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  1. Oikonomou, G., and Shaham, S. (2012). On the morphogenesis of glial compartments in the sensory organs of Caenorhabditis elegans. Worm 1: 50-54.
     
  2. Procko, C., Lu, Y., and Shaham, S. (2012). Sensory Organ Remodeling in Caenorhabditis elegans Requires the Zinc-finger Protein ZTF-16. Genetics 190: 1405-1415.
     
  3. Blum, E.S., Abraham, M.C., Yoshimura, S., Lu, Y., and Shaham, S. (2012). Control of non-apoptotic developmental cell death in C. elegans by a polyglutamine-repeat protein (Supplemental Data). Science 335: 970-973.
     
  4. Oikonomou, G., Perens, E. A., Lu, Y., and Shaham, S. (2012). Some, but not all, retromer components promote morphogenesis of C. elegans sensory compartments (Supplemental Data). Dev. Biol. 362: 42-49.
     
  5. Procko, C. and Shaham, S. (2011). Quick Guide: Stress. Curr. Biol., 21: R908-R910.
     
  6. Oikonomou, G., Perens, E. A., Lu, Y., Watanabe, S., Jorgensen, E. M., and Shaham, S. (2011). Opposing Activities of LIT-1/NLK and DAF-6/Patched-Related Direct Sensory Compartment Morphogenesis in C. elegans (Supplemental Data). PLoS Biol. 9: e1001121.
     
  7. Spencer, C. W., Zeller, G., Watson, J. D., Henz, S. R., Watkins, K. L., McWhirter, R. D., Petersen, S., Sreedharan, V., Widmer, C., Jo, J., Reinke, V., Petrella, L., Strome, S., Von Stetina, S., Katz, M., Shaham, S., Rätsch, G., and Miller, D. M (2011). A Spatial and Temporal Map of C. elegans Gene Expression (Supplemental Data). Genome Res. 21: 325-341.
     
  8. Hao, L., Thein, M., Brust-Mascher, I., Civelekoglu-Scholey, G., Lu, Y., Acar, S., Prevo, B., Shaham, S., and Scholey, J. M. (2011). Delivery of tubulin isotypes to sensory cilium middle and distal segments by intraflagellar transport. Nat. Cell Biol., 13: 790-798.
     
  9. Oikonomou, G. and Shaham, S. (2011). The glia of Caenorhabditis elegans. Glia 59: 1253-1263.
     
  10. Procko, C., Lu, Y., and Shaham, S. (2011). Glia delimit shape changes of sensory neuron receptive endings in C. elegans (Supplemental Data). Development 22: 1371-1381.
     
  11. Procko, C. and Shaham, S. (2010). Assisted morphogenesis: glial control of dendrite shapes. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 22: 560-565.
     
  12. Clark, A. M., Goldstein, L. D., Tevlin, M., Tavare, S., Shaham, S., and Miska, E. A. (2010). The microRNA miR-124 controls gene expression in the sensory nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans (Supplemental Data). Nucleic Acids Res. 38: 3780-3793.
     
  13. Shaham, S. (2010). Chemosensory organs as models of neuronal synapses. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 11: 212-217.
     
  14. Heiman, M. G. and Shaham, S. (2010). Twigs into branches: how a filopodium becomes a dendrite. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 20: 86-91.
     
  15. Procko, C. and Shaham, S. (2009). Synaptogenesis: New Roles for and Old Player. Curr. Biol. 19: R1114-R1115.
     
  16. Shaham, S. (2009). galign: A Tool for Rapid Genome Polymorphism Discovery. PLoS One 4: e7188.
     
  17. Heiman, M. G. and Shaham, S. (2009). DEX-1 and DYF-7 Establish Sensory Dendrite Length by Anchoring Dendritic Tips during Cell Migration (Supplemental Data; Movies and Plasmid Sequences). Cell 137: 344-355.
     
  18. Bacaj, T., Tevlin, M., Lu., Y., and Shaham, S. (2008). Glia are Essential for Sensory Organ Function in C. elegans (Supplemental Data). Science 322: 744-747.
     
  19. Deng, X., Yin, X., Allan, R., Lu, D. D., Maurer, C. W., Haimovitz-Friedman, A., Shaham, S., and Kolesnik, R. (2008). Ceramide Biogenesis is Required for Radiation-induced Apoptosis in the Germ Line of Caenorhabditis elegans (Supplemental Data). Science 322: 110-115.
     
  20. Wang, Y., Apicella, A., Lee, S., Ezcurra, M., Slone, D., Goldmit, M., Schafer, W. R., Shaham, S., Driscoll, M., and Bianchi, L. (2008). A glial DEG/ENaC channel functions with neuronal channel DEG-1 to mediate specific sensory functions in C. elegans (Supplemental Data). EMBO J. 27: 2388-2399.
     
  21. Blum, E. S., Driscoll, M., and Shaham, S. (2008). Non-Canonical Cell Death Programs in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Cell Death and Diff. 15: 1124-1131.
     
  22. Yoshimura, S. Murray, J. I., Lu, Y., Waterston, R. H., and Shaham, S. (2008). mls-2 and vab-3 control glia development, hlh-17/Olig expression, and glia-dependent neurite extension in C. elegans (Supplemental Methods and Figures). Development 135: 2263-2275.
     
  23. Mukhopadhyay, S., Lu, Y., Shaham, S., and Sengupta, P. (2008). Sensory signaling-dependent remodeling of olfactory cilia architecture in C. elegans. Dev. Cell 14: 762-774.
     
  24. Bacaj, T., Lu, Y., and Shaham, S. (2008). The Conserved Proteins CHE-12 and DYF-11 Are Required for Sensory Cilium Function in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 178: 989-1002.
     
  25. Shaham, S. (2007). Counting mutagenized genomes and optimizing genetic screens in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS One 2: e1117.
     
  26. Abraham, M., and Shaham, S. (2007). Necrosis and the serpin under't. Dev. Cell 13: 464-465.
     
  27. Heiman, M. and Shaham, S. (2007). Ancestral roles of glia suggested by the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans. Neuron Glia Biol. 3: 55-61.
     
  28. Mukhopadhyay, S., Lu, Y., Qin, H., Lanjuin, A., Rosenbaum, J. L., Shaham, S., and Sengupta, P. (2007). Distinct IFT mechanisms contribute to the generation of ciliary structural diversity in C. elegans. EMBO J. 26: 2966-2980.
     
  29. Bacaj, T.,and Shaham, S. (2007). Temporal control of cell-specific transgene expression in C. elegans. Genetics 176: 2651-2655.
     
  30. Maurer, C., Chiorazzi, M., and Shaham, S. (2007). Timing of developmental cell death onset controlled by transcriptional induction of the C. elegans ced-3 caspase-encoding gene (Supplemental Data). Development 134: 1357-1368.
     
  31. Abraham, M. C., Lu, Y., and Shaham, S. (2007). A morphologically conserved non-apoptotic program promotes linked cell death in C. elegans (Supplemental Data). Dev. Cell, 12: 73-86.
     
  32. Shaham, S. (2006). Glia-neuron interactions in the nervous system of C. elegans. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 16:522-528.
     
  33. Shaham, S. (2006). Worming into the cell: viral reproduction in C. elegans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103:3955-3956.
     
  34. Shaham, S. (2006). The dynami(n)cs of cell corpse engulfment. Dev. Cell 10:690-691.
     
  35. Shaham, S., ed., WormBook: Methods in Cell Biology (January 02, 2006), WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, WormBook, doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.49.1, http://www.wormbook.org.
     
  36. Shaham, S. (2005). Glia-Neuron Interactions in Nervous System Function and Development. Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 69:39-66.
     
  37. Perens, E. and Shaham, S. (2005). C. elegans daf-6 encodes a Patched-related protein required for lumen formation (Supplemental Data). Dev. Cell 8: 893-906.
     
  38. Blacque, O. E., Perens, E., Boroevich, K. A., Inglis, P. N., Li, C., Warner, A., Khattra, J., Holt, R. A., Mah, A. K., McKay, S. J., Huang, P., Swoboda, P., Jones, S. J. M., Marra, M. A., Baillie, D. L., Moerman, D. G., Shaham, S., and Leroux, M. R. (2005). Functional genomics of the cilium, a sensory organ. Curr. Biol. 15: 935-941.
     
  39. Schumacher, B., Schertel, C., Wittenburg, N., Tuck, S., Mitani, S., Gartner, A., Conradt, B., and Shaham, S. (2005). C. elegans ced-13 can promote apoptosis and is induced in response to DNA damage (Supplemental Data). Cell Death and Diff. 12: 153-161.
     
  40. Abraham, M. C. and Shaham, S. (2004). Death without caspases, caspases without death. Trends Cell Biol. 14: 184-193.
     
  41. Shaham, S. (2003). Apoptosis: A Process with a NAC for Complexity. Cell 114: 659-661.
     
  42. Shaham, S. and Bargmann, C. I. (2002). Control of neuronal subtype identity by the C. elegans ARID protein CFI-1. Genes & Development 16: 972-983.
     
  43. Shaham, S., Reddien, P. W., Davies, B., and Horvitz, H. R. (1999). Mutational analysis of the C. elegans cell death gene ced-3. Genetics, 153: 1655-1671.
     
  44. Blondel, M., Alepuz, P. M., Huang, L. S., Shaham, S., Ammerer, G., and Peter, M. (1999). Nuclear export of Far1p in response to pheromones requires the export receptor Msn5p/Ste21p. Genes & Development 13: 2286-2300.
     
  45. Shaham, S. (1998). Identification of multiple Caenorhabditis elegans caspases and their potential roles in proteolytic cascades. J. Biol. Chem. 273: 35109-35117.
     
  46. Shaham, S., Shuman, M. A., and Herskowitz, I. (1998). Death-Defying Yeast Identify Novel Apoptosis Genes. Cell 92: 425-427.
     
  47. Shaham, S., and Horvitz, H. R. (1996). An alternatively spliced C. elegans ced-4 RNA encodes a novel cell-death inhibitor. Cell 86: 201-208.
     
  48. Xue, D., Shaham, S., and Horvitz, H. R. (1996). The Caenorhabditis elegans cell-death protein CED-3 is a cysteine protease with substrate specificities similar to those of the human CPP32 protease. Genes & Development 10: 1073-1083.
     
  49. Shaham, S., and Horvitz, H. R. (1996). Developing C. elegans neurons may contain both cell-death protective and killer activities. Genes & Development 10: 578-591.
     
  50. Horvitz, H. R., Shaham, S., and Hengartner, M. O. (1994). The genetics of programmed cell death in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 59: 377-385.
     
  51. Yuan, J., Shaham, S., Ledoux, S., Ellis, H. M., and Horvitz, H. R. (1993). The C. elegans cell death gene ced-3 encodes a protein similar to mammalian interleukin-1ß converting enzyme. Cell 75: 641-652.