Publications

Huda A*, Vaden TJ*, Bai H, Rawls RT, Peppers RJ, Monck CF, Holley HD, Castaneda AN, Ni L. (2025). Behavioral Assays for Optogenetic Manipulation of Neural Circuits in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Vis. Exp. (216), e67964. (*equal contribution)

Bai H, Naidu T, Anderson JB, Montemayor H, Do C, Ni L. (2024). The impacts of hypertonic conditions on Drosophila larval cool cells. Front. Cell. Neurosci. 18:1347460.

Castaneda AN, Huda A, Whitaker IBM, Reilly JE, Shelby GS, Bai H, Ni L. (2024). Functional labeling of individualized postsynaptic neurons using optogenetics and trans-Tango in Drosophila (FLIPSOT). PLoS Genetics. 20(3): e1011190.

Omelchenko, A. A., Bai, H., Hussain, S., Tyrrell, J. J., Klein, M., Ni, L. (2022). TACI: An ImageJ Plugin for 3D Calcium Imaging Analysis. J. Vis. Exp. (190), e64953.

Omelchenko AA, Bai H, Spina EC, Tyrrell JJ, Wilbourne JT, Ni L. (2022). Cool and warm ionotropic receptors control multiple thermotaxes in Drosophila larvae. Front. Mol. Neurosci. 15:1023492.

Huda A*, Omelchenko AA*, Vaden TJ*, Castaneda AN,  Ni L. (2021). Responses to Temperature Changes of Different Drosophila Species. Journal of Experimental Biology. (*equal contribution)

Ni L. (2021). Genetic Transsynaptic Techniques for Mapping Neural Circuits in Drosophila (Review). Front Neural Circuits. 15: 749586.

Tyrrell JJ, Wilbourne JT, Omelchenko AA, Yoon J, Ni L. (2021). Ionotropic Receptor-dependent Cool Cells Control the Transition of Temperature Preference in Drosophila Larvae. PLoS Genet. 17(4):e1009499

Ni L. (2021). The Structure and Function of Ionotropic Receptors in Drosophila (Review). Front Mol Neurosci. 13: 638839.

Sarraf SA, Sideris DP, Giagtzoglou N, Ni L, Kankel MW, Sen A, Bochicchio LE, Huang CH, Nussenzweig SC, Worley SH, Morton PD, Artavanis-Tsakonas S, Youle RJ, Pickrell AM. (2019). PINK1/Parkin Influences Cell Cycle by Sequestering TBK1 at Damaged Mitochondria Inhibiting Mitosis. Cell Report. 29 (1): 225-235.

Budelli, G., Ni, L., Berciu, C., van Giesen, L., Knecht, Z. A., Chang, E. C., … & Benton, R. (2019). Ionotropic Receptors specify the morphogenesis of phasic sensors controlling rapid thermal preference in Drosophila. Neuron, 101(4), 738-747.

Knecht ZA*, Silbering AF*, Ni L*, Klein M*, Budelli G, Bell R, Abuin L, Ferrer AJ, Samuel AD, Benton R, Garrity PA. (2016). Distinct combinations of variant ionotropic glutamate receptors mediate thermosensation and hygrosensation in Drosophila. eLife. 17879. (*equal contribution)

Ni L*, Klein M*, Svec KV, Budelli G, Chang EC, Ferrer AJ, Benton R, Samuel AD, Garrity PA. (2016). The Ionotropic Receptors IR21a and IR25a mediate cool sensing in Drosophila. eLife. 5:e13254. (*equal contribution)

Ni L, Bronk P, Chang EC, Lowell AM, Flam JO, Panzano VC, Theobald DL, Griffith LC, Garrity PA. (2013). A gustatory receptor paralogue controls rapid warmth avoidance in Drosophila. Nature. 500(7464): 580-584.

Kang K, Panzano VC, Chang EC, Ni L, Dainis AM, Jenkins AM, Regna K, Muskavitch MA, Garrity PA. (2011). Modulation of TRPA1 thermal sensitivity enables sensory discrimination in Drosophila. Nature. 481(7379): 76-80.

Ni L, Guo P, Reddig K, Mitra M, Li HS. (2008). Mutation of a TADR protein leads to rhodopsin and Gq-dependent retinal degeneration in Drosophila. J.Neurosci. 28(50): 13478-13487.