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Antonio Colavita, PhD
(613) 562-5800 x8631
Colavita@uottawa.ca

ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9391-5282

Antonio Colavita

Senior Scientist, Neuroscience
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Research Interests

My laboratory is interested in using genetic and molecular approaches in C. elegans to study nervous system development. We are interested in gaining new insight into molecular mechanisms involved in the establishment of neuronal cell morphology and, at a larger scale, in the morphogenesis of the ventral nerve cord in C. elegans.

Brief Biography

Dr. Colavita completed a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and postdoctoral research at Stanford University.

Selected Publications


Noblett N., Wu Z., Ding Z.H., Park S., Roenspies R., Flibotte S., Chisholm AD., Jin Y.*, and A. Colavita*. 2019. DIP-2 suppresses ectopic neurite sprouting and axonal regeneration in mature neurons. J. Cell Biol. 218(1):125-133.

Zhang W., Colavita A. and JK. Ngsee. 2017. Mitigating Motor Neuronal Loss in a C. elegans Model of ALS8. Sci. Reports, 7(1):11582.

Shah P., Tanner M., Kovacevic I., Rankin A., Marshall T., Noblett N., Tran N., Roenspies T., Hung J., Chen Z., Slatculescu C., Perkins TJ, Bao Z.* and A. Colavita*. 2017. PCP and SAX-3/Robo pathways cooperate to regulate convergent extension-based nerve cord assembly in C. elegans. Developmental Cell; 41(2): 195-203.

Carr D., Sanchez-Alvarez L., Imai JH., Slatculescu C., Noblett N., Mao L., Beese L., and A. Colavita. 2016. A farnesyltransferase acts to inhibit ectopic neurite formation in C. elegans. PLoS One; 11(6): e0157537.

Sanchez-Alvarez L., Visanuvimol J., McEwan A., Su A., Imai JH. and A. Colavita. 2011. VANG-1 and PRKL-1 cooperate to negatively regulate neurite formation in C. elegans. PLoS Genet. 7(9): e1002257.

Habibi-Babadi N., Su A., Carvalho C. and A. Colavita. 2010. The N-glycanase png-1 acts to limit axon branching during organ formation in C. elegans. J. Neurosci. 30, 1766-1776.

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Research and clinical approaches