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Jessica Heebner

Graduate Research Assistant, Penn State College of Medicine
Verified email at psu.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Cofilactin filaments regulate filopodial structure and dynamics in neuronal growth cones

RK Hylton, JE Heebner, MA Grillo… - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Cofilin is best known for its ability to sever actin filaments and facilitate cytoskeletal recycling
inside of cells, but at higher concentrations in vitro, cofilin stabilizes a more flexible, hyper-…

Deep learning-based segmentation of cryo-electron tomograms

JE Heebner, C Purnell, RK Hylton, M Marsh… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2022 - jove.com
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) allows researchers to image cells in their native, hydrated
state at the highest resolution currently possible. The technique has several limitations, …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid synthesis of cryo-ET data for training deep learning models

C Purnell, J Heebner, MT Swulius, R Hylton… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Deep learning excels at cryo-tomographic image restoration and segmentation tasks but is
hindered by a lack of training data. Here we introduce cryo-TomoSim (CTS), a MATLAB-…

Phantoms Improve Robustness of Deep Learning Automated Segmentation in Cryotomography

J Heebner, C Purnell, M Marsh… - Microscopy and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) provides the highest resolution structural biology findings
on cells in a hydrated state, but thorough interpretation of these large noisy image volumes …

Rapid coarse-grained simulation of whole cryo-tomograms

C Purnell, J Heebner, MT Swulius - Biophysical journal, 2023 - cell.com
Cryo-electron tomography is a rapidly expanding field of microscopy investigation, from
subtomogram averaging to cellular tomography. This range of applications leads to highly varied …

Training Neural Networks With Simulated CryoET Data

C Purnell, J Heebner, M Swulius - 2023 - academic.oup.com
Cryo-electron tomography has seen an explosion in growth due to recent advances in
resolution, preparation workflows, and availability of TEM microscopes. Yet, these leaps in data …

Cofilin regulates filopodial structure and flexibility in neuronal growth cones

R Hylton, J Heebner, M Grillo, M Swulius - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Filopodia are actin-rich cytoskeletal protrusions at the leading edge of motile cells. In neuronal
growth cones they function as antennae, guiding axonal growth toward the appropriate …

Convolutional neural network segmentation of bare and decorated actin filaments in cellular cryo-tomography

J Heebner, C Purnell, MT Swulius - Biophysical journal, 2023 - cell.com
Developing neurons have a highly dynamic structure at the tip of growing axons, the growth
cone, that guides the neuron to its synaptic target. Rapid remodeling of actin filaments and …

Expert-and Nonexpert-friendly Framework for Deep Learning Image Segmentation Demonstrates Successes Across Applications in vEM, CryoEM, MicroCT and …

J Heebner, B Provencher, N Piché, M Marsh - 2023 - academic.oup.com
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated tremendous capacity for object
classification and labeling, image denoising, and image segmentation tasks in demanding …

Ultrastructural Analysis of Cytoskeletal Networks in Neuronal Growth Cones by Light and Electron Microscopy

R Hylton, M Grillo, J Heebner… - Microscopy and …, 2021 - cambridge.org
In the brain, proper neural circuits are built by the directed growth of nascent axons and
dendrites towards their eventual synaptic partners through a process termed neurite guidance. …