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Meet Zandawala

Assistant Professor

Summary

Our research group is interested in context-dependent modulation of behaviors and physiological processes by neuropeptides and their G-protein coupled receptors.

The nervous systems of animals utilize a wide variety of chemicals for neuronal communication. These include amino acids, biogenic amines, and neuropeptides amongst others. Neuropeptides are by far the most diverse, and control a range of essential physiological processes including feeding, metabolism, sleep, stress, reproduction, development and locomotion. Our working group is interested in understanding how neuropeptides mediate their effects in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. We utilize multiple approaches in our lab including standard molecular techniques, CRISPR/Cas9, Drosophila genetics, behavioral analyses, optogenetics and calcium imaging. We are also developing cutting-edge genetic tools to study neuropeptide function in Drosophila.

Publications

Publications are listed below.

Journals

2024

European Journal of Neuroscience

Benedikt Hofbauer, Meet Zandawala, Nils Reinhard, Dirk Rieger, Christian Werner, Jan Felix Evers, Christian Wegener

2023

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Giulia Manoli, Meet Zandawala, Taishi Yoshii, Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

2023

Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2023, evad108

Luis Alfonso Yañez Guerra , Meet Zandawala

2022

Open Biol (2022). 12(7) 220174.

Nässel, Dick R; Zandawala, Meet

Receptor deorphanization in an echinoderm reveals kisspeptin evolution and relationship with (SALMFamide) neuropeptides

2022

BMC Biol (2022). 20(1) 187

Escudero Castelan, Nayeli; Semmens, Dean C; Guerra, Luis Alfonso Ya{\~n}ez; Zandawala, Meet; Dos Reis, Mario; Slade, Susan E; Scrivens, James H; Zampronio, Cleidiane G; Jones, Alexandra M; Mirabeau, Olivier; Elphick, Maurice R

2021

PLOS Genetics (2021). 17(3) 1–31

Zandawala, Meet; Nguyen, Thomas; Balanyà Segura, Marta; Johard, Helena A. D.; Amcoff, Mirjam; Wegener, Christian; Paluzzi, Jean-Paul; Nässel, Dick R.

Hormonal axes in Drosophila: regulation of hormone release and multiplicity of actions

2020

Cell and Tissue Research 382

Nässel, Dick; Zandawala, Meet

2019

Neuroscience (2019). 13 1262

Nässel, Dick R.; Zandawala, Meet; Kawada, Tsuyoshi; Satake, Hono

2018

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2018). 75(6) 1099–1115.

Zandawala, Meet; Marley, Richard; Davies, Shireen A.; Nässel, Dick R.

2018

General and comparative endocrinology (2018). 264 64–77

Zandawala, Meet; Tian, Shi; Elphick, Maurice R.

2017

Open Biology 7(9) 170129

Zandawala, Meet; Moghul, Ismail; Yañez Guerra, Luis Alfonso; Delroisse, Jérôme; Abylkassimova, Nikara; Hugall, Andrew F.; O’Hara, Timothy D.; Elphick, Maurice R.

2017

in PLOS Genetics (2018). 14(11) 1–31

Zandawala, Meet; Yurgel, Maria E.; Texada, Michael J.; Liao, Sifang; Rewitz, Kim F.; Keene, Alex C.; Nässel, Dick R.

Reviews

2024

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Meet Zandawala, Jayati Gera

This review focuses on the unpaired family of proteins in Drosophila which are evolutionarily related to mammalian leptin and the cytokine interleukin 6....