Adeno-associated viral tools to trace neural development and connectivity across amphibians
E.C.B. Jaeger, D. Vijatovic, A. Deryckere, N. Zorin, A.L. Nguyen, G. Ivanian, J. Woych, R.C. Arnold, A. Ortega Gurrola, A. Shvartsman, F. Barbieri, F.-A. Toma, G.J. Gorbsky, M.E. Horb, H.T. Cline, T.F. Shay, D.B. Kelley, A. Yamaguchi, M. Shein-Idelson, M.A. Tosches, L.B. Sweeney, Developmental Cell 60 (2025) 794–812.e6.

Spinal neuron diversity scales exponentially with swim-to-limb transformation during frog metamorphosis
D. Vijatovic, F.A. Toma, Z.P. Harrington, C.M. Sommer, R. Hauschild, A.J. Trevisan, P. Chapman, M. Julseth, S. Brenner-Morton, M.I. Gabitto, J.S. Dasen, J.B. Bikoff, L.B. Sweeney, BioRxiv (n.d.).

Postsynaptic receptors regulate presynaptic transmitter stability through transsynaptic bridges
S.K. Godavarthi, M. Hiramoto, Y. Ignatyev, J.B. Levin, H.Q. Li, M. Pratelli, J. Borchardt, C. Czajkowski, L.N. Borodinsky, L.B. Sweeney, H.T. Cline, N.C. Spitzer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (2024).

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of motor circuit development
P. Kratsios, N. Zampieri, R. Carrillo, K. Mizumoto, L.B. Sweeney, P. Philippidou, The Journal of Neuroscience 44 (2024).

Spinal cords: Symphonies of interneurons across species
A.C. Wilson, L.B. Sweeney, Frontiers in Neural Circuits 17 (2023).

Differential loss of spinal interneurons in a mouse model of ALS
A. Salamatina, J.H. Yang, S. Brenner-Morton, J.B. Bikoff, L. Fang, C.R. Kintner, T.M. Jessell, L.B. Sweeney, Neuroscience 450 (2020) 81–95.

Origin and segmental diversity of spinal inhibitory interneurons
L.B. Sweeney, J.B. Bikoff, M.I. Gabitto, S. Brenner-Morton, M. Baek, J.H. Yang, E.G. Tabak, J.S. Dasen, C.R. Kintner, T.M. Jessell, Neuron 97 (2018) 341–355.e3.

Harnessing vocal patterns for social communication
L.B. Sweeney, D.B. Kelley, Current Opinion in Neurobiology 28 (2014) 34–41.

Linking cell fate, trajectory choice, and target selection: Genetic analysis of sema-2b in olfactory axon targeting
W.J. Joo, L.B. Sweeney, L. Liang, L. Luo, Neuron 78 (2013) 673–686.

Secreted semaphorins from degenerating larval ORN axons direct adult projection neuron dendrite targeting
L.B. Sweeney, Y.-H. Chou, Z. Wu, W. Joo, T. Komiyama, C.J. Potter, A.L. Kolodkin, K.C. Garcia, L. Luo, Neuron 72 (2011) 734–747.

A combinatorial semaphorin code instructs the initial steps of sensory circuit assembly in the Drosophila CNS
Z. Wu, L.B. Sweeney, J.C. Ayoob, K. Chak, B.J. Andreone, T. Ohyama, R. Kerr, L. Luo, M. Zlatic, A.L. Kolodkin, Neuron 70 (2011) 281–298.

‘Fore brain: A hint of the ancestral cortex
L.B. Sweeney, L. Luo, Cell 142 (2010) 679–681.

Graded expression of semaphorin-1a cell-autonomously directs dendritic targeting of olfactory projection neurons
T. Komiyama, L.B. Sweeney, O. Schuldiner, K.C. Garcia, L. Luo, Cell 128 (2007) 399–410.

Temporal target restriction of olfactory receptor neurons by semaphorin-1a/plexinA-mediated axon-axon interactions
L.B. Sweeney, A. Couto, Y.-H. Chou, D. Berdnik, B.J. Dickson, L. Luo, T. Komiyama, Neuron 53 (2007) 185–200.

Stress-dependent regulation of FOXO transcription factors by the SIR deacetylase
A. Brunet, L.B. Sweeney, J.F. Sturgill, K. Chua, P. Greer, Y. Lin, H. Tran, S. Ross, R. Mostoslavsky, H. Cohen, L. Hu, H.-L. Chen, M. Jedrychowski, S. Gygi, D. Sinclair, F. Alt, M. Greenberg, Science 303 (2004) 2011–2015.