Nichols Lab

The neuronal basis of nematode behavioural diversity

Publications


Widespread temporal niche partitioning in an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes


Annika L. A. Nichols*, Maxwell E. R. Shafer*, Adrian Indermaur, Attila Rüegg, Rita Gonzalez-Dominguez, Milan Malinsky, Carolin Sommer-Trembo, Laura Fritschi, Amelia Mesich, Ayasha Abdalla-Wyse, Walter Salzburger, Alexander F. Schier, (*co-contribution)

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2025


Expanded olfactory system in ray-finned fishes capable of terrestrial exploration


Demian Burguera, Francesco Dionigi, Kristina Kverková, Sylke Winkler, Thomas Brown, Martin Pippel, Yicheng Zhang, Maxwell Shafer, Annika L. A. Nichols, Eugene Myers, Pavel Němec, Zuzana Musilova

BMC Biology, 2023


Frequent transitions from night-to-day activity after mass extinctions


Maxwell E.R. Shafer, Annika L.A. Nichols, Alexander F. Schier, Walter Salzburger

Preprint, 2023


Hierarchical recurrent state space models reveal discrete and continuous dynamics of neural activity in C. elegans


Scott Linderman, Annika Nichols, David Blei, Manuel Zimmer, Liam Paninski

Preprint, 2019


Sensorimotor integration in Caenorhabditis elegans : a reappraisal towards dynamic and distributed computations


Harris S. Kaplan, Annika L.A. Nichols, Manuel Zimmer

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018


A global brain state underlies C. elegans sleep behavior


Annika L. A. Nichols, Tomáš Eichler, Richard Latham, Manuel Zimmer

Science, 2017


The Apoptotic Engulfment Machinery Regulates Axonal Degeneration in C. elegans Neurons.


Annika L. A. Nichols*, Ellen Meelkop*, Casey Linton, Rosina Giordano-Santini, Robert K. Sullivan, Alessandra Donato, Cara Nolan, David H Hall, Ding Xue, Brent Neumann, Massimo A. Hilliard, (*co-contribution)

Cell Reports, 2016