Volume 34, Issue 3-4, 2020

Nature's Gift to Neuroscience:

A Tribute to Sydney Brenner and John Sulston

 

Editorial

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Nature’s gift to neuroscience

Joy Alcedo, Yishi Jin, Douglas S. Portman, Veena Prahlad, David Raizen, Georgia Rapti, X.Z. Shawn Xu, Yun Zhang & Chun-Fang Wu

 

Section 1: The early years of C. elegans neurogenetics

 

My life with Sydney, 1961–1971

Antony O. W. Stretton

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John Sulston (1942–2018): a personal perspective

Robert H. Waterston & Donald G. Moerman

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A touching story

Martin Chalfie

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But can they learn? My accidental discovery of learning and memory in C. elegans

Catharine H. Rankin

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Of worms and men

John White

 

Section 2: Nervous system development

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A perspective on C. elegans neurodevelopment: from early visionaries to a booming neuroscience research

Georgia Rapti

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Neuronal specification in C. elegans: combining lineage inheritance with intercellular signaling

Antoine Barrière & Vincent Bertrand

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Molecular mechanisms governing axonal transport: a C. elegans perspective

Amruta Vasudevan & Sandhya P. Koushika

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C. elegans MAGU-2/Mpp5 homolog regulates epidermal phagocytosis and synapse density

Salvatore J. Cherra III, Alexandr Goncharov, Daniela Boassa, Mark Ellisman & Yishi Jin

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Synaptic remodeling, lessons from C. elegans

Andrea Cuentas-Condori & David M. Miller, 3rd

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What about the males? the C. elegans sexually dimorphic nervous system and a CRISPR-based tool to study males in a hermaphroditic species

Jonathon D. Walsh, Olivier Boivin & Maureen M. Barr

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Cell-type-specific promoters for C. elegans glia

Wendy Fung, Leigh Wexler & Maxwell G. Heiman

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Section 3: From inputs to outputs

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C. elegans: a sensible model for sensory biology

Adam J. Iliff & X.Z. Shawn Xu

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Temperature signaling underlying thermotaxis and cold tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans

Asuka Takeishi, Natsune Takagaki & Atsushi Kuhara

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Mechano-gated channels in C. elegans

Umar Al-Sheikh & Lijun Kang

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What can a worm learn in a bacteria-rich habitat?

He Liu & Yun Zhang

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C. elegans aversive olfactory learning generates diverse intergenerational effects

Ana Goncalves Pereira, Xicotencatl Gracida, Konstantinos Kagias & Yun Zhang

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Section 4: Social and sexual behaviors

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Social and sexual behaviors in C. elegans: the first fifty years

Douglas S. Portman

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Small molecule signals mediate social behaviors in C. elegans

Caroline S. Muirhead & Jagan Srinivasan

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Intraguild predation between Pristionchus pacificus and Caenorhabditis elegans: a complex interaction with the potential for aggressive behaviour

Kathleen T. Quach & Sreekanth H. Chalasani

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Plasticity of pheromone-mediated avoidance behavior in C. elegans

YongJin Cheon, Hyeonjeong Hwang & Kyuhyung Kim

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Section 5: Quiescence and sleep

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Worms sleep: a perspective

David Raizen

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Cellular damage, including wounding, drives C. elegans stress-induced sleep

Desiree L. Goetting, Richard Mansfield, Rony Soto & Cheryl Van Buskirk

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Orcokinin neuropeptides regulate sleep in Caenorhabditis elegans

Madison Honer, Kristen Buscemi, Natalie Barrett, Niknaz Riazati, Gerald Orlando & Matthew D. Nelson

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Discriminating between sleep and exercise-induced fatigue using computer vision and behavioral genetics

Kelsey N. Schuch, Lakshmi Narasimhan Govindarajan, Yuliang Guo, Saba N. Baskoylu, Sarah Kim, Benjamin Kimia, Thomas Serre & Anne C. Hart

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The OptoGenBox – a device for long-term optogenetics in C. elegans

Inka Busack, Florian Jordan, Peleg Sapir & Henrik Bringmann

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Section 6: Survival, aging and disease

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Neuromodulators: an essential part of survival

Joy Alcedo & Veena Prahlad

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Neuroendocrine control of lipid metabolism: lessons from C. elegans

Supriya Srinivasan

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The discovery and consequences of the central role of the nervous system in the control of protein homeostasis

Veena Prahlad

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Host-microbe interactions and the behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans

Dennis H. Kim & Steven W. Flavell

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Neurogenetics of nictation, a dispersal strategy in nematodes

Heeseung Yang, Bo Yun Lee, Hyunsoo Yim & Junho Lee

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Regulatory systems that mediate the effects of temperature on the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans

Byounghun Kim, Jongsun Lee, Younghun Kim & Seung-Jae V. Lee

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The contribution of C. elegans neurogenetics to understanding neurodegenerative diseases

Joseph J. H. Liang, Issa A. McKinnon & Catharine H. Rankin

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Section 7: Worm Photo and Art Gallery

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A journey to ‘tame a small metazoan organism’, ‡ seen through the artistic eyes of C. elegans researchers

Eleni Gourgou, Alexandra R. Willis, Sebastian Giunti, Maria J. De Rosa, Amanda G. Charlesworth, Mirella Hernandez Lima, Elizabeth Glater, Sonja Soo, Bianca Pereira, Kübra Akbaş, Anushka Deb, Madhushree Kamak, Mark W. Moyle, Annika Traa, Aakanksha Singhvi, Surojit Sural & Eugene Jennifer Jin

 

Volume 34, Issue 2, 2020

 

Review Article

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Understanding neurobehavioral genetics of zebrafish

Sergey V. Cheresiz, Andrey D. Volgin, Alexandra Kokorina Evsyukova, Alim A.O. Bashirzade, Konstantin A. Demin, Murilo S. de Abreu, Tamara G. Amstislavskaya & Allan V. Kalueff

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Original Research Article

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Oxytocin ameliorates bone cancer pain by suppressing toll-like receptor 4 and proinflammatory cytokines in rat spinal cord

Xiaping Mou, Ji Fang, An Yang & Gang Du

 

Volume 34, Issue 1, 2020

Future perspectives of neurogenetics- in honor of Troy D. Zars (1967-2018)

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Editorial 

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Future perspectives of neurogenetics – in honor of Troy D. Zars (1967–2018)

Bertram Gerber, Elizabeth G. King, David Schulz, Hiromu Tanimoto, Scott Waddell & Chun-Fang Wu

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Biographical Sketch

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A biographical sketch of Troy D. Zars (1967–2018)

Bertram Gerber, Elizabeth G. King & Divya Sitaraman

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Tributes

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Troy D. Zars: a personal tribute to a scientist, colleague, and friend

David J. Schulz

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Memory, anticipation, action – working with Troy D. Zars

Reinhard Wolf, Martin Heisenberg, Björn Brembs, Scott Waddell, Aditi Mishra, Abigail Kehrer& Angelynn Simenson

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Review Articles

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Finding a place and leaving a mark in memory formation

Divya Sitaraman & Holly LaFerriere

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Learning to collaborate: bringing together behavior and quantitative genomics

Patricka A. Williams-Simon, Mathangi Ganesan & Elizabeth G. King

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Cellular and circuit mechanisms of olfactory associative learning in Drosophila

Tamara Boto, Aaron Stahl & Seth M. Tomchik

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Optogenetics: Illuminating neuronal circuits of memory formation

Nadine Ehmann & Dennis Pauls

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Significance of DopEcR, a G-protein coupled dopamine/ecdysteroid receptor, in physiological and behavioral response to stressors

Emily Petruccelli, Arianna Lark, James A. Mrkvicka & Toshihiro Kitamoto

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Original Research Articles

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Importin-α2 mediates brain development, learning and memory consolidation in Drosophila

Christine N. Serway, Brian S. Dunkelberger, Denise Del Padre, Nicole W. C. Nolan, Stephanie Georges, Stephanie Freer, Andrew J. Andres & J. Steven de Belle

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Sleep restores place learning to the adenylyl cyclase mutant rutabaga

Stephane Dissel, Ellen Morgan, Vincent Duong, Dorothy Chan, Bruno van Swinderen, Paul Shaw & Troy Zars

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Interactions between amyloid precursor protein-like (APPL) and MAGUK scaffolding proteins contribute to appetitive long-term memory in Drosophila melanogaster

Bryon Silva, Christian Niehage, Marta Maglione, Bernard Hoflack, Stephan J. Sigrist, Thomas Wassmer, Alice Pavlowsky & Thomas Preat

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The Unc13A isoform is important for phasic release and olfactory memory formation at mushroom body synapses

Jennifer Woitkuhn, Anatoli Ender, Christine B. Beuschel, Marta Maglione, Tanja Matkovic-Rachid, Sheng Huang, Martin Lehmann, Joerg R. P. Geiger & Stephan J. Sigrist

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Dopaminergic neurons can influence heat-box place learning in Drosophila

Aditi Mishra, Patrick Cronley, Mathangi Ganesan, David J. Schulz & Troy Zars

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Food restriction reconfigures naïve and learned choice behavior in Drosophila larvae

Benita Brünner, Juliane Saumweber, Merve Samur, Denise Weber, Isabell Schumann, Deepthi Mahishi, Astrid Rohwedder & Andreas S. Thum

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Differential localization of voltage-gated potassium channels during Drosophila metamorphosis

Jan Werner, Jashar Arian, Ida Bernhardt, Stefanie Ryglewski & Carsten Duch

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Perspectives

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Toward nanoscale localization of memory engrams in Drosophila

Yoshinori Aso & Gerald M. Rubin

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Towards a functional connectome in Drosophila

Katrin Vogt

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Studying neural circuits of decision-making in Drosophila larva

Tihana Jovanic

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Studying complex brain dynamics using Drosophila

Sophie Aimon & Ilona C. Grunwald Kadow

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Experimental psychology meets behavioral ecology: what laboratory studies of learning polymorphisms mean for learning under natural conditions, and vice versa

Brian H. Smith & Chelsea N. Cook

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Cataglyphis meets Drosophila

Rüdiger Wehner

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Playing the genome card

Ari Berkowitz

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Minimal selfhood

R. D. V. Glasgow

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