Marnie E. Halpern PhD

Chair and Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology Program, Dartmouth College; Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience




deCarvalho TN, Akitake CM, Thisse C, Thisse B, Halpern ME. (2013) Aversive cues fail to activate fos expression in the asymmetric olfactory-habenula pathway of zebrafish.  Front Neural Circuits 21: 7:98.

Hong E, Santhakumar K, Akitake CA, Ahn SJ, Thisse C, Thisse B, Wyart C, Mangin JM, Halpern ME. (2013) Cholinergic left-right asymmetry in the habenulo-interpeduncular pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110: 21171-6.

Halpern ME, Hobert O, Wright CV. (2014) Left-right asymmetry: advances and enigmas. genesis 52: 451-4.

deCarvalho TN, Subedi A, RockJ, HarfeBD, ThisseC, Thisse B, Halpern ME, Hong E. (2014) Neurotransmitter map of the asymmetric dorsal habenular nuclei of zebrafish. Genesis 52: 636-55.

Kuan YS, Roberson S, Fortuno L, Akitake CM, Gamse J, Moens C, Halpern ME. (2015) Distinct requirements for Wntless in habenular development.  Dev Biol. 40: 117-28.

Facchin L, Duboué ER, Halpern ME. (2015) Disruption of epithalamic left-right asymmetry increases anxiety in zebrafish. J Neurosci. 35:15847-59 (Featured as Editor’s Choice in Science Jan. 1, 2016: Vol. 351, pp. 38).

Ghosh A, Halpern ME. (2016) Transcriptional regulation using the Q system in transgenic zebrafish. Methods Cell Biol. 135: 205-18.

Duboue, ER, Hong, E, Eldred, KC, Halpern, ME. (2017) Left Habenular Activity Attenuates Fear Responses in Larval Zebrafish. Curr. Bio. 14: 2154-2162. 

Roberson, S, Halpern, ME. (2017) Convergence of signaling pathways underlying habenular formation and axonal outgrowth in zebrafish.  Development. 14: 2652-2662.