Primary Research
Primary Research
Liu J, Davis SN, Gelnaw H, Schoppik, D. Zhu Y.
Lighting and circadian cues shape locomotor strategies for balance and navigation in larval zebrafish. bioRxiv 2025.
Zhu Y, Gelnaw H, Leary P, Raghuraman R, Kamath N, Kraja A, Liu J, Bai Q, Higashijima S, Burton EA, Schoppik D.
Tau load in select brainstem neurons predicts the severity and nature of balance deficits in the absence of cell death. bioRxiv 2024.
Davis SN, Zhu Y, Schoppik D.
Multisensory strategies for postural compensation after lateral line loss. Journal of Experimental Biology 2025.
Zhu Y, Gelnaw H, Auer F, Hamling KR, Ehrlich DE, Schoppik D.
Evolutionarily-conserved brainstem architecture enables gravity-guided vertical navigation. PLOS Biology 2024.
Zhu Y, Auer F, Gelnaw H, Davis SN, Hamling KR, May CE, Ahamed H, Ringstad N, Nagel KI, Schoppik D.
Scalable Apparatus to Measure Posture and Locomotion (SAMPL): a high-throughput solution to study unconstrained vertical behavior in small animals. Cell Reports 2023.
Hamling KR, Zhu Y, Auer F, Schoppik D.
Tilt In Place Microscopy (TIPM): a simple low-cost solution to image neural responses to body tilt. Journal of Neuroscience 2023.
Zhu Y, Crowley SC, Latimer AJ, Lewis GM, Nash R, Kucenas S.
Migratory neural crest cells phagocytose dead cells in the developing nervous system. Cell 2019.
Collaborative Publications
Lambert GG, Crespo EL, Murphy J, Turner K, Gershowitz E, Cunningham M, Boassa D, Luong S, Celinskis D, Allen JJ, Venn S, Zhu Y, Karadas M, Chen J, Marisca R, Gelnaw H, Nguyen DK, Hu J, Sprecher BN, Tree MO, Orcutt R, Heydari D, Bell AB, Torreblanca-Zanca A, Hakimi A, Czopka T, Shoham S, Nagel KI, Schoppik D, Andrade A, Lipscombe D, Moore CI, Hochgeschwender U, Shaner NC.
CaBLAM! A high-contrast bioluminescent Ca2+indicator derived from an engineered Oplophorus gracilirostris luciferase. Nature Methods 2025
D’Elia KP, Hameedy H, Goldblatt D, Frazel P, Kriese M, Zhu Y, Hamling KR, Kawakami K, Liddelow SA, Schoppik D, Dasen JS.
Determinants of motor neuron functional subtypes important for locomotor speed. Cell Reports 2023.
Arena KA, Zhu Y, Kucenas S.
Transforming growth factor‐beta signaling modulates perineurial glial bridging following peripheral spinal motor nerve injury in zebrafish. Glia 2022.
Morioka S, Perry JSA, Raymond MH, Medina CB, Zhu Y, Zhao L, Serbulea V, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Leitinger N, Kucenas S, Rathmell JC, Makowski L, Ravichandran KS.
Efferocytosis induces a novel SLC program to promote glucose uptake and lactate release. Nature 2018
Reviews & Book Chapters
Zhu Y, Hamling KR, Schoppik D. Vestibulospinal circuits and the development of balance in fish. The Senses 2020