Dr Eivind Undheim
Adjunct Research Fellow
Centre for Advanced Imaging
Norwegian Research Council Young Researcher Talent Fellow
Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Technology and Science
Associate Professor II
Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Bioscience, University of Oslo
Researcher biography
Venom is a fascinating and key evolutionary innovation for a wide range of animals that have in many cases evolved over hundreds of millions of years to become complex cocktails consisting of hundreds of unique compounds. Peptides often make up the bulk of this diversity, and many of these have been shaped through natural selection to become highly stable and potent bioactive molecules with potential use in the development of therapeutics, pesticides and molecular tools. My main research interests lie in the evolution of venoms, their toxins, and the structural adaptations that underlie their unique properties. As part of this, my research also aims to utilise and develop new methods within cutting-edge imaging techniques, such as mass spectrometry imaging.
Recently published Venom: the secrets of nature's deadliest weapon in collaboration with the Natural History Museum in London.
Higher Degree Research Students
Michael Maxwell
Vanessa Schendel
Biswa Prasanna Mishra
Diana Laise Da Silva
Publications
Book Chapters
Fry, Bryan G., Koludarov, Ivan, Jackson, Timothy N. W., Holford, Mandë, Terrat, Yves, Casewell, Nicholas R., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Vetter, Irina, Ali, Syed A., Low, Dolyce H. W. and Sunagar, Kartik (2015). Seeing the woods for the trees: understanding venom evolution as a guide for biodiscovery. Venoms to drugs: venom as a source for the development of human therapeutics. (pp. 1-36) edited by Glenn F. King. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Royal Society of Chemistry. doi: 10.1039/9781849737876-00001
Dutertre, Sebastien, Undheim, Eivind, Pineda, Sandy S., Jin, Ai-Hua (Jean), Lavergne, Vincent, Fry, Bryan G., Lewis, Richard J., Alewood, Paul F. and King, Glenn F. (2015). Venoms-Based Drug Discovery: Proteomic and Transcriptomic Approaches. Venoms to Drugs. (pp. 80-96) edited by King, Glenn F. London, United Kingdom: Royal Society of Chemistry. doi: 10.1039/9781849737876-00080
Fry, B. G., Undheim, E. A. B., Jackson, T. N. W., Georgieva, D., Vetter, I., Calvete, J. J., Schieb, H., Cribb, B. W., Yang, D. C., Daly, N. L., Manchadi, M. L. Roy, Gutierrez, J. M., Roelants, K., Lomonte, B., Nicholson, G. M., Dziemborowicz, S., Lavergne, V., Ragnarsson, L., Rash, L. D., Mobli, M., Hodgson, W. C., Casewell, N. R., Nouwens, A., Wagstaff, S. C., Ali, S. A., Whitehead, D. L., Herzig, V., Monagle, P., Kurniawan, N. D. ... Sunagar, K. (2015). Research methods. Venomous reptiles and their toxins: evolution, pathophysiology and biodiscovery. (pp. 153-214) New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles
Ashwood, Lauren M., Elnahriry, Khaled A., Stewart, Zachary K., Shafee, Thomas, Naseem, Muhammad Umair, Szanto, Tibor G., van der Burg, Chloé A., Smith, Hayden L., Surm, Joachim M., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Madio, Bruno, Hamilton, Brett R., Guo, Shaodong, Wai, Dorothy C. C., Coyne, Victoria L., Phillips, Matthew J., Dudley, Kevin J., Hurwood, David A., Panyi, Gyorgy, King, Glenn F., Pavasovic, Ana, Norton, Raymond S. and Prentis, Peter J. (2023). Genomic, functional and structural analyses elucidate evolutionary innovation within the sea anemone 8 toxin family. BMC Biology, 21 (1) 121, 121. doi: 10.1186/s12915-023-01617-y
da Silva, Daiane Laise, Valladão, Rodrigo, Beraldo-Neto, Emidio, Coelho, Guilherme Rabelo, Neto, Oscar Bento da Silva, Vigerelli, Hugo, Lopes, Adriana Rios, Hamilton, Brett R., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Sciani, Juliana Mozer and Pimenta, Daniel Carvalho (2023). Spatial Distribution and Biochemical Characterization of Serine Peptidase Inhibitors in the Venom of the Brazilian Sea Anemone Anthopleura cascaia Using Mass Spectrometry Imaging. Marine Drugs, 21 (9) 481, 1-20. doi: 10.3390/md21090481
Robinson, Samuel D., Deuis, Jennifer R., Touchard, Axel, Keramidas, Angelo, Mueller, Alexander, Schroeder, Christina I., Barassé, Valentine, Walker, Andrew A., Brinkwirth, Nina, Jami, Sina, Bonnafé, Elsa, Treilhou, Michel, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Schmidt, Justin O., King, Glenn F. and Vetter, Irina (2023). Ant venoms contain vertebrate-selective pain-causing sodium channel toxins. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 2977, 1-11. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38839-1
Dashevsky, Daniel, Baumann, Kate, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Nouwens, Amanda, Ikonomopoulou, Maria P., Schmidt, Justin O., Ge, Lilin, Kwok, Hang Fai, Rodriguez, Juanita and Fry, Bryan G. (2023). Functional and proteomic insights into Aculeata venoms. Toxins, 15 (3) 224, 1-25. doi: 10.3390/toxins15030224
Maxwell, Michael J., Thekkedam, Chris, Lamboley, Cedric, Chin, Yanni K.-Y., Crawford, Theo, Smith, Jennifer J., Liu, Junyu, Jia, Xinying, Vetter, Irina, Laver, Derek R., Launikonis, Bradley S., Dulhunty, Angela, Undheim, Eivind A. B. and Mobli, Mehdi (2023). A bivalent remipede toxin promotes calcium release via ryanodine receptor activation. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 1036, 1-13. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36579-w
Liu, Junyu, Maxwell, Michael, Cuddihy, Thom, Crawford, Theo, Bassetti, Madeline, Hyde, Cameron, Peigneur, Steve, Tytgat, Jan, Undheim, Eivind A.B. and Mobli, Mehdi (2023). ScrepYard: an online resource for disulfide-stabilised tandem repeat peptides. Protein Science, 32 (2) e4566, 1-12. doi: 10.1002/pro.4566
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
Kazandjian, Taline D., Hamilton, Brett R., Robinson, Samuel D., Hall, Steven R., Bartlett, Keirah E., Rowley, Paul, Wilkinson, Mark C., Casewell, Nicholas R. and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2022). Physiological constraints dictate toxin spatial heterogeneity in snake venom glands. BMC Biology, 20 (1) 148, 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s12915-022-01350-y
von Reumont, Bjoern M., Anderluh, Gregor, Antunes, Agostinho, Ayvazyan, Naira, Beis, Dimitris, Caliskan, Figen, Crnković, Ana, Damm, Maik, Dutertre, Sebastien, Ellgaard, Lars, Gajski, Goran, German, Hannah, Halassy, Beata, Hempel, Benjamin-Florian, Hucho, Tim, Igci, Nasit, Ikonomopoulou, Maria P., Karbat, Izhar, Klapa, Maria I., Koludarov, Ivan, Kool, Jeroen, Lüddecke, Tim, Ben Mansour, Riadh, Vittoria Modica, Maria, Moran, Yehu, Nalbantsoy, Ayse, Ibáñez, María Eugenia Pachón, Panagiotopoulos, Alexios, Reuveny, Eitan ... Zancolli, Giulia (2022). Modern venomics-Current insights, novel methods, and future perspectives in biological and applied animal venom research. GigaScience, 11 giac048, 1-27. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giac048
Verdes, Aida, Taboada, Sergi, Hamilton, Brett R., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Sonoda, Gabriel G., Andrade, Sonia C. S., Morato, Esperanza, Marina, Ana Isabel, Cárdenas, César A. and Riesgo, Ana (2022). Evolution, expression patterns, and distribution of novel ribbon worm predatory and defensive toxins. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39 (5) msac096, 1-16. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msac096
An, Dongchen, Pinheiro-Junior, Ernesto Lopes, Béress, László, Gladkikh, Irina, Leychenko, Elena, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Peigneur, Steve and Tytgat, Jan (2022). AsKC11, a kunitz peptide from Anemonia sulcata, is a novel activator of G protein-coupled inward-rectifier potassium channels. Marine Drugs, 20 (2) 140, 140. doi: 10.3390/md20020140
Finol-Urdaneta, Rocio K., Ziegman, Rebekah, Dekan, Zoltan, McArthur, Jeffrey R., Heitmann, Stewart, Luna-Ramirez, Karen, Tae, Han-Shen, Mueller, Alexander, Starobova, Hana, Chin, Yanni K.-Y., Wingerd, Joshua S., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Hill, Adam P., Herzig, Volker, King, Glenn F., Vetter, Irina, Rash, Lachlan D., Adams, David J. and Alewood, Paul F. (2022). Multitarget nociceptor sensitization by a promiscuous peptide from the venom of the King Baboon spider. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (5) e2110932119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2110932119
Undheim, Eivind A. B. and Jenner, Ronald A. (2021). Phylogenetic analyses suggest centipede venom arsenals were repeatedly stocked by horizontal gene transfer. Nature Communications, 12 (1) 818, 1-14. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21093-8
Ashwood, Lauren M., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Madio, Bruno, Hamilton, Brett R., Daly, Marymegan, Hurwood, David A., King, Glenn F. and Prentis, Peter J. (2021). Venoms for all occasions: the functional toxin profiles of different anatomical regions in sea anemones are related to their ecological function. Molecular Ecology, 31 (3), 866-883. doi: 10.1111/mec.16286
Robinson, Samuel D., Kambanis, Lucas, Clayton, Daniel, Hinneburg, Hannes, Corcilius, Leo, Mueller, Alexander, Walker, Andrew A., Keramidas, Angelo, Kulkarni, Sameer S., Jones, Alun, Vetter, Irina, Thaysen-Andersen, Morten, Payne, Richard J., King, Glenn F. and Undheim, Eivind A.B. (2021). A pain-causing and paralytic ant venom glycopeptide. iScience, 24 (10) 103175, 1-21. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.103175
Nixon, Samantha A., Robinson, Samuel D., Agwa, Akello J., Walker, Andrew A., Choudhary, Shivani, Touchard, Axel, Undheim, Eivind A.B., Robertson, Alan, Vetter, Irina, Schroeder, Christina I., Kotze, Andrew C., Herzig, Volker and King, Glenn F. (2021). Multipurpose peptides: the venoms of Amazonian stinging ants contain anthelmintic ponericins with diverse predatory and defensive activities. Biochemical Pharmacology, 192 114693, 114693. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2021.114693
Ashwood, Lauren M., Mitchell, Michela L., Madio, Bruno, Hurwood, David A., King, Glenn F., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Norton, Raymond S. and Prentis, Peter J. (2021). Tentacle morphological variation coincides with differential expression of toxins in sea anemones. Toxins, 13 (7) 452, 1-18. doi: 10.3390/toxins13070452
Kazandjian, T. D., Petras, D., Robinson, S. D., van Thiel, J., Greene, H. W., Arbuckle, K., Barlow, A., Carter, D. A., Wouters, R. M., Whiteley, G., Wagstaff, S. C., Arias, A. S., Albulescu, L.-O., Plettenberg Laing, A., Hall, C., Heap, A., Penrhyn-Lowe, S., McCabe, C. V., Ainsworth, S., da Silva, R. R., Dorrestein, P. C., Richardson, M. K., Gutiérrez, J. M., Calvete, J. J., Harrison, R. A., Vetter, I., Undheim, E. A. B., Wüster, W. and Casewell, N. R. (2021). Convergent evolution of pain-inducing defensive venom components in spitting cobras. Science, 371 (6527), 386-390. doi: 10.1126/science.abb9303
Herzig, Volker, Sunagar, Kartik, Wilson, David T. R., Pineda, Sandy S., Israel, Mathilde R., Dutertre, Sebastien, McFarland, Brianna Sollod, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Hodgson, Wayne C., Alewood, Paul F., Lewis, Richard J., Bosmans, Frank, Vetter, Irina, King, Glenn F. and Fry, Bryan G. (2020). Australian funnel-web spiders evolved human-lethal δ-hexatoxins for defense against vertebrate predators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (40), 24920-24928. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2004516117
Walker, Andrew A., Robinson, Samuel D., Hamilton, Brett F., Undheim, Eivind A. B. and King, Glenn F. (2020). Deadly proteomes: a practical guide to proteotranscriptomics of animal venoms. Proteomics, 20 (17-18) 1900324, e1900324. doi: 10.1002/pmic.201900324
Aili, Samira R., Touchard, Axel, Hayward, Regan, Robinson, Samuel D., Pineda, Sandy S., Lalagüe, Hadrien, Mrinalini, Vetter, Irina, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Kini, R. Manjunatha, Escoubas, Pierre, Padula, Matthew P., Myers, Garry S. A. and Nicholson, Graham M. (2020). An integrated proteomic and transcriptomic analysis reveals the venom complexity of the bullet ant Paraponera clavata. Toxins, 12 (5) 324, 1-30. doi: 10.3390/toxins12050324
Pineda, Sandy S., Chin, Yanni K.-Y., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Senff, Sebastian, Mobli, Mehdi, Dauly, Claire, Escoubas, Pierre, Nicholson, Graham M., Kaas, Quentin, Guo, Shaodong, Herzig, Volker, Mattick, John S. and King, Glenn F. (2020). Structural venomics reveals evolution of a complex venom by duplication and diversification of an ancient peptide-encoding gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (21) A41, 201914536-11408. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1914536117
Chow, Chun Yuen, Chin, Yanni K.Y., Ma, Linlin, Undheim, Eivind A.B., Herzig, Volker and King, Glenn F. (2020). A selective naV1.1 activator with potential for treatment of dravet syndrome epilepsy. Biochemical Pharmacology, 181 113991, 113991. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2020.113991
Ashwood, Lauren M., Norton, Raymond S., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Hurwood, David A. and Prentis, Peter J. (2020). Characterising functional venom profiles of Anthozoans and Medusozoans within their ecological context. Marine Drugs, 18 (4) 18040202, 202. doi: 10.3390/md18040202
Hamilton, Brett R., Marshall, David L., Casewell, Nicholas R., Harrison, Robert A., Blanksby, Stephen J. and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2020). Mapping enzyme activity on tissue by functional mass spectrometry imaging. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 132 (10) ange.201911390, 3883-3886. doi: 10.1002/anie.201911390
Hamilton, Brett R., Marshall, David L., Casewell, Nicholas R., Harrison, Robert A., Blanksby, Stephen J. and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2020). Mapping enzyme activity on tissue by functional mass spectrometry imaging. Advanced Materials, 59 (10), 3883-3886. doi: 10.1002/ANGE.201911390
Chen, Xingchen, Leahy, Darren, Van Haeften, Jessica, Hartfield, Perry, Prentis, Peter J., van der Burg, Chloé A., Surm, Joachim M., Pavasovic, Ana, Madio, Bruno, Hamilton, Brett R., King, Glenn F., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Brattsand, Maria and Harris, Jonathan M. (2019). A versatile and robust serine protease inhibitor scaffold from Actinia tenebrosa. Marine Drugs, 17 (12) 701, 701. doi: 10.3390/md17120701
Casewell, Nicholas R., Petras, Daniel, Card, Daren C., Suranse, Vivek, Mychajliw, Alexis M., Richards, David, Koludarov, Ivan, Albulescu, Laura-Oana, Slagboom, Julien, Hempel, Benjamin-Florian, Ngum, Neville M., Kennerley, Rosalind J., Brocca, Jorge L., Whiteley, Gareth, Harrison, Robert A., Bolton, Fiona M. S., Debono, Jordan, Vonk, Freek J., Alföldi, Jessica, Johnson, Jeremy, Karlsson, Elinor K., Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Mellor, Ian R., Süssmuth, Roderich D., Fry, Bryan G., Kuruppu, Sanjaya, Hodgson, Wayne C., Kool, Jeroen, Castoe, Todd A. ... Turvey, Samuel T. (2019). Solenodon genome reveals convergent evolution of venom in eulipotyphlan mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (51), 25745-25755. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1906117116
Walker, Andrew A., Robinson, Samuel D., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Jin, Jiayi, Han, Xiao, Fry, Bryan G., Vetter, Irina and King, Glenn F. (2019). Missiles of mass disruption: Composition and glandular origin of venom used as a projectile defensive weapon by the assassin bug Platymeris rhadamanthus. Toxins, 11 (11) 673, 673. doi: 10.3390/toxins11110673
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
Jenner, Ronald A., von Reumont, Bjoern M., Campbell, Lahcen I. and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2019). Parallel evolution of complex centipede venoms revealed by comparative proteotranscriptomic analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36 (12), 2748-2763. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msz181
Drukewitz, Stephan Holger, Bokelmann, Lukas, Undheim, Eivind A. B. and von Reumont, Björn M. (2019). Toxins from scratch? Diverse, multimodal gene origins in the predatory robber fly Dasypogon diadema indicate a dynamic venom evolution in dipteran insects. GigaScience, 8 (7) giz081. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giz081
Ziegman, Rebekah, Undheim, Eivind A.B., Baillie, Gregory, Jones, Alun and Alewood, Paul F. (2019). Investigation of the estuarine stonefish (Synanceia horrida) venom composition. Journal of Proteomics, 201, 12-26. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2019.04.002
Madio, Bruno, King, Glenn F. and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2019). Sea anemone toxins: a structural overview. Marine Drugs, 17 (6) 325, 325. doi: 10.3390/md17060325
Utkin, Yuri, Vassilevski, Alexander, Kudryavtsev, Denis and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2019). Animal toxins as comprehensive pharmacological tools to identify diverse ion channels. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 10 (APR) 423, 423. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00423
Surm, Joachim M., Smith, Hayden L., Madio, Bruno, Undheim, Eivind A. B., King, Glenn F., Hamilton, Brett R., van der Burg, Chloé A., Pavasovic, Ana and Prentis, Peter J. (2019). A process of convergent amplification and tissue‐specific expression dominate the evolution of toxin and toxin‐like genes in sea anemones. Molecular Ecology, 28 (9) mec.15084, 2272-2289. doi: 10.1111/mec.15084
Dash, Thomas S., Shafee, Thomas, Harvey, Peta J., Zhang, Chuchu, Peigneur, Steve, Deuis, Jennifer R., Vetter, Irina, Tytgat, Jan, Anderson, Marilyn A., Craik, David J., Durek, Thomas and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2019). A centipede toxin family defines an ancient class of CSαβ defensins. Structure, 27 (2), 315-326. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2018.10.022
Herzig, Volker, King, Glenn F. and Undheim, Eivind A.B. (2019). Can we resolve the taxonomic bias in spider venom research?. Toxicon: X, 1 100005, 100005. doi: 10.1016/j.toxcx.2018.100005
Maxwell, Michael, Undheim, Eivind A. B. and Mobli, Mehdi (2018). Secreted cysteine-rich repeat proteins "SCREPs": a novel multi-domain architecture. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 9 (NOV) 01333, 1333. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2018.01333
Gustafsson, Ove J. R., Winderbaum, Lyron J., Condina, Mark R., Boughton, Berin A., Hamilton, Brett R., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Becker, Michael and Hoffmann, Peter (2018). Balancing sufficiency and impact in reporting standards for mass spectrometry imaging experiments. GigaScience, 7 (10). doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giy102
Robinson, Samuel D., Mueller, Alexander, Clayton, Daniel, Starobova, Hana, Hamilton, Brett R., Payne, Richard J., Vetter, Irina, King, Glenn F. and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2018). A comprehensive portrait of the venom of the giant red bull ant, Myrmecia gulosa, reveals a hyperdiverse hymenopteran toxin gene family. Science Advances, 4 (9) eaau4640, eaau4640. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau4640
Madio, Bruno, Peigneur, Steve, Chin, Yanni K. Y., Hamilton, Brett R., Henriques, Sónia Troeira, Smith, Jennifer J., Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Dekan, Zoltan, Boughton, Berin A., Alewood, Paul F., Tytgat, Jan, King, Glenn F. and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2018). PHAB toxins: a unique family of predatory sea anemone toxins evolving via intra-gene concerted evolution defines a new peptide fold. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 75 (24), 4511-4524. doi: 10.1007/s00018-018-2897-6
Richards, Kay L., Milligan, Carol J., Richardson, Robert J., Jancovski, Nikola, Grunnet, Morten, Jacobson, Laura H., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Mobli, Mehdi, Chow, Chun Yuen, Herzig, Volker, Csoti, Agota, Panyi, Gyorgy, Reid, Christopher A., King, Glenn F. and Petrou, Steven (2018). Selective NaV1.1 activation rescues Dravet syndrome mice from seizures and premature death. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (34), 201804764-E8085. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1804764115
Walker, Andrew Allan, Rosenthal, Max, Undheim, Eivind E. A. and King, Glenn F (2018). Harvesting venom toxins from assassin bugs and other heteropteran insects. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2018 (134) e57729. doi: 10.3791/57729
Zhang, Alan H., Sharma, Gagan, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Jia, Xinying and Mobli, Mehdi (2018). A complicated complex: ion channels, voltage sensing, cell membranes and peptide inhibitors. Neuroscience Letters, 679, 35-47. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.04.030
Smith, Jennifer J and Undheim, Eivind A B (2018). True Lies: Using Proteomics to Assess the Accuracy of Transcriptome-Based Venomics in Centipedes Uncovers False Positives and Reveals Startling Intraspecific Variation in Scolopendra Subspinipes. Toxins, 10 (3) 96, 1-22. doi: 10.3390/toxins10030096
Walker, Andrew A., Mayhew, Mark L., Jin, Jiayi, Herzig, Volker, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Sombke, Andy, Fry, Bryan G., Meritt, David J. and King, Glenn F. (2018). The assassin bug Pristhesancus plagipennis produces two distinct venoms in separate gland lumens. Nature Communications, 9 (1) 755, 755. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03091-5
Drukewitz, Stephan Holger, Fuhrmann, Nico, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Blanke, Alexander, Giribaldi, Julien, Mary, Rosanna, Laconde, Guillaume, Dutertre, Sébastien and von Reumont, Björn Marcus (2018). A dipteran's novel sucker punch: evolution of arthropod atypical venom with a neurotoxic component in robber flies (Asilidae, Diptera). Toxins, 10 (1) 29, 1-23. doi: 10.3390/toxins10010029
Madio, Bruno, Undheim, Eivind A. B. and King, Glenn F. (2017). Revisiting venom of the sea anemone Stichodactyla haddoni: omics techniques reveal the complete toxin arsenal of a well-studied sea anemone genus. Journal of Proteomics, 166, 83-92. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2017.07.007
von Reumont, Bjorn M., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Jauss, Robin-Tobias and Jenner, Ronald A. (2017). Venomics of remipede crustaceans reveals novel peptide diversity and illuminates the venom’s biological role. Toxins, 9 (8) 234, 234. doi: 10.3390/toxins9080234
Walker, Andrew A. , Madio, Bruno, Jin, Jiayi, Undheim, Eivind A. B. , Fry, Bryan G. and King, Glenn F. (2017). Melt with this kiss: paralyzing and liquefying venom of the assassin bug Pristhesancus plagipennis (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 16 (4), 552-566. doi: 10.1074/mcp.M116.063321
Mobli, Mehdi, Undheim, Eivind A.B. and Rash, Lachlan D. (2017). Modulation of ion channels by cysteine-rich peptides: from sequence to structure. Advances in Pharmacology, 79, 199-223. doi: 10.1016/bs.apha.2017.03.001
Richter, Sandy, Helm, Conrad, Meunier, Frederic A., Hering, Lars, Campbell, Lahcen I., Drukewitz, Stephan H., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Jenner, Ronald A., Schiavo, Giampietro and Bleidorn, Christoph (2017). Comparative analyses of glycerotoxin expression unveil a novel structural organization of the bloodworm venom system. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17 (1) 64, 64. doi: 10.1186/s12862-017-0904-4
Mitchell, Michela L., Hamilton, Brett R., Madio, Bruno, Morales, Rodrigo A. V., Tonkin-Hill, Gerry Q., Papenfuss, Anthony T., Purcell, Anthony W., King, Glenn F., Undheim, Eivind A. B. and Norton, Raymond S. (2017). The use of imaging mass spectrometry to study peptide toxin distribution in Australian sea anemones. Australian Journal of Chemistry, 70 (11), 1235-1237. doi: 10.1071/CH17228
Robinson, Samuel D., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Ueberheide, Beatrix and King, Glenn F. (2017). Venom peptides as therapeutics: advances, challenges and the future of venom-peptide discovery. Expert Review of Proteomics, 14 (10), 931-939. doi: 10.1080/14789450.2017.1377613
Undheim, Eivind A. B., Jenner, Ronald A. and King, Glenn F. (2016). Centipede venoms as a source of drug leads. Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 11 (12), 1139-1149. doi: 10.1080/17460441.2016.1235155
Osteen, Jeremiah D., Herzig, Volker, Gilchrist, John, Emrick, Joshua J., Zhang, Chuchu, Wang, Xidao, Castro, Joel, Garcia-Caraballo, Sonia, Grundy, Luke, Rychkov, Grigori Y., Weyer, Andy D., Dekan, Zoltan, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Alewood, Paul, Stucky, Cheryl L., Brierley, Stuart M., Basbaum, Allan I., Bosmans, Frank, King, Glenn F. and Julius, David (2016). Selective spider toxins reveal a role for the Nav1.1 channel in mechanical pain. Nature, 543 (7608), 494-499. doi: 10.1038/nature17976
Undheim, Eivind A., Mobli, Mehdi and King, Glenn F. (2016). Toxin structures as evolutionary tools: Using conserved 3D folds to study the evolution of rapidly evolving peptides. Bioessays, 38 (6), 539-548. doi: 10.1002/bies.201500165
Reeks, Timothy, Lavergne, Vincent, Sunagar, Kartik, Jones, Alun, Undheim, Eivind, Dunstan, Nathan, Fry, Bryan and Alewood, Paul F. (2016). Deep venomics of the Pseudonaja genus reveals inter- and intra-specific variation. Journal of Proteomics, 133, 20-32. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2015.11.019
Ali, Syed Abid, Alam, Mehtab, Abbasi, Atiya, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Fry, Bryan Grieg, Kalbacher, Hubert and Voelter, Wolfgang (2016). Structure-activity relationship of chlorotoxin-like peptides. Toxins, 8 (2), 36. doi: 10.3390/toxins8020036
Undheim, Eivind A. B., Grimm, Lena L., Low, Chek -Fong, Morgenstern, David, Herzig, Volker, Zobel-Thropp, Pamela, Pineda, Sandy Steffany, Habib, Rosaline, Dziemborowicz, Slawomir, Fry, Bryan G., Nicholson, Graham M., Binford, Greta J., Mobli, Mehdi and King, Glenn F. (2015). Weaponization of a hormone: convergent recruitment of hyperglycemic hormone into the venom of arthropod predators. Structure, 23 (7) 3184, 1283-1292. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2015.05.003
Chow, Chun Yuen, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Undheim, Eivind A. B., King, Glenn F. and Rash, Lachlan D. (2015). Three peptide modulators of the human voltage-gated sodium channel 1.7, an important analgesic target, from venom of an Australian tarantula. Toxins, 7 (7), 2494-2513. doi: 10.3390/toxins7072494
Undheim, Eivind A.B., Hamilton, Brett R., Kurniawan, Nyoman D., Bowlay, Greg, Cribb, Bronwen W., Merritt, David J., Fry,Bryan G., King, Glenn F and Venter, Deon J. (2015). Production and packaging of a biological arsenal: evolution of centipede venoms under morphological constraint. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (13), 4026-4031. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1424068112
Undheim, Eivind, Fry, Bryan and King, Glenn F (2015). Centipede venom: Recent discoveries and current state of knowledge. Toxins, 7 (3), 679-704. doi: 10.3390/toxins7030679
Undheim, Eivind, Jones, Alun, Clauser, Karl R., Holland, John W., Pineda Gonzalez, Sandy, King, Glenn F and Bryan Fry (2014). Clawing through evolution: toxin diversification and convergence in the ancient lineage Chilopoda (Centipedes). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 31 (8), 2124-2148. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msu162
Undheim, Eivind A. B., Sunagar, Kartik, Hamilton, Brett R., Jones, Alun, Venter, Deon J., Fry, Bryan G. and King, Glenn F. (2014). Multifunctional warheads: diversification of the toxin arsenal of centipedes via novel multidomain transcripts. Journal of Proteomics, 102, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.02.024
Sunagar, Kartik, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Scheib, Holger, Gren, Eric C. K., Cochran, Chip, Person, Carl E., Koludarov, Ivan, Kelln, Wayne, Hayes, William K., King, Glenn F., Antunes, Agosthino and Fry, Bryan Grieg (2014). Intraspecific venom variation in the medically significant Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus helleri): biodiscovery, clinical and evolutionary implications. Journal of Proteomics, 99, 68-83. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.01.013
Pineda, Sandy S., Sollod, Brianna L., Wilson, David, Darling, Aaron, Sunagar, Kartik, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Kely, Laurence, Antunes, Agostinho, Fry, Bryan G. and King, Glenn F (2014). Diversification of a single ancestral gene into a successful toxin superfamily in highly venomous Australian funnel-web spiders. BMC Genomics, 15 (1) 177, 177.1-177.16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-177
Jesupret, Clémence, Baumann, Kate, Jackson, Timothy N. W., Ali, Syed Abid, Yang, Daryl C., Greisman, Laura, Kern, Larissa, Steuten, Jessica, Jouiaei, Mahdokht, Casewell, Nicholas R., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Koludarov, Ivan, Debono, Jordan, Low, Dolyce H. W., Rossi, Sarah, Panagides, Nadya, Winter, Kelly, Ignjatovic, Vera, Summerhayes, Robyn, Jones, Alun, Nouwens, Amanda, Dunstan, Nathan, Hodgson, Wayne C., Winkel, Kenneth D., Monagle, Paul and Fry, Bryan Grieg (2014). Vintage venoms: proteomic and pharmacological stability of snake venoms stored for up to eight decades. Journal of Proteomics, 105, 285-294. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.01.004
Pineda, Sandy S., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Rupasinghe, Darshani B., Ikonomopoulou, Maria P. and King, Glenn F. (2014). Spider venomics: implications for drug discovery. Future Medicinal Chemistry, 6 (15), 1699-1714. doi: 10.4155/FMC.14.103
Sunagar, Kartik, Fry, Bryan Grieg, Jackson, Timothy N. W., Casewell, Nicholas R., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Vidal, Nicolas, Ali, Syed A., King, Glenn F., Vasudevan, Karthikeyan, Vasconcelos, Vitor and Antunes, Agostinho (2013). Molecular evolution of vertebrate neurotrophins: co-option of the highly conserved nerve growth factor gene into the advanced snake venom arsenalf. PLoS One, 8 (11) e81827, e81827.1-e81827.19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081827
Ali, Syed A., Baumann, Kate, Jackson, Timothy N. W., Wood, Kelly, Mason, Steven, Undheim, Eivind A.B., Nouwens, Amanda, Koludarov, Ivan, Hendrikx, Iwan, Jones, Alun and Fry, Bryan Grieg (2013). Proteomic comparison of Hypnale hypnale (Hump-Nosed Pit-Viper) and Calloselasma rhodostoma (Malayan Pit-Viper) venoms. Journal of Proteomics, 91, 338-343. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2013.07.020
Yang, Shilong, Xiao, Yao, Kang, Di, Liu, Jie, Li, Yuan, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Klint, Julie K., Rong, Mingqiang, Lai, Ren and King, Glenn F. (2013). Discovery of a selective Na(V)1.7 inhibitor from centipede venom with analgesic efficacy exceeding morphine in rodent pain models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 (43), 17534-17539. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1306285110
Ruder, Tim, Ali, Syed Abid, Ormerod, Kiel, Brust, Andreas, Roymanchadi, Mary-Louise, Ventura, Sabatino, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Jackson, Timothy N. W., Mercier, A. Joffre, King, Glenn F., Alewood, Paul F. and Fry, Bryan G. (2013). Functional characterization on invertebrate and vertebrate tissues of tachykinin peptides from octopus venoms. Peptides, 47, 71-76. doi: 10.1016/j.peptides.2013.07.002
Ali, Syed A., Yang, Daryl C., Jackson, Timothy N. W., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Koludarov, Ivan, Wood, Kelly, Jones, Alun, Hodgson, Wayne C., McCarthy, Sean, Ruder, Tim and Fry, Bryan G. (2013). Venom proteomic characterization and relative antivenom neutralization of two medically important Pakistani elapid snakes (Bungarus sindanus and Naja naja). Journal of Proteomics, 89, 15-23. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2013.05.015
Low, Dolyce H. W., Sunagar, Kartik, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Ali, Syed A., Alagon, Alejandro C., Ruder, Tim, Jackson, Timothy N. W., Gonzalez, Sandy Pineda, King, Glenn F., Jones, Alun, Antunes, Agostinho and Fry, Bryan G. (2013). Dracula's children: molecular evolution of vampire bat venom. Journal of Proteomics, 89, 95-111. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2013.05.034
Fry, Bryan G., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Ali, Syed A., Jackson, Timothy N. W., Debono, Jordan, Scheib, Holger, Ruder, Tim, Morgenstern, David, Cadwallader, Luke, Whitehead, Darryl, Nabuurs, Rob, van der Weerd, Louise, Vidal, Nicolas, Roelants, Kim, Hendrikx, Iwan, Gonzalez, Sandy Pineda, Koludarov, Ivan, Jones, Alun, King, Glenn F., Antunes, Agostinho and Sunagar, Kartik (2013). Squeezers and leaf-cutters: differential diversification and degeneration of the venom system in toxicoferan reptiles. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 12 (7), 1881-1899. doi: 10.1074/mcp.M112.023143
Klint, Julie K., Senff, Sebastian, Saez, Natalie J., Seshadri, Radha, Lau, Ho Yee, Bende, Nira J., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Rash, Lachlan D., Mobli, Mehdi and King, Glenn F. (2013). Production of recombinant disulfide-rich venom peptides for structural and functional analysis via expression in the periplasm of E. coli. PLoS One, 8 (5) e63865, e63865.1-e63865.12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063865
Ruder, Tim, Sunagar, Kartik, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Ali, Syed A., Wai, Tak-Cheung, Low, Dolyce H. W., Jackson, Timothy N. W., King, Glenn F., Antunes, Agostinho and Fry, Bryan G. (2013). Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the proteins encoded by coleoid (cuttlefish, octopus, and squid) posterior venom glands. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 76 (4), 192-204. doi: 10.1007/s00239-013-9552-5
Brust, Andreas, Sunagar, Kartik, Eivind Undheim, Vetter, Irina, Yang, Daryl C., Casewell, Nicholas R., Ruder, Tim, Jackson, Timothy N. W., Koludarov, Ivan, Alewood, Paul F., Hodgson, Wayne C., Lewis, Richard J., King, Glenn F., Antunes, Agostinho, Hendrikx, Iwan and Fry, Bryan G. (2013). Differential evolution and neofunctionalization of snake venom metalloprotease domains. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 12 (3), 651-663. doi: 10.1074/mcp.M112.023135
Sunagar, Kartik, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Chan, Angelo H. C., Koludarov, Ivan, Munoz-Gomez, Sergio A., Antunes, Agostinho and Fry, Bryan G. (2013). Evolution stings: the origin and diversification of scorpion toxin peptide scaffolds. Toxins, 5 (12), 2456-2487. doi: 10.3390/toxins5122456
Undheim, Eivind A. B., Sunagar, Kartik, Herzig, Volker, Kely, Laurence, Low, Dolyce H. W., Jackson, Timothy N. W., Jones, Alun, Kurniawan, Nyoman, King, Glenn F., Ali, Syed A., Antunes, Agostino, Ruder, Tim and Fry, Bryan G. (2013). A proteomics and transcriptomics investigation of the venom from the Barychelid spider Trittame loki (brush-foot trapdoor). Toxins, 5 (12), 2488-2503. doi: 10.3390/toxins5122488
Jackson, Timothy N. W., Sunagar, Kartik, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Koludarov, Ivan, Chan, Angelo H. C., Sanders, Kate, Ali, Syed A., Hendrikx, Iwan, Dunstan, Nathan and Fry, Bryan G. (2013). Venom down under: dynamic evolution of Australian elapid snake toxins. Toxins, 5 (12), 2621-2655. doi: 10.3390/toxins5122621
Sunagar, Kartik, Jackson, Timothy N. W., Undheim, Elvind A. B., Ali, Syed A., Antunes, Agostinho and Fry, Bryan G. (2013). Three-fingered RAVERs: Rapid Accumulation of Variations in Exposed Residues of snake venom toxins. Toxins, 5 (11), 2172-2208. doi: 10.3390/toxins5112172
Brust, Andreas, Sunagar, Kartik, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Vetter, Irina, Yang, Daryl C., Casewell, Nicholas R., Jackson, Timothy N. W., Koludarov, Ivan, Alewood, Paul F., Hodgson, Wayne C., Lewis, Richard J., King, Glenn F., Antunes, Agostinho, Hendrikx, Iwan and Fry, Bryan G. (2012). Differential Evolution and Neofunctionalization of Snake Venom Metalloprotease Domains (vol 12, pg 651, 2013). Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 12 (5), 1488-1488. doi: 10.1074/mcp.M112.023135
Koludarov, Ivan, Sunagar, Kartik, Undheim, Eivind A. B., Jackson, Timothy N. W., Ruder, Tim, Whitehead, Darryl, Saucedo, Alejandro C., Roberto Mora, G., Alagon, Alejandro C., King, Glenn, Antunes, Agostinho and Fry, Bryan G. (2012). Structural and molecular diversification of the Anguimorpha lizard mandibular venom gland system in the arboreal species Abronia graminea. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 75 (5-6), 168-183. doi: 10.1007/s00239-012-9529-9
Undheim, Eivind A. B. and King, Glenn F. (2011). On the venom system of centipedes (Chilopoda), a neglected group of venomous animals. Toxicon, 57 (4), 512-524. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.01.004
Undheim E.A.B., Georgieva D.N., Thoen H.H., Norman J.A., Mork J., Betzel C. and Fry B.G. (2010). Venom on ice: First insights into Antarctic octopus venoms. Toxicon, 56 (6), 897-913. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.06.013
Undheim, Eivind Andreas Baste, Norman, Janette Ann, Thoen, Hanne Halkinrud and Fry, Bryan Grieg (2010). Genetic identification of Southern Ocean octopod samples using mtCOI. Comptes Rendus - Biologies, 333 (5), 395-404. doi: 10.1016/j.crvi.2010.02.002
Trembath, Dane F., Fearn, Simon and Undheim, Eivind Andreas Baste (2009). Natural history of the slaty grey snake (Stegonotus cucullatus) (Serpentes : Colubridae) from tropical north Queensland, Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology, 57 (2), 119-124. doi: 10.1071/ZO08091
Conference Papers
Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2020). New mass spectrometry-based tools for unravelling toxin function and evolution. 20th World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8-13 September 2019. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2019.10.023
Jenner, Ronald, von Reumont, Bjoern, Campbell, Lahcen and Undheim, Eivind (2020). Parallel evolution of complex centipede venoms. 20th World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8-13 September 2019. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2019.10.072
Drukewitz, Stephan Holger, Fuhrmann, Nico, Blanke, Alexander, Undheim, Eivind and von Reumont, Bjorn Marcus (2018). A dipteran's sucker punch: Diverse venom composition of the robber flies. 23rd Meeting of the French-Society-of-Toxinology (SFET) on Toxins - Immunity, Inflammation and Pain, Paris France, 7-8 December 2017. Oxford United Kingdom: Elsevier . doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2018.02.012
Fry, Bryan G., Ruder, Tim, Georgieva, Dessi N., Morgenstern, David, King, Glenn and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2012). Tentacles of venom: Molecular evolution of coleoid venoms. 17th World Congress of the International-Society-on-Toxinology (IST)/Venom Week/4th International Scientific Symposium on All Things Venomous, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 8-13 July 2012. Kidlington, Oxford, United Kingdom: Pergamon. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2012.04.063
Undheim, Eivind A. B., Jones, Alun, Holland, John W., Morales, Rodrigo A. V., Winnen, Brit, Fry, Bryan G. and King, Glenn F. (2012). Centipede venoms: Old and unusual. 17th World Congress of the International-Society-on-Toxinology (IST)/Venom Week/4th International Scientific Symposium on All Things Venomous, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 8-13 July 2012. Kidlington, Oxford, United Kingdom: Pergamon. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2012.04.065
Data Collection
Undheim, Eivind (2018). Supplementary Data to "A centipede toxin family defines an ancient class of CSαβ defensins". The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2018.613
Thesis
Undheim, Eivind (2013). Centipede venom evolution: casting light on a neglected group of venomous animals. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland.