Dr Ir. Marien de Bruijne

Senior Research Fellow

Ph.D. University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland 

Telephone: +61-3-9905-5766
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: marien.debruijne@sci.monash.edu.au

• de Bruyne M., Dicke M. and Tjallingii W.F. (1991) Receptor cell responses in the anterior tarsi of Phytoseiulus persimilis A.-H. to volatile kairomone components. Exp. Appl. Acarol. 13, 53-58.
• Guerin P.M., Steullet P., Kröber T., Grenacher S., Diehl P.A., Vlimant M., de Bruyne M., Cordas T., Falk-Vairant J., Kuhnert F. and Lösel P.M. (1992) The chemical ecology of ticks at the host vector interface. In: Proceedings of the first international conference on tick-borne pathogens at the host-vector interface: an agenda for research (eds. Munderloh U.G. and Kurtii T.J) Minnesota University, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
• de Bruyne M. and Guerin P.M. (1994) Isolation of 2,6-dichlorophenol from the cattle tick Boophilus microplus: Receptor cell responses but no evidence for a behavioural response. J. Insect Physiol. 40, 143-154.
• Falk-Vairant J., Guerin P.M., de Bruyne M. and Rohrer M. (1994) Some observations on mating and fertilization in the cattle tick Boophilus microplus. Med. Vet. Entomol. 8, 101-103.
• de Bruyne M. and Guerin P.M. (1998) Contact chemostimuli in the mating behaviour of the cattle tick Boophilus microplus. Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 39:65-80.
• Clyne P., Certel S., de Bruyne M., Zaslavski L., Johnson W.A. and Carlson J.R (1999). The odor specificities of a subset of olfactory receptor neurons are governed by acj6, a POU-domain transcription factor. Neuron 22:339-347.
• de Bruyne M., Clyne P. and Carlson J.R. (1999) Odor coding in a model olfactory organ: the Drosophila maxillary palp. J. Neuroscience 19:4520-4532.
• Warr, C., Clyne, P., de Bruyne M., Kim, J., and Carlson J.R (2001). Olfaction in Drosophila: Coding, genetics and e-genetics. Chemical Senses 26:201-206.
• de Bruyne M., Foster K. and Carlson J.R. (2001) Odor coding in the Drosophila antenna. Neuron 30:537-552.
• Park, S.-K., Shanbhag, S.R., Dubin, A.E., de Bruyne, M., Wang, Q., Yu, P., Shimoni, N., D'Mello, S., Carlson, J.R., Steinbrecht, R.A., Pikielny, C.W. (2002). Inactivation of olfactory sensilla of a single morphological type differentially affects the response of Drosophila odorants. J. Neurobiol. 51:248-260.
• de Bruyne M. (2003). Physiology and Genetics of Odor perception in Drosophila. In: Insect pheromone biochemistry and molecular biology (Blomquist GJ, Vogt RG eds), Oxford: Academic Press.
• Sharma P., Asztalos Z., Ayyub C., de Bruyne M., Dornan A.J., Gomez-Hernandez A., Keane J., Killeen J., Kramer S., Madhavan M., Roe H., Sherkhane P.D., Siddiqi K., Silva E., Carlson J.R., Goodwin S.F., Heisenberg M., Krishnan K., Kyriacou C.P., Partridge L., Riesgo-Escovar J., Rodrigues V., Tully T., O'kane C.J. (2005) Isogenic autosomes to be applied in optimal screening for novel mutants with viable phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster. J.Neurogenetics 19:57-58.
• de Bruyne M. (2006) Visualizing a fly’s nose: Genetic and physiological techniques for studying odor coding in Drosophila melanogaster. In: Chemical communication, from gene to ecosystem. Wageningen UR Frontis Series , Vol. 16. (Dicke M., Takken, W. ed.), Wageningen, Springer.
• de Bruyne M. and Warr, C. (2006) Molecular and cellular organization of insect chemosensory neurons. BioEssays 28:23-34.
• Faucher C., Forstreuter M., Hilker, M. and de Bruyne M. (2006) Behavioral responses of Drosophila to biogenic levels of carbon dioxide depend on life-stage, sex and olfactory context. J.Exp.Biol. 209:2739-2748.
• Pelz D., Roeske T., Syed Z., de Bruyne M., and Galizia, C.G. The molecular receptive range of an olfactory receptor in vivo (Drosophila melanogaster Or22a). J.Neurobiol. (in press)