Suster Group - Selected Publications

• Suster, ML, Gembu A, Schouw A and Kawakami K. (2011). Transposon-mediated BAC transgenesis in zebrafish. Nature Protocols in press.


• Abe, G, Suster ML and Kawakami K. (2011) Tol2-mediated Transgenesis, Gene Trapping, Enhancer Trapping, and the Gal4-UAS System. The Zebrafish: Genetics, Genomics and Informatics. Method Cell Biol., 104:23-49.

Prior to arrival at the Sars Centre

• Suster M.L., Sumiyama K. and Kawakami K (2009c) Transposon-mediated BAC transgenesis in zebrafish and mice. BMC Genomics, 10: 477.



• Suster M.L., Kikuta H., Urasaki A., Asakawa K. and Kawakami K. (2009b) Transgenesis in zebrafish with the Tol2 transposon system. Methods in Molecular Biology, 561: 41-63.



• Suster M.L., Kania A., Liao M., Asakawa K., Charron F., Kawakami K. and Drapeau, P. (2009a) A novel conserved evx1 enhancer links spinal interneuron morphology and cis-regulation from fish to mammals. Dev Biol, 325: 422-433.



• Asakawa K., Suster M.L., Mizusawa K., Nagayoshi S., Kotani T., Urasaki A., Kishimoto Y., Hibi M. and Kawakami K. (2008). Genetic dissection of neural circuits by Tol2 transposon-mediated Gal4 gene and enhancer trapping in zebrafish. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 105:1255-1260.



• Williams K.D., Busto M, Suster M.L, So A.K.-C., Ben-Shahar Y., Leevers S.J. and Sokolowski M.B. (2006). Natural variation in Drosophila melanogaster diapause due to the insulin-regulated PI-3 kinase. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci USA, 103:15911-15915.



• Suster M.L., Seugnet L., Bate M. and Sokolowski M.B. (2004). Refining GAL4-driven transgene expression in Drosophila with a GAL80 enhancer-trap. Genesis, 39, 240-245.



• Suster M.L., Karunanithi S., Atwood, H.L. and Sokolowski M.B. (2004). A role for the small scribbler transcript in larval turning behavior in Drosophila. Genes Brains and Behavior, 3, 273-286.



• Suster M.L., Martin J.-R., Sung C. and Robinow S. (2003). Targeted expression of tetanus toxin reveals sets of neurons involved in larval locomotion in Drosophila. J Neurobiol 55, 233-246 (2003).



• Macleod G.T., Suster M.L., Charlton M. and Atwood H.L. (2003). Single neuron activity in the Drosophila larval CNS detected with calcium indicators. J Neurosci Methods, 127, 167-178.



• Suster M.L. and Bate, M. (2002). Embryonic assembly of a central pattern generator without sensory input. Nature, 416, 174-178. See News & Views (pp 131-132 of same issue).



• Ruiz-Gómez M., Coutts N., Suster M.L., Landgraf M. and Bate M. (2002). myoblasts incompetent encodes a zinc finger transcription factor required to specify fusion competent myoblasts in Drosophila. Development, 129, 133-141.