Student Publications

2025

Buchsbaum, E., & Schnell, B. (2025). Activity of a descending neuron associated with visually elicited flight saccades in Drosophila. Current Biology 35(3), 665-671. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.001.

Goetting, D. L., & Lightfoot, J. W. (2025). Gas-propelled navigation: CO2 prompts parasitic worm behavior. Trends in Parasitology, in press, corrected proof. doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.010

Kotowska, A. M., Hiramatsu, F., Alexander, M. R., Scurr, D. J., Lightfoot, J. W., & Chauhan, V. M. (2025). Surface lipids in nematodes are influenced by development and species-specific adaptations. Journal of the American Chemical Society 147(8), 6439-6449. doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c12519.

Wallace, D. J., Voit, K.-M., Martin Machado, D., Bahadorian, M., Sawinski, J., Stahr, P. et al. (2025). Eye saccades align optic flow with retinal specializations during object pursuit in freely moving ferrets. Current Biology. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.032.

2024

Bast, A., Fruengel, R., de Kock, C., & Oberlaender, M. (2024). Network-neuron interactions underlying sensory responses of layer 5 pyramidal tract neurons in barrel cortex. PLOS Computational Biology 20(4): e1011468. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011468.

Koch, D., Nandan, A. P., Ramesan, G., & Koseska, A. (2024). Biological computations: Limitations of attractor-based formalisms and the need for transients. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 720: 150069. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.150069.

Koch, D., Nandan, A. P., Ramesan, G., Tyukin, I., Gorban, A., & Koseska, A. (2024). Ghost Channels and Ghost Cycles Guiding Long Transients in Dynamical Systems. Physical Review Letters 133: 047202. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.047202.

Kotowska, A. M., Hiramatsu, F., Alexander, M. R., Scurr, D. J., Lightfoot, J. W., & Chauhan, V. M. (2024). Molecular surface chemistry defines nematode development, identity and behaviour. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.24.590549

Kremers, L., Rose, T. (2024). Feedback needs experience. Neuron 112(19): 3226-3227. doi.org/0.1016/j.neuron.2024.09.016

Liu, J., Bonnard, E., & Scholz, M. (2024). Adapting and optimizing GCaMP8f for use in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 228(2): iyae125. doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae125.

Shirdhankar, R. N., & Malkemper, E. P. (2024). Cognitive maps and the magnetic sense in vertebrates. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 86: 102880. doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2024.102880

Sunil, A., Pedroncini, O., Schaefer. A.T., Ackels, T. (2024). How do mammals convert dynamic odor information into neural maps for landscape navigation? PLoS Biol 22(11): e3002908. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002908 [review article]

2023

Bast, A., Fruengel, R., de Kock, C.P.J., & Oberlaender, M. (2023). Interpretable modelling of input-output computations in cortex. bioRxiv, 555249. doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.29.555249

Hiramatsu, F., & Lightfoot, J. W. (2023). Kin-recognition and predation shape collective behaviors in the cannibalistic nematode Pristionchus pacificus. PLoS Genetics 19(12): e1011056. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011056.

Meulemeester, B., & Maartens, D. (2023). How sustainable is “common” data science in terms of power consumption? Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems 38: 100864. doi.org/10.1016/j.suscom.2023.100864.

Vinopal, S., Dupraz, S., Alfadil, E., Pietralla, T., ... , Bradke, F. (2023). Centrosomal microtubule nucleation regulates radial migration of projection neurons independently of polarization in the developing brain. Neuron 111(8). doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2023.01.020

2022

Bonnard, E., Liu, J., Zjacic, N., Alvarez, L., & Scholz, M. (2022). Automatically tracking feeding behavior in populations of foraging C. elegans. eLife 11: e77252. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77252.

Bohmbach, K., Masala, N., Schönhense, E.M., Hill, K., Haubrich, A.N., Zimmer, A., Opitz, T., Beck, H., Henneberger, C. (2022) An astrocytic signaling loop for frequency-dependent control of dendritic integration 2 and spatial learning. Nat Commun 13, 7932. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35620-8

Eren, G.G.; Roca, M; Han, Z; Lightfoot, JW (2022). Genomic integration of transgenes using UV irradiation in Pristionchus pacificus. microPublication Biology  doi.org/10.17912%2Fmicropub.biology.000576

Flores Valle, A., Honnef, R., & Seelig, J. D. (2022). Automated long-term two-photon imaging in head-fixed walking Drosophila. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 368: 109432. doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2021.109432.

Flores Valle, A., & Seelig, J. D. (2022). A place learning assay for tethered walking Drosophila. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 378: 109657. doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2022.109657.

Flores Valle, A., & Seelig, J. D. (2022). Axial motion estimation and correction for simultaneous multi-plane two-photon calcium imaging. Biomedical Optics Express, 13(4), 2035-2049. doi.org/10.1364/BOE.445775.

Lin, P., LI, C., Flores Valle, A., Wang, Z., Zhang, M., Cheng, R., et al. (2022). Tilt-angle stimulated Raman projection tomography. Optics Express 30(20), 37112-37123. doi.org/10.1364/OE.470527.

Luxem, K., Mocellin, P., Fuhrmann, F., Kürsch, J., Miller, S. R., Palop, J. J., Remy, S., & Bauer, P. (2022). Identifying behavioral structure from deep variational embeddings of animal motion. Communications biology 5(1), 1267. doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04080-7

Masala, N., Pofahl, M., Haubrich A.N., Nikbakht, N., Bohmbach, K., Henneberger, C., Golcuk, K., Kelly, T., Beck, H. (2022) Degraded dendritic input feature detection underlies spatial memory deficits in epilepsy. Brain 146(6), 2399–2417, doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac455

Monsees, A., Voit, K.-M., Wallace, D. J., Sawinski, J., Leks, E., Scheffler, K., et al. (2022). Estimation of skeletal kinematics in freely moving rodents. Nature Methods. doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01634-9.

Royero, P., Quatraccioni, A., Fruengel, R., Silva, M. H., Bast, A., Ulas, T., et al. (2022). Circuit-selective cell-autonomous regulation of inhibition in pyramidal neurons by Ste20-like kinase. Cell Reports 41(10): 111757. doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111757.

Schelski, M., & Bradke, F. (2022). Microtubule retrograde flow retains neuronal polarization in a fluctuating state. Science advances 8(44), eabo2336. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo2336

 

2021

de Kock, C. P., Pie, J., Pieneman, A. W., Mease, R. A., Bast, A., Guest, J. M., Oberlaender, M., Mansvelder, H. D., & Sakmann, B. (2021). High-frequency burst spiking in layer 5 thick-tufted pyramids of rat primary somatosensory cortex encodes exploratory touch. Communications Biology 4(1). doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02241-8

Flores Valle, A., Gonçalves, P. J., & Seelig, J. D. (2021). Integration of sleep homeostasis and navigation in drosophila. PLOS Computational Biology 17(7). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009088

Holmgren, C. D., Stahr, P., Wallace, D. J., Voit, K.-M., Matheson, E. J., Sawinski, J., Bassetto, G., & Kerr, J. N. D. (2021). Visual pursuit behavior in mice maintains the pursued prey on the retinal region with least optic flow. eLife 10: e70838. doi:10.7554/eLife.70838

Hückesfeld, S., Schlegel, P., Miroschnikow, A., Schoofs, A., Zinke, I., Haubrich, A. N., Schneider-Mizell, C. M., Truman, J. W., Fetter, R. D., Cardona, A., & Pankratz, M. J. (2021). Unveiling the sensory and interneuronal pathways of the neuroendocrine connectome in drosophila. eLife 10. doi.org/10.7554/elife.65745

Iyer, A. A., & Briggman, K. L. (2021). Amphibian behavioral diversity offers insights into evolutionary neurobiology. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 71, 19–28. doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2021.07.015 [review article]

Komorowska-Müller, J. A., Rana, T., Olabiyi, B. F., Zimmer, A., & Schmöle, A.-C. (2021). Cannabinoid receptor 2 alters social memory and microglial activity in an age-dependent manner. Molecules 26(19), 5984. doi.org/10.3390/molecules26195984

Komorowska-Müller, J. A., Ravichandran, K. A., Zimmer, A., & Schürmann, B. (2021). Cannabinoid receptor 2 deletion influences social memory and synaptic architecture in the hippocampus. Scientific Reports 11(1). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96285-9

Minge, D., Domingos, C., Unichenko, P., Behringer, C., Pauletti, A., Anders, S., Herde, M. K., Delekate, A., Gulakova, P., Schoch, S., Petzold, G. C., & Henneberger, C. (2021). Heterogeneity and development of fine astrocyte morphology captured by diffraction-limited microscopy. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 15. doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2021.669280

Mocellin, P., & Mikulovic, S. (2021). The role of the medial septum—associated networks in controlling locomotion and motivation to move. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 15. doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2021.699798

Pofahl, M., Nikbakht, N., Haubrich, A. N., Nguyen, T. M., Masala, N., Distler, F. J., Braganza, O., Macke, J. H., Ewell, L. A., Golcuk, K., & Beck, H. (2021). Synchronous activity patterns in the dentate gyrus during immobility. eLife 10. doi.org/10.7554/elife.65786

Reusch, N., Ravichandran, K. A., Olabiyi, B. F., Komorowska‐Müller, J. A., Hansen, J. N., Ulas, T., Beyer, M., Zimmer, A., & Schmöle, A. C. (2021). Cannabinoid receptor 2 is necessary to induce toll‐like receptor‐mediated microglial activation. Glia. doi.org/10.1002/glia.24089

Schmidt, S., Pothmann, L., Müller‐Komorowska, D., Opitz, T., Soares da Silva, P., & Beck, H. (2021). Complex effects of eslicarbazepine on inhibitory micro networks in chronic experimental epilepsy. Epilepsia 62(2), 542–556. doi.org/10.1111/epi.16808

Schoch, S., Quatraccioni, A., Robens, B. K., Maresch, R., van Loo, K. M. J., Cases-Cunillera, S., Kelly, T., Opitz, T., Borger, V., Dietrich, D., Pitsch, J., Beck, H., & Becker, A. J. (2021). STE20-like kinase is critical for inhibitory synapse maintenance and its deficiency confers a developmental dendritopathy. The Journal of Neuroscience 41(39), 8111–8125. doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0352-21.2021

Speiser, A., Müller, L.-R., Hoess, P., Matti, U., Obara, C. J., Legant, W. R., Kreshuk, A., Macke, J. H., Ries, J., & Turaga, S. C. (2021). Deep learning enables fast and dense single-molecule localization with high accuracy. Nature Methods 18(9), 1082–1090. doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01236-x

2020

Bertan, F., Wischhof, L., Sosulina, L., Mittag, M., Dalügge, D., Fornarelli, A., Gardoni, F., Marcello, E., Di Luca, M., Fuhrmann, M., Remy, S., Bano, D., & Nicotera, P. (2020). Loss of ryanodine receptor 2 impairs neuronal activity-dependent remodeling of dendritic spines and triggers compensatory neuronal hyperexcitability. Cell Death & Differentiation 27(12), 3354–3373. doi.org/10.1038/s41418-020-0584-2

Braganza, O., Mueller-Komorowska, D., Kelly, T., & Beck, H. (2020). Quantitative properties of a feedback circuit predict frequency-dependent pattern separation. ELife 9. doi.org/10.7554/elife.53148

Egger, R., Narayanan, R. T., Guest, J. M., Bast, A., Udvary, D., Messore, L. F., Das, S., de Kock, C. P. J., & Oberlaender, M. (2020). Cortical output is gated by horizontally projecting neurons in the deep layers. Neuron 105(1). doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.10.011

Herde, M. K., Bohmbach, K., Domingos, C., Vana, N., Komorowska-Müller, J. A., Passlick, S., Schwarz, I., Jackson, C. J., Dietrich, D., Schwarz, M. K., & Henneberger, C. (2020). Local efficacy of glutamate uptake decreases with synapse size. Cell Reports 32(12), 108182. doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108182

Komorowska-Müller, J. A., & Schmöle, A.-C. (2020). CB2 receptor in microglia: The guardian of self-control. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22(1), 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22010019

Müller, F. E., Schade, S. K., Cherkas, V., Stopper, L., Breithausen, B., Minge, D., Varbanov, H., Wahl‐Schott, C., Antoniuk, S., Domingos, C., Compan, V., Kirchhoff, F., Henneberger, C., Ponimaskin, E., & Zeug, A. (2020). Serotonin receptor 4 regulates hippocampal astrocyte morphology and function. Glia 69(4), 872–889. doi.org/10.1002/glia.23933

Müller-Komorowska, D., Opitz, T., Elzoheiry, S., Schweizer, M., Ambrad Giovannetti, E., & Beck, H. (2020). Nonspecific expression in limited excitatory cell populations in interneuron-targeting Cre-driver lines can have large functional effects. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 14. doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2020.00016

2019

Flores Valle, A., & Seelig, J. D. (2019). Two-photon bessel beam tomography for fast volume imaging. Optics Express 27(9), 12147. doi.org/10.1364/oe.27.012147

2018

Berens, P., Freeman, J., Deneux, T., Chenkov, N., McColgan, T., Speiser, A., Macke, J. H., Turaga, S. C., Mineault, P., Rupprecht, P., Gerhard, S., Friedrich, R. W., Friedrich, J., Paninski, L., Pachitariu, M., Harris, K. D., Bolte, B., Machado, T. A., Ringach, D., … Bethge, M. (2018). Community-based benchmarking improves spike rate inference from two-photon calcium imaging data. PLOS Computational Biology 14(5). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006157

Dalügge, D., & Remy, S. (2018). Human cortical dendrites: Stretched to perform better? Cell 175(3), 635–637. doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.09.052

Guest, J. M., Seetharama, M. M., Wendel, E. S., Strick, P. L., & Oberlaender, M. (2018). 3D reconstruction and standardization of the rat facial nucleus for precise mapping of Vibrissal Motor Networks. Neuroscience 368, 171–186. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.09.031

2017

Rojas-Piloni, G., Guest, J. M., Egger, R., Johnson, A. S., Sakmann, B., & Oberlaender, M. (2017). Relationships between structure, in vivo function and long-range axonal target of cortical pyramidal tract neurons. Nature Communications 8(1). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00971-0

Schelski, M., & Bradke, F. (2017). Neuronal polarization: From spatiotemporal signaling to cytoskeletal dynamics. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 84, 11–28. doi.org/10.1016/j.mcn.2017.03.008

2016

Justus, D., Dalügge, D., Bothe, S., Fuhrmann, F., Hannes, C., Kaneko, H., Friedrichs, D., Sosulina, L., Schwarz, I., Elliott, D. A., Schoch, S., Bradke, F., Schwarz, M. K., & Remy, S. (2016). Glutamatergic synaptic integration of locomotion speed via septoentorhinal projections. Nature Neuroscience 20(1), 16–19. doi.org/10.1038/nn.4447