Daniel T. Choe

This study shows that dauer-specific gap junction rewiring in nematodes alters nociceptive behavior by enabling transient activity dynamics and shorter avoidance durations.

The paper studies mitochondrial structural diversity in C. elegans neuromuscular system across development using 3D electron microscopy and deep learning, finding correlations between mitochondrial properties and synaptic connections, and identifying stage-specific mitochondrial features in dauer.

The paper reconstructs the dauer connectome of nematodes to show how structural and connectivity changes in neurons lead to specific behaviors during developmental plasticity.