Publications

Daniel B. Hier, Sima Azizi, Matthew S. Thimgan, and Donald C. Wunsch II. (2022) Tau kinetics in Alzheimer’s disease. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. v.14: 1055179.

Daniel B. Hier, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, Matthew S. Thimgan, Gayla R. Olbricht, Sima Azizi, Blaine Allen, Bassam A. Hadi, and Donald C. Wunsch II. (2021) Blood biomarkers for mild traumatic brain injury: a selective review of unresolved issues. Biomarker Research v.9: 70.

Simi Azizi, Daniel B. Hier, Blaine Allen, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, Gayla R. Olbricht, Matthew S. Thimgan, and Donald C. Wunsch II (2021).  A kinetic model for blood biomarker levels after mild traumatic brain injury.  Frontiers in Neurology. v.12: 668606. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.668606.

Yi Zhang*, V.A. Samaranayake, Gayla Olbricht, and Matthew S. Thimgan (2020). Predicting Lifespan of Drosophila Melanogaster: A Novel Application of Convolutional Neural Networks and Zero-Inflated Autoregressive Conditional Poisson Model. STAT (doi.org/10.1002/sta4.345).

Thimgan Matthew S., Natalie Kress, Josh Lisse*, Courtney Fiebelman*, Thomas Hilderbrand (2018).  The acyl-CoA Synthetase, pudgy, Promotes Sleep and Is Required for the Homeostatic Response to Sleep Deprivation. Frontiers in Endocrinology  v.9: p.464.

Laurent Seugnet, Stephane Dissel, Matthew Thimgan, Lijuan Cao and Paul J. Shaw (2017). Identification of Genes that Maintain Behavioral and Structural Plasticity during Sleep Loss.            Frontiers in Neural Circuits v11:79.

Arble, Deanna M., Joseph Bass, Cecilia Diniz-Behn, Matthew P. Butler, Etienne Challet, Charles Czeisler, Christopher M. Depner, Joel Elmquist, Paul Franken, Michael G. Grandner, Alex C. Keene, Michael J. Joyner, Ilia Karatsoreos, Philip A. Kern, Samuel Klein, Christopher J. Morris, Allan I. Pack, Satchidananda Panda, Louis Ptacek, Naresh M. Punjabi, Paolo Sassone-Corsi, Frank A. Scheer, Elizabeth R. Seaquest, Richa Saxena, Matthew S. Thimgan, Eve Van Cauter, Kenneth P. Wright (2015).  Impact of sleep and circadian disruption on energy balance and diabetes workshop.  SLEEP 38(12):1849-60.

Thimgan, Matthew S., Laurent Seugnet, John Turk, and Paul J. Shaw (2015). Identification of genes associated with resilience/vulnerability to sleep deprivation and starvation in Drosophila. SLEEP 38(5):801-14.

Dissel, Stephane, Laurent Seugnet, Matthew S. Thimgan, Neal Silverman, Yasuko Suzuki, Pamela Thacher, Melissa M. Burnham, and Paul J. Shaw (2015).  Differential activation of immune factors in neurons and glia contribute to individual differences in resilience/vulnerability to sleep disruption. Brain Behavior and Immunology 47:75-85.

Thimgan, Matthew S., Christina Toedebusch, Jennifer McLeland, Stephen P. Duntley, and Paul J. Shaw  (2015). Excessive daytime sleepiness is associated with changes in salivary inflammatory genes transcripts. Mediators of Inflammation 2015:539627.

Murray, Susan, Neda Khalifi, and Matthew S. Thimgan.  Working While Sleep Drunk? Effects of Fatigue on Safety.  Professional Safety (in press)

Thimgan, Matthew S., Laura Gottschalk, Cristina Toedebusch, Jennifer McLeland, Allan Rechtschaffen, Marcia Gilliland-Roberts, Stephen P. Duntley, and Paul J. Shaw (2013).  Cross-translational studies in human and Drosophila identify markers of sleep loss. PLoS ONE 8(4):e61016.

Donlea, Jeffrey, Averi Leahy, Matthew S. Thimgan, Yasuko Suzuki, Bryon L. Hughson, Marla B. Sokolowski, and Paul Shaw (2012). foraging alters resilience/vulnerability to sleep disruption and starvation in Drosophila. PNAS 109(7):2613-8.

Thimgan, Matthew S., Stephen P. Duntley, and Paul J. Shaw (2011).  Changes in Gene Expression with Sleep.  Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. 7(5 Suppl):S26-7.

Donlea, Jeffrey M, Matthew S. Thimgan, Yasuko Suzuki, Laura Gottschalk, and Paul J. Shaw (2011). Inducing sleep by remote control facilitates memory consolidation in DrosophilaScience. 332(6037):1571-6.

Thimgan, Matthew S., Yasuko Suzuki, Steve Duntley, Laurent Seugnet, Laura Gottschalk, and Paul J. Shaw (2010).  The Perilipin homologue, Lipid Storage Droplet 2, regulates sleep homeostasis and prevents learning impairments following sleep loss. PLoS Biol. 8(8). Pii:e1000466. 

Seugnet, Laurent, Yasuko Suzuki, Matthew S. Thimgan, Jeff Donlea, Sonya Gimbel, Laura Gottschalk, Stephen Duntley, Paul J. Shaw (2009).  Identifying sleep regulatory genes using a Drosophila model of insomnia.  Journal of Neuroscience 29(22):7148-7157.

Thimgan, Matthew S., Jonathan Berg, and Ann Stuart (2006).  Comparative sequence analysis and tissue localization of members of the SLC6 family of transporters in adult Drosophila melanogasterJournal of Experimental Biology 209(Pt 17):3383-404.

 -Article highlighted in Inside JEB section: Journal of Experimental Biology  209(Pt 17): i-ii.

Thimgan, Matthew S. and Hal F. Yee, Jr (1999).  Quantitation of rat hepatic stellate cell    contraction:  stellate cells’ contribution to sinusoidal resistance.  American Journal of            Physiology 277(1 Pt 1):G137-43.

Kolodney, Mike, Matthew S. Thimgan, Henry Honda, George Tsai, and Hal Yee (1999).  Role     of Ca++ in non-muscle cell contraction.  Journal of Physiology 515 (Pt 1):87-92.