Recent Scientific Publications
As of September 15, 2025
MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.
MacDonald, A. A., Dowling, Q. S., & Cardon, Z. G. (2025). Beech leaf disease reduces nitrogen retranslocation at leaf fall, altering litter chemistry. Oecologia, 207, 153. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05790-5
Chandler, J., McGraw, J., Moody, M., Tang, J., Voltzow, J., & Fetcher, N. (2025). Reassessing Adaptational Lag in Eriophorum vaginatum: Short-Term Responses to Reciprocal Transplant and Passive Warming Experiments in Northern Alaska. Arctic Science. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2025-0006
Gillis, J. A., Criswell, K. E., Palmer, M. A., & Baker, C. V. H. (2025). The skate spiracular organ develops from a unique neurogenic placode, distinct from lateral line placodes. Development, dev.204767. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204767
Hirata Miyasaki, E., Bajor, A., Pettersson, G., Senftleben, M., Fouke, K., Graham, T., John, D., Morgan, J., Haspel, G., & Abrahamsson, S. (2025). High-speed 3D imaging with a 25-camera multifocus microscope. Optica, 12(8), 1230-1241. https://doi.org/10.1364/optica.563617
Perotti, O. N., Viramontes-Esparza, G., & Booth, D. S. (2025). A red algal polysaccharide influences the multicellular development of the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. Current Biology, 35(15), 3767-3776.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.059
Chhabra, A., Hoffmann, C., Aguilar Pérez, G., Korobeinikov, A. A., Rentsch, J., Hümpfer, N., Kokwaro, L., Gnidovec, L., Petrović, A., Wallace, J. N., Tromm, J. V., Román-Vendrell, C., Johnson, E. C., Ranković, B., Perego, E., Volpi, T., Fernández-Busnadiego, R., Köster, S., Rizzoli, S. O., Ewers, H., Morgan, J. R., & Milovanović, D. (2025). Condensates of synaptic vesicles and synapsin-1 mediate actin sequestering and polymerization. The EMBO Journal. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00516-y
Piekniewska, A., Roelandse, M., Lloyd, K. C. K., Korf, I., Voss, S. R., Castro, G. de, Magnani, D. M., Varga, Z., James-Zorn, C., Horb, M., Grethe, J. S., & Bandrowski, A. (2025). Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact. PLOS ONE, 20(8), e0327344. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327344
Watanabe, S. (2025). Synaptic Vesicle Recycling Through the Lens of Ultrafast Endocytosis. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 48, 297–310. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-neuro-112723-040652
Ruyle, B. J., Merder, J., Spencer, R. G. M., McClelland, J. W., Tank, S. E., & Michalak, A. M. (2025). Changes in the Composition of Nitrogen Yields in Large Arctic Rivers Linked to Temperature and Precipitation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(7), e2025GB008639. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008639
Di Santo, V., Qi, X., Berio, F., Albi, A., & Akanyeti, O. (2025). Inherent instability leads to high costs of hovering in near-neutrally buoyant fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(28), e2420015122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420015122
Eren, A. M. (2025). Gifting future scientists the past through well-preserved specimens of modern microbial ecosystems. Nature Communications, 16, 6669. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62138-6
Middleton, L., Wu, W., Johnston, T., Tarry, D., Farrar, J., Poulain, P.-M., Özgökmen, T., Shcherbina, A., Pascual, A., McNeill, C., Belgacem, M., Berta, M., Abbott, K., Worden, A., Wittmers, F., Kinsella, A., Centurioni, L., Hormann, V., Cutolo, E., Tintore, J., Ruiz, S., Casas, B., Cheslack, H., CALYPSO Collaboration, D’Asaro, E. A., & Mahadevan, A. (2025). Observations of a splitting ocean cyclone resulting in subduction of surface waters. Sci Adv, 11(30), eadu3221. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adu3221
Vásquez‐Elizondo, R., Vázquez‐Delfín, E., Freile‐Pelegrín, Y., Sánchez‐García, M., Roberson, L., & Robledo, D. (2025). Physiological and growth responses of Eucheumatopsis isiformis morphotypes to different light and temperature regimes. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 56(4), e70043. https://doi.org/10.1111/jwas.70043
Ferretti, P., Martignoni, M. M., McManus, L. C., Sakal, T., Liaghat, A., Stevens, B., Dahlin, K. J.-M., Souza, L. S., Cardon, Z. G., Silveira, C. B., Bordenstein, S. R., & Roughgarden, J. (2025). Theory of host-microbe symbioses: Challenges and opportunities. Cell Host & Microbe, 33(7), 1052–1056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2025.05.001
Mutemi, K. N., Simakov, O., Pan, L., Santangeli, L., Null, R. W., Handberg-Thorsager, M., Vellutini, B. C., Peterson, K. J., Fromm, B., Larsson, T., Savage, E., Lopez, M. O., Hercog, R., Provaznik, J., Ordoñez-Rueda, D., Azevedo, N., Gazave, E., Vervoort, M., Tomancak, P., Tan, W., Winkler, S., Benes, V., Hui, J., Helm, C., Ozpolat, B. D., & Arendt, D. (2025). A genome resource for the marine annelid Platynereis spp. BMC Genomics, 26, 665. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-025-11727-2
Ogunmowo, T. H., Hoffmann, C., Patel, C., Pepper, R., Wang, H., Gowrisankaran, S., Idel, J., Ho, A., Raychaudhuri, S., Maher, B. J., Cooper, B. H., Milosevic, I., Milovanovic, D., & Watanabe, S. (2025). Intersectin and endophilin condensates prime synaptic vesicles for release site replenishment. Nature Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02002-4
Singh, M., Wolfe, A. D., Vishwanath, A. A., Tsives, A., Gonzalez, I. J., Emerson, S. E., Goodman, R., & Colón-Ramos, D. (2025). Glycogen supports glycolytic plasticity in neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(28), e2509003122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2509003122
Chen, L., Maristany, M. J., Farr, S. E., Luo, J., Gibson, B. A., Doolittle, L. K., Espinosa, J. R., Huertas, J., Redding, S., Collepardo-Guevara, R., & Rosen, M. K. (2025). Nucleosome spacing can fine-tune higher-order chromatin assembly. Nature Communications, 16, 6315. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61482-x
Imes, A., Pavelsky, M., Badal, K., Kamp, D., Briseño, J., Sakmar, T., Vogt, M., Nyholm, S., Heath-Heckman, E., Grasse, B., Septer, A., & Mandel, M. (2025). Euprymna berryi as a comparative model host for Vibrio fischeri light organ symbiosis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, e0000125. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00001-25
Maienschein, J. (2025). Biostasis: Historical Context. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 166(1), 90–101. https://doi.org/10.1353/pro.2025.a963677
Bogdanov, G., Strzelecka, A. A., Kaimal, N., Senft, S. L., Lee, S., Hanlon, R. T., & Gorodetsky, A. A. (2025). Gradient refractive indices enable squid structural color and inspire multispectral materials. Science, 388(6754), 1389–1395. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn1570
Bölscher, T., Cardon, Z. G., Garcia Arredondo, M., Grand, S., Griffen, G., Hestrin, R., Imboden, J., Jamoteau, F., Lacroix, E. M., Pérez Castro, S., Persson, P., Riley, W. J., & Keiluweit, M. (2025). Vulnerability of mineral-organic associations in the rhizosphere. Nature Communications, 16, 5527. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61273-4
Goodheart, J. A., Fiorenza, R., Rio, R., Lopez-Anido, R. N., Martin, N. J., Herrlinger, T. J., Tarvin, R. D., & Lyons, D. C. (2025). A subset of conserved phagocytic genes are likely used for the intracellular theft of cnidarian stinging organelles in nudibranch gastropods. EvoDevo, 16, 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13227-025-00241-x
Guadarrama, E., Heisse, L. W., Morgan, J. R., & Katz, H. R. (2025). Dynamic microglia/macrophage infiltration during spinal cord regeneration in larval sea lamprey. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15396
Gendreau, A. J., Boucaud, C., Buresch, K. C., Rooney, A. S., Morris, H., & Hanlon, R. T. (2025). How octopuses use and recruit additional arms to find and manipulate visually hidden items. Biology Open, bio.062011. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.062011
McCarthy-Taylor, J. B., Krug, P. J., Muro, S., Vendetti, J., Maestrati, P., Wong, N. L. W. S., Gosliner, T. M., & Valdes, A. (2025). The slug within the bivalve: Molecular and morphological systematics of the family Juliidae (Gastropoda: Panpulmonata: Sacoglossa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 204(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf056
Narayanasamy, N., Bingham, E., Fadero, T., Bozdag, G. O., Ratcliff, W. C., Yunker, P., & Thutupalli, S. (2025). Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast. Science Advances, 11(25), eadr6399. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr6399 *Physiology course*
Paul, B. G., & DiSalvo, B. (2025). Retracing a tangled tree of archaeal evolution. Nature Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02040-5
Woods, P. H., Speth, D. R., Laso-Pérez, R., Utter, D. R., Ruff, S. E., & Orphan, V. J. (2025). Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea. Science Advances, 11(25), eadq5232. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq5232
Schoenle, A., Francis, O., Archibald, J. M., Burki, F., de Vries, J., Dumack, K., Eme, L., Florent, I., Hehenberger, E., Hoffmeyer, T. T., Irisarri, I., Lara, E., Leger, M. M., Lukeš, J., Massana, R., Mathur, V., Nitsche, F., Strassert, J. F. H., Worden, A. Z., Yurchenko, V., del Campo, J., & Waldvogel, A.-M. (2025). Protist genomics: Key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Trends in Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2025.05.004
Bergauer, K., Suffridge, C. P., Wittmers, F., Sudek, S., Giovannoni, S. J., & Worden, A. Z. (2025). Dark ocean archaeal and bacterial chemoautotrophs drive vitamin B1 production in oxygen minimum zones. ISME Communications, ycaf077. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf077
Van Itallie, E., Sonnett, M., Kalocsay, M., Wühr, M., Peshkin, L., & Kirschner, M. W. (2025). Transitions in the proteome and phospho-proteome during Xenopus laevis development. Developmental Biology, 525, 155–171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2025.05.022
Wei, J., Wood, T. W. P., Flaherty, K., Fitch, O. E., Ali, S., Enny, A., Andrescavage, A., Brazer, D., Navon, D., Cohen, H. E., Gordon, D., Shanabag, A., Kuroda, S., Stewart, T. A., Braasch, I., & Nakamura, T. (2025). Distinct ossification trade-offs illuminate the shoulder girdle reconfiguration at the water-to-land transition. Nature Communications, 16(1), 4983. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60236-z
Brock, M. T., Nozue, K., Kliebenstein, D. J., Ewers, B. E., Mackay, D. S., Maignien, L., Wang, D. R., Weinig, C., & Maloof, J. N. (2025). Characterization of transcriptional and metabolic responses to a complex plant growth-promoting soil inoculum. Plant Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.70034
Hashim, M. S., Conte, M. H., Salter, M. A., Pedrosa-Pamies, R., Weber, J. C., Hayden, M. G., Wilson, R. W., Perry, C. T., Crowley, S. F., Dennis, P. F., Bish, D., & Subhas, A. V. (2025). Fish Carbonates in the North Atlantic and Their Potential Role in the Carbon Cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(6), e2024GB008387. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008387
Johnson, M. D., Hammar, K., Beaudoin, D., Jiang, H., & Vďačný, P. (2025). High Grazing Rates of Marine Askenasia cf. stellaris on Mesodinium rubrum and Insights Into Its Taxonomic Status. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 72(4), e70014. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.70014
Joern, G. M., Pedrosa-Pàmies, R., Jiang, X., Liu, Z., & Bochdansky, A. B. (2025). Characterization of microbial biofilms on marine plastics: Community development and density implications for vertical transport dynamics. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1581727
Stewart, R. G., Marquis, M. J., Jo, S., Harris, B. J., Aberra, A. S., Cook, V., Whiddon, Z., Yarov-Yarovoy, V., Ferns, M., & Sack, J. T. (2025). A Kv2 inhibitor combination reveals native neuronal conductances consistent with Kv2/KvS heteromers. eLife, 13, RP99410. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.99410
Budy, P., Pennock, Casey. A., Messenger, S., Pehrson, H., Adler, E., Thiede, G. P., Christman, N. R., Crump, B. C., Giblin, A. E., & Kling, G. W. (2025). Rapid recovery of an arctic lake ecosystem from a pulse disturbance caused by thermokarst failure. Oecologia, 207(6), 82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05681-9
Tolentino, M., Walker, S. E., Spencer, G. E., & Carlone, R. (2025). The endocannabinoid system regulates both ependymoglial and neuronal cell responses to a tail amputation in the axolotl. Developmental Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.70035
Hopkinson, C., Weston, N., Vallino, J., Garritt, R., & Forbrich, I. (2025). Comparative Metabolism and Blue Carbon Sequestration of Two Wetland-Dominated Estuaries. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 0091. https://doi.org/10.34133/olar.0091
Irvine, T., Costello, J. H., Gemmell, B. J., Sutherland, K. R., Corrales-Ugalde, M., Townsend, J. P., & Colin, S. P. (2025). Ctenophores are a highly impactful predatory guild in open oceanic ecosystems. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.029
Qian, G., Zhang, H., Liu, Y., Shribak, M., Eliceiri, K. W., & Provenzano, P. P. (2025). Computationally Enabled Polychromatic Polarized Imaging Enables Mapping of Matrix Architectures that Promote Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Dissemination. The American Journal of Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2025.04.017
Tucker, S. J., Rii, Y. M., Freel, K. C., Kotubetey, K., Kawelo, A. H., Winter, K. B., & Rappe, M. S. (2025). Seasonal and spatial transitions in phytoplankton assemblages spanning estuarine to open ocean waters of the tropical Pacific. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70075
Walker, S. E., Yu, K., Burgess, S., & Echeverri, K. (2025). Neuronal activation in the axolotl brain promotes tail regeneration. npj Regenerative Medicine, 10, 22. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41536-025-00413-2
Yoshino, J., Mali, S. S., Williams, C. R., Morita, T., Emerson, C. E., Arp, C. J., Miller, S. E., Yin, C., Thé, L., Hemmi, C., Motoyoshi, M., Ishii, K., Emoto, K., Bautista, D. M., & Parrish, J. Z. (2025). Drosophila epidermal cells are intrinsically mechanosensitive and modulate nociceptive behavioral outputs. eLife, 13, RP95379. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.95379
Liu, J., Costello, J., & Kanso, E. (2025). Flow physics of nutrient transport drives functional design of ciliates. Nature Communications, 16, 4154. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59413-x
Boudreau, V., Albright, A. R., Larson, B. T., Gerbich, T. M., Fadero, T., Yan, V., Lucas-DeMott, A., Yung, J., Moulin, S. L. Y., Descovich, C. P., Slabodnick, M. M., Burlacot, A., Wang, J. R., Niyogi, K. K., & Marshall, W. F. (2025). The cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant cell that embeds symbiotic algae in a microtubule meshwork. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 36(4). https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E24-12-0571
Chitsaz, M., Yang, L., Rayes-Danan, R., Savari, O., Li, B., Shribak, M., Eliceiri, K., & Loeffler, A. (2025). Polychromatic Polarization Microscopy Differentiates Collagen Fiber Signatures in Benign Pancreatic Tissue and Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Modern Pathology, 100768. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.modpat.2025.100768
Stekoll, M., Lindell, S., Goudey, C. A., Kite-Powell, H. L., Bailey, D., Barbery, K., Roberson, L., Peeples, T., Mangini, N., Pryor, A., Meyer, A., & Yarish, C. (2025). Development of scalable coastal and offshore kelp farming for marine biomass production. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 56(2), e70017. https://doi.org/10.1111/jwas.70017
Vargas, K. J., Wallace, J. N., Mooney, I., Owen, D. J., & Morgan, J. R. (2025). α-Synuclein interacts directly with AP2 and regulates its binding to synaptic membranes. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 108502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2025.108502
Giacomini, J. J., Torres-Morales, J., Dewhirst, F. E., Borisy, G. G., & Mark Welch, J. L. (2025). Spatial ecology of the Neisseriaceae family in the human oral cavity. Microbiology Spectrum, e03275-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.03275-24
Henthorn, D., Wilson, S., Tank, R. K., Mallard, W., Fadero, T., Gao, R., & Garner, E. C. (2025). Bacillus subtilis twisting arises from torsional stress established by cell wall insertion and released by hydrolase-mediated cell wall cleavage. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 36(5), ar56. https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E24-09-0396
Sebastian, H., Robador, A., Ray, D., Angermeyer, A., D’Hondt, S., Huber, J. A., & Finkel, S. E. (2025). Identifying potential nutrient acquisition mechanisms for long-term survival: Adaptive evolution of Halomonas isolated from subseafloor crustal fluids. Frontiers in Microbiology, 16, 1511421. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1511421
Shekhar, S., Guo, H., Colin, S. P., Marshall, W., Kanso, E., & Costello, J. H. (2025). Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular ciliate Stentor. Nature Physics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02787-y
Kananen, K., Veseli, I., Quiles Pérez, C., Miller, S., Eren, A., & Bradley, P. (2025). Adaptive adjustment of profile HMM significance thresholds improves functional and metabolic insights into microbial genomes. Bioinformatics Advances, 5(1), vbaf039. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf039