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Brodie R., *B. Roberts , *J. Espinosa, *K. Heilman , S. Borgianini, J. Welch , K. Reinsel. 2017. Seasonal and latitudinal variations in the energy reserves of the mud fiddler crab Uca pugnax: implications for the response to climate change. Aquatic Biology 26:113-123.
*indicates undergraduate coauthor
Alyxander Burns’ paper “Who Do We Mean When We Talk About Visualization Novices?” was awarded the Best Paper Award at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This award is given to the top 1% of submissions to the conference.
Massoni, S. C., Evans, N. J., Hantke, I., Fenton, C., Torpey, J. H., Collins, K. M., Krysztofinska, E. M., Muench, J. H., Thapaliya, A., Martínez-Lumbreras, S., Hart Ferrell, S., Slater, C., Wang, X., Fekade, R., Obwar, S., Yin, S., Vazquez, A., Prior, C. B., Turgay, K., Isaacson, R. L., and Camp, A. H. (2025). MdfA is a novel ClpC adaptor protein that functions in the developing Bacillus subtilis spore. Genes & Development https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.352498.124
Riley, E. P., Lyda, J. A., Reyes-Matte, O., Sugie, J., Kasu, I. R., Enustun, E., Armbruster, E. G., Ravishankar, S., Isaacson, R. L., Camp, A. H., Lopez-Garrido, J., & Pogliano, K. (2025). Developmentally regulated proteolysis by MdfA and ClpCP mediates metabolic differentiation during Bacillus subtilis sporulation. Genes & Development https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.352535.124
Lee, S. M., Tsou, J. J.-Y., Evans, M., Danese, C., Xu, Y., Mim, M., Chen, W. (2025). Elucidating and mitigating instabilities of poly(vinyl alcohol) thin films in aqueous environments. Langmuir, 41, 28119–28128. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5c04084
Ciufo, T. (2025). Listening Through Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art. Presented at Ways of Listening: Species, Gender, Abilities and Cultures, 12th International FKL Symposium on Soundscape, Italy (2025)
Thomas Ciufo convened and chaired a panel session entitled, Arts and Technology: Studio Reports and Curriculum Roundtable, at the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology 18th Triennial Symposium at Connecticut College. The panel had faculty from Mount Holyoke College, Connecticut College, the University of Michigan, and Virginia Tech.
Ciufo, T. (2025). Listening Through Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art. Presented at Ways of Listening: Species, Gender, Abilities and Cultures, 12th International FKL Symposium on Soundscape, Italy (2025)
Bhasiin, K. ['22], Heintz, O. ['21], & Colodner, K. J. (2023). Optimization and Technical Considerations for the Dye-Exclusion Protocol Used to Assess Blood–Brain Barrier Integrity in Adult Drosophila melanogaster. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(3), 1886.
Kahlson M.** and Colodner K.J.. (2016) Glial tau pathology in tauopathies: Functional consequences. Journal of Experimental Neuroscience, 9(Suppl 2):43-50. [invited review]
**denotes Mount Holyoke College undergraduate student
