• Nest microhabitat influences nest-site selection in dry prairie but not in pasture habitat for the endangered Florida Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum; floridanus) alternate title: Le microhabitat influe sur la sélection du site de nidification dans les prairies sèches, mais pas dans les pâturages, chez le Bruant sauterelle de Floride (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus), espèce en voie de disparition 

  Larned, Archer F.; Ragheb, Erin L. Hewett; Miller, Karl E.; Lohr, Bernard (2020)

  Vegetation characteristics can influence nest-site selection and nest survival of birds. The Florida Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus) is a critically endangered ground nesting grassland bird endemic ...

• Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching: What Does the Evidence Say about How We Should Teach? 

  Leupen, Sarah M. (2017-03-03)

• Motivating Students: Eight Research-Based Strategies 

  Leupen, Sarah M. (2017-03-22)

• The Content Monster: How Less Talking Can Mean More Learning 

  Leupen, Sarah M. (2017-04-05)

• Outcomes-Based Course Design 

  Leupen, Sarah M. (Sarah M. Leupen, Outcomes-Based Course Design, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEvbntzfAoM, 2017-05-03)

• Neuropeptide Y Y1-Receptor Stimulation Is Required for Physiological Amplification of Preovulatory Luteinizing Hormone Surges 

  Leupen, Sarah M.; Besecke, Leslie M.; Levine, Jon E. (Oxford Academic, 1997-07-01)

• Role of Protein Kinase C in Facilitation of Luteinizing Hormone (LH)-Releasing Hormone-Induced LH Surges by Neuropeptide Y 

  Leupen, Sarah M.; Levine, Jon E. (Oxford Academic, 1999-08-01)

• Deletion of Exon 6 of the Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Gene in Mice Results in Hypogonadism and Infertility 

  Gyurko, Robert; Leupen, Sarah; Huang, Paul L. (Oxford Academic, 2002-07-01)

• Heterogeneous Expression of the Potassium-Chloride Cotransporter KCC₂ in Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Neurons of the Adult Mouse 

  Leupen, Sarah M.; Tobet, Stuart A.; Crowley, W. F. Jr.,; Kaila, Kai (Oxford Academic, 2003-07-01)

  In mature central neurons, chloride extrusion mediated by the K-Cl cotransporter KCC₂ appears to be largely responsible for the Cl− driving force that allows γ-aminobutyric acidA (GABAA) receptor activation to trigger a ...

• Circulating and circular RNAs and the need for rationalization and synthesis of the research spiral 

  Dvorak, Pavel; Leupen, Sarah; Soucek, Pavel (2019-03-06)

  In this essay, we aim to draw a short comparison between 2 important research topics – circular and circulating RNAs – and show how they are connected. The findings described here in the field of circular RNAs, which are ...

• Fluxer: a web application to compute, analyze and visualize genome-scale metabolic flux networks 

  Hari, Archana; Lobo, Daniel (Oxford Academic, 2020-05-22)

  Next-generation sequencing has paved the way for the reconstruction of genome-scale metabolic networks as a powerful tool for understanding metabolic circuits in any organism. However, the visualization and extraction of ...

• Sexual signaling pattern correlates with habitat pattern in visually ornamented fishes 

  Hulse, Samuel V.; Renoult, Julien P.; Mendelson, Tamra C. (Nature Research, 2020-05-22)

  Article Open Access Published: 22 May 2020 Sexual signaling pattern correlates with habitat pattern in visually ornamented fishes Samuel V. Hulse, Julien P. Renoult & Tamra C. Mendelson Nature Communications volume ...

• TRPM5-expressing Microvillous Cells Regulate Region-specific Cell Proliferation and Apoptosis During Chemical Exposure 

  Lemons, Kayla; Fu, Ziying; Ogura, Tatsuya; Lin, Weihong (Elsevier, 2020-03-26)

  The mammalian main olfactory epithelium (MOE) is exposed to a wide spectrum of external chemicals during respiration and relies on adaptive plasticity to maintain its structural and functional integrity. We previously ...

• Mild Whole Body Hyperthermia Induced Interstitial Fluid Pressure (IFP) Reduction and Enhanced Nanoparticle Delivery to PC3 Tumors: In Vivo Studies and MicroCT Analyses 

  Gu, Qimei; Liu, Shuaishuai; Ray, Arunendra Saha; Florinas, Stelios; Christie, Ronald James; Daniel, Marie-Christine; Bieberich, Charles; Ma, Ronghui; Zhu, Liang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020-02-28)

  In vivo experiments on mice were performed to evaluate whether whole body hyperthermia enhances nanoparticle delivery to PC3 tumors. The mice in the experimental group were subjected to whole body hyperthermia by maintaining ...

• Recent Advances in Systems and Network Medicine: Meeting Report from the First International Conference in Systems and Network Medicine 

  Kurnat-Thoma, Emma; Baranova, Ancha; Baird, Pat; Brodsky, Elia; Butte, Atul J.; Cheema, Amrita K.; Cheng, Feixiong; Dutta, Shuchismita; Grant, Christina; Giordano, James; Maitland-van der Zee, Anke H.; Fridsma, Douglas B.; Jarrin, Robert; Kann, Maricel G.; Keeney, Jonathon; Loscalzo, Joseph; Madhavan, Guru; Maron, Bradley A.; McBride, Dennis K.; McKean, Maeve; Mun, Seong K.; Palmer, James C.; Patel, Bakul; Parakh, Kapil; Pariser, Anne R.; Pristipino, Christian; Radstake, Timothy R.D.J.; Rajasimha, Harsha K.; Rouse, William B.; Rozman, Damjana; Saleh, Alif; Schmidt, Harald H.H.W.; Schultz, Nikolaus; Sethi, Tavpritesh; Silverman, Edwin K.; Skopac, Jessica; Svab, Igor; Trujillo, Sylvia; Valentine, James E.; Verma, Dinesh; West, Bruce J.; Vasudevan, Sona (Mary Ann Liebert Inc., 2020-02-26)

  The First International Conference in Systems and Network Medicine gathered together 200 global thought leaders, scientists, clinicians, academicians, industry and government experts, medical and graduate students, ...

• Mantis Shrimp Navigate Home Using Celestial and Idiothetic Path Integration 

  Patel, Rickesh N.; Cronin, Thomas W. (2020-03-09)

  Path integration is a robust mechanism that many animals employ to return to specific locations, typically their homes, during navigation. This efficient navigational strategy has never been demonstrated in a fully aquatic ...

• Team-Based Learning in STEM and the Health Sciences 

  Leupen, Sarah (Springer, Cham, 2020-02-24)

  Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a collaborative learning pedagogy in which students work in permanent teams during class time to solve discipline-relevant problems. TBL has been shown to improve scores on measurements of ...

• Reinforcement in the banded darter Etheostoma zonale: The effect of sex and sympatry on preferences 

  Roberts, Natalie S.; Mendelson, Tamra C. (Wiley, 2020-02-12)

  Reinforcement occurs when selection against hybrid offspring strengthens behavioral isolation between parental species and may be an important factor in speciation. Theoretical models and experimental evidence indicate ...

• Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of the Corneal Endothelium With Smartphone Specular Microscopy 

  Fliotsos, Michael J.; Deljookorani, Shiva; Dzhaber, Daliya; Chandan, Subhangi; Ighani, Mehrnaz; Eghrari, Allen O. (Wolters Kluwer, 2020-02-14)

  Purpose: We sought to demonstrate the feasibility of a lower-cost, portable method for qualitative and quantitative analysis of the corneal endothelium using a smartphone and slit lamp biomicroscope. Methods: In this study ...

• Factors Influencing Quality of Team Discussion: Discourse Analysis in an Undergraduate Team-Based Learning Biology Course 

  Leupen, Sarah M.; Kephart, Kerrie L.; Hodges, Linda C. (American Society for Cell Biology, 2020-02-14)

  Group activities as part of active-learning pedagogies are thought to be effective in promoting student learning in part because of the quality of discussion they engender in student teams. Not much is known, however, about ...

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