Publications – Pre-prints
Aponte-Santiago, N.A., Su, Y., D.E. Wagner. 2026. “ZMAP: A Single-Cell Meta-Atlas of Zebrafish Embryonic Development Reveals a Consensus Hierarchy of Cell Identities.” bioRxivorg. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.23.713599.
Publications – Research Articles
Jetti, S.K., Crane, A.B., Akbergenova, Y., Aponte-Santiago, N.A., Cunningham, K.L., Whittaker, C.A., Littleton, J.T. 2023. “Molecular Logic of Synaptic Diversity between Drosophila Tonic and Phasic Motoneurons.” Neuron, August. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2023.07.019.
Sauvola, C.W., Akbergenova, Y., Cunningham, K.L., Aponte-Santiago, N.A., Littleton, J.T. (2021) The decoy SNARE Tomosyn sets tonic versus phasic release properties and is required for homeostatic synaptic plasticity. eLife 2021;10:e72841. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.72841
Aponte-Santiago, N.A. & Littleton, J.T. (2020) Synaptic Properties and Plasticity Mechanisms of Invertebrate Tonic and Phasic Neurons. Frontiers in Physiology 2020;11:611982. DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.611982.
Aponte-Santiago, N.A., Ormerod, K.G., Akbergenova, Y. & Littleton, J.T. (2020) Synaptic plasticity induced by differential manipulation of tonic and phasic motoneurons in Drosophila. Journal of Neuroscience JN-RM-0925-20; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0925-20.2020
Fame, R.M., Chang, J.T., Hong, A., Aponte-Santiago, N.A. & Sive, H. (2016) Directional cerebrospinal fluid movement between brain ventricles in larval zebrafish. Fluids Barriers CNS 13:11, D01 10.1186/s12987-016-0036-z.
Other Publications
Cox, B. D. Yan g, H., Moore, J., Ahuja, N., Amundson, K., Aponte-Santiago, N., Coomer, C. et al. 2025. “Reprogramming Our Fate: A Postdoctoral Reflection on Current Challenges and Prospects for Developmental Biology.” Developmental Biology 530 (November): 132–37.
Nicole Aponte Santiago, Stephanie Konecki, Lauren Porter, Harvinder Virk (2023) Careers: Tales of the unexpected eLife 12:e87444.