Chen, B.E. 2026. Manage Your Project (pgs 93–94), Cultivate a Growth Mindset (pg 185). In The Prosperous PhD: Secrets to Success from Top Supervisors. (Eds. J. Wearing, C. DeLuca, & S. MacGregor). University of Toronto Press.
Kays, I., Chen, B.E. 2024. Tracking and Measuring Local Protein Synthesis In Vivo. Development 151(21): 1–12. Abstract. This paper demonstrates instantaneous tracking and measuring protein synthesis events at subcellular resolution in the living animal.
Li, J., Yu, R.Y., Emran, F., Chen, B.E., Hughes, M.E. 2019. Achilles-Mediated and Sex-Specific Regulation of Circadian mRNA Rhythms in Drosophila. Journal of Biological Rhythms 34(2): 131–143. Abstract.
Lo, C.A., Chen, B.E. 2019. Parental Allele-Specific Protein Expression in Single Cells In Vivo. Developmental Biology 454: 66-73. Abstract. Our paper was featured on the cover of the October 2019 issue of Developmental Biology. This paper was part of my long term goal to track protein expression from both the maternal and paternal allele over time in single cells in a living animal.
Kays, I., Chen, B.E. 2019. Protein and RNA Quantification of Multiple Genes in Single Cells. BioTechniques 66: 15–21. Abstract.
Bagheri, H., Friedman, H., Shao, H., Chong, Y., Lo, C.A., Emran, F., Kays, I., Yang, X.J., Cooper, E., Chen, B.E., Siminovitch, K., Peterson, A. 2018. TIE: A Method to Electroporate Long DNA Templates into Preimplantation Embryos for CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing. The CRISPR Journal 1(3): 223–229. Abstract.
Chen, B.E., Apostolova, I., Jungic, V., McIlroy, B., Crozier, G., Nugent, J., Lison, C., Tatossian, A. 2017. What I wish I knew as an early career professor. (ed. Anqi Shen) Pgs 12–17. University Affairs Vol. 58, No. 02. February 2017. Universities Canada Press.
Pavlou, H.J., Lin, A.C., Neville, M.C., Nojima, T., Diao, F., Chen, B.E., White, B.H., Goodwin, S.F. 2016. Neural circuitry coordinating male copulation. eLife 5: e20713. Abstract.
Suciu, R. M., Aydin, E., Chen, B. E. 2015. GeneDig: a web application for accessing genomic and bioinformatics knowledge. BMC Bioinformatics 16: 67. Abstract.
Chen, B. E. 2015. DSCAM, Mother of Innovations. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences 43: 1-4. Abstract.
This paper is basically my manifesto and a paean to Canadian neuroscience. I was asked to write a commentary on what it is like to be a new investigator in Canada, after winning the 2014 Canadian Association for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award.
Kays, I.*, Cvetkovska, V.*, Chen, B. E. 2014. Structural and functional analysis of single neurons to correlate synaptic connectivity with grooming behavior. Nature Protocols 9: 1-10. Abstract. Our paper was featured on the cover of the January 2014 issue of Nature Protocols.
Cvetkovska, V.*, Hibbert, A. D.*, Emran, F., Chen, B. E. 2013. Overexpression of Down Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule impairs precise synaptic targeting. Nature Neuroscience 16: 677-682. Abstract. This paper was highlighted by Nature Reviews Neuroscience in a Research Highlight (2013, 14: 458–459), a YouTube video produced by SimpliSci.
Schmucker, D, Chen, B. 2009. Dscam and DSCAM: Complex genes in simple animals, complex animals yet simple genes. Genes & Development 23: 147-156. Abstract.
Chen, B. E., Trachtenberg, J. T., Holtmaat, A. J., Svoboda, K. Long-term, high-resolution imaging in the neocortex in vivo. 2004. In Live Cell Imaging: A Laboratory Manual. (ed. Goldman R., Spector, D.) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Abstract.
