Dr Vanessa Schendel
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Journal Articles
Schendel, Vanessa, Hamilton, Brett R., Robinson, Samuel D., Green, Kathryn, Sayre, Marcel E., Brown, Darren, Stow, Jennifer L., Øyen, Jan Philip, Voje, Kjetil L., Millard, S. Sean, Vetter, Irina, Rash, Lachlan D. and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2024). Exaptation of an evolutionary constraint enables behavioural control over the composition of secreted venom in a giant centipede. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 9 (1) 755, 73-86. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02556-9
Schendel, Vanessa, Müller, Carsten H. G., Kenning, Matthes, Maxwell, Michael, Jenner, Ronald A., Undheim, Eivind A. B. and Sombke, Andy (2024). The venom and telopodal defence systems of the centipede Lithobius forficatus are functionally convergent serial homologues. BMC Biology, 22 (1) 135. doi: 10.1186/s12915-024-01925-x
Robinson, Samuel D., Deuis, Jennifer R., Niu, Pancong, Touchard, Axel, Mueller, Alexander, Schendel, Vanessa, Brinkwirth, Nina, King, Glenn F., Vetter, Irina and Schmidt, Justin O. (2024). Peptide toxins that target vertebrate voltage-gated sodium channels underly the painful stings of harvester ants. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 300 (1) 105577, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105577
Jami, Sina, Deuis, Jennifer R., Klasfauseweh, Tabea, Cheng, Xiaoyang, Kurdyukov, Sergey, Chung, Felicity, Okorokov, Andrei L., Li, Shengnan, Zhang, Jiangtao, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Israel, Mathilde R., Ju, Robert J., Robinson, Samuel D., Zhao, Peng, Ragnarsson, Lotten, Andersson, Åsa, Tran, Poanna, Schendel, Vanessa, McMahon, Kirsten L., Tran, Hue N. T., Chin, Yanni K.-Y., Zhu, Yifei, Liu, Junyu, Crawford, Theo, Purushothamvasan, Saipriyaa, Habib, Abdella M., Andersson, David A., Rash, Lachlan D., Wood, John N. ... Vetter, Irina (2023). Pain-causing stinging nettle toxins target TMEM233 to modulate NaV1.7 function. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 2442. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37963-2
Robinson, Samuel D., Schendel, Vanessa, Schroeder, Christina I., Moen, Sarah, Mueller, Alexander, Walker, Andrew A., McKinnon, Naomi, Neely, G. Gregory, Vetter, Irina, King, Glenn F. and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2023). Intra-colony venom diversity contributes to maintaining eusociality in a cooperatively breeding ant. BMC Biology, 21 (1) 5, 5. doi: 10.1186/s12915-022-01507-9
Robinson, Samuel D., Deuis, Jennifer R., Klasfauseweh, Tabea, Schendel, Vanessa and Vetter, Irina (2022). Venom-derived pain-causing toxins: insights into sensory neuron function and pain mechanisms. Pain, 163 (S1), S46-S56. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002701
Schendel, Vanessa, Rash, Lachlan D., Jenner, Ronald A. and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2019). The diversity of venom: the importance of behavior and venom system morphology in understanding its ecology and evolution. Toxins, 11 (11) 666, 666. doi: 10.3390/toxins11110666
Kenning, Matthes, Schendel, Vanessa, Müller, Carsten H. G. and Sombke, Andy (2019). Comparative morphology of ultimate and walking legs in the centipede Lithobius forficatus (Myriapoda) with functional implications. Zoological Letters, 5 (1) 3, 3. doi: 10.1186/s40851-018-0115-x
Schendel, Vanessa, Junghanns, Anja, Bilde, Trine and Uhl, Gabriele (2018). Comparative female genital morphology in Stegodyphus spiders (Araneae: Eresidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 273, 240-249. doi: 10.1016/j.jcz.2018.01.011
Schendel, Vanessa, Kenning, Matthes and Sombke, Andy (2018). A comparative analysis of the ventral nerve cord of Lithobius forficatus (Lithobiomorpha): morphology, neuroanatomy, and individually identifiable neurons. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny, 76 (3), 377-394. doi: 10.3897/asp.76.e31950
Altewischer, Andrea, Buschewski, Ulrike, Ehrke, Christian, Froehlich, Johannes, Gaertner, Antje, Giese, Peter, Guenter, Franziska, Heitmann, Nadja, Hestermann, Maren, Hoffmann, Hannes, Kleinschmidt, Friederike, Kniepkamp, Bjoern, Linke, Wilhelm, Mayland-Quellhorst, Tore, Pape, Jonas, Peterson, Tom, Schendel, Vanessa, Schwieger, Sarah, Wadenstorfer, Andrea and Fischer, Klaus (2015). Habitat preferences of male Corn Buntings Emberiza calandra in north-eastern Germany. Acta Ornithologica, 50 (1), 1-10. doi: 10.3161/00016454AO2015.50.1.001
Data Collection
Schendel, Vanessa (2024). Dataset - Exaptation of an evolutionary constraint enables behavioural control over the composition of secreted venom in a giant centipede. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/0156525
Thesis
Schendel, Vanessa (2022). Centipede venom: Modulation, functional neuro-anatomy and evolutionary origin of the venom gland. PhD Thesis, Centre for Advanced Imaging (CAI) Research Groups, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/6e6cad6