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Pennsylvania State University: University Park, PA, US

2018-07-01 to present | Professor (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
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Melissa Rolls

Pennsylvania State University: University Park, PA, US

2013 to 2018-06-30 | Associate Professor (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
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Melissa Rolls

Pennsylvania State University: University Park, PA, US

2007 to 2013 | Assistant Professor (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
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Melissa Rolls

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Oregon: Eugene, OR, US

2001 to 2007 | post-doctoral fellow (Neuroscience)
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Melissa Rolls

Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

1995 to 2001 | Ph.D. (Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
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Melissa Rolls

Yale University: New Haven, CT, US

1991 to 1995 | B.S. (Biology)
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Endocytosis of Wnt ligands from surrounding epithelial cells positions microtubule nucleation sites at dendrite branch points

PLOS Biology
2025-01-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Pankajam Thyagarajan; Simon Bullock; Hannah S. Mirshahi; Gregory O. Kothe; Nitish Kumar; Melissa Long; Bowofoluwa S. Abimbola; Alexis T. Weiner; Melissa M. Rolls
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Voltage-gated calcium channels act upstream of adenylyl cyclase Ac78C to promote timely initiation of dendrite regeneration

PLOS Genetics
2024-08-26 | Journal article
Contributors: J. Ian Hertzler; Andrew D. Chisholm; Jiajing Teng; Annabelle R. Bernard; Michelle C. Stone; Hannah L. Kline; Gibarni Mahata; Nitish Kumar; Melissa M. Rolls
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Minimal Mechanisms of Microtubule Length Regulation in Living Cells

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
2024-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Anna C. Nelson; Melissa M. Rolls; Maria-Veronica Ciocanel; Scott A. McKinley
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Ciliated sensory neurons can regenerate axons after complete axon removal

Journal of Experimental Biology
2023-06-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Michelle C. Stone; Abigail S. Mauger; Melissa M. Rolls
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Dendrite regeneration mediates functional recovery after complete dendrite removal

Developmental Biology
2023-05 | Journal article
Contributors: J. Ian Hertzler; Annabelle R. Bernard; Melissa M. Rolls
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The exocyst complex is required for developmental and regenerative neurite growth in vivo

Developmental Biology
2022-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Rachel D. Swope; J. Ian Hertzler; Michelle C. Stone; Gregory O. Kothe; Melissa M. Rolls
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Dendrite regeneration in the vertebrate spinal cord

Developmental Biology
2022-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Michelle C. Stone; Dylan Y. Seebold; Matthew Shorey; Gregory O. Kothe; Melissa M. Rolls
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Microtubule polarity is instructive for many aspects of neuronal polarity

Developmental Biology
2022-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Pankajam Thyagarajan; Chengye Feng; David Lee; Matthew Shorey; Melissa M. Rolls
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Principles of microtubule polarity in linear cells

Developmental Biology
2022-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Melissa M. Rolls
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Microtubule organization of vertebrate sensory neurons in vivo

Developmental Biology
2021-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Matthew Shorey; Kavitha Rao; Michelle C. Stone; Floyd J. Mattie; Alvaro Sagasti; Melissa M. Rolls
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The MAP3Ks DLK and LZK direct diverse responses to axon damage in zebrafish peripheral neurons

2021-07-03 | Other
Contributors: Kadidia Pemba Adula; Mathew Shorey; Vasudha Chauhan; Khaled Nassman; Shu-Fan Chen; Melissa M Rolls; Alvaro Sagasti
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Trim9 and Klp61F promote polymerization of new dendritic microtubules along parallel microtubules

Journal of Cell Science
2021-06-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Chengye Feng; Joseph M. Cleary; Gregory O. Kothe; Michelle C. Stone; Alexis T. Weiner; James I. Hertzler; William O. Hancock; Melissa M. Rolls
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Microtubule dynamics in healthy and injured neurons

Developmental Neurobiology
2021-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Melissa M. Rolls; Pankajam Thyagarajan; Chengye Feng
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To nucleate or not, that is the question in neurons

Neuroscience Letters
2021-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Alexis T. Weiner; Pankajam Thyagarajan; Yitao Shen; Melissa M. Rolls
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Pathogenic role of delta 2 tubulin in bortezomib-induced peripheral neuropathy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021-01-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Elena Pero; Cristina Meregalli; Xiaoyi Qu; Grace Ji-eun Shin; Atul Kumar; Matthew Shorey; Melissa M. Rolls; Kurenai Tanji; Thomas H. Brannagan; Paola Alberti et al.
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Neurons survive simultaneous injury to axons and dendrites and regrow both types of processes in vivo

Developmental Biology
2020-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Matthew Shorey; Michelle C. Stone; Jenna Mandel; Melissa M. Rolls
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Kinetochore proteins suppress neuronal microtubule dynamics and promote dendrite regeneration

Molecular Biology of the Cell
2020-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: James I. Hertzler; Samantha I. Simonovitch; Richard M. Albertson; Alexis T. Weiner; Derek M. R. Nye; Melissa M. Rolls; Terry Lechler
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The receptor tyrosine kinase Ror is required for dendrite regeneration in Drosophila neurons

PLOS Biology
2020-03-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Derek M. R. Nye; Anna Akhmanova; Richard M. Albertson; Alexis T. Weiner; J. Ian Hertzler; Matthew Shorey; Deborah C. I. Goberdhan; Clive Wilson; Kevin A. Janes; Melissa M. Rolls
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Cytoskeletal and synaptic polarity of LWamide-like+ ganglion neurons in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

Journal of Experimental Biology
2020-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Michelle C. Stone; Gregory O. Kothe; Melissa M. Rolls; Timothy Jegla
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Degeneration of Injured Axons and Dendrites Requires Restraint of a Protective JNK Signaling Pathway by the Transmembrane Protein Raw

The Journal of Neuroscience
2019-10-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Yan Hao; Thomas J. Waller; Derek M. Nye; Jiaxing Li; Yanxiao Zhang; Richard I. Hume; Melissa M. Rolls; Catherine A. Collins
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Patronin-mediated minus end growth is required for dendritic microtubule polarity

Journal of Cell Biology
2019-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Chengye Feng; Pankajam Thyagarajan; Matthew Shorey; Dylan Y. Seebold; Alexis T. Weiner; Richard M. Albertson; Kavitha S. Rao; Alvaro Sagasti; Daniel J. Goetschius; Melissa M. Rolls
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Identification of Proteins Required for Precise Positioning of Apc2 in Dendrites

G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics
2018-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Alexis T. Weiner; Dylan Y. Seebold; Nick L. Michael; Michelle Guignet; Chengye Feng; Brandon Follick; Brandon A. Yusko; Nathan P. Wasilko; Pedro Torres-Gutierrez; Melissa M. Rolls
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Two Drosophila model neurons can regenerate axons from the stump or from a converted dendrite, with feedback between the two sites

Neural Development
2017-08-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Kavitha S. Rao; Melissa M. Rolls
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Kinesin-2 and Apc function at dendrite branch points to resolve microtubule collisions

Cytoskeleton
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84956679366

Contributors: Weiner, A.T.; Lanz, M.C.; Goetschius, D.J.; Hancock, W.O.; Rolls, M.M.
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Melissa Rolls via Scopus - Elsevier

Nicotinamide is an endogenous agonist for a C. elegans TRPV OSM-9 and OCR-4 channel

Nature Communications
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84991463671

Contributors: Upadhyay, A.; Pisupati, A.; Jegla, T.; Crook, M.; Mickolajczyk, K.J.; Shorey, M.; Rohan, L.E.; Billings, K.A.; Rolls, M.M.; Hancock, W.O. et al.
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Spastin, atlastin, and ER relocalization are involved in axon but not dendrite regeneration

Molecular Biology of the Cell
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84994297154

Contributors: Rao, K.; Stone, M.C.; Weiner, A.T.; Gheres, K.W.; Zhou, C.; Deitcher, D.L.; Levitan, E.S.; Rolls, M.M.
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Mitochondria and Caspases Tune Nmnat-Mediated Stabilization to Promote Axon Regeneration

PLOS Genetics
2016-12-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Li Chen; Aleksandra Filipovska; Derek M. Nye; Michelle C. Stone; Alexis T. Weiner; Kyle W. Gheres; Xin Xiong; Catherine A. Collins; Melissa M. Rolls
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Bilaterian Giant Ankyrins Have a Common Evolutionary Origin and Play a Conserved Role in Patterning the Axon Initial Segment

PLOS Genetics
2016-12-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Timothy Jegla; Claude Desplan; Michelle M. Nguyen; Chengye Feng; Daniel J. Goetschius; Esteban Luna; Damian B. van Rossum; Bishoy Kamel; Aditya Pisupati; Elliott S. Milner et al.
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The microtubule-severing protein fidgetin acts after dendrite injury to promote their degeneration

Journal of Cell Science
2016-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Juan Tao; Chengye Feng; Melissa M. Rolls
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Neuronal polarity: An evolutionary perspective

Journal of Experimental Biology
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84926301477

Contributors: Rolls, M.M.; Jegla, T.J.
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γ-tubulin controls neuronal microtubule polarity independently of Golgi outposts

Molecular Biology of the Cell
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84903521462

Contributors: Nguyen, M.M.; McCracken, C.J.; Milner, E.S.; Goetschius, D.J.; Weiner, A.T.; Long, M.K.; Michael, N.L.; Munro, S.; Rolls, M.M.
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An EB1-Kinesin Complex Is Sufficient to Steer Microtubule Growth In Vitro

Current Biology
2014-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Yalei Chen; Melissa M. Rolls; William O. Hancock
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Dendrite Injury Triggers DLK-Independent Regeneration

Cell Reports
2014-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Michelle C. Stone; Richard M. Albertson; Li Chen; Melissa M. Rolls
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A postmitotic function and distinct localization mechanism for centralspindlin at a stable intercellular bridge

Developmental Biology
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84875388642

Contributors: Zhou, K.; Rolls, M.M.; Hanna-Rose, W.
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+Tip-Kinesin Complexes Steer Microtubule Growth In Vitro

Biophysical Journal
2013-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Yalei Chen; Melissa M. Rolls; William O. Hancock
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Axon injury and stress trigger a microtubule-based neuroprotective pathway

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84863904678

Contributors: Chen, L.; Stone, M.C.; Tao, J.; Rolls, M.M.
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Development of dendrite polarity in Drosophila neurons

Neural Development
2012 | Journal article
Contributors: Sarah E Hill; Manpreet Parmar; Kyle W Gheres; Michelle A Guignet; Yanmei Huang; F Jackson; Melissa M Rolls
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Katanin p60-like1 promotes microtubule growth and terminal dendrite stability in the larval class IV sensory neurons of Drosophila

Journal of Neuroscience
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84865220594

Contributors: Stewart, A.; Tsubouchi, A.; Rolls, M.M.; Daniel Tracey, W.; Tang Sherwood, N.
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Melissa Rolls via Scopus - Elsevier

Normal Spastin Gene Dosage Is Specifically Required for Axon Regeneration

Cell Reports
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84870399642

Contributors: Stone, M.C.; Rao, K.; Gheres, K.W.; Kim, S.; Tao, J.; La Rochelle, C.; Folker, C.T.; Sherwood, N.T.; Rolls, M.M.
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Melissa Rolls via Scopus - Elsevier

Microtubule deacetylation sets the stage for successful axon regeneration

The EMBO Journal
2012-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Li Chen; Melissa M Rolls
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Dendrites have a rapid program of injury-induced degeneration that is molecularly distinct from developmental pruning

Journal of Neuroscience
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79955723836

Contributors: Tao, J.; Rolls, M.M.
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Microtubules are organized independently from the centrosome in Drosophila neurons

Neural Development
2011 | Journal article
Contributors: Michelle M Nguyen; Michelle C Stone; Melissa M Rolls
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Science stories: Flies, planes, worms, and lasers

Molecular Biology of the Cell
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80655128125

Contributors: Rolls, M.
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Neuronal polarity in Drosophila: Sorting out axons and dendrites

Developmental Neurobiology
2011-05-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Melissa M. Rolls
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Directed microtubule growth, +TIPs, and Kinesin-2 Are required for uniform microtubule polarity in dendrites

Current Biology
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-78650515566

Contributors: Mattie, F.J.; Stackpole, M.M.; Stone, M.C.; Clippard, J.R.; Rudnick, D.A.; Qiu, Y.; Tao, J.; Allender, D.L.; Parmar, M.; Rolls, M.M.
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Global up-regulation of microtubule dynamics and polarity reversal during regeneration of an axon from a dendrite

Molecular Biology of the Cell
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77649105300

Contributors: Stone, M.C.; Nguyen, M.M.; Tao, J.; Allender, D.L.; Rolls, M.M.
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A ZYG-12-dynein interaction at the nuclear envelope defines cytoskeletal architecture in the C. elegans gonad

Journal of Cell Biology
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-67749135404

Contributors: Zhou, K.; Rolls, M.M.; Hall, D.H.; Malone, C.J.; Hanna-Rose, W.
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SUN-1 and ZYG-12, mediators of centrosome-nucleus attachment, are a functional SUN/KASH pair in Caenorhabditis elegans

Molecular Biology of the Cell
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-73949130677

Contributors: Minn, I.L.; Rolls, M.M.; Hanna-Rose, W.; Malone, C.J.
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Microtubules have opposite orientation in axons and dendrites of Drosophila neurons

Molecular Biology of the Cell
2008 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-57349173034

Contributors: Stone, M.C.; Roegiers, F.; Rolls, M.M.
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Spatial control of branching within dendritic arbors by dynein-dependent transport of Rab5-endosomes

Nature Cell Biology
2008 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-53349168419

Contributors: Satoh, D.; Sato, D.; Tsuyama, T.; Saito, M.; Ohkura, H.; Rolls, M.M.; Ishikawa, F.; Uemura, T.
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