Jonathan M. Blagburn

The paper identifies mechanosensory neurons in Drosophila that elicit specific head grooming behaviors and maps their synaptic projections to define parallel pathways involved in grooming sequences.

This study shows that retinoic acid treatment increases macrophage numbers and phagocytic activity, which enhances axonal regeneration after optic nerve injury in frogs.

This study shows that the strength of the JON-GF synapse in Drosophila remains constant with age, while JON sensitivity changes, affecting GF sensitivity.

The paper investigates how applying CNTF or FGF-2 after optic nerve injury in frogs increases macrophage numbers and affects their phagocytic activity.

This study shows that misexpression of ShakB isoforms in Drosophila JONs alters gap junction formation with the GF but not chemical synapses, with ShakB(N+16) increasing gap junctions and ShakB(N) abolishing dye coupling.