Papers
Graduate Students
(Names noted in bold)
Murugan, N. J., Vigran, H. J., Miller, K., Golding, A., Pham, Q. L., Sperry, M., Rasmussen-Ivey, C., Kane, A. W., Kaplan, D. L., and Levin, M., (2022), "Acute
multidrug delivery via a wearable bioreactor facilitates long-term limb regeneration and functional recovery in adult Xenopus laevis",
Science Advances, 8(4): abj2164
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Nanos, V., and Levin, M., (2021), "Rewiring Endogenous Bioelectric Circuits
in the Xenopus laevis Embryo Model", Methods in Molecular Biology, 2258:93-103
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Kuchling, F., Friston, K., Georgiev, G., and Levin, M., (2020), "Integrating Variational Approaches to Pattern Formation
into a Deeper Physics: Reply to comments on 'Morphogenesis as Bayesian Inference: A Variational Approach to Pattern Formation
and Manipulation in Complex Biological Systems'", Physics of Life Reviews, 33:125-128
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Pezzulo, G., LaPalme, J., Durant, F., Levin, M., (2019),
"Bistability of Somatic Pattern Memories: Stochastic Outcomes in Bioelectric Circuits Underlying Regeneration",
preprints.org
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Emmons-Bell, M., Durant, F., Tung, A., Pietak, A., Miller, K., Kane, A., Martyniuk, C. J.,
Davidian, D., Morokuma, J., and Levin, M., (2019),
"Regenerative Adaptation To Electrochemical Perturbation In Planaria: A Molecular Analysis
Of Physiological Plasticity", iScience, 22: 147-165
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Kuchling, F., Friston, K., Georgiev, G., and Levin, M., (2019),
"Morphogenesis as
Bayesian Inference: a Variational Approach to Pattern Formation and Control in
Complex Biological Systems", Physics of Life Reviews, 33: 88-108
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Hammelman, J., Siegelmann, H., Manicka, S., and Levin, M., (2019), "Toward modeling regeneration via adaptable echo state networks", in A. Adamatzky, S. Akl, and G. Sirakoulis (Eds.), From parallel to emergent computing, Chapter 6, pages 117-133, CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL
Sullivan, K. G., and Levin, M., (2018),
"Inverse Drug Screening of Bioelectric Signaling and Neurotransmitter Roles: Illustrated Using a Xenopus Tail Regeneration Assay",
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, 2018(3): pdb.prot099937
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Durant, F., Morokuma, J., Fields, C., Williams, K., Adams, D. S., and Levin, M., (2017), "Long-Term,
Stochastic Editing of Regenerative Anatomy via Targeting Endogenous Bioelectric Gradients", Biophysical Journal, 112: 2231-2243
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Thurber, A. E., Nelson, M., Frost C. L., Levin, M., Brackenbury W. J., and Kaplan D. L., (2017),
"IK channel activation increases tumor growth and induces differential behavioral
responses in two breast epithelial cell lines", Oncotarget, in press
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Durant, F., Lobo, D., Hammelman, J., and Levin, M., (2016),
"Physiological controls of large-scale patterning in planarian regeneration:
a molecular and computational perspective on growth and form", Regeneration, 3(2): 78-102
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Emmons-Bell, M., Durant, F., Hammelman, J., Bessonov, N., Volpert, V., Morokuma, J.,
Pinet, K., Adams, D. S., Pietak, A., Lobo, D., and Levin, M., (2015),
"Gap junctional blockade stochastically induces different species-specific head
anatomies in genetically wild-type Girardia dorotocephala flatworms",
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 16: 27865-27896
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Lobikin, M., Lobo, D., Blackiston, D. J., Martyniuk, C. J., Tkachenko, E.,
and Levin, M., (2015), "Serotonergic regulation of melanocyte conversion: A bioelectrically
regulated network for stochastic all-or-none hyperpigmentation", Science Signaling, 8(397): ra99
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Chernet, B., and Levin, M.,
(2014), "Transmembrane voltage potential of somatic cells controls oncogene-mediated
tumorigenesis at long-range", Oncotarget, 5(10): 3287-3306
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Lan J. Y., Williams C., Levin, M., and Black L. D. III, (2014), "Depolarization of Cellular Resting
Membrane Potential Promotes Neonatal Cardiomyocyte Proliferation In Vitro",
Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 7(3): 432-445
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Chernet, B. T.,
and Levin M., (2014), "Endogenous voltage potentials and the
microenvironment: bioelectric signals that reveal, induce, and normalize
cancer", Journal of Clinical and Experimental Oncology, S1:
doi:10.4172/2324-9110.S1-002
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Mustard, J., and Levin, M.,
(2014),"Bioelectrical mechanisms for programming growth and form: taming
physiological networks for soft body robotics", Soft Robotics, 1(3):
169-191
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Lobikin, M., and Levin, M., (2014), "Endogenous bioelectric
cues as morphogenetic signals in vivo", Chapter 15 in
D. Fels, M. Cifra, and F. Scholkmann (Eds), Fields of the Cell,
Research Signpost: Kerala, India p. 283-302
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Chernet, B. T., and Levin, M., (2013), "Transmembrane
voltage potential is an essential cellular parameter for the detection and
control of tumor development",
Disease Models & Mechanisms,
6(3): 595-607
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Pai, V. P., Aw., S., Shomrat, T., Lemire, J. M., and Levin, M. (2012), "Transmembrane voltage
potential controls embryonic eye patterning in Xenopus laevis", Development, 139(2): 313-323
[F1000 rating "Exceptional"]
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Lobikin, M., Wang, G., Xu, J.-S., Hsieh, Y.-W., Chuang, C.-F., Lemire, J. M.,
and M. Levin, (2012), "Early, nonciliary role for microtubule proteins in left-right patterning
is conserved across kingdoms", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 109(31): 12586-12591
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Lobikin, M., Chernet, B., Lobo,
D., and Levin, M., (2012), "Resting potential, oncogene-induced
tumorigenesis, and metastasis: the bioelectric basis of cancer in vivo",
Physical Biology, 9(6): 065002
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Chernet, B. T.,
Adams, D. S., and Levin, M., (2012), "Photoconversion for Tracking the
Dynamics of Cell Movement in Xenopus laevis Embryos", Cold Spring Harbor Protocols,
2016(6): 683-690
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Chernet, B. T., and Levin, M., (2012), "A versatile protocol for mRNA electroporation of
Xenopus laevis embryos", Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, 2012(4): 447-452
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Blackiston, D., Shomrat, T., Nicolas, C. L., Granata, C., and Levin, M., (2010),
"A second-generation device for automated training and quantitative behavior analyses of
molecularly-tractable model organisms", PLoS One, 5(12): e14370
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Blackiston, D., Adams, D. S., Lemire, J. M.,
Lobikin, M., and Levin, M., (2011), "Transmembrane potential of GlyCl-expressing instructor
cells induces a neoplastic-like conversion of melanocytes via a serotonergic
pathway", Disease Models and Mechanisms, 4: 67-85
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Oviedo, N. J., Morokuma, P.
Walentek, et al., M. Levin, (2010), "Long-range neural and gap
junction protein-mediated cues control polarity in planarian regeneration",
Developmental Biology, 339:188-199
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Hechavarria, D., Dewilde, A., Braunhut, S., Levin, M., and
Kaplan, D. K., (2010), "BioDome regenerative sleeve for biochemical and
biophysical stimulation of tissue regeneration", Medical Engineering and
Physics, 32: 1065-1073
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Aw, S., Koster, J., Pearson, W., Nicols, C.,
Shi, N. Q., Carneiro, K., and Levin, M., (2010), "The ATP-sensitive K+-channel
(KATP) controls early left-right patterning in Xenopus and chick embryos",
Developmental Biology, 346: 39-53
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Oviedo, N. J., Nicolas, C. L.,
Adams, D. S., and Levin, M., (2008), "Live imaging of planarian membrane
potential using DiBAC4(3)", Cold Spring Harbor Protocols,
doi:10.1101/pdb.prot5055
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Oviedo, N. J., Nicolas, C. L.,
Adams, D. S., and Levin, M., (2008), "Gene knockdown in planarians using RNA
interference", Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, doi:10.1101/pdb.prot5054
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Oviedo, N. J., Nicolas, C. L., Adams, D. S., and Levin, M., (2008),
"Establishing and maintaining a colony of planarians",
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, doi:10.1101/pdb.prot5053
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Aw, S., Adams, D. S., Qiu,
D., and Levin, M., (2008), "H,K-ATPase protein localization and Kir4.1
function reveal concordance of three axes during early determination of left-right
asymmetry", Mechanisms of Development, 125: 353-372
[Top-cited article for 2008-2010 at MOD]
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Nicolas, C.L., Abramson, C.I., and Levin, M. (2008), "Analysis of behavior in the planarian model", in Planaria: A Model for Drug Action and Abuse, R. B. Raffa & S.M. Rawls (Eds.), RG Landes Co.: Austin, p. 83-94
Aw, S., and
Levin, M., (2008), "What's Left in Asymmetry?", Developmental Dynamics, 237: 3453-3463
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Oviedo, N., Nicolas, C. L.,
Adams, D. S., and Levin, M. (2008), "Planarians:
a versatile and powerful model system for molecular
studies of regeneration, adult stem cell regulation, aging, and behavior",
in Emerging Model Organisms: A Laboratory Manual, Volume 1, Cold Spring Harbor Press: Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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