Some Recent Publications

(undergraduate authors in purple )

1. Cohen-Bodénès S, Malak EI ^'25 , Trapani JG , Gaidica M, Militchin VA, Newton KC, Sheets L (2025). Station Holding During Rheotaxis: A Sensitive Assay of Lateral Line Function in Larval Zebrafish. Bio-protocol 15(24): e5540. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.5540
2. Teicher G, Riffe RM, Barnaby W, Martin G, Clayton BE, Trapani JG , Downes GB (2025) Marigold: A machine learning-based web app for zebrafish pose tracking. BMC Bioinformatics . 26:30. DOI: 10.1186/s12859-025-06042-2
3. Schmalzbauer L, Jaswal SS, Corañez-Bolton S, Bunnell SL, Trapani JG (2024) Critical Empathy in the Liberal Arts: The Sociological Imagination as a Mechanism for Re-envisioning Interdisciplinary STEM Education. Published in Sayantan Mandal (Ed.) Road Map for Humanities and Social Sciences in STEM Higher Education . Springer, Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-4275-2_14
4. Gao Y, Khan YA, Mo W , White KI, Perkins M ^'21 , Pfuetzner RA, Trapani JG , Brunger AT, Nicolson T (2023) Sensory deficit screen identifies nsf mutation that differentially affects SNARE recycling and quality control. Cell Reports 42(4):112345. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112345
5. Venuto A, Thibodeau-Beganny S, Trapani JG , Erickson T (2023) A sensation for inflation: initial swim bladder inflation in larval zebrafish is mediated by the mechanosensory lateral line. Journal of Experimental Biology . DOI: 10.1242/jeb.245635
   
   Our paper was chosen for the 2023 Journal of Experimental Biology Outstanding Paper Prize shortlist
6. Barnaby W, Barclay HED, Nagarkar A, Perkins M ^'21 , Teicher G, Trapani JG , Downes GB (2022) GABAA α Subunit Control of Hyperactive Behavior in Developing Zebrafish. Genetics , 220(4). DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyac011
7. Hussain S, Aponte-Rivera R, Barghout RM ^'20 , Trapani JG , Kindt KS (2022). In Vivo Analysis of Hair Cell Sensory Organs in Zebrafish: From Morphology to Function. In: Groves A.K. (eds) Developmental, Physiological, and Functional Neurobiology of the Inner Ear. Neuromethods , vol 176. Humana, New York, NY. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2022-9_9