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Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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11 papers
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Hongzhu Ji, Berta Vidal, Elisabeth A. Conklin, Tergel Enkhtuvshin, Nathan E. Schroeder, Oliver Hobert
The paper identifies transcriptional programs controlling terminal differentiation of uv1 paraneurons in C. elegans, revealing shared regulatory mechanisms with canonical neurons.
bioRxiv · Jul 1, 2026 · PreprintDevelopmental Biology
Antoine Sussfeld, Berta Vidal, Surojit Sural, Daniel M. Merritt, G. Robert Aguilar, Yasmin H. Ramadan, Oliver Hobert
Development · Apr 1, 2026Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology
Alec Barrett, Erdem Varol, Alexis Weinreb, Seth R. Taylor, Rebecca M. McWhirter, Cyril Cros, Berta Vidal, Manasa Basaravaju, Abigail Poff, John A. Tipps, Maryam Majeed, Chen Wang, Emily A. Bayer, Molly B. Reilly, Eviatar Yemini, , Marc Hammarlund
The paper integrates bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data from C. elegans neurons to improve transcript detection and differential gene analysis.
bioRxiv · Jan 26, 2025 · PreprintGenomics
G. Robert Aguilar, Berta Vidal, Hongzhu Ji, Joke Evenblij, Hongfei Ji, Giulio Valperga, Chien‐Po Liao, Christopher M. Fang-Yen, Oliver Hobert
The paper identifies the role of C. elegans bHLH genes in specifying neuron identity and function, revealing that hlh-15/NHLH controls lifespan through neuropeptide secretion in AVK neurons.
PLoS Biology · Jan 6, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Chen Wang, Berta Vidal, Surojit Sural, Curtis M. Loer, G. Robert Aguilar, Daniel M. Merritt, Itai Antoine Toker, Merly C. Vogt, Cyril Cros, Oliver Hobert
The paper creates a comprehensive neurotransmitter atlas in C. elegans by analyzing CRISPR/Cas9 knock-in reporter strains, revealing new expression sites and co-expression patterns.
eLife · Oct 18, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Molly B. Reilly, Tessa Tekieli, Cyril Cros, G. Robert Aguilar, James Lao, Itai Antoine Toker, Berta Vidal, Eduardo Leyva‐Díaz, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Steven J. Cook, Jayson J. Smith, Ismar Kovacevic, Burcu Gülez, Robert W. Fernandez, Elisabeth F. Bradford, , Oliver Hobert
The paper investigates the role of homeobox genes in neuronal identity specification in C. elegans, finding that 111 of 118 neuron classes require homeobox genes for proper differentiation.
PLoS Genetics · Sep 30, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Alec Barrett, Erdem Varol, Alexis Weinreb, Seth R. Taylor, Rebecca M. McWhirter, Cyril Cros, Berta Vidal, Manasa Basavaraju, Abigail Poff, John A. Tipps, Maryam Majeed, Chen Wang, Emily A. Bayer, Molly B. Reilly, Eviatar Yemini, , Marc Hammarlund
The paper integrates bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data from C. elegans neurons to improve transcript detection and differential gene analysis.
bioRxiv · Apr 5, 2022 · PreprintGenomics
Berta Vidal, Burcu Gülez, Wen Xi Cao, Eduardo Leyva‐Díaz, Molly B. Reilly, Tessa Tekieli, Oliver Hobert
This study identifies ceh-34 as a key gene specifying enteric nervous system differentiation in C. elegans, showing its role in neuron type-specific programs and circuit assembly.
eLife · Mar 24, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Seth R. Taylor, Gabriel Santpere, Alexis Weinreb, Alec Barrett, Molly B. Reilly, Chuan Xu, Erdem Varol, Panos Oikonomou, Lori Glenwinkel, Rebecca D. McWhirter, Abigail Poff, Manasa Basavaraju, Ibnul Rafi, Eviatar Yemini, Steven J. Cook, , David M. Miller
The paper provides a comprehensive gene expression profile of all 302 neurons in the C. elegans nervous system and identifies cis-regulatory elements and adhesion proteins involved in synaptic specificity.
Cell · Jul 7, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Seth R. Taylor, Gabriel Santpere, Molly B. Reilly, Lori Glenwinkel, Abigail Poff, Rebecca D. McWhirter, Chuan Xu, Alexis Weinreb, Manasa Basavaraju, Steven J. Cook, Alec Barrett, Alexander J. Abrams, Berta Vidal, Cyril Cros, Ibnul Rafi, , David M. Miller
Transcriptomes of 52,412 neurons resolve 109 of the 118 canonical hermaphrodite neuron classes, and neuropeptide genes separate subtypes inside individual classes.
bioRxiv · Aug 17, 2019 · PreprintNeuroscience
Berta Vidal, Ulkar F. Aghayeva, HaoSheng Sun, Chen Wang, Lori Glenwinkel, Emily A. Bayer, Oliver Hobert
This paper creates a molecular atlas of chemoreceptor expression in C. elegans, showing their diverse expression patterns across neuron types and revealing plasticity during developmental stages.
PLoS Biology · Jan 2, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics