Recent Publications

Professor Caulkins

• Holmes, J. B.; Liu, V.; Caulkins, B. G.; Hilario, E.; Ghosh, R. K.; Drago, V. N.; Young, R. P.; Romero, J. A.; Gill, A. D.; Bogie, P. M.; Paulino, J.; Wang, X.; Riviere, G.; Bosken, Y. K.; Struppe, J.; Hassan, A.; Guidoulianov, J.; Perrone, B.; Menink-Vigier, F.; Chang, C. A.; Long, J. R.; Hooley, R. J.; Mueser, T. C.; Dunn, M. F.; Mueller, L. J. Imaging Active Site Chemistry and Protonation States: NMR Crystallography of the Tryptophan Synthase α-Aminoacrylate Intermediate Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2022, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109235119. 

Professor Finseth

• Professor Finseth published the article “Ancient and recent introgression shape the evolutionary history of pollinator adaptation and speciation in a model monkeyflower radiation (Mimulus section Erythranthe)” in the journal PLOS Genetics, February 2021.
  https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/comments?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1009095

Professor Coleman

• Professor Coleman’s paper “D2 dopamine receptor activation induces female preference for male song in the monogamous zebra finch,” was short-listed at the Journal of Experimental Biologists for the Outstanding Paper prize.

• Professor Coleman published a paper in JoVE (the journal of visualized experiments):

• Coleman, M.J., D. Saxon*, A. Robbins*, N. Lillie* and N.F. Day. (2019) Operant Conditioning Task to Measure Song Preference in Zebra Finches. J. Vis. Exp. doi: 10.3791/60590

Professor Landsberg

• “Modeling Cultural Dissemination and Divergence Between Rural and Urban Regions.” To appear: The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 23, Issue 4, 2020  (with Nicholas LaBerge*, Aria Chaderjian*, Victor Ginelli*, Margrethe Jebsen*).
  * denotes student co-authors

• “Transitioning Out of the Coronavirus Lockdown: A Framework for Evaluating Zone-Based Social Distancing.” Frontiers in Public Health.
  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00266.  June 2020 (with E. Friedman, J. Friedman, S. Johnson).

Professor Leconte

Professor Leconte and six undergraduate co-authors (underlined) published the following research article in the journal Biochemistry:

• A. S. Thompson, S. E. Barrett, A. G. Weiden, A. Venkatesh, M. K. C. Seto, S. Z. P. Gottlieb, and A. M. Leconte (2020).  Accurate and efficient one-pot reverse transcription and amplification of 2’ fluoro-modified nucleic acids by commercial DNA polymerases, Biochemistry, 59, 2833.

Professor Marzen

• “Prediction and Dissipation in Nonequilibrium Molecular Sensors: Conditionally Markovian Channels Driven by Memoryful Environments,” Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Volume 82, Article number: 25 (2020);
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-020-00694-2

• Uppal, V. Ferdinand, and S. Marzen. “Inferring an observer’s strategy in sequence learning experiments”, Entropy 22(8), 896 (2020).  Chosen as a Featured Article for a Special Issue on Social Processes;
  https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/8/896

• M. Razo-Mejia, S. Marzen, G. Chure, R. Taubman, M. Morrison, and R. Phillips. “First-principles prediction of the information processing capacity of a simple genetic circuit”, Physical Review E 102, 022404 (2020).  Chosen as an Editor’s Suggestion.
  https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.022404

Professor Milton

• G. Buza, J. Milton, L. Bencsik and T. Insperger (2020).  Establishing metrics and control laws for the learning process: ball and beam balancing.  Biological Cybernetics 114: 83-93;
• N. Churilov, J. Milton and E. R. Salakhova (2020).  An integrate-and-fire model for pulsatility in the neuroendocrine system. Chaos 30: 00000 (doi:10.1063/5.0010553).

Professor Purvis-Roberts

• Fahlman, B.D., Purvis-Roberts, K.L., Kirk, J.S., Daubenmire, P.L., Kelly, R., Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society, 10^th Edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, February 2020.

Professor Tang published the following article in a peer-reviewed research journal:

• Wu M, Feng G, Zhang B, Xu K, Wang Z, Cheng S, Chang C, Vyas A, Tang Z, Liu X. Phosphoproteomics Reveals Novel Targets and Phosphoprotein Networks in Cell Cycle Mediated by Dsk1 Kinase. (2020) J Proteome Res. Apr 3;19(4):1776-1787. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00027. Epub Mar 5. PubMed PMID: 32062975.

Professor Thomson published three journal articles. Two of the articles were co-authored by Scripps alumnae who did research in her lab when they were students (denoted with *).

• Thomson, Diane M., Adin Bonapart, Rachel A. King*, Emily L. Schultz*, and Charlotte Startin*. 2020. Long-term monitoring of a highly invaded annual grassland community through drought, before and after an unintentional fire. Journal of Vegetation Science 31: 307-318;
• Thomson, Diane M.and M.L. Page*. 2020. The importance of competition between insect pollinators in the Anthropocene. Current Opinion in Insect Science 36:55-62;
• Funk, Jennifer L., Ingrid M. Parker, Erik T. Aschehoug, Wayne Dawson, S. Luke Flory, Carla M. D’Antonio, Virginia Matzek, Diane M. Thomson, and Justin Valliere. 2020. Keys to enhancing the value of invasion ecology research for management. Biological Invasions 22:2431–2445.

Professor Van Arnam published the following journal articles together with Keck science students (*):

• Hansen, K. A.*; Kim, R. R.*; Lawton, E. S.*; Tran, J.*; Lewis, S. K.*; Deol, A. S.*; and Van Arnam, E. B. Bacterial Associates of a Desert Specialist Fungus-Growing Ant Antagonize Competitors Using a Nocamycin Analog. ACS Chemical Biology 2022, 17 (7), 1824-1830.
• Chang, P. T.*; Rao, K.*; Longo, L. O.*; Lawton, E. S.*; Scherer, G.*; Van Arnam, E. B. Thiopeptide Defense by an Ant’s Bacterial Symbiont. Journal of Natural Products 202083 (3), 725–729.

Professor Williams was honored to give the ChemAIMS lecture at Stanford University.

• “Trans Ligands, Transition Metals, and Trans Advocacy: No Other Way to Be Alive, a Queen, and Nearly Fifty all at Once,” summer 2020.
  https://chemh.stanford.edu/events/chemaims-seminar-professor-nancy-s-b-williams-claremont-mckenna-college
  ChemAIMS is the Chemistry Association in the Interest of Minority Students, a “group of chemistry graduate students and postdoctoral scholars interested in expanding the spaces and support for women and underrepresented minorities in the Department of Chemistry.”