Daniel M. Merritt

The paper compares terminal and subtype selectors in two nematode species to study neuronal evolution over 200 million years, finding conservation and novelty in regulatory programs.

This study creates a gene expression atlas of C. elegans L1 neurons, identifying differentially expressed genes and regulatory networks involved in postembryonic neurogenesis and maturation.

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.

The paper compares the brightness and maturation time of new red fluorescent tags in C. elegans and finds mScarlet-I3 outperforms older versions and is comparable to GFP.

The paper identifies a novel memory type in C. elegans mediated by an insulin/phospholipase C pathway, distinct from known molecular categories of invertebrate memory.

This study shows that β-arrestin-mediated desensitization in C. elegans enables olfactory discrimination despite high receptor density in single neurons, contrasting with mammalian labelled line coding.