Publications

Peer-Reviewed Research Articles

Bryant AS, Ruiz F, Lee JH, Hallem EA. (2022). The neural basis of heat seeking in a human-infective parasitic worm. Curr Biol 32(10): 2206-2221.e6. Link.
Highlighted in: Pan, Ronan, and Xu (2022). Thermosensation: How a human-infective nematode finds its host. Curr Biol 32(10): PR464-R466. Link.
Preprint version available on BioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.23.449647.

Chavez IN, Brown TM, Assié A, Bryant AS, Samuel BS, Hallem EA. (2021). Skin-penetrating nematodes exhibit life-stage-specific interactions with host-associated and environmental bacteria. BMC Biology 19(1): 221. Link.

Bryant AS, Hallem EA. (2021). The Wild Worm Codon Adapter: a web tool for automated codon adaptation of transgenes for expression in non-Caenorhabditis nematodes. G3 (Bethesda) 11(7): jkab146. Link.

Bryant AS, DeMarco SF, Hallem EA. (2021) Strongyloides RNA-seq Browser: a web-based software platform for on-demand bioinformatics analyses of Strongyloides species. G3 (Bethesda) 11(5): jkab104. Link.

Gang SS, Castelletto ML, Yang E, Ruiz F, Brown TM, Bryant AS, Grant WN, Hallem EA. (2020) Chemosensory mechanisms of host seeking and infectivity in skin-penetrating nematodes. PNAS. 117(30): 17913-23. Link

Bryant AS, Ruiz F, Gang SS, Castelletto ML, Lopez JB, Hallem EA. (2018) A critical role for thermosensation in host seeking by skin-penetrating nematodes. Curr Biol 28(14): 2338-2347.e6. Link.
Highlighted in: O'Donnell, Khan, Sengupta. (2018) Thermosensation: human parasitic nematodes use heat to hunt hosts. Curr Biol 28(14): PR795-R798. Link.

Gang SS, Castelletto ML, Bryant AS, Yang E, Mancuso N, Lopez JB, Pellegrini M, Hallem EA. (2017) Targeted mutagenesis in a human-parasitic nematode. PLoS Pathog 13(10): e1006675. Link.

Bryant AS, Greenwood AK, Juntti, SA, Byrne AE, Fernald RD. (2016) Dopaminergic Inhibition of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Neurons in the Cichlid Fish, Astatotilapia burtoni. J Exp Bio 219(24): 3861-3865. Link.

Bryant AS, Goddard CA, Hugueanrd JR, Knudsen EI. (2015) Cholinergic control of gamma power in the midbrain spatial attention network. J Neurosci 35(2): 761-755. Link.

Goddard CA, Mysore SP, Bryant AS, Huguenard JR, Knudsen EI. (2014) Spatially reciprocal inhibition of inhibition within a stimulus selection network in the avian midbrain. PLOS One 9(1): e85865. Link.

Lacey CJ, Bryant AS, Brill J, Huguenard JR. (2012) Enhanced NMDA receptor-dependent thalamic excitation and network oscillations in stargazer mice. J Neurosci 32(32): 11067-81. Link.

Paz J, Bryant AS, Peng K, Fenno L, Yizhar O, Deisseroth K, Huguenard JR. (2011) A new mode of corticothalamic transmission revealed in the Gria4-/- model of absence epilepsy. Nature Neuroscience 14(9): 1167-1173. Link.

Bryant AS, Li B, Beenhakker MP, Huguenard JR. (2009) Maintenance of thalamic epileptiform activity depends on the astrocytic glutamate-glutamine cycle. J Neurophysiol vol. 102(5): 2880-8. Link.

Peer-Reviewed Reviews

Bryant AS, Hallem EA. (2018) Terror in the dirt: Sensory determinants of host seeking in soil-transmitted mammalian-parasitic nematodes. IJPDDR 8: 496-510. Link.

Bryant AS, Hallem EA. (2018) Temperature-dependent behaviors of parasitic helminths. Neuroscience Letters. 6:290-303. Link.