Publications:

Horstick EJ*, Bayleyen Y, Burgess HA. 2020. Molecular and cellular determinants of motor asymmetry in zebrafish. Nat Commun. Mar 3;11(1):1170. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14965-y. PMID: 32127541; PMCID: PMC7054361.
 
Gupta T, Marquart GD, Horstick EJ, Tabor KM, Pajevic S, Burgess HA. 2018. Morphometric analysis and neuroanatomical mapping of the zebrafish brain. Methods. Jun 21.
 
Marquart GD, Tabor KM, Horstick EJ, Brown M, Geoca AK, Polys NF, Dalle Nogare D, Burgess HA. 2017. High precision registration between zebrafish brain atlases using symmetric diffeomorphic normalization. Gigascience. Aug 1;6(8):1-15.
 
Horstick EJ*, Bayleyen Y, Sinclair J, Burgess HA. 2017. Search strategy is regulated by somatostatin signaling and deep brain photoreceptors in zebrafish. BMC Biol. Jan 26;15(1):4. doi: 10.1186/s12915-016-0346-2. *co-corresponding
 Media:
-NICHD Connection newsletter. Little fish in a big pond reveal new answers to old questions. April 2017
-I am Intramural blog www.irp.nih.gov. April 27, 2017
 
Linsley J, I-Uen Hsu, Groom L, Yarotsky V, Lavorato M, Horstick EJ, Linsley D, Wang W, Franzini-Armstrong C, Dirkson RT, Kuwada JY. 2016. Congenital myopathy results from misregulation of a muscle Ca2+ channel by mutant Stac3. PNAS. Dec 21.

Horstick EJ, Mueller T, Burgess HA. 2016. Motivated state control in larval zebrafish: Behavioral paradigms and anatomical substrates. J Neurogenet. Jun 30(2):122-32/

Smith SJ*, Horstick EJ*, Dowling JJ. 2015.  Analysis of zebrafish larvae skeletal muscle integrity with Evans Blue Dye.  J. Vis. Exp (105). *contributed equally

Horstick EJ*, Jordan D*, Bergeron SA, Tabor K, Serpe M, Feldman B, Burgess HA. 2015. Increased functional protein expression using nucleotide sequence features enriched in highly expressed genes in zebrafish. Nucleic Acid Res. Jan 27. *contributed equally
 
Tabor KM, Bergeron SA, Horstick EJ, Jordan DC, Aho V, Porkka-Heiskanen T, Haspel G Burgess HA. 2014. Direct activation of the Mauthner cell by electric field pulses drives ultra-rapid escape responses. J Neurophysiol. May 21.
 
Waugh TA*, Horstick E*, Jackson SW, Davidson, AE, Li X, Dowling JJ. 2014. Fluoxetine prevents dystrophic changes in a zebrafish model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Hum Mol Genet. Sept 1:23(17): 4651-62. *contributed equally (Cover)
 
Fero K, Bergeron SA, Horstick EJ, Codore H, Li GH, Ono F, Dowling JJ, Burgess HA.  2013. Impaired embryonic motility in dusp27 mutants reveals a developmental defect in myofibril structure. Dis Model Mech. Nov 7.
 
Horstick, EJ, Gibbs, EM, Li, X., Davidson, AE., Dowling, JJ. 2013. Analysis of Embryonic and Larval Zebrafish Skeletal Myofibers from Dissociated Preparations. J. Vis. Exp. (81).
 
Gibbs E, Horstick EJ, Dowling JJ. 2013. Swimming into prominence: the zebrafish as a valuable tool for studying human myopathies and muscular dystrophies. FEBS review. Sept; 280(17): 4187-97.
 
Horstick EJ*, Linsley J*, Dowling JJ*, Hauser MA, McDonaold KK, Ashley-Koch A, Saint-Amant L, Satish A, Cui WW, Zhou W, Sprague SM, Stamm DS, Powell CM, Speer MC, Franzini-Armstrong C, Hirata H, Kuwada JY. 2013. Stac3 is a component of the excitation-contraction coupling machinery and mutated in Native American Myopathy. Nat Commun (4). June 4 2013. *contributed equally
 Media:
-TheScientist: Muscle Disease Gene Identified in Fish. June 4, 2013
-Medical Daily: Genetic Clue Found for Native American Myopathy, Devastating Muscle Disorder. June 4, 2013
-Science Daily: Zebrafish help identify mutant gene in rare muscle disease. June 4, 2013.
-Fay Observer: Native American Myopathy: A breakthrough in rare disease that only affects Lumbees. June 17, 2013.

Low S, Amburgey K, Horstick EJ, Sprague S, Cui W, Zhou W, Hirata H, Saint-Amant L, Hume R, Kuwada JY. 2011. TRPM7 channel activity is required within zebrafish sensory neurons for the activation of touch-evoked escape behaviors. J Neurosci. Aug; 31(32): 11633-44.
 
Zhou W, Horstick EJ, Hirata H, Kuwada JY. 2008. Identification and expression of voltage-gated calcium channel beta subunits in Zebrafish. Dev Dyn. Dec;237(12):3842-52.
 
Chen H, Leung T, Giger KE, Stauffer AM, Humbert JE, Sinha S, Horstick EJ, Hansen CA, Robishaw JD. 2007. Expression of the G protein gammaT1 subunit during zebrafish development. Gene Expr Patterns.  Apr; 7(5): 574-83.
 
Leung T, Chen H, Stauffer AM, Giger KE, Sinha S, Horstick EJ, Humbert JE, Hansen CA, Robishaw JD.  2006.  Zebrafish G protein gamma2 is required for VEGF signaling during angiogenesis.  Blood.  Jul 1; 108(1): 160-6. (Cover)
 
Published Abstracts:
 
Horstick E, Li X, Moore S, Dowling JJ. 2013. Autophagy and the pathogenesis of congenital muscular dystrophies. Neuromuscular Disorders. 10/2013; 23(9-10):745.

Hansen CA, Horstick E, Dolin T, Humbert J, Robishaw JD. 2005. Cloning and sequencing of heterotrimeric G protein subunits from notothenioid fishes. FASEB 19(4), A673-A673.
 
Published Book Chapters:
 
Horstick E*, Tabor K*, Jordan D, Burgess HA. 2016. Genetic ablation, sensitization and isolation of neurons using nitroreductase and tetrodotoxin-insensitive channels. Methods Mol Biol. 1451:355-66. Ed. Kawakami K, Orger M, and Patton E. *contributed equally