Karen L. Schulze

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Research Interests

When I am not managing the lab, I like to help out on various ongoing projects.

Recent Publications

Tien AC, Rajan A, Schulze KL, Ryoo HD, Acar M, Steller H, Bellen HJ (2008) Ero1L, a thiol oxidase, is required for Notch signaling through cysteine bridge formation of the Lin12-Notch repeats in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Cell Biology 182:1113-1125.

Ohyama T, Verstreken P, Ly CV, Rosenmund T, Rajan A, Tien AC, Haueter C, Schulze KL, Bellen HJ (2007) Huntingtin interacting protein 14, a palmitoyl transferase required for exocytosis and targeting of CSP to synaptic vesicles. Journal of Cell Biology 179:1481.

Halachmi N, Schulze KL, Inbal A, Salzberg A (2007) Additional sex combs affects antennal development by means of spatially restricted repression of Antp and wg. Developmental Dynamics 236:2118-2130.

Zhang J, Schulze KL, Hiesinger PR, Suyama K, Wang S, Fish M, Acar M, Hoskins RA, Bellen HJ, Scott MP (2007) Thirty-one flavors of Drosophila Rab proteins. Genetics 176:1307-1322.

Zhai RG, Cao Y, Hiesinger PR, Zhou Y, Mehta SQ, Schulze KL, Verstreken P, Bellen HJ (2006) Drosophila NMNAT maintains neural integrity independent of its NAD synthesis activity. PLoS Biology 4:e416.

Hiesinger PR, Zhai RG, Zhou Y, Koh TW, Mehta SQ, Schulze KL, Cao Y, Verstreken P, Clandinin TR, Fischbach KF, Meinertzhagen IA, Bellen HJ (2006) Activity-independent prespecification of synaptic partners in the visual map of Drosophila. Current Biology 16:1835-1843.

Hiesinger PR, Fayyazuddin A, Mehta SQ, Rosenmund T, Schulze KL, Zhai RG, Verstreken P, Cao Y, Zhou Y, Kunz J, Bellen HJ (2005) The v-ATPase V₀ subunit a1 is required for a late step in synaptic vesicle exocytosis in Drosophila. Cell 121:607-620.

Mehta SQ, Hiesinger PR, Beronja S, Zhai RG, Schulze KL, Verstreken P, Cao Y, Zhou Y, Tepass U, Crair MC, Bellen HJ (2005) Mutations in Drosophila sec15 reveal a function in neuronal targeting for a subset of exocyst components. Neuron 46:219-232.

Escudero LM, Caminero E, Schulze KL, Bellen HJ, Modolell J (2005) Charlatan, a Zn-finger transcription factor, establishes a novel level of regulation of the proneural achaete/scute genes of Drosophila. Development 132:1211-1222.

Bellen HJ, Levis R, Rhem EJ, Liao G, He Y, Carlson JW, Tang G, Hiesinger PR, Schulze KL, Rubin GR, Hoskins RA, Spradling AC (2004) The BDGP gene disruption project: single transposon insertions associated with 40% of Drosophila genes. Genetics 167:761-781.