Non-refereed publications
Huang Y, Zarin AA#. A premotor microcircuit to generate behavior-specific muscle activation patterns in Drosophila larvae. Available in bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.18.504452.
Under revision at Nature Communications (#corresponding author)


Refereed publications
Patricia C. Cooney*, Yuhan Huang*, Wenze Li, Richard Hormigo, Tanya Tabachnik, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, Wesley B. Grueber#, Zarin AA#&. Neuromuscular Basis of Drosophila larval escape behavior. PNAS. 2023 PMID: 38096410 (#Joint corresponding authors, &lead contact)

Giachello CNG, Hunter I, Pettini T, Coulson B, Knufer A, Cachero S, Winding M, Zarin AA, Kohsaka H, Fan YN, Nose A, Landgraf M, Baines RA. Electrophysiological validation of monosynaptic connectivity between premotor interneurons and the aCC motoneuron in the Drosophila larval CNS. J Neurosci. 2022 Jul 20:JN-RM-2463-21. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2463-21.2022.

Mark B, Lai SL, Zarin AA, Manning L, Pollington HQ, Litwin-Kumar A, Cardona A, Truman JW, Doe CQ; A developmental framework linking neurogenesis and circuit formation in the Drosophila CNS. eLife. 2021 May 11;10:e67510

Hunter I, Coulson B, Zarin AA, Baines RA; The Drosophila Larval Locomotor Circuit Provides a Model to Understand Neural Circuit Development and Function. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2021 July eCollection

Zarin AA*#, Mark B*, Cardona A, Litwin-Kumar A, and Doe CQ#. A multilayer circuit architecture for the generation of distinct locomotor behaviors in Drosophila. eLife. 2019 Dec 23;8:e51781 (# Joint corresponding authorship, * Equal contribution)

Zarin AA, Labrador JP, Motor axon guidance in Drosophila. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2019 Jan;85:36-47.


Carreira-Rosario A*, Zarin AA*, Clark MQ*, Manning A, Cardona A, Doe CQ. A command-like descending neuron that coordinately activates backward and inhibits forward locomotion. eLife. 2018; 7: e38554. (* Equal contribution)

Clark MQ*, Zarin AA*, Carreira-Rosario A, Doe CQ. Neural circuits driving larval locomotion in Drosophila. Neural Dev. 2018 Apr 19;13(1):6. (* Equal contribution)

Heckscher ES, Zarin AA et al, Even-Skipped+ interneurons are core components of a sensorimotor circuit that maintains left-right symmetric muscle contraction amplitude. Neuron. 2015 Oct 21;88(2):314-29

Zarin AA, Asadzadeh J, Hokamp K, McCartney D, Long Y, Bashaw G J, Labrador JP, A transcription factor network coordinates attraction, repulsion, and adhesion combinatorially to control motor axon pathway selection. Neuron. 2014 Mar 19;81(6):1297-311.

Zarin AA*, Asadzadeh J*, Labrador JP, Transcriptional regulation of axon guidance at the midline and in motor circuits. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2014 Feb;71(3):419-32.
(* Equal contribution)

Zarin AA*, Daly A*, Hülsmeier J, Asadzadeh J, Labrador JP (2012) A GATA/ Homeodomain transcriptional code regulates axon guidance through the Unc-5 receptor. Development. 139(10): 1798-805. (* Equal contribution)

Zarin AA, Behmanesh M, Tavallae M, Shohrati M. Ghanei M (2010) Overexpression of transforming growth factor TGF-beta1 and TGF-beta3 genes in lung of toxic inhaled patients. Exp Lung Res 36(5): 284-91