Recent Publications

Papers published by our groups in 2021 – 2023

It was an exciting publishing 2 years for the Developmental Biology and Neurobiology groups at UC Merced.

The Wolf lab published “Rapid and chronic ethanol tolerance are composed of distinct memory-like states in Drosophila” in the Journal of Neuroscience. You can find the work of graduate students Cal Larnerd and Pratik Adhikari at https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1348-22.2023

The Cleary lab published “mRNAs encoding neurodevelopmental regulators have equal N6-methyladenosine stoichiometry in Drosophila neuroblasts and neurons” in Neural Development. You can find the work of graduate student Josephine Sami at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13064-022-00166-4

The Ge lab published “A PKA inhibitor motif within SMOOTHENED controls Hedgehog signal transduction” in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. You can find the work of graduate student Jingyi Zhang at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-022-00838-z

The Oviedo lab published “Non-traditional roles of immune cells in regeneration: an evolutionary perspective” in Development. You can find the work of graduate students Beryl Arinda and Yacoub Innabi at https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.199903

The Oviedo lab published “Direct Current Electric Stimulation Alters the Frequency and the Distribution of Mitotic Cells in Planarians” in Bioelectricity. You can find the work of graduate students Devon Davidian and Benjamin Ziman at https://doi.org/10.1089/bioe.2020.0026

The Oviedo lab published “Restoration of DNA Integrity and Cell Cycle by Electric Stimulation in Planarian Tissues Damaged by Ionizing Radiation” in bioRxiv. You can find the work of graduate students Devon Davidian, Melanie LeGro, Paul Barghouth, Salvador Rojas, Benjamin Ziman, Eli Maciel at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.16.444365v1

The Wolf lab published “Thirst interneurons that promote water seeking and limit feeding behavior in Drosophila” in eLife. You can find the work of graduate students Dan Landayan and Brian Wang, and research tech Jennifer Zhou at https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.66286

The Ge lab published “Myomegalin regulates Hedgehog pathway by controlling PDE4D at the centrosome” in Molecular Biology of the Cell. You can find the work of graduate students Hualing Peng, Jingyi Zhang, Amanda Ya, and Sammy Villa at https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e21-02-0064

The Woo lab published “Light-Induced GFP Expression in Zebrafish Embryos using the Optogenetic TAEL/C120 System” in Journal of Visualized Experiments. You can find the work of graduate student Jesselynn LaBelle at https://doi.org/10.3791/62818

The Amemiya lab published “Colloidal structure and proton conductivity of the gel within the electrosensory organs of cartilaginous fishes” in iScience. You can find the work of graduate student Molly Phillips and others at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102947

The Cleary lab published “Progenitor-derived ribosomal RNA supports protein synthesis in Drosophila neurons” in Natural Sciences. You can find the work of graduate students Jade Fee and Mohamed Aboukilila at https://doi.org/10.1002/ntls.20210032

The Ge lab published “Control of the Hedgehog pathway by compartmentalized PKA in the primary cilium” in Science China Life Sciences. You can find this review at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-1975-9