Publications

Drawing by Rebekka Paisner, accompanying Gordus (2022) Current Biology

Ding, S.S., Fox, J., Gordus, A., Joshi, A., Liao, J.C., Scholz, M. (2023) Fantastic beasts and how to study them: rethinking experimental animal behavior. J. of Experimental Biology. (in press).
Margolis, A. & Gordus, A. (2023) A stochastic explanation for observed local-to-global foraging states in Caenorhabditis elegans. arXiv. 10.48550/arXiv.2309.15174.
Giraldo, D., Rankin-Turner, S., Corver, A., Tauxe, G. M., Gao, A. L., Jackson, D. M., … & McMeniman, C. J. (2023). Human scent guides mosquito thermotaxis and host selection under naturalistic conditions. Current Biology, 33(12), 2367-2382.
Miller, Jeremiah, Aleksey V. Zimin, and Andrew Gordus. Chromosome-level genome and the identification of sex chromosomes in Uloborus diversus. GigaScience 12 (2023): giad002.
Gordus, Andrew. Social behavior: Using visual cues to guide dancing on the fly. Current Biology 32.6 (2022): R284-R287.
Flavell, Steven W., and Andrew Gordus. Dynamic functional connectivity in the static connectome of Caenorhabditis elegans. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 73 (2022): 102515.
Corver, Abel, Nicolas Wilkerson, Jeremiah Miller, Andrew Gordus. Distinct movement patterns generate stages of spider web building. Current Biology 31.22 (2021): 4983-4997.

Cover by Abel Corver, accompanying Corver, Wilkerson, Miller, Gordus (2022) Current Biology

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Simpson, J. H., & de Bivort, B. L. (2021). Orb weavers: Patterns in the movement sequences of spider web construction. Current Biology, 31(22), R1467-R1469.
Lesser, Ellen. The orb-weaver’s step-by-step guide to homebuilding. Journal of Experimental Biology 225.1 (2022): JEB243437.
Jill Rosen, Spiders’ web-making secrets unraveled (Nov 2021). The Johns Hopkins HUB
Haley Weiss, Choreographed Web-Building Routines Showcase Spiders’ Architect Tendencies (October 2021). Inside Science

Acker, N., Smith, H., Devine, C., Oltjen, SL., Tsiropoulou, S., Smit-McBride, Z., Lange, K., Blacque, OE., Matsubara, JA., Gordus, A., Golden, A., Vogel, BE. (2021) A complement factor H homolog, heparan sulfation, and syndecan maintain inversin compartment boundaries in C. elegans cilia. PNAS. 118(16):e2016698118.
Viets, K, Sauria, M, Chernoff, C, Anderson, C, Tran, S, Dove, A, Goyal, R, Voortman, L, Gordus, A, Taylor, J, Johnston Jr., RJ. (2019) Characterization of Button Loci that Promote Homologous Chromosome Pairing and Cell-Type-Specific Interchromosomal Gene Regulation. Dev. Cell. 51(3):341-356.e7
Dana, H., Mohar, B., Sun, Y., Narayan, S., Gordus, A., Hasseman, JP., Tsegaye, G., Holt, GT., Hu, A., Walpita, D., Patel, R., Macklin, JJ., Bargmann, CI., Ahrens, MB., Schreiter, ER., Jayaraman, V., Looger, LL., Svoboda, K., Kim, DS. (2016) Sensitive red protein calcium indicators for imaging neural activity. eLife. e12727. PubMed.
Larsch, J., Flavell, SW., Liu, Q., Gordus, A., Albrecht, DR., Bargmann, CI. (2015) A circuit for gradient climbing in C. elegans chemotaxis. Cell Reports. 12(11):1748-60.PubMed.
Gordus, A., Pokala, N., Levy, S., Flavell, SW., Bargmann, CI. (2015) Feedback from network states generates variability in a probabilistic olfactory circuit. Cell. 161(2), 215-27. PubMed.
Preview: Kristan, W. (2015) Pinning Down Randomness. Cell. 161(2), 189-90. PubMed.
Research Highlight: Carr, F. (2015) Unpredictable Turns in the Worm. Nat. Rev. Neuro.16. PubMed.
Pokala, N., Liu, Q., Gordus, A., Bargmann, CI. (2014) Inducible and titratable silencing of Caenorhabditis elegans neurons in vivo with histamine-gated chloride channels. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 111(7), 2770-5. PubMed.
Akerboom, J., Carreras Calderón, N., Tian, L., Wabnig, S., Prigge, M., Tolö, J., Gordus, A., Orger, M.B., Severi, K.E., Macklin, J.J., Patel, R., Pulver, S.R., Wardill, T.J., Fischer, E., Schüler, C., Chen, T.W., Sarkisyan, K.S., Marvin, J.S., Bargmann, C.I., Kim, D.S., Kügler, S., Lagnado, L., Hegemann, P., Gottschalk, A., Schreiter, E.R., Looger, L.L. (2013) Genetically encoded calcium indicators for multi-color neural activity imaging and combination with optogenetics. Front. Mol. Neurosci. , 6(2), 1-29. PubMed.
Koytiger, G., Kaushansky, A., Gordus, A., Rush, J., Sorger, P.K., Macbeath, G. (2013) Phosphotyrosine Signaling Proteins that Drive Oncogenesis Tend to be Highly Interconnected. Mol. Cell. Proteomics., 12(5), 1204-13. PubMed.
Marvin, J.S., Borghuis, B.G., Tian, L., Cichon, J., Harnett, M.T., Akerboom, J., Gordus, A., Renninger, S.L., Chen, T.W., Bargmann, C.I., Orger, M.B., Schreiter, E.R., Demb, J.B., Gan, W.B., Hires, S.A., Looger, L.L. (2013) An optimized fluorescent probe for visualizing glutamate neurotransmission. Nat. Methods., 10(2), 162-70. PubMed.
Akerboom, J., Chen, T.W., Wardill, T.J., Tian, L., Marvin, J.S., Mutlu, S., Calderón, N.C., Esposti, F., Borghuis, B.G., Sun, X.R., Gordus, A., Orger, M.B., Portugues, R., Engert, F., Macklin, J.J., Filosa, A., Aggarwal, A., Kerr, R.A., Takagi, R., Kracun, S., Shigetomi, E., Khakh, B.S., Baier, H., Lagnado, L., Wang, S.S., Bargmann, C.I., Kimmel, B.E., Jayaraman, V., Svoboda, K., Kim, D.S., Schreiter, E.R., Looger, L.L. (2012) Optimization of a GCaMP calcium indicator for neural activity imaging. J. Neurosci., 32(40), 13819-40. PubMed.
Mehlitz, A., Banhart, S., Mäurer, A.P., Kaushansky, A., Gordus, A., Zielecki, J., Macbeath, G., Meyer, T.F. (2010) Tarp regulates early Chlamydia-induced host cell survival through interactions with the human adaptor protein SHC1. J. Cell. Biol., 190(1), 143-57. PubMed.
Kaushansky, A., Allen, J.E., Gordus, A., Stiffler, M., Karp, E.S., Chang, B.H., MacBeath, G. (2010) Quantifying protein-protein interactions in high throughput using protein domain microarrays. Nature Protocols, 5(4), 773-790. PubMed.
Gordus, A.*, Krall, J.A.*, Beyer, E.*, Kaushansky, A., Wolf-Yadlin, A., Sevecka, M., Chang, B., MacBeath, G. (2008) Linear combinations of docking affinities explain quantitative differences in RTK signaling. Mol. Syst. Biol., 5(235), 1-10. PubMed.
Kaushansky, A., Gordus, A., Budnik, B.A., Lane, W.S., Rush, J., and MacBeath, G. (2008) System-Wide Investigation of ErbB4 Reveals that it is Substantially More Selective than the Other ErbB Receptors. Chem. Biol.,15(8), 808-817. PubMed.
Kaushansky, A., Gordus, A., Chang, B., Rush J., MacBeath, G. (2008) A Quantitative Study of the Recruitment Potential of all Intracellular Tyrosine Residues on EGFR, FGFR1 and IGF1R. Mol. BioSys., 4, 1-10. PubMed.
Gordus, A., MacBeath, G. (2006) Circumventing the Problems Caused by Protein Diversity in Microarrays: Implications for Protein Interaction Networks. JACS, 128(42), 13668-13669. PubMed.
Research Highlights: Rusk, N. (2006) Overcoming protein diversity on arrays. Nat. Meth. 3, 966. PubMed.
Jones, R.B.*, Gordus, A. *, Krall, J.A., MacBeath, G. (2006) A Quantitative Protein Interaction Network for the ErbB Receptors Using Protein Microarrays. Nature, 439, 168-174. PubMed.
Bokinsky, G., Rueda, D., Misra, V.K., Rhodes, M.M., Gordus, A., Babcock, H.P., Walter, N.G., Zhuang, X. (2003) Single-Molecule Transition-State Analysis of RNA Folding. PNAS, 100(16), 9302-9307. PubMed.

* – Joint First Authors.