Publications

PubMed link to all our publications here.

2024

• Yun Zhang., Hsin-Ho Sung., Anna B Ziegler., Ying-Chieh Wu., Ricardo Viais., Carlos Sánchez-Huertas., Lukas Kilo., Fikret-Gürkan Agrican., Ying-Ju Cheng., Kousuke Mouri., Tadashi Uemura., Jens Lüders., Cheng-Ting Chien., and Gaia Tavosanis. 2024. Augmin complex activity fine-tunes dendrite morphology through non-centrosomal microtubule nucleation in vivo. J. Cell Sci.
  https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/doi/10.1242/jcs.261512/346505/Augmin-complex-activity-fine-tunes-dendrite
  
  
• Fuhrmann F, Nebeling FC, Musacchio F, Mittag M, Poll S, Mueller M, Ambrad Giovannetti E, Maibach M, Schaffran B, Burnside E, Chan ICW, Lagurin A, Reichenbach N, Kaushalya S, Fried HU, Linden S, Petzold G, Tavosanis G, Bradke F, Fuhrmann M. 2024. Three-photon in vivo imaging of neurons and glia in the medial prefrontal cortex with sub-cellular resolution.BioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.28.610026v1

2023

• Nitta, Y., Kawai, H., Maki, R., Osaka, J., Hakeda-Suzuki, S., Nagai, Y., Doubková, K., Uehara, T., Watanabe, K., Kosaki, K., Suzuki, T., Tavosanis, G., Sugie, A., 2023. Direct evaluation of neuroaxonal degeneration with the causative genes of neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila using the automated axon quantification system, MeDUsA. Hum. Mol. Genet. 32,
  1524–1538. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddac307.

2022

• Richard, M., Doubková, K., Nitta, Y., Kawai, H., Sugie, A., Tavosanis, G., 2022. A quantitative model of sporadic axonal degeneration in the drosophila visual system. J. Neurosci. 42,
  4937–4952. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2115-21.2022.
  
  
• Stürner, T., Ferreira Castro, A., Philipps, M., Cuntz, H., Tavosanis, G., 2022. The branching code: A model of actin-driven dendrite arborization. Cell Rep.
  39, 110746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110746.
  
  
• Wilson Horch, H., Rössler, W., Tavosanis, G., 2022. Editorial: structural plasticity of invertebrate neural systems. Front. Physiol.
  13, 874999. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.874999.

2021

• Baltruschat, L., Prisco, L., Ranft, P., Lauritzen, J.S., Fiala, A., Bock, D.D., Tavosanis, G., 2021. Circuit reorganization in the Drosophila mushroom body calyx accompanies memory consolidation. Cell Rep.
  34, 108871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108871.
  
  
• Kilo, L., Stürner, T., Tavosanis, G., Ziegler, A.B., 2021. Drosophila dendritic arborisation neurons: fantastic actin dynamics and where to find them. Cells
  10. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10102777.
  
  
• Prisco, L., Deimel, S.H., Yeliseyeva, H., Fiala, A., Tavosanis, G., 2021. The anterior paired lateral neuron normalizes odour-evoked activity in the Drosophila mushroom body calyx. eLife
  10. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.74172.
  
  
• Tavosanis, G., 2021. Dendrite enlightenment. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol.
  69, 222–230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2021.05.001.

2020

• Ferreira Castro, A., Baltruschat, L., Stürner, T., Bahrami, A., Jedlicka, P., Tavosanis, G., Cuntz, H., 2020. Achieving functional neuronal dendrite structure through sequential stochastic growth and retraction. eLife
  9. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60920.

2019

• Marchetti, G., Tavosanis, G., 2019. Modulators of hormonal response regulate temporal fate specification in the Drosophila brain. PLoS Genet.
  15, e1008491. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008491.
  
  
• Stürner, T., Tatarnikova, A., Mueller, J., Schaffran, B., Cuntz, H., Zhang, Y., Nemethova, M., Bogdan, S., Small, V., Tavosanis, G., 2019. Transient localization of the Arp2/3 complex initiates neuronal dendrite branching in vivo. Development
  146. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.171397.
  
  
• Ziegler, A.B., Tavosanis, G., 2019. Glycerophospholipids – Emerging players in neuronal dendrite branching and outgrowth. Dev. Biol.
  451, 25–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.12.009.

2018

• Sugie, A., Marchetti, G., Tavosanis, G., 2018. Structural aspects of plasticity in the nervous system of Drosophila. Neural Dev.
  13, 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13064-018-0111-z.

2017

• Marchetti, G., Tavosanis, G., 2017. Steroid hormone ecdysone signaling specifies mushroom body neuron sequential fate via chinmo. Curr. Biol.
  27, 3017-3024.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.037.
  
  
• Richard, M., Bauer, R., Tavosanis, G., Hoch, M., 2017. The gap junction protein Innexin3 is required for eye disc growth in Drosophila. Dev. Biol.
  425, 191–207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.04.001.
  
  
• Sugie, A., Möhl, C., Hakeda-Suzuki, S., Matsui, H., Suzuki, T., Tavosanis, G., 2017. Analyzing Synaptic Modulation of Drosophila melanogaster Photoreceptors after Exposure to Prolonged Light.
  J. Vis. Exp. https://doi.org/10.3791/55176.
  
  
• Ziegler, A.B., Thiele, C., Tenedini, F., Richard, M., Leyendecker, P., Hoermann, A., Soba, P., Tavosanis, G., 2017. Cell-Autonomous Control of Neuronal Dendrite Expansion via the Fatty Acid Synthesis Regulator SREBP. Cell Rep.
  21, 3346–3353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.11.069.

2016

• Stürner, T., Tavosanis, G., 2016. Rotating for elongation: Fat2 whips for the race. J. Cell Biol.
  212, 487–489. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201601091.

2015

• Sugie, A., Hakeda-Suzuki, S., Suzuki, E., Silies, M., Shimozono, M., Möhl, C., Suzuki, T., Tavosanis, G., 2015. Molecular Remodeling of the Presynaptic Active Zone of Drosophila Photoreceptors via Activity-Dependent Feedback. Neuron
  86, 711–725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.046.

2013

• Berger-Müller, S., Sugie, A., Takahashi, F., Tavosanis, G., Hakeda-Suzuki, S., Suzuki, T., 2013. Assessing the role of cell-surface molecules in central synaptogenesis in the Drosophila visual system. PLoS ONE
  8, e83732. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083732.

2012

• Nagel, J., Delandre, C., Zhang, Y., Förstner, F., Moore, A.W., Tavosanis, G., 2012. Fascin controls neuronal class-specific dendrite arbor morphology. Development
  139, 2999–3009. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.077800.
  
  
• Tavosanis, G., 2012. Dendritic structural plasticity. Dev. Neurobiol.
  72, 73–86. https://doi.org/10.1002/dneu.20951.

2011

• Christiansen, F., Zube, C., Andlauer, T.F.M., Wichmann, C., Fouquet, W., Owald, D., Mertel, S., Leiss, F., Tavosanis, G., Luna, A.J.F., Fiala, A., Sigrist, S.J., 2011. Presynapses in Kenyon cell dendrites in the mushroom body calyx of Drosophila. J. Neurosci.
  31, 9696–9707. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6542-10.2011.

2010

• Kremer, M.C., Christiansen, F., Leiss, F., Paehler, M., Knapek, S., Andlauer, T.F.M., Förstner, F., Kloppenburg, P., Sigrist, S.J., Tavosanis, G., 2010. Structural long-term changes at mushroom body input synapses. Curr. Biol.
  20, 1938–1944. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.09.060.

2009

• Leiss, F., Groh, C., Butcher, N.J., Meinertzhagen, I.A., Tavosanis, G., 2009a. Synaptic organization in the adult Drosophila mushroom body calyx. J. Comp. Neurol.
  517, 808–824. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.22184.
  
  
• Leiss, F., Koper, E., Hein, I., Fouquet, W., Lindner, J., Sigrist, S., Tavosanis, G., 2009b. Characterization of dendritic spines in the Drosophila central nervous system. Dev. Neurobiol.
  69, 221–234. https://doi.org/10.1002/dneu.20699.

2008

• Dimitrova, S., Reissaus, A., Tavosanis, G., 2008. Slit and Robo regulate dendrite branching and elongation of space-filling neurons in Drosophila. Dev. Biol.
  324, 18–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.08.028.

2003

• Petritsch, C., Tavosanis, G., Turck, C.W., Jan, L.Y., Jan, Y.N., 2003. The Drosophila myosin VI Jaguar is required for basal protein targeting and correct spindle orientation in mitotic neuroblasts. Dev. Cell
  4, 273–281. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1534-5807(03)00020-0.
  
  
• Tavosanis, G., Gonzalez, C., 2003. gamma-Tubulin function during female germ-cell development and oogenesis in Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
  100, 10263–10268. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1731925100.

1999

• Llamazares, S., Tavosanis, G., Gonzalez, C., 1999. Cytological characterisation of the mutant phenotypes produced during early embryogenesis by null and loss-of-function alleles of the gammaTub37C gene in Drosophila. J. Cell Sci.
  112 ( Pt 5), 659–667. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.112.5.659.

1998

• González, C., Tavosanis, G., Mollinari, C., 1998. Centrosomes and microtubule organisation during Drosophila development. J. Cell Sci. 111 ( Pt 18),
  2697–2706. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.111.18.2697.

1997

• Simili, M., Pellerano, P., Pigullo, S., Tavosanis, G., Ottaggio, L., de Saint-Georges, L., Bonatti, S., 1997. 6DMAP inhibition of early cell cycle events and induction of mitotic abnormalities. Mutagenesis
  12, 313–319. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/12.5.313.
  
  
• Tavosanis, G., Llamazares, S., Goulielmos, G., Gonzalez, C., 1997. Essential role for gamma-tubulin in the acentriolar female meiotic spindle of Drosophila. EMBO J.
  16, 1809–1819. https://doi.org/10.1093/emboj/16.8.1809.

1995

• Simili, M., Pellerano, P., Tavosanis, G., Arena, G., Bonatti, S., Abbondandolo, A., 1995. The induction of aneuploidy by alkylated purines: effects on early and late cell cycle events. Mutagenesis
  10, 105–111. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/10.2.105.