Biography
My first exposure to Drosophila genetics was as an undergraduate researcher in Dr Ethan Bier's lab at UC San Diego, where I earned degrees in Molecular Biology and Philosophy. I obtained my PhD in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, where I worked on the organisation and development of the Drosophila olfactory system with Dr Liqun Luo. As a postdoctoral fellow with Dr James W. Truman at the University of Washington, I began studies on the developmental plasticity of the mushroom body and the segment-specific sculpting of neuronal lineages in the ventral nervous system which were continued in my own laboratory at Bucknell University. I left Bucknell in 2017 to work on thermosensory and hygrosensory circuits in the Fly Connectomics team headed by my former Luo lab collaborator, Dr Gregory Jefferis.
Publications
Marin, E.C., Büld, L., Theiss, M., Sarkissian, T., Roberts, R.J.V., Turnbull, R., Tamimi, I.F.M., Pleijzier, M.W., Laursen, W.J., Drummond, N., Schlegel, P., Bates, A.S., Li, F., Landgraf, M., Costa, M., Bock, D.D., Garrity, P.A., and Jefferis, G.S.X.E. (2020). Connectomics analysis reveals first, second, and third order thermosensory and hygrosensory neurons in the adult Drosophila brain. Current Biology, in press. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.028.
Lin, S.*, Marin, E.C.*, Yang, C.P.*, Kao, C.F., Apenteng, B.A., Huang, Y., O'Connor, M.B., Truman J.W., and Lee, T. (2013). Extremes of lineage plasticity in the Drosophila brain. Current Biology, 23(19): 1908-1913.
Marin, E.C., Dry, K.E., Alaimo, D.R., Rudd, K.T., Cillo, A.R., Clenshaw, M.E., Negre, N., White, K.P., and Truman, J.W. (2012). Ultrabithorax confers spatial identity in a context-specific manner in the Drosophila postembryonic ventral nervous system. Neural Development, 7:31.
Jefferis, G.S.X.E.*, Potter, C.J.*, Chan, A.M., Marin, E.C., Rohlfing, T., Maurer, C.R. Jr., and Luo, L. (2007). Comprehensive maps of Drosophila higher olfactory centers: spatially segregated fruit and pheromone representation. Cell, 128(6): 1187-203.
Ramaekers, A., Magnenat, E., Marin, E.C., Gendre, N., Jefferis, G.S.X.E., Luo, L., and Stocker, R.F. (2005). Glomerular maps without cellular redundancy at successive levels of the Drosophila larval olfactory circuit. Current Biology, 15: 1-11.
Marin, E.C., Watts, R.J., Tanaka, N.K., Ito, K., and Luo, L. (2005). Developmentally programmed remodeling of the Drosophila olfactory circuit. Development, 132(4): 725-737.
Marin, E.C.*, Jefferis, G.S.X.E.*, Komiyama, T., Zhu, H., and Luo, L. (2002). Representation of the glomerular olfactory map in the Drosophila brain. Cell, 109(2): 243-255.
Jefferis, G.S.X.E.*, Marin, E.C.*, Stocker, R.F., and Luo, L. (2001). Target neuron prespecification in the olfactory map of Drosophila. Nature, 414: 204-208.
Marin, E. and Costa, M. (2017). Sensory neurobiology: wet fly fishing. Current Biology 27(17): R839-R842. Review.
Dunne, C.R., Cillo, A. R., Glick, D.R., John, K., Johnson, C., Kanwal, J., Malik, B.T., Mammano, K., Petrovic, S., Pfister, W., Rascoe, A.S., Shapiro, S., Simkins, J.W., Strauss, D., Talai, R., Tomtishen III, J.P., Vargas, J., Veloz, T., Vogler, T.O., Clenshaw, M.E., Gordon-Hamm, D.T., Lee, K. L., and Marin, E.C. (2014). Structured inquiry-based learning: Drosophila GAL4 enhancer trap characterization in an undergraduate laboratory course. PLoS Biology 12(12): e1002030.
Truman, J.W., Moats, W., Altman, J., Marin, E.C., and Williams, D.W. (2010). Role of Notch signaling in establishing the hemilineages of secondary neurons in Drosophila melanogaster. Development, 137(1): 53-61.
Jefferis, G.S.X.E., Marin, E.C., Komiyama, T., Zhu, H., Chihara, T., Berdnik, D., and Luo, L. (2005). Development of wiring specificity of the Drosophila olfactory system. Chem Senses, 30(Suppl 1): i94. Conference report.
Jefferis, G.S.X.E.*, Marin, E.C.*, Watts, R.J.*, and Luo, L. (2002). Development of neuronal connectivity in Drosophila antennal lobes and mushroom bodies. Curr Opin Neurobiol, 12: 80-86. Review.
Sturtevant, M.A., Biehs, B., Marin, E., and Bier, E. (1997). The spalt gene links the A/P compartment boundary to a linear adult structure in the Drosophila wing. Development, 124(1): 21-32.
