Publications

Peer-reviewed research publications

• Rodriguez, MN and Stavoe, AKH. Sex does not influence neuronal autophagosome biogenesis throughout aging in mice. Mol Bio Cell. 2025. 36(11):ar135. Pubmed

• Tsong, H, Holzbaur, ELF, and Stavoe, AKH. Aging Differentially Affects Axonal Autophagosome Formation and Maturation. Autophagy. 2023. 18:1-17. Pubmed 

• Stavoe, AKH, Gopal, PP, Gubas, A, Tooze, SA, and Holzbaur, ELF. Expression of WIPI2B counteracts age-related decline in autophagosome biogenesis in neurons. eLife. 2019. 8:e44219. Pubmed  PDF

Featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer. “A new front in preventing brain disease.” September 1, 2019

Featured in PennMedicine News. “Taking out the Protein Garbage Becomes More Difficult as Neurons Age.”   July 18, 2019

• Stavoe, AKH, Hill, SE, Hall, DH, and Colón-Ramos, DA. KIF1A/UNC-104 transports ATG-9 to regulate neurodevelopment and autophagy at synapses. Dev Cell. 2016. 38(2):171-185. Pubmed  PDF

• Stavoe, AKH, Nelson, JC, Martínez-Velázquez, LA, Klein, M, Samuel, ADT, and Colón-Ramos, DA. Synaptic vesicle clustering requires a distinct MIG-10/Lamellipodin isoform and ABI-1 downstream from Netrin. Genes and Development. 2012. 26(19):2206-21. Pubmed  PDF

• Stavoe, AKH and Colón-Ramos, DA. Netrin instructs presynaptic assembly through Rac GTPase, MIG-10/Lamellipodin and the actin cytoskeleton. Journal of Cell Biology. 2012. 197(1):75-88. Pubmed