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CSUN student authors are underlined:

Hill AJ, Robinson B, Jones JG, Sternberg PW & Van Buskirk C (2024). Sleep drive is coupled to tissue damage via shedding of Caenorhabditis elegans EGFR ligand SISS-1. Nat Commun 15, 10886. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-55252-4

 

Coto C, Arimie A, Jones JG, & Van Buskirk C (2024). The tyrosine kinase inhibitor Gefitinib reduces C. elegans stress-induced sleep, but not likely via LET-23/EGFR inhibition. MicroPubl Biol doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001138

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Goetting DL, Mansfield R, Soto R, Van Buskirk C (2020) Cellular damage, including wounding, drives C. elegans stress-induced sleep. J. Neurogenet. 34: 430-439. doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2020.1752203

 

Soto R, Van Buskirk C (2020) The C. elegans CEPsh glia are largely dispensable for stress-induced sleep. micropub Biol. doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000261

 

Soto R, Goetting DL, Van Buskirk C (2019) NPR-1 modulates plasticity in C. elegans stress-induced sleep. iScience 19: 1037-1047 doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2019.08.050

 

Robinson B, Goetting DL, Cisneros-Desir J, Van Buskirk C (2019) aptf-1 mutants are primarily defective in head movement quiescence during C. elegans sleep. micropub. Biol. doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000148

 

Robinson B, Van Buskirk C (2019) UNC-108/RAB-2 is required for C. elegans stress-induced sleep. micropub. Biol. doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000112

 

Goetting DL, Soto R, Van Buskirk C (2018) Food-Dependent Plasticity in Caenorhabditis elegans Stress-Induced Sleep is Mediated by TOR/FOXA and TGF-Beta Signaling. Genetics 209: 1183-1195 doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301204

 

Hill AJ, Mansfield R, Lopez J, Raizen DM, Van Buskirk C (2014) Cellular Stress Induces a Protective Sleep-like State in C. elegans. Curr. Biol. 24: 2399-2405. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.040

 

Nelson MD, Lee KH, Churgin MA, Hill AJ, Van Buskirk C, Fang-Yen C, Raizen DM (2014) FMRFamide-like FLP-13 neuropeptides promote quiescence following heat stress in Caenorhabditis elegans. Curr. Biol. 24: 2406-2410. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.037

 

Monsalve GC, Van Buskirk C, Frand AR (2011) LIN-42/PERIOD controls cyclical and developmental progression of C. elegans molts. Curr. Biol. 21: 2033-2045. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.10.054

 

Van Buskirk, C. and P.W. Sternberg. (2010) Paired and LIM class homeodomain proteins coordinate differentiation of the C. elegans ALA neuron. Development 137, 2065-74.

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Van Buskirk, C. and P.W. Sternberg. (2007) Epidermal Growth Factor signaling induces behavioral quiescence in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nat. Neuro. 10, 1300-1307.

 

Van Buskirk, C. and T. Schüpbach. (2002). Half pint regulates alternative splice site selection in Drosophila. Dev Cell. 2, 343-53.

 

Van Buskirk, C., Hawkins, N. and T. Schüpbach. (2000). Encore is a member of a novel family of proteins and affects multiple processes in Drosophila oogenesis. Development 122, 4753-4762.

 

Van Buskirk, C. and T. Schüpbach. (1999). Versatility in signaling: multiple responses to EGF receptor activation during Drosophila oogenesis. Trends Cell Biol. 9, 1-4.

 

Queenan, A.M., Barcelo, G., Van Buskirk, C. and T. Schüpbach. (1999). The transmembrane region of gurken is not required for biological activity, but is necessary for transport to the oocyte membrane in Drosophila. Mech. Dev. 89, 35-42.

 

Hawkins, N., Van Buskirk, C., Grossniklaus, U. and T. Schüpbach. (1997). Post-transcriptional regulation of gurken by encore is required for axis determination in Drosophila. Development 124, 4801-4810.

 

Egan, C., Chung, M., Allen, F., Heschl, M., Van Buskirk, C. and J.D. McGhee. (1995). A gut-to-pharynx/tail switch in embryonic expression of the Caenorhabditis elegans ges-1 gene centers on two GATA sequences. Dev. Biol. 170, 397-419.

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Cheryl Van Buskirk

cheryl.vanbuskirk -at- csun.edu

I fell in love with genetics (and C. elegans) while an undergraduate at the University of Calgary. I did my PhD in molecular biology at Princeton with  Dr. Trudi Schupbach, studying EGF signaling in Drosophila oogenesis. I moved back west, and back to worms, for my post-doctoral work at Caltech with Dr. Paul Sternberg, studying EGF signaling during development before stumbling into a discovery of a role for EGF in sleep. I've been at CSUN since 2011, trying to provide students the kind of opportunities that I've been fortunate to have.

 

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