Zac Tobias

Zac Tobias

he/him

Investigating the molecular and physiological basis of evolutionary adaptation to novel stressors in aquatic organisms.

Publications

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  1. Zachary JC Tobias, Gareth Miller, Carolyn K Tepolt. (2025). Variation of thermal tolerance during northward range expansion in the invasive golden star tunicate, Botryllus schlosseri. Conservation Physiology, 13(1), coaf018. [PDF]
  2. Zachary Tobias, Andrew Solow, Carolyn Tepolt. (2024). Geography and developmental plasticity shape post-larval thermal tolerance in the golden star tunicate, Botryllus schlosseri. Journal of Thermal Biology, 119, 103763. [PDF]
  3. Zachary JC Tobias, Amy E Fowler, April MH Blakeslee, John A Darling, Mark E Torchin, A Whitman Miller, Gregory M Ruiz, Carolyn K Tepolt. (2021). Invasion history shapes host transcriptomic response to a body-snatching parasite. Molecular ecology, 30(17), 4321–4337. [PDF]
  4. Leah J Weston, Zoe T Cook, Teresa L Stackhouse, Mehtab K Sal, Baergen I Schultz, Zachary JC Tobias, Valerie R Osterberg, Nicole L Brockway, Saheli Pizano, Greta Glover, et al. (2021). In vivo aggregation of presynaptic alpha-synuclein is not influenced by its phosphorylation at serine-129. Neurobiology of disease, 152, 105291. [PDF]
  5. Meghan B Parsley, Melanie L Torres, Shreya M Banerjee, Zachary JC Tobias, Caren S Goldberg, Melanie A Murphy, Meryl C Mims. (2020). Multiple lines of genetic inquiry reveal effects of local and landscape factors on an amphibian metapopulation. Landscape Ecology, 35(2), 319–335. [PDF]
  6. Nicole L Brockway, Zoe T Cook, Maritte J O'Gallagher, Zachary JC Tobias, Mako Gedi, Kristine M Carey, Vivek K Unni, Y Albert Pan, Margaret R Metz, Tamily A Weissman. (2019). Multicolor lineage tracing using in vivo time-lapse imaging reveals coordinated death of clonally related cells in the developing vertebrate brain. Developmental biology, 453(2), 130–140. [PDF]
  7. Zoe T Cook, Nicole L Brockway, Zachary JC Tobias, Joy Pajarla, Isaac S Boardman, Helen Ippolito, Sylvia Nkombo Nkoula, Tamily A Weissman. (2019). Combining near-infrared fluorescence with Brainbow to visualize expression of specific genes within a multicolor context. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 30(4), 491–505. [PDF]
  8. Arun K Yadav, Zachary JC Tobias, Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. (2018). Gordionus maori (Nematomorpha: Gordiida), a new species of horsehair worm from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 45(1), 29–42. [PDF]
  9. Zachary JC Tobias, Fátima Jorge, Robert Poulin. (2017). Life at the beach: comparative phylogeography of a sandhopper and its nematode parasite reveals extreme lack of parasite mtDNA variation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 122(1), 113–132. [PDF]
  10. Zachary JC Tobias, Arun K Yadav, Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Robert Poulin. (2017). Intra- and interspecific genetic diversity of New Zealand hairworms (Nematomorpha). Parasitology, 144(8), 1026–1040. [PDF]
  11. Kyla R Hamling, Zachary JC Tobias, Tamily A Weissman. (2015). Mapping the development of cerebellar Purkinje cells in zebrafish. Developmental neurobiology, 75(11), 1174–1188. [PDF]
  12. Molly H Marra, Zachary JC Tobias, Hannah R Cohen, Greta Glover, Tamily A Weissman. (2015). In vivo time-lapse imaging in the zebrafish lateral line: a flexible, open-ended research project for an undergraduate neurobiology laboratory course. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 13(3), A215. [PDF]