Note: I publish under the pen name, Audrey Chen.

  1. Cooper KW, Tran EH, McIntosh BO, Lam T, Tat CT, Gallegos DM, Dukes AJ, Chen A. Challenges that novices face in applying core concepts to neuroscience contexts. 2025.  Frontiers in Education 10. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1488892
  1. Chen A, Phillips KA, Tran EH†, Schaefer JE, Sonner PM. Unpacking and Utilizing Neuroscience Core Concepts. 2024. J Undergraduate Neuroscience Ed 22(2):E22-E27.
  1. Chen A, Phillips KA, Schaefer JE, Sonner PM. Community-derived Core Concepts for Neuroscience Higher Education. 2023. CBE-Life Sciences Education 22(2):ar18.
  1. Chen A, Phillips KA, Schaefer JE, Sonner PM. The Development of Core Concepts for Neuroscience Higher Education: From Beginning to Summer Virtual Meeting Satellite Session. 2022. J Undergraduate Neuroscience Ed 20(2):A160-A164.
  1. Chen A, Tarapore E, To AG†, Catolico DM†, Nguyen KC, Coleman MJ, Spence RD. Introducing Immunohistochemistry to the Molecular Biology Laboratory. 2022. Biochem Mol Biol Educ 50(2):229-236.
  1. Park ES, Harlow A, AghaKouchak A, Baldi B, Burley N, Buswell N, Crooks R, Denenberg D, Ditto P, Edwards K, Junqueira MG, Geragotelis A, Holton A, Lanning J, Lehman R, Chen A, Pantano A, Rinhart J, Walter M, Williams A, Wong-Ma J, Yassa M, Sato B. Instructor facilitation mediates students’ negative perceptions of active learning instruction. 2021. PLoS One 16(12):e0261706.
  1. Hsu JL, Chen A, Cruz-Hinojoza E†, Dinh-Dang D†, Roth-Johnson EA, Sato BK, Lo SM. Characterizing Biology Education Research: Perspectives from Practitioners and Scholars in the Field. 2021. J Microbiol Biol Educ 22(2):e00147-21. Paper highlighted in JMBE Live (April 8, 2022)
  1. Chen A. Strategies for Leading Weekly Teaching Assistant Meetings: Undergraduate Student Perceptions after Implementing Pedagogical Change. 2020. Advances in Biology Laboratory Education 41.
  1. Maheras AL†, Dix B†, Carmo OMS†, Young AE†, Gill VN†, Sun JL†, Booker AR†, Thomason HA†, Ibrahim AE†, Stanislaw L†, Dallego JC†, Ngo CN†, Chen A, Fortini BK, Spence RD. 2018. Genetic Pathways of Neuroregeneration in a Novel Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Model in Adult Zebrafish. eNeuro 5(1):pii: ENEURO.0208-17.2017
  1. Lee DA, Andreev A, Truong TV, Chen A, Hill AJ, Oikonomou G, Pham U, Hong YK†, Tran S, Glass L, Sapin V, Engle J, Fraser SE, Prober DA. 2017. Genetic and Neuronal Regulation of Sleep by Neuropeptide VF. eLife 6(6): pii: e25727.
  1. Chen A, Singh C, Oikonomou G, Prober DA. 2017. Genetic Analysis of Histamine Signaling in Larval Zebrafish Sleep. eNeuro 4(1): pii: ENEURO.0286-16.2017.
  1. Freyberg Z, Sonders MS, Aguilar JI, Hiranita T, Karam CS, Flores J, Pizzo AB, Zhang Y, Farino ZJ, Chen A, Martin CA, Kopajtic TA, Fei H, Hu G, Lin Y-Y, Mosharov EV, McCabe BD, Freyberg R, Wimalasena K, Hsin L-W, Sames D, Krantz DE, Katz JL, Sulzer D, Javitch JA. 2016. Mechanisms of Amphetamine Action Illuminated through Optical Monitoring of Dopamine Synaptic Vesicles in Drosophila Brain. Nat Commun 7:10652.
  1. Chen A*, Chiu CN*, Mosser EA, Kahn S†, Spence R, Prober DA. 2016. QRFP and Its Receptors Regulate Locomotor Activity and Sleep in Zebrafish. J Neurosci 36(6): 1823-1840. Cover story February 10, 2016.
  1. Martin CA, Myers KM, Chen A, Martin NT, Barajas A†, Schweizer FE, Krantz DE. 2016. Ziram, a pesticide associated with increased risk for Parkinson’s disease, differentially affects the presynaptic function of aminergic and glutamatergic nerve terminals at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction. Exp Neurol 275, Part1:232-241.
  1. Grygoruk A, Chen A, Martin CA, Lawal HO, Fe H, Gutierrez G†, Biedermann T†, Najibi R†, Hadi R†, Chouhan AK, Murphy NP, Schweizer FE, Macleod GT, Maidment NT, Krantz DE. 2014. The Redistribution of Drosophila Vesicular Monoamine Transporter Mutants from Synaptic Vesicles to Large Dense-Core Vesicles Impairs Amine-Dependent Behaviors. J Neurosci 34(20): 6924-6937.
  1. Chen A, Ng F, Lebestky T, Grygoruk A, Djapri C, Lawal HO, Zaveri HA†, Mehanzel F†, Najibi R†, Seidman G†, Murphy NP, Kelly RL, Ackerson LC, Maidment NT, Jackson FR, Krantz DE. 2013. Dispensable, redundant, complementary and cooperative roles for dopamine, octopamine and serotonin in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 193(1):159-76.
  1. Grygoruk A, Fei H, Daniels RW, Miller BR, Chen A, DiAntonnio A, Krantz DE. 2010. Vesicular neurotransmitter transporter trafficking in vivo: moving from cells to flies. Fly 4(4):302-305.
  1. Fei H, Chow DM, Chen A, Romero-Calderon R, Ong WS, Ackerson LC, Maidment NT, Simpson JH, Frye MA, Krantz DE. 2010. Mutation of the Drosophila vesicular GABA transporter disrupts visual figure detection. J Exp Biol 213: 1717-1730.
  1. Fei H, Grygoruk A, Brooks ES, Chen A, Krantz DE. 2008. Trafficking of Vesicular Neurotransmitter Transporters. Traffic 9: 1425-1436.