Publications

Methods and Techniques

J.P. Dexter*, M.B. Tamme*, C.H. Lind*, and E.-M. S. Collins. On-chip immobilization of planarians for in vivo imaging. (Scientific Reports), DOI: 10.1038/srep06388 (2014).

M.A. Thomas and E.-M. Schoetz. SAPling: A Scan-Add-Print barcoding database system to label and track asexual organisms. (Journal of Experimental Biology 214), 3518-3523 (2011)

J.A. Talbot, and E.-M. Schoetz.Quantitative characterization of planarian wildtype behavior as a platform for screening locomotion phenotypes (Journal of Experimental Biology. 2011 Apr 1;214(Pt 7):1063-7.)

Toxicology

D. Hagstrom, H. Hirokawa, L. Zhang, Z. Radic, P. Taylor, and E.-M. S. Collins. Planarian cholinesterase: in vitro characterization of an evolutionarily ancient enzyme to study organophosphorus pesticide toxicity and reactivation. Archives of Toxicology (Arch Toxicol DOI 10.1007/s00204-016-1908-3). Link to Paper (2016)

D. Hagstrom, O. Cochet-Escartin, and E.-M. S. Collins. Planarian brain regeneration as a model system for developmental neurotoxicology. (Regeneration), doi:10.1002/reg2.52. (2016)

D.N. Hagstrom, O. Cochet-Escartin, S. Zhang, C. Khuu*, and E.-M. S. Collins. Freshwater Planarians as a New Invertebrate System for Neurotoxicology. (Toxicological Sciences), doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfv129. (2015)

Biomechanics

J.A. Carter, C. Hyland, R.E. Steele, E.-M.S. Collins. The Dynamics of Mouth Opening in Hydra. (Biophysical Journal),pp. 11191-1201, (2016)

O.Cochet-Escartin, K. Mickolajczyk, E.-M.S. Collins. Scrunching: A Novel Escape Gait in Planarians. (Physical Biology), doi:10.1088/1478-3975/12/5/056010., (2015)

E.-M. Schoetz, M. Lanio, J. Talbot, and M. L. Manning. Glassy dynamics in three-dimensional embryonic tissues. (Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2013)

M.L. Manning, R.A. Foty, M.S. Steinberg, and E.-M. Schoetz. Coaction of intercellular adhesion and cortical tension specifies tissue surface tension. (Proc Natl Acad Sci 107(28):12517-12522 (2010).

E.-M. Schoetz, R.D. Burdine, F. Julicher, M.S. Steinberg, C.-P. Heisenberg, and R.A. Foty. Quantitative differences in tissue surface tension influence zebrafish germlayer positioning. HFSP Journal, Vol.2 (1), pp. 1-56 (2008).

Eva-Maria Schoetz. Dynamics and Mechanics of Zebrafish Embryonic Tissues. PhD Thesis, TUD 09/2007; pdf here ). MOVIES - Appendix D to "Dynamics and
Mechanics of Zebrafish Embryonic Tissues", zip-file.

Eva-Maria Schoetz. Dynamics and Mechanics of Zebrafish Embryonic Tissues: A study of the physical properties of zebrafish germlayer cells and tissues and cell dynamics during early embryogenesis , VDM publishing
group.

Population statistics and evolution

J.A. Carter*, C.H. Lind*, M. P. Truong*, and E.-M. S. Collins. To Each His Own- Reproductive Strategies and Success of Three Common Planarian Species: Schmidtea mediterranea, Dugesia japonica, and Dugesia tigrina. Journal of Statistical Physics, DOI 10.1007/s10955-015-1310-1 (2015)

M.A.Thomas, S. Quinodoz and E.-M. Schoetz. Size matters! Birth size and a size-independent stochastic term determine asexual reproduction dynamics in freshwater planarians. (J. Stat. Phys., DOI: 10.1007/s10955-012 0514-x; 2012)

S. Quinodoz, M.A. Thomas, J. Dunkel, and E.-M. Schoetz. The more the merrier? - Entropy and statistics of asexual reproduction in freshwater planarians (J. Stat. Phys. 142, 1324-1336 (2011)) (this article was also featured in the Ivy League Week)

J. Dunkel, J.A. Talbot, and E.-M. Schoetz. Memory and obesity affect the population dynamics of asexual freshwater planarians. Phys. Biol. 8 (2011) 026003.

Nervous system, behavior, and learning

B.G. Lambrus, J.J. Collins, O. Cochet-Escartin, J. Gao, P.A. Newmark, E.-M.S. Collins§, and J.J. Collins§, Tryptophan hydroxylase gene function is required for eye melanogenesis in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea (PlosONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127074. (2015)

J.A. Talbot, K.W. Currie, B. Pearson and E.M.S. Collins. Smed-dynA-1 is a planarian nervous system specific dynamin 1 homolog required for normal locomotion. Biology Open (2014).

J.A. Talbot, and E.-M. Schoetz.Quantitative characterization of planarian wildtype behavior as a platform for screening locomotion phenotypes (Journal of Experimental Biology. 2011 Apr 1;214(Pt 7):1063-7.)

Developmental Biology

E.-M. Schoetz, R.D. Burdine, F. Julicher, M.S. Steinberg, C.-P. Heisenberg, and R.A. Foty. Quantitative differences in tissue surface tension influence zebrafish germlayer positioning. HFSP Journal, Vol.2 (1), pp. 1-56 (2008).

F. Ulrich*, M. Krieg*, E.-M. Schoetz*, V. Link, I. Castanon, V. Schnabel, A. Taubenberger, D. Mueller, P.-H. Puech, C.-P. Heisenberg. Wnt11 Functions in Gastrulation by Controlling Cell Cohesion through Rab5c and E Cadherin , Developmental Cell, Vol.9, 555564 (2005). * first author

Outreach and Education

E.-M. S. Collins and T.R. Calhoun. Raising the bar in freshman science education (Journal of College Science Teaching, 2014)

E.-M. Schoetz, S. Barolo, R.J. Full, O. Gigliotta, F. Grey, E.C. Guinan, J. Lee, A. Lindner, R. B. Lotto, D. Misevic, T. E. Murphy, J. Niemela, Z. Popovic, L. Riboli-Sasco, I. Riedel-Kruse, M.F. Schatz, T. Schaus, M.D. Shattuck, Ke. Showalter, K.O. Stanley, H.L. Swinney, L. Xu, and F. Taddei. Training the next generation of "night scientists" (Workshop Summary) (ICASE Newsletter_052012)