Mei Zhen

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Best Publications

• ALS/FTD Mutation-Induced Phase Transition of FUS Liquid Droplets and Reversible Hydrogels into Irreversible Hydrogels Impairs RNP Granule Function

  Tetsuro Murakami;Seema Qamar;Julie Qiaojin Lin;Gabriele S Kaminski Schierle

  924
  Citations

• The liprin protein SYD-2 regulates the differentiation of presynaptic termini in C. elegans

  Mei Zhen;Yishi Jin

  453
  Citations

• Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation

  Daniel Witvliet;Daniel Witvliet;Ben Mulcahy;James K. Mitchell;Yaron Meirovitch;Yaron Meirovitch

  435
  Citations

• An Imbalancing Act: Gap Junctions Reduce the Backward Motor Circuit Activity to Bias C. elegans for Forward Locomotion

  Taizo Kawano;Michelle D. Po;Michelle D. Po;Shangbang Gao;George Y. Leung

  317
  Citations

• Proprioceptive coupling within motor neurons drives C. elegans forward locomotion.

  Quan Wen;Michelle D. Po;Elizabeth Hulme;Sway Chen

  314
  Citations

• Regulation of presynaptic terminal organization by C. elegans RPM-1, a putative guanine nucleotide exchanger with a RING-H2 finger domain.

  Mei Zhen;Xun Huang;Bruce Bamber;Yishi Jin

  286
  Citations

• Pan-neuronal imaging in roaming Caenorhabditis elegans

  Vivek Venkatachalam;Ni Ji;Xian-Ling Wang;Christopher Luce Clark

  278
  Citations

• An SCF-like ubiquitin ligase complex that controls presynaptic differentiation

  Edward H. Liao;Wesley Hung;Benjamin Abrams;Mei Zhen

  274
  Citations

• Regulation of Vertebrate Nervous System Alternative Splicing and Development by an SR-Related Protein

  John A. Calarco;Simone Superina;Dave O'Hanlon;Mathieu Gabut

  268
  Citations

• A 3D culture model of innervated human skeletal muscle enables studies of the adult neuromuscular junction.

  Mohsen Afshar Bakooshli;Ethan S Lippmann;Ben Mulcahy;Nisha Iyer

  253
  Citations

• Optogenetic analysis of synaptic function

  Jana F Liewald;Martin Brauner;Greg J Stephens;Magali Bouhours

  241
  Citations

• Real-time volumetric reconstruction of biological dynamics with light-field microscopy and deep learning

  Zhaoqiang Wang;Zhaoqiang Wang;Lanxin Zhu;Hao Zhang;Guo Li

  218
  Citations

• The SAD-1 kinase regulates presynaptic vesicle clustering and axon termination.

  Justin Gage Crump;Mei Zhen;Yishi Jin;Cornelia I. Bargmann

  217
  Citations

• C. elegans locomotion: Small circuits, complex functions

  Mei Zhen;Mei Zhen;Aravinthan D T Samuel

  217
  Citations

• Hierarchical assembly of presynaptic components in defined C. elegans synapses.

  Maulik R Patel;Emily K Lehrman;Vivian Y Poon;Justin G Crump

  210
  Citations

• Genome-wide analysis of alternative splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans.

  Arun K. Ramani;John A. Calarco;Qun Pan;Sepand Mavandadi

  195
  Citations

• Action potentials drive body wall muscle contractions in Caenorhabditis elegans

  Shangbang Gao;Mei Zhen

  178
  Citations

• The Presynaptic Dense Projection of the Caenorhabiditis elegans Cholinergic Neuromuscular Junction Localizes Synaptic Vesicles at the Active Zone through SYD-2/Liprin and UNC-10/RIM-Dependent Interactions

  Christian Stigloher;Hong Zhan;Mei Zhen;Janet Richmond

  158
  Citations

• A Putative Cation Channel, NCA-1, and a Novel Protein, UNC-80, Transmit Neuronal Activity in C. elegans

  Edward Yeh;Sharon Ng;Sharon Ng;Mi Zhang;Magali Bouhours

  131
  Citations

• ALS mutations in FUS cause neuronal dysfunction and death in Caenorhabditis elegans by a dominant gain-of-function mechanism

  Tetsuro Murakami;Seung-Pil Yang;Lin Xie;Lin Xie;Taizo Kawano;Taizo Kawano

  130
  Citations

• NLF-1 delivers a sodium leak channel to regulate neuronal excitability and modulate rhythmic locomotion.

  Lin Xie;Shangbang Gao;Salvador M. Alcaire;Kyota Aoyagi

  126
  Citations