Noelle L'Etoile, PhD
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
• Olfactory Adaptation in C. Elegans, NIH, 2003-2016

Publications (7)

Top publication keywords:
RNA InterferenceOlfactory NerveOdorantsSensory Receptor CellsCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsGuanylate CyclaseCyclic Nucleotide-Gated Cation ChannelsSmellCyclic GMP-Dependent Protein KinasesOptogeneticsDown-RegulationGreen Fluorescent ProteinsFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferCyclic GMPCaenorhabditis elegans

• Protective role of PASH-1 in CGG repeat-driven RNA and protein toxicity in FXTAS.
  iScience 2026 Hsu TY, Yang HY, Hsieh LS, Chen KY, Chiou GY, Chen AY, Shieh J, L'Etoile ND, Hagerman PJ, Juang BT
• Short-term memory by distributed neural network oscillators in a simple nervous system.
  Current biology : CB 2025 Dunn RL, Costello CM, Borchardt JM, Sprague DY, Chiu GC, Miller JM, L'Etoile ND, Kato S
• 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,…
• Contribution of the cyclic nucleotide gated channel subunit, CNG-3, to olfactory plasticity in Caenorhabditis elegans.
  Scientific reports 2017 O'Halloran DM, Altshuler-Keylin S, Zhang XD, He C, Morales-Phan C, Yu Y, Kaye JA, Brueggemann C, Chen TY, L'Etoile ND
• Expression of an expanded CGG-repeat RNA in a single pair of primary sensory neurons impairs olfactory adaptation in Caenorhabditis elegans.
  Human molecular genetics 2014 Juang BT, Ludwig AL, Benedetti KL, Gu C, Collins K, Morales C, Asundi A, Wittmann T, L'Etoile N, Hagerman PJ
• Endogenous nuclear RNAi mediates behavioral adaptation to odor.
  Cell 2013 Juang BT, Gu C, Starnes L, Palladino F, Goga A, Kennedy S, L'Etoile ND