Publications

  • F. Schildhauer, Petra SJ Ryl, Simon M Lauer, S. Lenz, Ayşe Berçin Barlas, Vasileios R Ouzounidis, K. Jeffrey, Daniel-Cosmin Marcu, Francis J O’Reilly, A. Graziadei, M. Stuiver, K. Schmidt, H. Ewers, Christian MT Spahn, E. Karaca, K. E. Busch, D. Cheerambathur, D. Schwefel, J. Rappsilber: An NADH-controlled gatekeeper of ATP synthase

           Molecular Cell (2025): S1097-2765(25)00507-6, doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2025.06.007.

  • D.-C. Marcu, E. I. Berthold, K. E. Busch:Measuring Associative Learning in Chemotaxis of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

           Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), in press

  • Q. Li, D.-C. Marcu, P. H. Dear and K. E. Busch: Aerotaxis Assay in Caenorhabditis elegans to Study Behavioral Plasticity.

           Bio Protoc 12(2022), e4492, doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4492

  • Q. Li, D.-C. Marcu, O. Palazzo, F. Turner, D. King, T. L. Spires-Jones, M. I. Stefan and K. E. Busch: High neural activity accelerates the decline of cognitive plasticity with age in Caenorhabditis elegans.

          eLife 9(2020), e59711, doi: 10.7554/eLife.59711

  • E. Maluck, I. Busack, J. Besseling, F. Masurat, M. Turek, K. E. Busch and H. Bringmann: A wake-active locomotion circuit depolarizes a sleep-active neuron to switch on sleep.

          PLoS Biology 18 (2020), e3000361. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000361.

  • G. Saro, A. S. Lia, S. Thapliyal, F. Marques, K. E. Busch and D. A. Glauser: Specific Ion Channels Control Sensory Gain, Sensitivity, and Kinetics in a Tonic Thermonociceptor.

         Cell Reports 30 (2020), 397-408.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.12.029.

  • K. J. Robinson, O. J. Bosch, G. Levkowitz, K. E. Busch, A. P. Jarman and M. Ludwig. Social creatures: Model animal systems for studying the neuroendocrine mechanisms of social behaviour.

J Neuroendocrinol 31(2019), e12807. doi: 10.1111/jne.12807.

  • Y. Tanimoto, A. Yamazoe-Umemoto, K. Fujita, Y. Kawazoe, Y. Miyanishi, S. J. Yamazaki, X. Fei, K. E. Busch, K. Gengyo-Ando, J. Nakai, Y. Iino, Y. Iwasaki, K. Hashimoto and K. D. Kimura: Calcium dynamics regulating the timing of decision-making in C. elegans.

          eLife 6(2017), e21629. doi: 10.7554/eLife.21629.

  • K. E. Fischer, N. A. Vladis and K. E. Busch: Optogenetic applications in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. In: Optogenetics: A roadmap. A. Stroh (ed.), Springer Neuromethods, 2017
  • K. D. Kimura and K. E. Busch: From Connectome to Function: Using Optogenetics to Shed Light on the Caenorhabditis elegans Nervous System. In: Optogenetics: From Neuronal Function to Mapping & Disease Biology. K. Appasani (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2017
  • G. A. Linneweber, J. Jacobson, K. E. Busch, B. Hudry, C. P. Christov, D. Dormann, M. Yuan, T. Otani, E. Knust, M. de Bono and I. Miguel-Aliaga: Nutrient-responsive neurons regulate metabolism through organ-specific modulation of tracheal branching.

Cell 156(2014), 69-83. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.12.008

Comment in: EMBO Journal 33 (2014), 179-180

  • E. Kodama-Namba, A. J. Bretscher, L. A. Fenk, E. Gross, K. E. Busch and M. de Bono: Cross-modulation of homeostatic responses in C. elegans.

PLOS Genetics 9(2013), e1004011. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004011.

  • K. E. Busch, P. Laurent, Z. Soltesz, R. Murphy, O. Faivre, B. Hedwig, M. Thomas, H. Smith and M. de Bono: Tonic signaling from O2 sensors sets neural circuit activity and behavioral state.

Nature Neuroscience 15(2012), 581-591. doi: 10.1038/nn.3061.

Comment in: R. Benton, Nature Neuroscience 15(2012), 501-503.

  • K. E. Busch and B. Olofsson: Should I stay or should I go? Optimal foraging in C. elegans.

Worm 1 (2012), 182-186. Doi: 10.4161/worm.20464

  • K. Milward, K. E. Busch, R. Murphy, M. de Bono and B. Olofsson:Neuronal and molecular substrates for optimal foraging in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 108(2011), 20672-20677.

  • A. J. Bretscher, E. Kodama-Namba, K. E. Busch, R. Murphy, Z. Soltesz, P. Laurent and M. de Bono: Temperature, oxygen and salt sensing neurons in C. elegans are carbon dioxide sensors that control avoidance behaviour.

Neuron 69(2011), 1099-1113.

  • A. Persson, E. Gross, P. Laurent, K. E. Busch, H. Bretes and M. de Bono: Natural variation in a neural globin tunes oxygen sensing in wild Caenorhabditis elegans.

Nature 458 (2009), 1030-1033.

  • A. J. Bretscher, K. E. Busch and M. de Bono: A carbon dioxide avoidance behavior is integrated with responses to ambient oxygen and food in C. elegans.

Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 105 (2008), 8044-49.

  • L. Sandblad, K. E. Busch, P. Tittmann, H. Gross, D. Brunner and A. Hoenger: The Schizosaccharomyces pombe EB1 homolog Mal3p binds and stabilizes the microtubule lattice seam. 

           Cell 127 (2006), 1415-1424.

Comment in: Cell 127 (2006), 1302-1304.

  • K. E. Busch, J. Hayles, P. Nurse and D. Brunner: Tea2p kinesin is involved in spatial micro­tubule organization by transporting tip1p on microtubules.

Developmental Cell 6 (2004), 831-843.

Comment in: Developmental Cell 6 (2004), 746-748.

  • K. E. Busch and D. Brunner: The microtubule plus end tracking proteins mal3p and tip1p cooperate for cell end targeting of interphase microtubules.

Current Biology 14 (2004), 548-559 (Article).