2025
Cell type-specific functions of the PBAF chromatin-remodeling complex in neuronal diversification.
Anthony Osuma, Honorine Destain, Yinan Li, Seth R. Taylor, Manada Prahlad, Ian Q. Weigle, Filipe Marques, Grace Shulz, Laura D. Mathies, Priota Islam, Andre E. X. Brown, Jayson J. Smith, Paschalis Kratsios. (2025) In revision at Nature Communications
Structural basis and functional roles for Toll-like receptor binding to Latrophilin in C. elegans development.
Gabriel Carmona Rosas*, Jingxian Li*, Jayson J. Smith*, Wioletta I. Nawrocka, Shouqiang Cheng, Elana Baltrusaitis, Minglei Zhao, Demet Arac, Paschalis Kratsios, Engin Ozkan. (2025) Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.
*These authors contributed equally.
2024
A molecular atlas of adult elegans motor neurons reveals ancient diversity delineated by conserved transcription factor codes.
Jayson J. Smith*, Seth R. Taylor*, Jacob A. Blum, Weidong Feng, Rebecca Collings, Aaron D. Gitler, David M. Miller, III, Paschalis Kratsios. (2024) Cell Reports 43, 113857.
*These authors contributed equally.
2023
A DNA nanodevice for mapping sodium at single organelle resolution.
Junyi Zou, Koushambi Mitra, Palapuravan Anees, Daphne Oettinger, Joseph Ramirez, Aneesh Tazhe Veetil, Priyanka Dutta Gupta, Rakini Rao, Jayson J. Smith, Paschalis Kratsios, Yamuna Krishnan. (2023) Nature Biotechnology 42, 1075-1083.
Cell context-dependent CFI-1/ARID3 functions control neuronal terminal differentiation.
Yinan Li, Jayson J. Smith, Filipe Marques, Anthony Osuma, Hsin-Chiao Huang, Paschalis Kratsios. (2023) Cell Reports 42, 112220.
2022
Hox gene functions in the C. elegans nervous system: From early patterning to maintenance of neuronal identity.
Jayson J. Smith, Paschalis Kratsios. (2022) Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology Vol. 152-153, 58-69.
A light sheet fluorescence microscopy protocol for Caenorhabditis elegans larvae and adults.
Jayson J. Smith*, Isabel Kenny*, Carsten Wolff, Rachel Cray, Michael Weber, Kurt Weiss, Jan Huisken, Abhishek Kumar, David R. Sherwood, David Q. Matus. (2022) Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 10:1012820.
*These authors contributed equally.
Maintenance of neurotransmitter identity by Hox proteins through a homeostatic mechanism.
Weidong Feng, Honorine Destain, Jayson J. Smith, Paschalis Kratsios. (2022) Nature Communications 13, 6097.
Widespread employment of conserved C. elegans homeobox genes in neuronal identity specification.
Molly B Reilly*, Tessa Tekieli*, Cyril Cros*, G. Robert Aguilar, James Lao, Itai Antonie Toker, Berta Vidal, Eduardo Leyva-Diaz, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Jayson J. Smith, Ismar Kovacevic, Burcu Gulez, Robert Fernandez, Elizabeth F Bradford, Yasmin H Ramadan, Paschalis Kratsios, Zhirong Bao, Oliver Hobert. (2022) PLoS Genetics.
*These authors contributed equally.
The SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling assemblies BAF and PBAF differentially regulate cell cycle exit and cellular invasion in vivo.
Jayson J. Smith, Yutong Xiao, Nithin Parsan, Taylor N. Medwig-Kinney, Michael A. Q. Martinez, Frances E. Q. Moore, Nicholas J. Palmisano, Abraham Q. Kohrman, Mana Chondhok Delos Reyes, Rebecca C. Adikes, Simeiyun Liu, Sydney A. Bracht, Wan Zhang, Kailong Wen, Paschalis Kratsios, David Q. Matus. (2022) PLoS Genetics.
2020
Visualizing the metazoan proliferation-quiescence decision in vivo.
Rebecca C. Adikes*, Abraham Q. Kohrman*, Michael A. Q. Martinez*, Nicholas J. Palmisano, Jayson J. Smith, Taylor N. Medwig-Kinney, Mingwei Min, Maria D. Sallee, Ononnah B. Ahmed, Nuri Kim, Simeiyun Liu, Robert D. Morabito, Nicholas Weeks, Qinyun Zhao, Wan Zhang, Jessica L. Feldman, Michalis Barkoulas, Ariel M. Pani, Sabrina L. Spencer, Benjamin L. Martin, David Q. Matus. (2020) eLife.
*These authors contributed equally.
A developmental gene regulatory network for elegans anchor cell invasion.
Taylor N. Medwig-Kinney*, Jayson J. Smith*, Nicholas J. Palmisano, Sujata Tank, Wan Zhang, David Q. Matus. (2020) Development 147(1): dev185850.
*These authors contributed equally.