Publications

Nichols EL, Green LA, Smith CJ. 2018. Ensheathing cells utilize dynamic tiling of neuronal somas in development and injury as early as neuronal differentiation. Neural Dev. 13:19.

Nichols EL and Smith CJ. Pioneer axons employ Cajal’s battering ram to enter the spinal cord. 2019. Nat Commun. 10:562.

Zhang Y*, Nichols EL*, Zellmer AM, Kankel C, Howard SH, Smith CJ. Generating intravital super-resolution movies with conventional microscopy reveals actin dynamics that construct pioneer axons. 2019. Development. 146:dev.171512.

Zhang Y*, Zhu Y*, Nichols E, Wang Q, Zhang S, Smith C, Howard S. A Poisson-Gaussian Denoising Dataset with Real Fluorescent Microscopy Images. 2019. CVPR.

Nichols EL and Smith CJ. Synaptic-like vesicles facilitate pioneer axon invasion. 2019. Curr Biol. 29(16):2652-2664.e4.

Zhang Y, Hato T, Dagher PC, Nichols EL, Smith CJ, Dunn KW, Howard SS. Automatic segmentation of intravital fluorescence microscopy images by K-means clustering of FLIM phasors. 2019. Opt Lett. 44(16):3928-3931.

Nichols EL and Smith CJ. Functional regeneration of the sensory root via axonal invasion. 2020. Cell Rep. 30(1):9-17.e3.

Kikel-Coury NL, Green LA, Nichols EL, Zellmer AM, Pai S, Hedlund SA, Marsden K, Smith CJ. Pioneer axons utilize a dcc signaling-mediated invasion brake to precisely complete their pathfinding odyssey. 2021. J Neurosci. JN-RM-0212-21.

Green LA*, Gallant RM*, Brandt JP, Nichols EL, Smith CJ. A subset oligodendrocyte lineage cells with the developing dorsal root entry zone during its genesis. 2022. Front Cell Neurosci. 16:893629.

Priest JM, Nichols EL, Smock RJ, Mendoza JM, Meijers R, Shen K, Özkan E. Structural insights into the formation of repulsive Netrin guidance complexes. 2024. Sci. Adv. 10: eadj8083. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adj8083

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*these authors contributed equally