Publications with SJU students

  • Aviles, S, Subramanian, S, Nelson, MD (2024). New alleles of nlp-2, nlp-22, and nlp-23 demonstrate that they are dispensable for stress-induced sleep in C. elegans. microPublication Biology. 10.17912/micropub.biology.001109.

  • Williams B, Nelson MD, McRobert S, and Fingerut J. An easy and inexpensive method for determining the rate of individual phoretic events of nematodes. MicroPubl Biol. 2023. www.micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-000942

  • Le E., McCarthy T, Honer M, Curtin C, Fingerut J, and Nelson MD. The neuropeptide receptor npr-38 regulates avoidance and stress-induced sleep in Caenorhabditis elegans. Current Biology. 2023. Jun 27;S0960-9822(23)00827-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.042.

  • Honer M and Nelson MD. The genetics of sleep in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, edited by Springer Nature. In Press.

  • Carman, L., Schuck RJ, Li Edwin, and Nelson MD. An AMPK biosensor for Caenorhabditis elegans. MicroPubl Biol. 2022. 10.17912/micropub.biology.000596

  • Shea A, Nelson MD, D’Angelo L, Mikalonis G, and Forster BM. Development of a classroom size nephron model and urinalysis experiment. Advances in Biology Laboratory Education. 2022. Volume 42. doi.org/10.37590/able.v42.art38

  • Honer M, Buscemi K, Barrett N, Riazati N, Orlando G, Nelson MD. Orcokinin neuropeptides regulate sleep in Caenorhabditis elegans. J Neurogenet. 2020 Oct 12;:1-13.10.1080/01677063.2020.1830084.

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  • Sparacio A., Snetselaar K., Hall D., Raizen D and Nelson MD. Teething During Sleep: Ultrastructural Changes of Pharyngeal Muscle and Cuticular Grinder During the Molt in Caenorhabditis elegans. 2020. PLoS One. May 20;15(5):e0233059. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233059.

  • Van der Auwera P., Frooninckx L., Buscemi K., Vance RT., Nelson MD, Watteyne J., Mirabeau O., De Haes W., Fancsalszky L., Raizen DM., Schoofs L. and Beets I. Antagonistic RPamide neuropeptides act through GnRH-like receptors to control sleep-wake states in C. elegans. 2020. Scientific Reports. Jun 18;10(1):9929. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66536-2

  • Cianciulli A, Yoslov L, Buscemi K, Sullivan N, Vance R, Janton M, Buerkert T, Szurgot M, Li E and Nelson MD. Interneurons regulate locomotion quiescence via cyclic adenosine monophosphate signaling during stress-induced sleep in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. Early online July 10, 2019; doi: 10.1534/genetics.119.302293

  • Fingerut J, Cautela J,  Patrick H,  Brown A,  Nelson MD,  and  McRobert S. The use of 3D printing to facilitate Drosophila behavior research. Drosophila information service 2017. 100:201-204.

  • Nelson MD, Tom Janssen, York N, Lee KH, Schoofs L and Raizen DM. FRPR-4 is a G-protein coupled neuropeptide receptor that regulates behavioral quiescence and posture in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Full list of publications can be found here.

Funding Past and Present

  • SJU Dirk Warren ‘50 Sesquicentennial Chair (STEM Disciplines)

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) (Proposal #1828051) MRI: Acquisition of an automated fluorescent microscope and imaging system for undergraduate biology and chemistry research and research training

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) (Proposal # 1845020) CAREER: Neuropeptidergic and cAMP-mediated regulation of stress-induced sleep in C. elegans.

  • National Institute of General Medical Science at the NIH (1R15GM122058-01) R15: Dissecting the cAMP-mediated circuitry of stress-induced sleep in Caenorhabditis elegans.

  • Saint Joseph’s University Summer Research Grant. 2016. cAMP and Sleep