List of publications

Thibeaux A, Lu MY, Martin M, Rodwell M, Faber V, Sheffield L, Fierst JL & Chtarbanova S. Investigating the differential microRNAs expression in young and aged Drosophila melanogaster following Flock House Virus infection. Virulence, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2025.2549497 (2025).

Mainali S, Majlish ANK, Lee YR, Lee H, Iyengar A & Chtarbanova S. A Tool Kit to Model Neurodegenerative Disease in Drosophila melanogaster.  In: Muñoz-Torrero, D. (eds) Methods in Neurodegenerative Disease Drug Discovery. Neuromethods, vol 216. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-4232-0_12 (2025).

Tafesh-Edwards G, Karavioti MK, Markollari K, Bunnell D, Chtarbanova S & Eleftherianos I. Wolbachia endosymbionts in Drosophila regulate the resistance to Zika virus infection in a sex dependent manner. Front. Microbiol. Volume 15 – 2024. doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1380647 (2024).

Momeni S, Gąsiorek P, Loeffelholz J, Chtarbanova S, Nelson DR, Fletcher RA, Michalczyk Ł, Pienaar J. Green armoured tardigrades (Echiniscidae: Viridiscus), including a new species from the Southern Nearctic, exemplify problems with tardigrade variability research. Sci Rep. 2023 Sep 28;13(1):16329. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-40609-4 (2023).
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Siomko SA, Greenspan SE, Barnett KM, Neely WJ, Chtarbanova S, Woodhams DC, McMahonand TA & Becker CG. Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. Vol. 378, issue 1882, pages 20220126. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0126 (2023).​

Goto A, Ji S, Chtarbanova S & Kuraishi T.  Editorial: Inflammatory and inflammatory-like responses in insects. Front. Immunol., 18 April 2023. Sec. Comparative Immunology. Volume 14. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1184429 (2023).

Hagedorn E, Bunnell D, Henschel B, Smith DL, Dickinson S, Brown AW, De Luca M, Turner AN & Chtarbanova S. RNA virus-mediated changes in organismal oxygen consumption rate in young and old Drosophila melanogaster males. Aging (Albany NY). 2023 Mar 22; . https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204593 [Epub ahead of print] (2023).

Tafesh-Edwards G, Kalukin A, Bunnell D, Chtarbanova S & Eleftherianos I. Temperature and Sex Shape Zika Virus Pathogenicity in the Adult Brat[cheesehead] Brain: A Drosophila Model for Virus Associated Neurological Diseases. iScience, 2023, 106424, DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106424 (2023).

Nukala KM, Lilienthal AJ, Lye SH, Bassuk AG, Chtarbanova S & Manak JR. Downregulation of oxidative stress-mediated glial innate immune response suppresses seizures in a fly epilepsy model. Cell Reports 2023 Vol. 42 Issue 1, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112004 (2023).

Clancy D, Chtarbanova S, Broughton S. Editorial: Model organisms in aging research: Drosophila melanogaster. Frontiers in Aging, 3. DOI: 10.3389/fragi.2022.1118299 (2023).

Lu MY & Chtarbanova S. The role of micro RNAs (miRNAs) in the regulation of Drosophila melanogaster’s innate immunity. Fly, 16:1, 382-396, doi: 10.1080/19336934.2022.2149204 (2022).

Sciambra N & Chtarbanova S. The Impact of Age on Response to Infection in Drosophila. Microorganisms. 2021; 9(5):958. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9050958 (2021).

Sheffield L, Sciambra N, Evans A, Hagedorn E, Goltz C, Delfeld M, Kuhns H, Fierst J & Chtarbanova S. Age-dependent impairment of disease tolerance is associated with a robust transcriptional response following RNA virus infection in Drosophila. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 2021; jkab116, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab116  (2021).

Bolus H, Crocker K, Boekhoff-Falk G & Chtarbanova S. Modeling Neurodegenerative Disorders in Drosophila melanogaster. Int. J. Mol. Sci. (2020), 21, 3055.

Maitra U, Scaglione MN, Chtarbanova S & O’Donnell J. Innate immune responses to paraquat exposure in a Drosophila model of Parkinson’s disease. Scientific Reports, 9: 12714, doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48977-6 (2019).

Gevedon O, Bolus H, Lye SH, Schmitz K, Fuentes-González J, Hatchell K, Bley L, Pienaar J, Loewen C & Chtarbanova S. In vivo Forward Genetic Screen to Identify Novel Neuroprotective Genes in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Vis. Exp. (149), e59720, doi:10.3791/59720 (2019).

Lye SH & Chtarbanova S. Drosophila as a Model to Study Brain Innate Immunity in Health and Disease.  Int. J. Mol. Sci. (2018), 19, 3922.

Loewen C, Boekhoff-Falk G, Ganetzky B & Chtarbanova S. A Novel Mutation in brain tumor Causes Both Neural Over-Proliferation and Neurodegeneration in Adult Drosophila. G3 (Bethesda). (2018) Aug 20. pii: g3.200627.2018. doi: 10.1534/g3.118.200627. 

Kounatidis I & Chtarbanova S.Role of glial immunity in lifespan determination: a Drosophila perspective. Front Immunol. (2018) Jun 11; 9:1362. doi  10.3389/fimmu.208.01362. eCollection 2018. Review. 

Kounatidis I*, Chtarbanova S*, Cao Y, Hayne M, Jayanth D, Ganetzky B & Ligoxygakis P. NF-κB immunity in the brain determines fly lifespan in healthy ageing and age-related neurodegeneration. Cell Rep. (2017) Apr 25;19(4):836-848.  *Equal contribution. Article featured in an ALZFORUM press release.

Katzenberger RJ, Chtarbanova S, Rimkus SA, Fischer JA, Kaur G, Seppala JM, Swanson LC, Zajac JE, Ganetzky B & Wassarman DA. Death following traumatic brain injury in Drosophila is associated with intestinal barrier dysfunction. eLife. (2015) 10.7554/eLife.04790. Article featured in an eLIFE podcast.

Chtarbanova S, Lamiable O, Lee KZ, Galiana D, Troxler L, Meignin C, Hetru C, Hoffmann JA, Daeffler L & Imler JL. Drosophila C virus systemic infection leads to intestinal obstruction. J Virol. (2014) Sep 24. pii: JVI.02320-14. Article selected as a JVI Spotlight Feature. 

Cao Y*, Chtarbanova S*, Petersen AJ & Ganetzky B. Dnr1 mutations cause neurodegeneration in Drosophila by activating the innate immune response in the brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2013) May 7; 110 (19): E1752-60. * Equal contribution. Article selected by the Faculty of 1000. 
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Chtarbanova S & Imler JL. Immunité innée antivirale chez la drosophile. Virologie. (2011) Septembre-Octobre 15(5) : 296-306 doi:10.1684/vir.2011.0417. Review. French.

Chtarbanova S & Imler JL. Microbial sensing by Toll receptors: a historical perspective. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. (2011) Aug;31(8):1734-8. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.108.179523. Review. 

Eleftherianos I, Won S, Chtarbanova S, Squiban B, Ocorr K, Bodmer R, Beutler B,Hoffmann JA & Imler JL. ATP-sensitive potassium channel (K(ATP))-dependent regulation of cardiotropic viral infections. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2011) Jul 19; 08 (29): 12024-9.