Selected Publications

Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).

1. Dubnau, J., Grady, L., Kitamoto, T., Tully, T. (2001) Disruption of neurotransmission in Drosophila mushroom body blocks retrieval but not acquisition of memory. Nature, 411(6836): 476-80. PMID: 11373680

2. Dubnau, J., Chiang, A.S., Grady, L., Barditch, J., Gossweiler, S., McNeil, J., Smith, P., Buldoc, F., Scott, R., Certa, U., Broger, C., Tully. T., (2003) The staufen/pumilio pathway is involved in Drosophila long-term memory. Current Biology, 13(4): 286. PMID: 12593794

3. Chen, G., Li, W., Zhang, Q.S., Regulski, M., Sinha, N., Barditch, J., Tully, T., Krainer, A., Zhang, M., Dubnau, J., (2008) Identification of synaptic targets of Drosophila pumilio. PLoS Comput Biol 4(2): e1000026. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000026. PMID: 1846369

4. Berger, K.H., Kong, E.C., Dubnau, J., Tully, T., Moore, M.S., Heberlein, U. (2008) Ethanol sensitivity and tolerance in long-term memory mutants of Drosophila melanogaster. Alcohol Clin Exp Res, May 32(5): 895-908. PMID: 18435628

5. Blum, A., Li, W., Cressy, M. and Dubnau, J. (2009) Short- and long-term memory in Drosophila require cAMP signaling in distinct neuron types. Current Biology, 19(16):1341-1350.PMID:19646879 PMCID: 2752374

6. Qin, H., Dubnau, J. (2010) Genetic dissection of extinction learning in Drosophila. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 9: 203-212. PMCID2866079

7. Blum and Dubnau, (2010) Biochemical versus systems consolidation of memory in flies. Fly, Vol 4(2).

8. Lee, P.T., Lin, H.W., Chang, Y.H., Fu, T.F., Dubnau, J., Hirsh, J., Lee, T., and Chiang A.S. (2011) Serotonin-mushroom body circuit modulating the formation of anesthesia-resistant memory in Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 108(33):13794-9. PMID: 21808003 PMCID:3158232

9. Morris, D.H., Dubnau, J., Park, J., Rawls, J.M., (2011) Organization, function and evolution of alternative exons in the Drosophila CRMP gene. submitted

10. Qin, H., Cressy, M., Li, W., Coravos, J., Izzi, S., and Dubnau, J. (2011). γ neurons are the gateway for DA input to Drosophila mushroom bodies for aversive olfactory memory formation. In Revision

11. Li., W., Fulga, T., Van Vactor, D., Dubnau, J. (2011) A microRNA-Dopamine receptor genetic module in distinct neural circuits for olfactory arousal and olfactory memory. In Preparation.

12. Cressy, M. Valente D., Altick. A, Kockenmeister, E. Honegger, K., Qin, H., Mitra, P., Dubnau, J. (2011). Suppressor screening by selective breeding: the evolution of adenylyl cyclase independent learning in Drosophila. In Preparation




Review Articles:

1. Dubnau, J. and Tully, T. (1998) Gene discovery in Drosophila: New Insights for Learning and Memory. Annual Rev Neurosci, 21:407-44. PMID: 9530502 View PDF.

2. Dubnau, J., Chiang, A.S., Tully, T., (2003) Neural Substrates of Memory: from synapse to system. J. Neurobiol. 54p.238. PMID: 12486707 View PDF.

3. Janus, C and Dubnau, J., (2003) Modeling behavior: the quest to link mechanism to function., Genes to Behavior, 2(1)p.56. PMID: 12882319

4. Henry, GL., Zito, K., Dubnau, J., (2003) Chipping away at brain function: mining for insights with microarrays. CONB, Vol 4(5). P. 570. PMID: 14630220

5. Margulies, C., Tully, T., Dubnau, J., Deconstructing memory in Drosophila.  Curr Biol. 2005 Sep 6; 15(17):R700-13. PMID: 16139203 View PDF.

6. Blum, A., and Dubnau, T., 2010. Parallel processing of olfactory memories in Drosophila. Fly. Apr 8; 4(2). Epub ahead of print.