Publications

Miroschnikow A, Schlegel P, Pankratz MJ. Making Feeding Decisions in the Drosophila Nervous System. Curr Biol. 2020 Jul 20;30(14):R831-R840. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.036. Review. PMID: 32693083

Miroschnikow A, Schlegel P, Schoofs A, Hueckesfeld S, Li F, Schneider-Mizell CM, Fetter RD, Truman JW, Cardona A, Pankratz MJ. 2018. Convergence of monosynaptic and polysynaptic sensory paths onto common motor outputs in a feeding connectome. Elife. 2018 Dec 11;7. pii: e40247. doi: 10.7554/eLife.40247.

Schoofs, A., Pankratz, M.J. & Goulding M. Book chapter: The "New Math" of Neuroscience: Genetic Tools for Accessing and Effectively Manipulating Neurons. From Neurobiology of Motor Control: Fundamental Concepts and New Directions. WILEY Blackwell (2017).

Schoofs, A., Hückesfeld, S. & Pankratz, M.J. Serotonergic network in the subesophageal zone modulates the motor pattern for food intake in Drosophila. J Insect Physiol. (2017).

Almeida-Carvalho MJ, Berh D, Braun A, Chen YC, Eichler K, Eschbach C, Fritsch PMJ, Gerber B, Hoyer N, Jiang X, Kleber J, Klämbt C, König C, Louis M, Michels B, Miroschnikow A, Mirth C, Miura D, Niewalda T, Otto N, Paisios E, Pankratz MJ, Petersen M, Ramsperger N, Randel N, Risse B, Saumweber T, Schlegel P, Schleyer M, Soba P, Sprecher SG, Tanimura T, Thum AS, Toshima N, Truman JW, Yarali A, Zlatic M. The Ol1mpiad: concordance of behavioural faculties of stage 1 and stage 3 Drosophila larvae. J Exp Biol. 220:2452-2475 (2017).

Surendran, S., Hückesfeld, S., Wäschle, B. & Pankratz M. J. Pathogen-induced food evasion behavior in Drosophila larvae. J Exp Biol. 220:1774-1780 (2017).

Schlegel, P., Texada, M.J., Miroschnikow, A., Schoofs, A., Hückesfeld, S., Peters, M., Schneider-Mizell, C.M., Lacin, H., Li, F., Fetter, R.D., Truman, J.W., Cardona, A. & Pankratz, M. J.  Synaptic transmission parallels neuromodulation in a central food-intake circuit. Elife 5, e16799 (2016).

Hückesfeld, S., Peters, M. & Pankratz, M. J. Central relay of bitter taste to the protocerebrum by peptidergic interneurons in the Drosophila brain. Nat. Commun. 7, (2016).

Schoofs, A. & Pankratz, M. J. Neuroscience: Hunger Pangs in the Fly Brain. Curr. Biol. 26, R701–R703 (2016).

Hückesfeld, S., Schoofs, A., Schlegel, P., Miroschnikow, A. & Pankratz, M. J. Localization of Motor Neurons and Central Pattern Generators for Motor Patterns Underlying Feeding Behavior in Drosophila Larvae. PLoS One 10, e0135011 (2015).

Schoofs, A., Hückesfeld, S., Schlegel, P., Miroschnikow, A., Peters, M., Zeymer, M., Spieß, R., Chiang, A.S. & Pankratz, M. J. Selection of Motor Programs for Suppressing Food Intake and Inducing Locomotion in the Drosophila Brain. PLoS Biol. 12, e1001893 (2014).

Schoofs, A., Hückesfeld, S., Surendran, S. & Pankratz, M. J. Serotonergic Pathways in the Drosophila Larval Enteric Nervous System. J. Insect Physiol. 69, 118–125 (2014).

Alekseyenko, O. V., Chan, Y.B., de la Paz Fernandez, M., Bülow, T., Pankratz, M.J. & Kravitz, E.A. Single Serotonergic Neurons that Modulate Aggression in Drosophila. Curr. Biol. 24, 2700–2707 (2014).

Bader, R., Sarraf-Zadeh, L., Peters, M., Moderau, N., Stocker, H., Köhler, K., Pankratz, M.J. & Hafen, E. The IGFBP7 homolog Imp-L2 promotes insulin signaling in distinct neurons of the Drosophila brain. J. Cell Sci. 126, 2571–2576 (2013).

Bader, R., Wegener, C. & Pankratz, M. J. Comparative Neuroanatomy and Genomics of hugin and Pheromone Biosynthesis Activating Neuropeptide (PBAN). Landes Biosci. 228–231 (2010).

Bülow MH, Aebersold R, Pankratz MJ, Jünger MA. The Drosophila FoxA ortholog Fork head regulates growth and gene expression downstream of Target of rapamycin. PLoS One. 2010 Dec 31;5(12):e15171.

Buch S, Pankratz MJ. Making metabolic decisions in Drosophila. Fly 2009 Jan-Feb;3(1):74-7. Epub 2009 Jan 8.

Buch, S., Melcher, C., Bauer, M., Katzenberger, J. & Pankratz, M. J. Opposing Effects of Dietary Protein and Sugar Regulate a Transcriptional Target of Drosophila Insulin-like Peptide Signaling. Cell Metab. 7, 321–332 (2008).

Min KJ, Yamamoto R, Buch S, Pankratz M, Tatar M. Drosophila lifespan control by dietary restriction independent of insulin-like signaling. Aging Cell. 2008 Mar;7(2):199-206. Epub 2008 Jan 21.

Melcher, C., Bader, R. & Pankratz, M. J. Amino Acids, Taste circuits, and feeding behavior in Drosophila: towards understanding the psychology of feeding in flies and man. J. Endocrinol. 192, 467–472 (2007).

Bader, R., Colomb, J., Pankratz, B., Schröck, A., Stocker, R.F. & Pankratz, M.J. Genetic Dissection of Neural Circuit Anatomy Underlying Feeding Behavior in Drosophila: Distinct Classes of Hugin-Expressing Neurons. J. Comp. Neurol. 502, 848–56 (2007).

Bader R, Wegener C, Pankratz MJ. Comparative Neuroanatomy and Genomics of hugin and Pheromone Biosynthesis Activating Neuropeptide (PBAN). Fly 2007 July/August;1(4):228-231.

Bauer M, Katzenberger JD, Hamm AC, Bonaus M, Zinke I, Jaekel J, Pankratz MJ.
Purine and folate metabolism as a potential target of sex-specific nutrient allocation in Drosophila and its implication for lifespan-reproduction tradeoff. Physiol Genomics 2006 May 16;25(3):393-404

Melcher, C., Bader, R., Walther, S., Simakow, O. & Pankratz, M. J. Neuromedin U and Its Putative Drosophila Homolog hugin. PLoS Biol. 4, e68 (2006).

Melcher, C. & Pankratz, M. J. Candidate Gustatory Interneurons Modulating Feeding Behavior in the Drosophila Brain. PLoS Biol. 3, e305 (2005).

Bauer, M., Hamm, A. & Pankratz, M. J. Linking nutrition to genomics. Biol. Chem. 385, 593–596 (2004).

Uetz, P. & Pankratz, M. J. Protein interaction maps on the fly. Nat. Biotechnol. 22, 43–44 (2004).

Bauer M, Hamm AC, Bonaus M, Jacob A, Jaekel J, Schorle H, Pankratz MJ, Katzenberger JD. Starvation response in mouse liver shows strong correlation with life-span-prolonging processes. Physiol Genomics. 2004 Apr 13;17(2):230-44.

Zinke, I., Schütz, C. S., Katzenberger, J. D., Bauer, M. & Pankratz, M. J. Nutrient control of gene expression in Drosophila: microarray analysis of starvation and sugar-dependent response. EMBO J. 21, 6162–73 (2002).

Zinke, I., Kirchner, C., Chao, L. C., Tetzlaff, M. T. & Pankratz, M. J. Suppression of Food Intake and Growth by Amino Acids in Drosophila: the Role of pumpless, a Fat Body Expressed Gene with Homology to Vertebrate Glycine Cleavage System. Development 126, 5275–84 (1999).

Hoch M, Pankratz MJ. Control of gut development by fork head and cell signaling molecules in Drosophila. Mech Dev. 1996 Aug;58(1-2):3-14.

Tetzlaff MT, Jackle H, Pankratz MJ. Lack of Drosophila cytoskeletal tropomyosin affects head morphogenesis and the accumulation of oskar mRNA required for germ cell formation. EMBO J. 1996 Mar 15;15(6):1247-54.

Pankratz MJ, Hoch M. Control of epithelial morphogenesis by cell signaling and integrin molecules in the Drosophila foregut. Development. 1995 Jun;121(6):1885-98.

Hartmann C, Taubert H, Jackle H, Pankratz MJ. A two-step mode of stripe formation in the Drosophila blastoderm requires interactions among primary pair rule genes. Mech Dev. 1994 Jan;45(1):3-13.

Pankratz MJ, Busch M, Hoch M, Seifert E, Jackle H. Spatial control of the gap gene knirps in the Drosophila embryo by posterior morphogen system. Science. 1992 Feb 21;255(5047):986-9.

Pankratz MJ, Jackle H.  Making stripes in the Drosophila embryo. Trends Genet. 1990 Sep;6(9):287-92.

Pankratz MJ, Seifert E, Gerwin N, Billi B, Nauber U, Jackle H.  Gradients of Kruppel and knirps gene products direct pair-rule gene stripe patterning in the posterior region of the Drosophila embryo. Cell. 1990 Apr 20;61(2):309-17.

Pankratz MJ, Hoch M, Seifert E, Jackle H. Kruppel requirement for knirps enhancement reflects overlapping gap gene activities in the Drosophila embryo.
Nature. 1989 Sep 28;341(6240):337-40.