Miri Vanhoven, PhD
Visiting Associate Professor
Cell and Tissue Biology
School of Dentistry

Grants and Projects

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• The Effect of Sleep on Neural Circuit Connections, NIH, 2014-2024
• Molecular Mechanisms that Regulate Neural Circuit Formation, NIH, 2019-2022
• Molecular Mechanisms of Neural Circuit Formation, NIH, 2010-2019
• Novel Split GFP Based Intersynaptic Markers to Study Synaptic Specificity in vivo, NIH, 2008

Publications (13)

Top publication keywords:
Nerve Tissue ProteinsCell Adhesion Molecules, NeuronalCaenorhabditis elegansTight JunctionsCell Adhesion MoleculesStreptomycesSynapsesCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedChemoreceptor CellsSensory Receptor CellsOlfactory Receptor NeuronsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsNetrinsTransgenes

• Sleep is required to consolidate odor memory and remodel olfactory synapses.
  Cell 2023 Chandra R, Farah F, Muñoz-Lobato F, Bokka A, Benedetti KL, Brueggemann C, Saifuddin MFA, Miller JM, Li J, Chang E, Varshney A, Jimenez V, Baradwaj A, Nassif C, Alladin S, Andersen K, Garcia AJ, Bi V, …
• Using a Robust and Sensitive GFP-Based cGMP Sensor for Real-Time Imaging in Intact Caenorhabditis elegans.
  Genetics 2019 Woldemariam S, Nagpal J, Hill T, Li J, Schneider MW, Shankar R, Futey M, Varshney A, Ali N, Mitchell J, Andersen K, Barsi-Rhyne B, Tran A, Costa WS, Krzyzanowski MC, Yu YV, Brueggemann C, Hamilton OS,…
• The receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase CLR-1 is required for synaptic partner recognition.
  PLoS genetics 2018 Varshney A, Benedetti K, Watters K, Shankar R, Tatarakis D, Coto Villa D, Magallanes K, Agenor V, Wung W, Farah F, Ali N, Le N, Pyle J, Farooqi A, Kieu Z, Bremer M, VanHoven M
• C. elegans avoids toxin-producing Streptomyces using a seven transmembrane domain chemosensory receptor.
  eLife 2017 Tran A, Tang A, O'Loughlin CT, Balistreri A, Chang E, Coto Villa D, Li J, Varshney A, Jimenez V, Pyle J, Tsujimoto B, Wellbrook C, Vargas C, Duong A, Ali N, Matthews SY, Levinson S, Woldemariam S, …
• Kinesin-1 acts with netrin and DCC to maintain sensory neuron position in Caenorhabditis elegans.
  Genetics 2013 Barsi-Rhyne BJ, Miller KM, Vargas CT, Thomas AB, Park J, Bremer M, Jarecki JL, VanHoven MK

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• Netrin (UNC-6) mediates dendritic self-avoidance.
  Nature neuroscience 2012 Smith CJ, Watson JD, VanHoven MK, Colón-Ramos DA, Miller DM
• A conserved juxtacrine signal regulates synaptic partner recognition in Caenorhabditis elegans.
  Neural development 2011 Park J, Knezevich PL, Wung W, O'Hanlon SN, Goyal A, Benedetti KL, Barsi-Rhyne BJ, Raman M, Mock N, Bremer M, Vanhoven MK
• GFP Reconstitution Across Synaptic Partners (GRASP) defines cell contacts and synapses in living nervous systems.
  Neuron 2008 Feinberg EH, Vanhoven MK, Bendesky A, Wang G, Fetter RD, Shen K, Bargmann CI
• Left-right olfactory asymmetry results from antagonistic functions of voltage-activated calcium channels and the Raw repeat protein OLRN-1 in C. elegans.
  Neural development 2007 Bauer Huang SL, Saheki Y, VanHoven MK, Torayama I, Ishihara T, Katsura I, van der Linden A, Sengupta P, Bargmann CI
• An innexin-dependent cell network establishes left-right neuronal asymmetry in C. elegans.
  Cell 2007 Chuang CF, Vanhoven MK, Fetter RD, Verselis VK, Bargmann CI
• The claudin superfamily protein nsy-4 biases lateral signaling to generate left-right asymmetry in C. elegans olfactory neurons.
  Neuron 2006 Vanhoven MK, Bauer Huang SL, Albin SD, Bargmann CI
• A central role of the BK potassium channel in behavioral responses to ethanol in C. elegans.
  Cell 2003 Davies AG, Pierce-Shimomura JT, Kim H, VanHoven MK, Thiele TR, Bonci A, Bargmann CI, McIntire SL
• Otx/otd homeobox genes specify distinct sensory neuron identities in C. elegans.
  Developmental cell 2003 Lanjuin A, VanHoven MK, Bargmann CI, Thompson JK, Sengupta P