A Knock-in Ntsr1-Flp Driver Enables Intersectional and Systemic Targeting of Heterogeneous Midbrain Dopamine Circuits
FernandoGarcia, Andrew P.Villa, Justine T.Wong, Lief E.Fenno, Gina M.Leinninger, Andrew D.Steele
In revision at Cell Reports Methods
Genetic Identification of Dopamine Neurons Required for Circadian Food Anticipatory Activity in Mice
Andrew P. Villa,* Jacqueline Trzeciak,* Damien Wolfe,* David E. Ehichioya,* Jeffrey Falkenstein, Justine T. Wong, Lauren Dimalanta, Wyatt Kaiban, Jaskaran Dhanoa, Gregory Stevens, Fernando Garcia, Lori Scarpa, Chris Chalfoun, Larry S. Zweifel, Rajeshwar Awatramani, Richard D. Palmiter, Martin Darvas, Shin Yamazaki, and Andrew D. Steele
Systemic AAV delivery of a calcium indicator in marmosets: functional validation in visual area MT
Penny-ShuyiChen, Declan PRowley, MitchellRudd, AllisonLaudano, Andrew PVilla, FernandoGarcia, Hong-WeiDong, Timothy FShay, Alexander CHuk, Andrew DSteele, and JosephWekselblatt
Social Context Suppresses Food Anticipatory Activity and Associated Thermoregulation in Mice
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Adeno-associated viral vector papers:
Willows JW, Lazor LM, Gunsch G, Mishra G, Villa AP, Shay TF, Steele AD, and KL Townsend (2026) Targeting the Peripheral Nervous System in Adipose Tissue with Engineered AAV. Cell Reports Methods, in press
Lin C, Chen X, Fan Y, Hoang JD, Ristic F, Fan Y, Chung JH, Sullivan EE, Gawda T, Jang S, Kavvathas B, Tran I, Li Y, Steele AD, Shay TF, and V Gradinaru (2025) . Cell Reports 44(11) 116419
Feeding, activity, and circadian papers:
Farahmand F, Sidikpramana M, Gomez AR, Rivera LJ, Trzeciak JR, Sharif S, Tang Q, Leinninger GM, Güler AD, and AD Steele (2024) Obesity 32(8): 1448-1452 https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.24066
Tang Q, Assali DR, Güler AD, and AD Steele (2022) . Front Integr Neurosci. 2022 Jul 27; 16:957193.
Trzeciak J and AD Steele (2022). . Front. Nutr. 9:998331.
Assali DR, Sidikpramana M, Villa AP, Falkenstein J, and AD Steele (2021) PLoS ONE 16(2): e0242897
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 13: 534238
Grippo RM, Tang Q, Zhang Q, Chadwick SR, Gao Y, Altherr ED, Sipe L, Purohit AM, Purohit NM, Sunkara MD, Cios KJ, Sidikpramana M, Spano AJ, Campbell JN, Steele AD, Hirsh J, Deppmann CD, Wu M, Scott MM, AD Güler (2020) Current Biology 30: 1-13
Assali D*, Hsu CT*, Gunapala K, Aguayo A, McBurney M, and AD Steele (2018) PLoS ONE 13(6): e0199586
Aguayo A*, Martin CS*, Huddy TF, Ogawa-Okada M, Adkins JL, AD Steele (2018) PLoS ONE 13(1): e0191373
AD Steele and RE Mistlberger (2015) . eLife 4:e06351
Gallardo CM*, Darvas M*, Oviatt M, Chang C, Michalik M, Huddy TF, Meyer EE, Shuster SA, Aguayo, A, Hill EM, Kiani K, Ikpeazu J, Martinez JS, Purpura M, Smit AN, Paton D, Mistlberger RE, Palmiter R, AD Steele (2014) eLife
Gallardo CG, Hsu CT, Gunapala KM, Parfyonov M, Chang CH, Mistlberger RE, and AD Steele (2014) PLoS ONE 9(5): e95990
Gallardo CM, Gunapala K, King OD and AD Steele (2012) PLoS ONE 7(7): e41161
Luby M, Hsu CT, Shuster SA, Gallardo CM, Mistlberger R, King OD and AD Steele (2012) PLoS ONE 7(5): e37992
Gunapala K, Gallardo CM, Hsu CT and AD Steele (2011) PLoS ONE 6(3):e18377
Gunapala K, Chang D, Hsu CT, Manaye K, Switzer RC and AD Steele (2010) Striatal pathology underlies prion infection-mediated hyperactivity in mice. Prion 4(4): 302-15
Hsu CT, Dollar P, Chang D and AD Steele (2010) Daily timed sexual interaction induces moderate anticipatory activity in mice. PLoS ONE 5(11): e15429
Hsu CT, Patton DF, Mistlberger RE* and AD Steele* (2010) Palatable meal anticipation in mice. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12903
Jhuang H, Garrote E, Mutch J, Yu L, Khilnani V, Poggio T, Steele AD* and T Serre* (2010) Automated home-cage behavioral phenotyping of mice. Nature Communications 1:68
Chen D, Steele AD, Lindquist SL, and L Guarente (2005) Increase in activity during calorie restriction requires Sirt1. Science 310(5754):1641
* These authors contributed equally to this work/co-corresponding authors