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Meier CJ, Nguyen MN, Potter CJ. Making scents of mosquito repellents. Trends Parasitol. 2025 Apr;41(4):280-289. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2025.02.009. Epub 2025 Mar 10. Review. PubMed PMID: 40068978; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11968242.
Zhang H, Qiu X, Mittelstadt J, Müller U. Ankyrins are dispensable for mechanotransduction by cochlear hair cells. Hear Res. 2025 Apr;459:109224. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2025.109224. Epub 2025 Mar 1. PubMed PMID: 40024092; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11934226.
Benedict J, Cudmore RH, Oden D, Spruell A, Linden DJ. The Lateral Habenula Is Necessary for Maternal Behavior in the Naturally Parturient Primiparous Mouse Dam. eNeuro. 2025 Jan;12(1). doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0092-24.2024. Print 2025 Jan. PubMed PMID: 39689968; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11734883.
James RE, Hamilton NR, Huffman LN, Brown MP, Neckles VN, Pasterkamp RJ, Goff LA, Kolodkin AL. Retinal ganglion cell-derived semaphorin 6A segregates starburst amacrine cell dendritic scaffolds to organize the mouse inner retina. Development. 2024 Nov 15;151(22). doi: 10.1242/dev.204293. Epub 2024 Nov 26. PubMed PMID: 39495936; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11634039.
Ottenheimer DJ, Vitale KR, Ambroggi F, Janak PH, Saunders BT. Orbitofrontal Cortex Mediates Sustained Basolateral Amygdala Encoding of Cued Reward-Seeking States. J Neurosci. 2024 Nov 13;44(46). doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0013-24.2024. PubMed PMID: 39353730; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11561866.
Krüssel S, Deb I, Son S, Ewall G, Chang M, Lee HK, Heo WD, Kwon HB. H-Ras induces exuberant de novo dendritic protrusion growth in mature neurons regardless of cell type. iScience. 2024 Aug 16;27(8):110535. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110535. eCollection 2024 Aug 16. PubMed PMID: 39220408; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11365382.
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Miranda-Barrientos J, Adiraju S, Rehg JJ, Hallock HL, Li Y, Carr GV, Martinowich K. Patterns of neural activity in prelimbic cortex neurons correlate with attentional behavior in the rodent continuous performance test. bioRxiv. 2024 Jul 26;. doi: 10.1101/2024.07.26.605300. PubMed PMID: 39091763; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11291163.
Steinhardt CR, Mitchell DE, Cullen KE, Fridman GY. Pulsatile electrical stimulation creates predictable, correctable disruptions in neural firing. Nat Commun. 2024 Jul 12;15(1):5861. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-49900-y. PubMed PMID: 38997274; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11245474.
Jank L, Catenacci RB, Minney V, Galleguillos D, Calabresi PA. Pharmacological modulation of inflammatory oligodendrocyte progenitor cells using three multiple sclerosis disease modifying therapies in vitro. Neurotherapeutics. 2024 Jul;21(4):e00379. doi: 10.1016/j.neurot.2024.e00379. Epub 2024 May 25. PubMed PMID: 38797642; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11284541.
Spikol ED, Cheng J, Macurak M, Subedi A, Halpern ME. Genetically defined nucleus incertus neurons differ in connectivity and function. Elife. 2024 May 31;12. doi: 10.7554/eLife.89516. PubMed PMID: 38819436; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11142643.
Brown MP, Verma S, Palmer I, Guerrero Zuniga A, Mehta A, Rosensweig C, Keles MF, Wu MN. A subclass of evening cells promotes the switch from arousal to sleep at dusk. Curr Biol. 2024 May 20;34(10):2186-2199.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.039. Epub 2024 May 8. PubMed PMID: 38723636; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11111347.
Fraser KM, Kim TH, Castro M, Drieu C, Padovan-Hernandez Y, Chen B, Pat F, Ottenheimer DJ, Janak PH. Encoding and context-dependent control of reward consumption within the central nucleus of the amygdala. iScience. 2024 May 17;27(5):109652. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109652. eCollection 2024 May 17. PubMed PMID: 38650988; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11033178.
Han E, Lee SS, Park KH, Blum ID, Liu Q, Mehta A, Palmer I, Issa H, Han A, Brown MP, Sanchez-Franco VM, Velasco M, Tabuchi M, Wu MN. Tob Regulates the Timing of Sleep Onset at Night in Drosophila. J Neurosci. 2024 May 1;44(18). doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0389-23.2024. PubMed PMID: 38485259; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11063825.
Gau YA, Hsu ET, Cha RJ, Pak RW, Looger LL, Kang JU, Bergles DE. Multicore fiber optic imaging reveals that astrocyte calcium activity in the mouse cerebral cortex is modulated by internal motivational state. Nat Commun. 2024 Apr 8;15(1):3039. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47345-x. PubMed PMID: 38589390; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11002016.
Daudelin D, Westerhaus A, Zhang N, Leyder E, Savonenko A, Sockanathan S. Loss of GDE2 leads to complex behavioral changes including memory impairment. Behav Brain Funct. 2024 Apr 4;20(1):7. doi: 10.1186/s12993-024-00234-1. PubMed PMID: 38575965; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10993612.
Araki Y, Rajkovich KE, Gerber EE, Gamache TR, Johnson RC, Tran THN, Liu B, Zhu Q, Hong I, Kirkwood A, Huganir R. SynGAP regulates synaptic plasticity and cognition independently of its catalytic activity. Science. 2024 Mar;383(6686):eadk1291. doi: 10.1126/science.adk1291. Epub 2024 Mar 1. PubMed PMID: 38422154; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11188940.
Hallock HL, Adiraju SS, Miranda-Barrientos J, McInerney JM, Oh S, DeBrosse AC, Li Y, Carr GV, Martinowich K. Electrophysiological correlates of attention in the locus coeruleus-prelimbic cortex circuit during the rodent continuous performance test. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2024 Feb;49(3):521-531. doi: 10.1038/s41386-023-01692-3. Epub 2023 Aug 10. PubMed PMID: 37563281; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10789747.
Rodriguez LA, Tran MN, Garcia-Flores R, Oh S, Phillips RA 3rd, Pattie EA, Divecha HR, Kim SH, Shin JH, Lee YK, Montoya C, Jaffe AE, Collado-Torres L, Page SC, Martinowich K. TrkB-dependent regulation of molecular signaling across septal cell types. Transl Psychiatry. 2024 Jan 23;14(1):52. doi: 10.1038/s41398-024-02758-6. PubMed PMID: 38263132; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10805920.
Yu CH, Yu Y, Adsit LM, Chang JT, Barchini J, Moberly AH, Benisty H, Kim J, Young BK, Heng K, Farinella DM, Leikvoll A, Pavan R, Vistein R, Nanfito BR, Hildebrand DGC, Otero-Coronel S, Vaziri A, Goldberg JL, Ricci AJ, Fitzpatrick D, Cardin JA, Higley MJ, Smith GB, Kara P, Nielsen KJ, Smith IT, Smith SL. The Cousa objective: a long-working distance air objective for multiphoton imaging in vivo. Nat Methods. 2024 Jan;21(1):132-141. doi: 10.1038/s41592-023-02098-1. Epub 2023 Dec 21. PubMed PMID: 38129618; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10776402.
Raji JI, Potter CJ. Hybridization Chain Reaction RNA Whole-Mount Fluorescence In situ Hybridization of Chemosensory Genes in Mosquito Olfactory Appendages. J Vis Exp. 2023 Nov 17;(201). doi: 10.3791/65933. PubMed PMID: 38047558; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11099874.
Grier BD, Parkins S, Omar J, Lee HK. Selective plasticity of fast and slow excitatory synapses on somatostatin interneurons in adult visual cortex. Nat Commun. 2023 Nov 7;14(1):7165. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-42968-y. PubMed PMID: 37935668; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10630508.
Lu TY, Hanumaihgari P, Hsu ET, Agarwal A, Kawaguchi R, Calabresi PA, Bergles DE. Norepinephrine modulates calcium dynamics in cortical oligodendrocyte precursor cells promoting proliferation during arousal in mice. Nat Neurosci. 2023 Oct;26(10):1739-1750. doi: 10.1038/s41593-023-01426-0. Epub 2023 Sep 11. PubMed PMID: 37697112; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10630072.
Levy-Myers R, Daudelin D, Na CH, Sockanathan S. An independent regulator of global release pathways in astrocytes generates a subtype of extracellular vesicles required for postsynaptic function. Sci Adv. 2023 Jun 23;9(25):eadg2067. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adg2067. Epub 2023 Jun 23. PubMed PMID: 37352348; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10289663.
Konopka JK, Task D, Poinapen D, Potter CJ. Neurogenetic identification of mosquito sensory neurons. iScience. 2023 May 19;26(5):106690. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106690. eCollection 2023 May 19. PubMed PMID: 37182106; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10172775.
Harrington EP, Catenacci RB, Smith MD, Heo D, Miller CE, Meyers KR, Glatzer J, Bergles DE, Calabresi PA. MHC class I and MHC class II reporter mice enable analysis of immune oligodendroglia in mouse models of multiple sclerosis. Elife. 2023 Apr 14;12. doi: 10.7554/eLife.82938. PubMed PMID: 37057892; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10181822.
Raji JI, Konopka JK, Potter CJ. A spatial map of antennal-expressed ionotropic receptors in the malaria mosquito. Cell Rep. 2023 Feb 28;42(2):112101. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112101. Epub 2023 Feb 13. PubMed PMID: 36773296; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10412736.
Rodriguez LA, Kim SH, Page SC, Nguyen CV, Pattie EA, Hallock HL, Valerino J, Maynard KR, Jaffe AE, Martinowich K. The basolateral amygdala to lateral septum circuit is critical for regulating social novelty in mice. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2023 Feb;48(3):529-539. doi: 10.1038/s41386-022-01487-y. Epub 2022 Nov 12. PubMed PMID: 36369482; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9852457.
Raji JI, Potter CJ. Chemosensory ionotropic receptors in human host-seeking mosquitoes. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2022 Dec;54:100967. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2022.100967. Epub 2022 Sep 10. Review. PubMed PMID: 36096415; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11683686.
Afify A, Potter CJ. Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators for Functional Imaging of Mosquito Olfactory Neurons. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2022 Nov 1;2022(11):Pdb.top107683. doi: 10.1101/pdb.top107683. PubMed PMID: 35960627; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11684472.
Afify A, Potter CJ. Calcium Imaging of Anopheles coluzzii Mosquito Antennae Expressing the Calcium Indicator GCaMP6f. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2022 Nov 1;2022(11):Pdb.prot107918. doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot107918. PubMed PMID: 35960624; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11683687.
Task D, Lin CC, Vulpe A, Afify A, Ballou S, Brbic M, Schlegel P, Raji J, Jefferis GSXE, Li H, Menuz K, Potter CJ. Chemoreceptor co-expression in Drosophila melanogaster olfactory neurons. Elife. 2022 Apr 20;11. doi: 10.7554/eLife.72599. PubMed PMID: 35442190; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9020824.
Maguire SE, Afify A, Goff LA, Potter CJ. Odorant-receptor-mediated regulation of chemosensory gene expression in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Cell Rep. 2022 Mar 8;38(10):110494. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110494. PubMed PMID: 35263579; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8957105.
Raji J, Potter C. A spatial map of antennal-expressed olfactory ionotropic receptors in the malaria mosquito. 2022/01; :2022.05.11.491386. doi: 10.1101/2022.05.11.491386.
Fölsz O, Lin C, Task D, Riabinina O, Potter CJ. The Q-system: A Versatile Repressible Binary Expression System. In: Dahmann C, editor. Drosophila: Methods and Protocols 3 ed. United States of America: Humana Press; 2022. 420p.
Matinyan N, Potter CJ. Genetic manipulation of mosquitoes: advancements in studying sensory biology in vector insects. In: Ignell R, Hill S, Lazzari C, Lorenzo M, editors. Sensory Ecology of Disease Vectors 1 ed. Leiden, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers; 2022.
Fölsz O, Lin CC, Task D, Riabinina O, Potter CJ. The Q-system: A Versatile Repressible Binary Expression System. Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2540:35-78. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2541-5_2. Review. PubMed PMID: 35980572.
Marr E, Potter CJ. Base Editing of Somatic Cells Using CRISPR-Cas9 in Drosophila. CRISPR J. 2021 Dec;4(6):836-845. doi: 10.1089/crispr.2021.0062. Epub 2021 Nov 23. PubMed PMID: 34813372; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8744452.
Task D, Lin C, Vulpe A, Afify A, Ballou S, Brbić M, Schlegel P, Jefferis G, Li H, Menuz K, Potter C. Chemoreceptor Co-Expression in Drosophila Olfactory Neurons. bioRxiv. 2021 July; :2020.11.07.355651. doi: 10.1101/2020.11.07.355651.
Potter CJ. Unlocking pan-neuronal expression in mosquitoes. Cell Rep Methods. 2021 Jul 26;1(3):100051. doi: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2021.100051. eCollection 2021 Jul 26. PubMed PMID: 35474958; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9017126.
Task D, Potter CJ. Rapid degeneration of Drosophila olfactory neurons in Orco mutant maxillary palps. MicroPubl Biol. 2021 May 14;2021. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000398. PubMed PMID: 34007957; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8122221.
Raji JI, Potter CJ. The number of neurons in Drosophila and mosquito brains. PLoS One. 2021;16(5):e0250381. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250381. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 33989293; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8121336.
Melo N, Capek M, Arenas OM, Afify A, Yilmaz A, Potter CJ, Laminette PJ, Para A, Gallio M, Stensmyr MC. The irritant receptor TRPA1 mediates the mosquito repellent effect of catnip. Curr Biol. 2021 May 10;31(9):1988-1994.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.010. Epub 2021 Mar 4. PubMed PMID: 33667373; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8764911.
Marr E, Potter CJ. Base editing using CRISPR/Cas9 in Drosophila. [preprint]. 2021 March. Available from: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.24.436868v1. doi: 10.1101/2021.03.24.436868.
Konopka JK, Task D, Afify A, Raji J, Deibel K, Maguire S, Lawrence R, Potter CJ. Olfaction in Anopheles mosquitoes. Chem Senses. 2021 Jan 1;46. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjab021. Review. PubMed PMID: 33885760; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8256107.
Afify A, Potter CJ. Insect repellents mediate species-specific olfactory behaviours in mosquitoes. Malar J. 2020 Mar 30;19(1):127. doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-03206-8. PubMed PMID: 32228701; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7106743.
Maguire SE, Afify A, Goff LA, Potter CJ. A Feedback Mechanism Regulates Odorant Receptor Expression in the Malaria Mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. bioRxiv. 2020 January; :2020.07.23.218586. doi: 10.1101/2020.07.23.218586.
Shankar S, Tauxe G, Spikol E, Li M, Akbari O, Giraldo D, McMeniman C. Synergistic Coding of Human Odorants in the Mosquito Brain. 2020/01; :2020.11.02.365916. doi: 10.1101/2020.11.02.365916.
Afify A, Betz JF, Riabinina O, Lahondère C, Potter CJ. Commonly Used Insect Repellents Hide Human Odors from Anopheles Mosquitoes. Curr Biol. 2019 Nov 4;29(21):3669-3680.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.007. Epub 2019 Oct 17. PubMed PMID: 31630950; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6832857.
Maguire SE, Potter CJ. Diet Drugs Trick Mosquitoes into Feeling Full. Trends Pharmacol Sci. 2019 Jul;40(7):449-451. doi: 10.1016/j.tips.2019.04.016. Epub 2019 May 20. PubMed PMID: 31122765.
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