Obstetrician & Gynecologist
New Britain Ob-Gyn Group, CT
Akio Kobayashi Assistant Professor
University of Washington, Seattle
Tong-Wey Koh Postdoctoral Fellow
Maranke Koster Assistant Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Biology
University of Colorado, Denver
Anthony Lau Science Teacher
Elkins High School, Fort Bend ISD
Jae Man Lee Postdoctoral Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine
Jessica Leonardi Adjunct Professor
LoneStar College, TX
Heping Liu Instructor
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Pentao Liu Academic Faculty
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Joe Lu Research Scientist
Research Collaboratory, IBM, Taiwan
Hui-Chen (Ruth) Lu Associate Professor, The Cain Foundation Laboratories
Baylor College of Medicine
Kat Marcelo Postdoctoral Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine
Chris McGraw Resident in Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
Sunil Mehta Instructor in Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
University of California, LA
Clayton Morrison Field Application Specialist
Roche Diagnostics, Houston, TX
Edward Miranda Partner
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Bibhash Mukhopadhyay Associate Director, Partnering & Strategy
MedImmune, Biologics R&D Division of AstraZeneca, Washington DC
Kavita Oommen Lecturer in Genetics/Molecular Cell Biology
Georgia State University, Atlanta
Kartik Pappu Manager, Pricing
Onyx Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco
Prajal Patel Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Denver, CO
Ross Poché Assistant Professor in Physiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Mahalakshmi Prabhakaran Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University
Sergei Prokopenko Lecturer, School of Applied and Health Sciences
Institute of Technical Education, Singapore
Matthew F. Rose Resident in Neuropathology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Molly Schroeder Clinical Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics Fellow
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, OH
Elaine Seto Assistant Professor in Pediatrics-Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine
Amy Shore Postdoctoral Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine
Hong Su Scientist
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY
Milind Suraokar Instructor
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Beril Tavsanli Independent Writing and Editing Professional
Istanbul, Turkey
Stacey B. Tepera Chief Analyst
PASA Demographics, College Station, TX
An-Chi Tien Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Francisco
Ryan Udan Postdoctoral Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine
Nancy Van Driessche Team Leader, Publication Management
XPE Pharma & Science, Belgium
Koen Venken Assistant Professor in Biochemistry
Baylor College of Medicine
Patrik Verstreken Associate Professor
University of Leuven and Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium
Elizabeth Villegas Postdoctoral Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine
Adriana Visbal Postdoctoral Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine
Vincent Wang Neurosurgeon
Texas Spine & Neurosurgery Center
Sarah Woodfield Research Associate
Baylor College of Medicine
Bo Xiong Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Washington, Seattle
Odessa Yabut Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Francisco
Shinya Yamamoto Assistant Professor in Molecular & Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine and Neurological Research Institute, Houston, TX
Li Zhang Associate Director, Portfolio
HUYA Bioscience International, San Diego, CA

Alumni Publications

Albrecht U, Abu-Issa R, Ratz B, Hattori M, Aoki J, Arai H, Inoue K, Eichele G (1996) Platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase expression and activity suggest a link between neuronal migration and platelet-activating factor. Developmental Biology 180:579-593.

Abu-Issa R, Eichele G, Youssoufian H (2000) Expression of the Fanconi anemia group A gene (Fanca) during mouse embryogenesis. Blood 94:818-824.


Jafar-Nejad H*, Acar M*, Nolo R, Lacin H, Pan H, Parkhurst SM, Bellen HJ (2003) Senseless acts as a binary switch during sensory organ precursor selection. Genes and Development 17:2966-2978.

Jafar-Nejad H, Andrews HK, Acar M, Bayat V, Wirtz-Peitz F, Mehta SQ, Knoblich JA, Bellen HJ (2005) Sec15, a component of the exocyst, promotes Notch signaling during the asymmetric division of Drosophila sensory organ precursors. Developmental Cell 9:351-363.

Jafar-Nejad H, Tien AC, Acar M, Bellen HJ (2006) Senseless and Daughterless confer neuronal identity to epithelial cells in the Drosophila wing margin. Development 133:1683-1692.

Acar M, Jafar-Nejad H, Giagtzoglou N, Yallampalli S, David G, He Y, Delidakis C, Bellen HJ (2006) Senseless physically interacts with proneural proteins and functions as a transcriptional co-activator. Development 133:1979-1989.

Childress JL, Acar M, Tao C, Halder G (2006) Lethal giant discs, a novel C2-domain protein, restricts notch activation during endocytosis. Current Biology 16:2228-2233.

Zhang J, Schulze KL, Hiesinger PR, Suyama K, Wang S, Fish M, Acar M, Hoskins RA, Bellen HJ, Scott MP (2007) Thirty-one flavors of Drosophila rab proteins. Genetics 176:1307-1322.

Acar M, Jafar-Nejad H, Takeuchi H, Rajan A, Ibrani D, Rana NA, Pan H, Haltiwanger RS, Bellen HJ (2008) Rumi is a CAP10 domain glycosyltransferase that modifies Notch and is required for Notch signaling. Cell 132:247-258.

Tien AC, Rajan A, Schulze KL, Ryoo HD, Acar M, Steller H, Bellen HJ (2008) Ero1L, a thiol oxidase, is required for Notch signaling through cysteine bridge formation of the Lin12-Notch repeats in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Cell Biology 182:1113-1125.


Jafar-Nejad H, Andrews HK, Acar M, Bayat V, Wirtz-Peitz F, Mehta SQ, Knoblich JA, Bellen HJ (2005) Sec15, a component of the exocyst, promotes Notch signaling during the asymmetric division of Drosophila sensory organ precursors. Developmental Cell 9:351-363.

Andrews HK, Giagtzoglou N, Yamamoto S, Schulze KL, Bellen HJ (2009) Sequoia regulates cell fate decisions in the external sensory organs of adult Drosophila. EMBO Reports 10:636-664.


Asprer JS, Lee B, Wu CS, Vadakkan T, Dickinson ME, Lu HC, Lee SK (2011) LMO4 functions as a co-activator of neurogenin 2 in the developing cortex. Development 138:2823-2832.


Pappu KS, Ostrin EJ, Middlebrooks BW, Silo BT, Chen R, Atkins MR, Gibbs R, Mardon G (2005) Dual regulation and redundant function of two eye-specific enhancers of the Drosophila retinal determination gene dachshund. Development 132:2895-2905.

Pepple KL, Atkins M, Venken K, Wellnitz K, Harding M, Frankfort B, Mardon G (2008) Two-step selection of a single R8 photoreceptor: a bistable loop between senseless and rough locks in R8 fate. Development 135:4071-4079.

Atkins M, Mardon G (2009) Signaling in the third dimension: the peripodial epithelium in eye disc development. Developmental Dynamics 238:2139-2148.

Atkins M, Jiang Y, Sansores-Garcia L, Jusiak B, Halder G, Mardon G (2013) Dynamic rewiring of the Drosophila retinal determination network switches its function from selector to differentiation. Development 9:e1003731.


Park Y, Mengus G, Bai X, Kageyama Y, Meller VH, Becker PB, Kuroda MI (2003) Sequence-specific targeting of Drosophila roX genes by the MSL dosage compensation complex. Molecular Cell 11:977-986.

Bai X, Alekseyenko AA, Kuroda MI (2004) Sequence-specific targeting of MSL complex regulates transcription of the roX RNA genes. EMBO Journal 23:2853-2861.

Oh H, Bai X, Park Y, Bone JR, Kuroda MI (2005) Targeting dosage compensation to the X chromosome of Drosophila males. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 69:1-8.


Baker SA, Chen L, Wilkins AD, Yu P, Lichtarge O, Zoghbi HY (2013) An AT-hook domain in MeCP2 determines the clinical course of Rett syndrome and related disorders. Cell 152:984-996.

Jiang M, Ash RT, Baker SA, Suter B, Ferguson A, Rudy J, Torsky SP, Chao HT, Zoghbi HY, Smirnakis SM (2013) Dendritic arborization and spine dynamics are abnormal in the mouse model of MECP2 duplication syndrome. Journal of Neuroscience 33:19518-19533.


Bailey TJ, El-Hodiri H, Zhang L, Shah R, Mathers PH, Jamrich M (2004) Regulation of vertebrate eye development by Rx genes. International Journal of Developmental Biology 48:761-770.

Swindell EC, Bailey TJ, Loosli F, Liu C, Amaya-Manzanares F, Mahon KA, Wittbrodt J, Jamrich M (2006) Rx-Cre, a tool for inactivation of gene expression in the developing retina. Genesis 44:361-363.

Wang J, Cortina G, Wu SV, Tran R, Cho JH, Tsai MJ, Bailey TJ, Jamrich M, Ament ME, Treem WR, Hill ID, Vargas JH, Gershman G, Farmer DG, Reyen L, Martín MG (2006) Mutant neurogenin-3 in congenital malabsorptive diarrhea. New England Journal of Medicine 355:270-280.


Mulder J, Aguado T, Keimpema E, Barabás K, Ballester-Rosado CJ, Nguyen L, Monory K, Marsicano G, Di Marzo V, Hurd YL, Guillemot F, Mackie K, Lutz B, Guzmán M, Lu HC, Galve-Roperh I, Harkany T (2008) Endocannabinoid signaling controls pyramidal cell specification and long-range axon patterning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:8760-8765.

Ballester-Rosado CJ, Albright MJ, Wu CS, Liao CC, Zhu J, Xu J, Lee LJ, Lu HC (2010) mGluR5 in cortical excitatory neurons exerts both cell-autonomous and -nonautonomous influences on cortical somatosensory circuit formation. Journal of Neuroscience 30:16896-16909.

Wu CS, Ballester-Rosado CJ, Lu HC (2011) What can we get from ‘barrels': the rodent barrel cortex as a model for studying the establishment of neural circuits. European Journal of Neuroscience 34:1663-1676.


Zhai RG, Hiesinger PR, Koh TW, Verstreken P, Schulze KL, Cao Y, Jafar-Nejad H, Norga KK, Pan H, Bayat V, Greenbaum MP, Bellen HJ (2003) Mapping Drosophila mutations with molecularly defined P element insertions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100:10860-10865.

Jafar-Nejad H, Andrews HK, Acar M, Bayat V, Wirtz-Peitz F, Mehta SQ, Knoblich JA, Bellen HJ (2005) Sec15, a component of the exocyst, promotes Notch signaling during the asymmetric division of Drosophila sensory organ precursors. Developmental Cell 9:351-363.

Bayat V, Jaiswal M, Bellen HJ (2011) The BMP signaling pathway at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction and its links to neurodegenerative diseases. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 21:182-188.

Bayat V, Thiffault I, Jaiswal M, Tétreault M, Donti T, Sasarman F, Bernard G, Demers-Lamarche J, Dicaire MJ, Mathieu J, Vanasse M, Bouchard JP, Rioux MF, Lourenco CM, Li Z, Haueter C, Shoubridge EA, Graham BH, Brais B, Bellen HJ (2012) Mutations in the mitochondrial methionyl-tRNA synthetase cause a neurodegenerative phenotype in flies and a recessive ataxia (ARSAL) in humans. PLoS Biology 10:e1001288.

Jaiswal M, Sandoval H, Zhang K, Bayat V, Bellen HJ (2012) Probing mechanisms that underlie human neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila. Annual Review Genetics 46:371-396.

Xiong B, Bayat V, Jaiswal M, Zhang K, Sandoval H, Charng WL, Li T, David G, Duraine L, Lin YQ, Neely GG, Yamamoto S, Bellen HJ (2012) Crag is a GEF for Rab11 required for rhodopsin trafficking and maintenance of adult photoreceptor cells. PLoS Biology 10:e1001438.

Zhang K, Li Z, Jaiswal M, Bayat V, Xiong B, Sandoval H, Charng WL, David G, Haueter C, Yamamoto S, Graham BH, Bellen HJ (2013) The C8ORF38 homologue Sicily is a cytosolic chaperone for a mitochondrial complex I subunit. Journal of Cell Biology 200:807-820.

Yamamoto S, Bayat V, Bellen HJ, Tan C (2013) Protein phosphatase 1ß limits ring canal constriction during Drosophila germline cyst formation. PLoS One 8:e70502.


Berry J, Krause WC, Davis RL (2008) Olfactory memory traces in Drosophila. Progress in Brain Research 169:293-304.

Berry JA, Cervantes-Sandoval I, Nicholas EP, Davis RL (2012) Dopamine is required for learning and forgetting in Drosophila. Neuron 74:530-542.

Cervantes-Sandoval I, Martin-Peña A, Berry JA, Davis RL (2013) System-like consolidation of olfactory memories in Drosophila. Journal of Neuroscience 33:9846-9854.


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Linford NJ, Chan TP, Pletcher SD (2012) Re-patterning sleep architecture in Drosophila through gustatory perception and nutritional quality. PLoS Genetics 8:e1002668.

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