Development of the cerebral cortex in health and disease

Selected Publications

Cameron D, Mi D, Vinh NN, Webber C, Li M, Marín O, O'Donovan MC, Bray NJ (2023) Single-Nuclei RNA Sequencing of 5 Regions of the Human Prenatal Brain Implicates Developing Neuron Populations in Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 93: 157-166.

Sreenivasan V, Serafeimidou-Pouliou E, Exposito-Alonso D, Bercsenyi K, Bernard C, Bae SE, Oozeer F, Hanusz-Godoy A, Edwards RH, Marín O (2022) Input-specific control of interneuron numbers in nascent striatal networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 119: e2118430119
Wong FK, Selten M, Rosés-Novella C, Sreenivasan V, Pallas-Bazarra N, Serafeimidou-Pouliou E, Hanusz-Godoy A, Oozeer F, Edwards R, Marín O (2022) Serotonergic regulation of bipolar cell survival in the developing cerebral cortex. Cell Rep 40: 111037
Shi Y, Wang M, Mi D, Lu T, Wang B, Dong H, Zhong S, Chen Y, Sun L, Zhou X, Ma Q, Liu Z, Wang W, Zhang J, Wu Q, Marín O, Wang X (2021) Mouse and humans share conserved transcriptional programs for interneuron development Science

Llorca A, Ciceri G, Beattie R, Wong FK, Diana G, Serafeimidou-Pouliou E, Fernández-Otero M, Streicher C, Arnold SJ, Meyer M, Hippenmeyer S, Maravall M, Marin O (2019) A stochastic framework of neurogenesis underlies the assembly of neocortical cytoarchitecture. Elife 8
Wong FK, Bercsenyi K, Sreenivasan V, Portalés A, Fernández-Otero M, Marín O (2018) Pyramidal cell regulation of interneuron survival sculpts cortical networks. Nature 557: 668-673
Lim L, Mi D, Llorca A, Marín O (2018) Development and Functional Diversification of Cortical Interneurons. Neuron 100: 294-313
Mi D, Li Z, Lim L, Li M, Moissidis M, Yang Y, Gao T, Hu TX, Pratt T, Price DJ, Sestan N, Marín O (2018) Early emergence of cortical interneuron diversity in the mouse embryo. Science 360: 81-85
Del Pino I, Rico B, Marín O (2018) Neural circuit dysfunction in mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders. Curr Opin Neurobiol 48: 174-182
Del Pino I, Brotons-Mas JR, Marques-Smith A, Marighetto A, Frick A, Marín O, Rico B (2017) Abnormal wiring of CCK+ basket cells disrupts spatial information coding. Nat Neurosci 20: 784-792

Bartolini G, Sánchez-Alcañiz JA, Osório C, Valiente M, García-Frigola C, Marín O (2017) Neuregulin 3 Mediates Cortical Plate Invasion and Laminar Allocation of GABAergic Interneurons. Cell Rep 18: 1157-1170
Marín O (2016) Developmental timing and critical windows for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Nat Med 22: 1229-1238
Dehorter N, Ciceri G, Bartolini G, Lim L, del Pino I, Marín O (2015) Tuning of fast-spiking interneuron properties by an activity-dependent transcriptional switch. Science 349: 1216-20

Villar-Cerviño V, Molano-Mazón M, Catchpole T, Valdeolmillos M, Henkemeyer M, Martínez LM, Borrell V, Marín O (2013) Contact repulsion controls the dispersion and final distribution of Cajal-Retzius cells. Neuron 77: 457-71
Ciceri G, Dehorter N, Sols I, Huang ZJ, Maravall M, Marín O (2013) Lineage-specific laminar organization of cortical GABAergic interneurons. Nat Neurosci 16: 1199-210
Del Pino I, García-Frigola C, Dehorter N, Brotons-Mas JR, Alvarez-Salvado E, Martínez de Lagrán M, Ciceri G, Gabaldón MV, Moratal D, Dierssen M, Canals S, Marín O, Rico B (2013) Erbb4 deletion from fast-spiking interneurons causes schizophrenia-like phenotypes. Neuron 79: 1152-68

Marín O (2012) Interneuron dysfunction in psychiatric disorders. Nat Rev Neurosci 13: 107-20

Borrell V, Cárdenas A, Ciceri G, Galcerán J, Flames N, Pla R, Nóbrega-Pereira S, García-Frigola C, Peregrín S, Zhao Z, Ma L, Tessier-Lavigne M, Marín O (2012) Slit/Robo signaling modulates the proliferation of central nervous system progenitors. Neuron 76: 338-52
Fazzari P, Paternain AV, Valiente M, Pla R, Luján R, Lloyd K, Lerma J, Marín O, Rico B (2010) Control of cortical GABA circuitry development by Nrg1 and ErbB4 signalling. Nature 464: 1376-80