Publications

Pre-prints

• Zung JL*, Namiki S*, Meissner GW, Costa M, Eichler K, Stuerner T, Jefferis GSXE, Managan C, FlyLight Project Team, Korff W, Card GM. (2025) An updated catalogue of split-GAL4 driver lines for descending neurons in Drosophila melanogaster. bioRxiv 10.1101/2025.02.22.639679

• Adavi ED, dos Anjos VLDA, Kotb S, Metz HC, Tian D, Zhao Z, Zung JL, Rose NH, McBride CS. (2024) Olfactory receptor coexpression and co-option in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. bioRxiv 10.1101/2024.08.21.608847

• Zung JL, Kotb SM, McBride CS. (2023) Exploring natural odour landscapes: A case study with implications for human-biting insects. eLife 10.7554/eLife.89832.1 (under revision)

Published work

• Zung JL, McBride CS. (2025) Sebaceous origins of human odor. Current Biology, 35:R303-R313

• Metz HC, Zung JL, McBride CS. (2023) Quantifying Aedes aegypti host odor preference using a two-port olfactometer. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols pdb.top107661 [Protocol]

• Zhao Z, Zung JL*, Hinze A*, Kriete AL, Iqbal A, Younger MA, Matthews BJ, Merhof D, Thiberge S, Ignell R, Strauch M, McBride CS. (2022) Mosquito brains encode unique features of human odour to drive host seeking and preference. Nature 605:706–712 [Featured in Nature podcast]

• Zung JL, McBride CS. (2020) Engineering a picky eater. Nature 579:345–346

• Thomson JD, Zung JL. (2015) A restraining device to aid identification of bees by digital photography. Journal of Pollination Ecology 17:145–147

• Zung JL, Forrest JRK, Castellanos MC, Thomson JD. (2015) Bee- to bird-pollination shifts in Penstemon: effects of floral-lip removal and corolla constriction on the preferences of free-foraging bumble bees. Evolutionary Ecology 29:341–354

* = Equal contribution