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Savor the Flavor: How Genes and Diet Shape Taste
Savor the Flavor: How Genes and Diet Shape Taste

Dus, M. Food and Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook, second edition. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Obesity- and Diet-Induced Plasticity in Systems That Control Eating and Energy Balance
Obesity- and Diet-Induced Plasticity in Systems That Control Eating and Energy Balance

Ferrario, C.R., Münzberg-Gruening, H., Rinaman, L., Betley, J.N., Borgland, S.L., Dus, M., Fadoo,l D.A., Medler, K.F., Morton, G.J., Sandoval, D.A., de La Serre, C.B., Stanley, S.A., Townsend, K.L., Watts, A.G., Maruvada, P., Cummings, D., Cooke B.M*. Obesity. 2024 Aug;32(8):1425-1440.
* corresponding author

Real Ag: Bittersweet
Real Ag: Bittersweet

PBS. Nov 2023.

Training your Tastebuds for Health
Training your Tastebuds for Health

Dus, M. The Conversation. June 2023.

Nutrigenomic Regulation of Sensory Plasticity
Nutrigenomic Regulation of Sensory Plasticity

Sung, H., Vaziri, A., Wilinski, D., Woerner, R.K.R., Freddolino, P.L., Dus, M. eLife. March 2023.

Food Memory Circuits Regulate Eating and Energy Balance
Food Memory Circuits Regulate Eating and Energy Balance

Pardo-Garcia, T.R., Gu, K., Woerner, R.K.R., Dus, M. Current Biology. 2023 Jan 23; 33, 215–227.

N6-Adenosine Methylation Regulates the Translation of Insulin mRNA
N6-Adenosine Methylation Regulates the Translation of Insulin mRNA

Wilinski, D., Dus, M. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. 2023; 30, 1260–1264.

Food for Thought: How Diet Influences the Brain
Food for Thought: How Diet Influences the Brain

Dus, M. The Conversation. August 2022.

High-Sucrose Diet Exposure Is Associated With Selective and Reversible Alterations in the Rat Peripheral Taste System
High-Sucrose Diet Exposure Is Associated With Selective and Reversible Alterations in the Rat Peripheral Taste System

Sung, H.***, Vesela, I.***, Dricks, H., Ferrario, C.R., Mistretta, C.M., Bradley, R.M.*, Dus, M*. Current Biology. August 2022.
*** authors contributed equally, * corresponding author

Nutrigenomics and Personalized Nutrition
Nutrigenomics and Personalized Nutrition

Bloomberg Quick Take. May 2022.

Nutrigenomics: How Food Can Talk to Your Genes
Nutrigenomics: How Food Can Talk to Your Genes

Dus, M. The Conversation. March 2022.

Brain on Food: The Neuroepigenetics of Nutrition
Brain on Food: The Neuroepigenetics of Nutrition

Vaziri, A., Dus, M*. Neurochemistry International. Special feature on Epigenetics. Volume 149, 105099, October 2021.
* corresponding author

Crème de la Creature: Dietary Influence on Behavior in Animal Models
Crème de la Creature: Dietary Influence on Behavior in Animal Models

Sarangi, M., Dus, M*. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 29 September 2021.
* corresponding author

Confection Confusion: The Interplay Between Diet, Taste, and Feeding Behavior
Confection Confusion: The Interplay Between Diet, Taste, and Feeding Behavior

May, C., Dus, M*. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. Volume 32, Issue 2, Pages 95-105. February 2021.
* corresponding author

NIH Workshop Report: Sensory Nutrition and Disease
NIH Workshop Report: Sensory Nutrition and Disease

Reed*, D.R., Alhadeff, A.L., Beauchamp, G.K., Chaudhari, N., Duffy, V.B., Dus, M., Fontanini, A., Glendinning, J.I., Green, B.G., Joseph, P.V., Kyriazis, G.A., Lyte, M., Maruvada, P., McGann, J.P., McLaughlin, J.T., Moran, T.H., Murphy, C., Noble, E.E., Pepino, M.Y., Pluznick, J.L., Rother, K.I., Saez, E., Spector, A.C., Sternini, C., Mattes, R.D. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, nqaa302. 09 Dec 2020.
* corresponding author

Persistent Epigenetic Reprogramming of Sweet Taste by Diet
Persistent Epigenetic Reprogramming of Sweet Taste by Diet

Vaziri, A., Morteza, K., Genaw, B., Freddolino, P.L., Dus, M*. Science Advances. 2020 Nov 11;6(46):eabc8492. PMID: 33177090.
* corresponding author

Rapid Metabolic Shifts Occur During the Transition Between Hunger and Satiety in Drosophila melanogaster
Rapid Metabolic Shifts Occur During the Transition Between Hunger and Satiety in Drosophila melanogaster

Wilinski, D., Winzeler, J., Duren, W., Persons, J.L., Holme, K.J., Mosquera, J., Khabiri, M., Kinchen, J.M., Freddolino, P.L., Karnovsky, A., Dus M*. Nat Commun. 10, 4052. 2019.
* corresponding author

Dietary Sugar Inhibits Satiation by Decreasing the Central Processing of Sweet Taste
Dietary Sugar Inhibits Satiation by Decreasing the Central Processing of Sweet Taste

May, C.E., Rosander, J., Dennis, E., Gottfried, J., Dus, M*. eLife. 2020;9:e54530. PMID: 32539934.
* corresponding author

High Dietary Sugar Reshapes Sweet Taste to Promote Feeding Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
High Dietary Sugar Reshapes Sweet Taste to Promote Feeding Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

May, C.E., Vaziri, A., Lin, Y.Q., Grushko, O., Khabiri, M., Wang, Q.-P., Holme, K.J., Pletcher, S.D., Freddolino, P.L., Neely, G.G., Dus, M*. Cell Rep. 2019 May 7; 1675-85.
* corresponding author

Drosophila SLC5A11 Mediates Hunger by Regulating K+ Channel Activity

Park, J.-Y., Dus, M., Kim, S., Abu, F., Kanai, M.I., Rudy, B., Suh, G.S.B. Curr Biol. 2016 Aug 8; 26 (18): 1965-74.

Benzoyl Chloride Derivatization With Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry for Targeted Metabolomics of Neurochemicals in Biological Samples

Benzoyl Chloride Derivatization With Liquid Wong, J.M., Malec, P.A., Mabrouk, O.S., Ro, J., Dus, M., Kennedy, R.T. Journal of Chromatography A. 2016 May 13; 1446:78-90.

Nutrient Sensor in the Brain Directs the Action of the Brain-Gut Axis in Drosophila

Dus, M., Lai, J.S.-Y., Gunapala, K.M., Min, S., Tayler, T.D., Hergarden, A.C., Geraud, E., Joseph, C.M., Suh, G.S.B.. Neuron. 2015 June 11.

Taste-Independent Nutrient Selection Is Mediated by a Brain-Specific Na+/Solute Co-Transporter in Drosophila

Dus, M., Ai, M., Suh, G.S. Nature Neuroscience. 2013 Mar 31.

Taste-Independent Detection of the Caloric Content of Sugars in Drosophila

Dus, M., Min, S., Keene, A.C., Lee, G.Y., Suh, G.S. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2011 Jul 12; 108 (28): 11644–11649.

Clock and Cycle Limit Starvation-Induced Sleep Loss in Drosophila

Keene, A.C., Duboué, E.R., McDonald, D.M., Dus, M., Suh, G.S.B., Waddell, S., Blau, J. Curr Biol. 2010 Jul 13; 20(13):1209-15.

Specialized piRNA Pathways Act in Germline and Somatic Tissues of the Drosophila Ovary

Malone, C.***, Brennecke, J.*** , Dus, M.***, Aravin, A.A., Sachidanandam, R., Hannon, G.J. Cell. 2009 May 1; 137(3):522-35.
*** authors contributed equally.

Drosophila RISC Component VIG and Its Homolog Vig2 Participate in Heterochromatin Formation

Gracheva, E., Dus, M., Elgin, S.C. PLoS One. 2009 Jul 8; 4(7):e6182.

An Endogenous Small Interfering RNA Pathway in Drosophila

Czech, B., Malone, C.D., Zhou, R., Stark, A., Schlingeheyde, C., Dus, M., Perrimon, N., Kellis, M., Wohlschlegel, J.A., Sachidanandam, R., Hannon, G.J., Brennecke, J. Nature. 2008 Jun 5; 453(7196):798-802.

Drosophila PIWI Associates With Chromatin and Interacts Directly With HP1a

Brent, B., Findley, S.D., Jiang, L., Liu, L., Yin, H., Dus, M, Zhou, P., Elgin, S., Lin, H. Genes and Dev. 2007 Sep 15; 21(18):2300-11.

Discrete Small RNA-Generating Loci as Master Regulators of Transposon Activity in Drosophila

Brennecke, J., Aravin, A.A., Stark, A., Dus, M, Kellis, M., Sachidanandam, R., Hannon, G.J. Cell. 2007 Mar 23; 128(6):1089-103.