Publications

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#Myers T.G., Goodrich-Blair H., *Heppert J.K., Development and behavior of Steinernema hermaphroditum nematodes are impacted by a bacterial flavin monooxygenase. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.20.739592v1

Published articles and reviews

Jenny's EPN work (Postdoc - Heidi Goodrich-Blair Lab)

Schwarz E.M., Baniya A., Heppert J.K., Schwartz H.T., Tan C-H., Antoshechkin I., Sternberg P.W., Goodrich-Blair H., Dillman A.R. Genomes of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema hermaphroditum and its associated bacteria. Genetics. (2025) Nov 12;231(3). PubMed PMID: 40858312.

Heppert J.K., Awori M.A., Cao M., Chen G., McLeish, J., Goodrich-Blair H., Analyses of Xenorhabdus griffiniae genomes reveal two distinct sub-species that display intra-species variation due to prophages.

BMC Genomics (2024) PMCID: PMC11566119.

#St. Thomas N.M., #Myers T.G., #Alani O.S., Goodrich-Blair H., *Heppert J.K. Green and red fluorescent strains of Xenorhabdus griffiniae HGB2511, the bacterial symbiont of the nematode Steinernema hermaphroditum (India). MicroPubl Biol. (2024) PMID: 38371317.

#Alani O.S., Cao M., Goodrich-Blair H., *Heppert J.K. Conjugation and transposon mutagenesis of Xenorhabdus griffiniae HGB2511, the bacterial symbiont of the nematode Steinernema hermaphroditum (India). MicroPubl Biol. (2023) PMID: 37179970.

Heppert J.K., Ransone E.M., Grossman A.S., Mauer T.J., Goodrich-Blair H. Nematode models of symbiosis in Nematodes as Biological Models. (2022) Glazer I., Shapiro-Ilan D., and Sternberg P. (ed.), CABI, Wallingford. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789248814.0005.

Jenny's zebrafish work (Postdoc - Rawls Lab)

Heppert J.K., Lickwar C.R., Tillman M.C., Davis B.R., Davison J.M., Lu H-Y., Chen W., Busch-Nentwich E.M., Corcoran D.L., Rawls J.F. Conserved roles for Hnf4 family transcription factors in zebrafish development and intestinal function. Genetics (2022) 222(4). PMID: 36218393.

Heppert, J.K., and Davison, J.M., Kelly C., Padilla Mercado G., Lickwar, C.R., Rawls, J.F. Transcriptional programmes underlying cellular identity and microbial responsiveness in the intestinal epithelium. (2020) Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology 18(1):7-23. PMID: 33024279.

Jenny's C. elegans work (PhD - Goldstein Lab)

Heppert J.K., Pani A.M., Roberts A.M., Dickinson D.J., Goldstein B. A CRISPR tagging-based screen reveals localized players in Wnt-directed asymmetric cell division. (2018) Genetics 208: 1147-1164. PMID: 29348144.      

-Selected for Journal Cover and the GSA Spotlight Issue.           

Fadero T.C., Gerbich T.M., Rana K., Suzuki A., DiSalvo M., Schaefer K.N., Heppert J.K., Boothby T.C., Goldstein B., Peifer M., Allbritton N.L., Gladfelter A.S., Maddox A.S., Maddox P.S. LITE microscopy: Tilted light-sheet excitation of model organisms offers higher resolution and low photobleaching. (2018) Journal of Cell Biology 217(5):1869-1882. PMID: 29490939.

Ladouceur A.M., Ranjan R., Smith L., Fadero T., Heppert J.K., Goldstein B., Maddox A.S., Maddox P.S. CENP-A and topoisomerase-II antagonistically affect chromosome length. (2017) Journal of Cell Biology 216: 2645-2655. PMID: 28733327.

Heppert J.K. and Goldstein B. Remodelling germ cells by intercellular cannibalism. (2016) Nature Cell Biology – News and Views article 18:1267-1268. PMID: 27897161.

Heppert J.K., Dickinson D.J., Pani A.M., Higgins C.D., Steward A., Ahringer J., Kuhn J.R., Goldstein B. Comparative assessment of fluorescent proteins for in vivo imaging in an animal model system. (2016) Molecular Biology of the Cell 27: 3385-3394. PMID: 27385332.

Sullivan-Brown J.L., Tandon P., Bird K.E., Dickinson D.J., Tintori S.C., Heppert J.K., Meserve J.H., Trogden K.P., Orlowski S.K., Conlon F.L., Goldstein B. Identifying regulators of morphogenesis common to vertebrate neural tube closure and Caenorhabditis elegans gastrulation. (2016) Genetics 202: 123-39. PMID: 26434722.

Dickinson D.J., Pani A.M., Heppert J.K., Higgins C.D., Goldstein B. Streamlined genome engineering with a self-excising drug selection cassette. (2015) Genetics 200: 1035-49. PMID: 26044593.