Publications

2011

Heinrich C, Gascón S, Masserdotti G, Lepier A, Sanchez R, Simon-Ebert T, Schroeder T, Götz M, Berninger B (2011) Generation of subtype-specific neurons from postnatal astroglia of the mouse cerebral cortex. Nat Protoc 6: 214-28
Blum R, Heinrich C, Sánchez R, Lepier A, Gundelfinger ED, Berninger B, Götz M (2011) Neuronal network formation from reprogrammed early postnatal rat cortical glial cells. Cereb Cortex 21: 413-24
Costa MR, Ortega F, Brill MS, Beckervordersandforth R, Petrone C, Schroeder T, Götz M, Berninger B (2011) Continuous live imaging of adult neural stem cell division and lineage progression in vitro. Development 138: 1057-68
Egea V, von Baumgarten L, Schichor C, Berninger B, Popp T, Neth P, Goldbrunner R, Kienast Y, Winkler F, Jochum M, Ries C (2011) TNF-? respecifies human mesenchymal stem cells to a neural fate and promotes migration toward experimental glioma. Cell Death Differ 18: 853-63
Ortega F, Costa MR, Simon-Ebert T, Schroeder T, Götz M, Berninger B (2011) Using an adherent cell culture of the mouse subependymal zone to study the behavior of adult neural stem cells on a single-cell level. Nat Protoc 6: 1847-59
Khandelia P, Yap K, Makeyev EV (2011) Streamlined platform for short hairpin RNA interference and transgenesis in cultured mammalian cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108: 12799-804
Karnani MM, Apergis-Schoute J, Adamantidis A, Jensen LT, de Lecea L, Fugger L, Burdakov D (2011) Activation of central orexin/hypocretin neurons by dietary amino acids. Neuron 72: 616-29
Sousa-Nunes R, Yee LL, Gould AP (2011) Fat cells reactivate quiescent neuroblasts via TOR and glial insulin relays in Drosophila. Nature 471: 508-12
Sekar S, Verhoye M, Van Audekerke J, Vanhoutte G, Lowe AS, Blamire AM, Steckler T, Van der Linden A, Shoaib M (2011) Neuroadaptive responses to citalopram in rats using pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 213: 521-31
Sekar S, Van Audekerke J, Vanhoutte G, Lowe AS, Blamire AM, Van der Linden A, Steckler T, Shoaib M, Verhoye M (2011) Neuroanatomical targets of reboxetine and bupropion as revealed by pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 217: 549-57
Tuxworth RI, Chen H, Vivancos V, Carvajal N, Huang X, Tear G (2011) The Batten disease gene CLN3 is required for the response to oxidative stress. Hum Mol Genet 20: 2037-47
Brierley D, Rathore K, Vijayraghavan K, Williams D (2011) Developmental origins and architecture of Drosophila leg motoneurons. J Comp Neurol
Farley EK, Gale E, Chambers D, Li M (2011) Effects of in ovo electroporation on endogenous gene expression: genome-wide analysis. Neural Dev 6: 17
Gennet N, Gale E, Nan X, Farley E, Takacs K, Oberwallner B, Chambers D, Li M (2011) Doublesex and mab-3-related transcription factor 5 promotes midbrain dopaminergic identity in pluripotent stem cells by enforcing a ventral-medial progenitor fate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108: 9131-6
Keck T, Scheuss V, Jacobsen RI, Wierenga CJ, Eysel UT, Bonhoeffer T, Hübener M (2011) Loss of sensory input causes rapid structural changes of inhibitory neurons in adult mouse visual cortex. Neuron 71: 869-82
Calamita P, Fanto M (2011) Slimming down fat makes neuropathic hippo: the Fat/Hippo tumor suppressor pathway protects adult neurons through regulation of autophagy. Autophagy 7: 907-9
Volpi V, Mackay D, Fanto M (2011) Single Drosophila ommatidium dissection and imaging. J Vis Exp
Tymanskyj SR, Scales TM, Gordon-Weeks PR (2011) MAP1B enhances microtubule assembly rates and axon extension rates in developing neurons. Mol Cell Neurosci
Tossell K, Andreae LC, Cudmore C, Lang E, Muthukrishnan U, Lumsden A, Gilthorpe JD, Irving C (2011) Lrrn1 is required for formation of the midbrain-hindbrain boundary and organiser through regulation of affinity differences between midbrain and hindbrain cells in chick. Dev Biol 352: 341-52
Napoletano F, Occhi S, Calamita P, Volpi V, Blanc E, Charroux B, Royet J, Fanto M (2011) Polyglutamine Atrophin provokes neurodegeneration in Drosophila by repressing fat. EMBO J 30: 945-58
Blentic A, Chambers D, Skinner A, Begbie J, Graham A (2011) The formation of the cranial ganglia by placodally-derived sensory neuronal precursors. Mol Cell Neurosci 46: 452-9
Grevellec A, Graham A, Tucker AS (2011) Shh signalling restricts the expression of Gcm2 and controls the position of the developing parathyroids. Dev Biol 353: 194-205
McGonnell IM, Graham A, Richardson J, Fish JL, Depew MJ, Dee CT, Holland PW, Takahashi T (2011) Evolution of the Alx homeobox gene family: parallel retention and independent loss of the vertebrate Alx3 gene. Evol Dev 13: 343-51
Richardson J, Shono T, Okabe M, Graham A (2011) The presence of an embryonic opercular flap in amniotes. Proc Biol Sci
Grubb MS, Shu Y, Kuba H, Rasband MN, Wimmer VC, Bender KJ (2011) Short- and Long-Term Plasticity at the Axon Initial Segment. J Neurosci 31: 16049-16055
Ch'ng Q (2011) Selecting synaptic partners: GRASPing the role of UNC-6/netrin. BMC Biol 9: 43
Poopalasundaram S, Marler KJ, Drescher U (2011) EphrinA6 on chick retinal axons is a key component for p75(NTR)-dependent axon repulsion and TrkB-dependent axon branching. Mol Cell Neurosci 47: 131-6
Tossell K, Kiecker C, Wizenmann A, Lang E, Irving C (2011) Notch signalling stabilises boundary formation at the midbrain-hindbrain organiser. Development 138: 3745-57
Hunter PR, Nikolaou N, Odermatt B, Williams PR, Drescher U, Meyer MP (2011) Localization of Cadm2a and Cadm3 proteins during development of the zebrafish nervous system. J Comp Neurol 519: 2252-70
Butts T, Chaplin N, Wingate RJ (2011) Can clues from evolution unlock the molecular development of the cerebellum? Mol Neurobiol 43: 67-76

2010

Marthiens V, Kazanis I, Moss L, Long K, Ffrench-Constant C (2010) Adhesion molecules in the stem cell niche--more than just staying in shape? J Cell Sci 123: 1613-22
Heinrich C, Blum R, Gascón S, Masserdotti G, Tripathi P, Sánchez R, Tiedt S, Schroeder T, Götz M, Berninger B (2010) Directing astroglia from the cerebral cortex into subtype specific functional neurons. PLoS Biol 8: e1000373
Khan AG, Parthasarathy K, Bhalla US (2010) Odor representations in the mammalian olfactory bulb. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med 2: 603-611
Martín-Ibáñez R, Crespo E, Urbán N, Sergent-Tanguy S, Herranz C, Jaumot M, Valiente M, Long JE, Pineda JR, Andreu C, Rubenstein JL, Marín O, Georgopoulos K, Mengod G, Fariñas I, Bachs O, Alberch J, Canals JM (2010) Ikaros-1 couples cell cycle arrest of late striatal precursors with neurogenesis of enkephalinergic neurons. J Comp Neurol 518: 329-51

Valiente M, Marín O (2010) Neuronal migration mechanisms in development and disease. Curr Opin Neurobiol 20: 68-78

Marín O, Valiente M, Ge X, Tsai LH (2010) Guiding neuronal cell migrations. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2: a001834

Nóbrega-Pereira S, Gelman D, Bartolini G, Pla R, Pierani A, Marín O (2010) Origin and molecular specification of globus pallidus neurons. J Neurosci 30: 2824-34

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

Gelman DM, Marín O (2010) Generation of interneuron diversity in the mouse cerebral cortex. Eur J Neurosci 31: 2136-41

Murray A, Naeem A, Barnes SH, Drescher U, Guthrie S (2010) Slit and Netrin-1 guide cranial motor axon pathfinding via Rho-kinase, myosin light chain kinase and myosin II. Neural Dev 5: 16
Barnes SH, Price SR, Wentzel C, Guthrie SC (2010) Cadherin-7 and cadherin-6B differentially regulate the growth, branching and guidance of cranial motor axons. Development 137: 805-14
Sousa-Nunes R, Cheng LY, Gould AP (2010) Regulating neural proliferation in the Drosophila CNS. Curr Opin Neurobiol 20: 50-7
Sousa-Nunes R, Somers WG (2010) Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation events allow for rapid segregation of fate determinants during Drosophila neuroblast asymmetric divisions. Commun Integr Biol 3: 46-9
Chang KC, Garcia-Alvarez G, Somers G, Sousa-Nunes R, Rossi F, Lee YY, Soon SB, Gonzalez C, Chia W, Wang H (2010) Interplay between the transcription factor Zif and aPKC regulates neuroblast polarity and self-renewal. Dev Cell 19: 778-85
Lowry JP, Griffin K, McHugh SB, Lowe AS, Tricklebank M, Sibson NR (2010) Real-time electrochemical monitoring of brain tissue oxygen: a surrogate for functional magnetic resonance imaging in rodents. Neuroimage 52: 549-55
Sloan HL, Austin VC, Blamire AM, Schnupp JW, Lowe AS, Allers KA, Matthews PM, Sibson NR (2010) Regional differences in neurovascular coupling in rat brain as determined by fMRI and electrophysiology. Neuroimage 53: 399-411
Wierenga CJ, Müllner FE, Rinke I, Keck T, Stein V, Bonhoeffer T (2010) Molecular and electrophysiological characterization of GFP-expressing CA1 interneurons in GAD65-GFP mice. PLoS One 5: e15915
Roth M, Bonev B, Lindsay J, Lea R, Panagiotaki N, Houart C, Papalopulu N (2010) FoxG1 and TLE2 act cooperatively to regulate ventral telencephalon formation. Development 137: 1553-62
Fassier C, Hutt JA, Scholpp S, Lumsden A, Giros B, Nothias F, Schneider-Maunoury S, Houart C, Hazan J (2010) Zebrafish atlastin controls motility and spinal motor axon architecture via inhibition of the BMP pathway. Nat Neurosci 13: 1380-7
Alexandre P, Reugels AM, Barker D, Blanc E, Clarke JD (2010) Neurons derive from the more apical daughter in asymmetric divisions in the zebrafish neural tube. Nat Neurosci 13: 673-9
Picone R, Ren X, Ivanovitch KD, Clarke JD, McKendry RA, Baum B (2010) A polarised population of dynamic microtubules mediates homeostatic length control in animal cells. PLoS Biol 8: e1000542
Qu Y, Glasco DM, Zhou L, Sawant A, Ravni A, Fritzsch B, Damrau C, Murdoch JN, Evans S, Pfaff SL, Formstone C, Goffinet AM, Chandrasekhar A, Tissir F (2010) Atypical cadherins Celsr1-3 differentially regulate migration of facial branchiomotor neurons in mice. J Neurosci 30: 9392-401

Alcedo J, Maier W, Ch'ng Q (2010) Sensory influence on homeostasis and lifespan: molecules and circuits. Adv Exp Med Biol 694: 197-210
Paudyal A, Damrau C, Patterson VL, Ermakov A, Formstone C, Lalanne Z, Wells S, Lu X, Norris DP, Dean CH, Henderson DJ, Murdoch JN (2010) The novel mouse mutant, chuzhoi, has disruption of Ptk7 protein and exhibits defects in neural tube, heart and lung development and abnormal planar cell polarity in the ear. BMC Dev Biol 10: 87

Marler KJ, Poopalasundaram S, Broom ER, Wentzel C, Drescher U (2010) Pro-neurotrophins secreted from retinal ganglion cell axons are necessary for ephrinA-p75NTR-mediated axon guidance. Neural Dev 5: 30
Soutar MP, Kim WY, Williamson R, Peggie M, Hastie CJ, McLauchlan H, Snider WD, Gordon-Weeks PR, Sutherland C (2010) Evidence that glycogen synthase kinase-3 isoforms have distinct substrate preference in the brain. J Neurochem 115: 974-83
Grubb MS, Burrone J (2010) Channelrhodopsin-2 localised to the axon initial segment. PLoS One 5: e13761
Lin HH, Bell E, Uwanogho D, Perfect LW, Noristani H, Bates TJ, Snetkov V, Price J, Sun YM (2010) Neuronatin promotes neural lineage in ESCs via Ca(2+) signaling. Stem Cells 28: 1950-60
Ben Fredj N, Hammond S, Otsuna H, Chien CB, Burrone J, Meyer MP (2010) Synaptic activity and activity-dependent competition regulates axon arbor maturation, growth arrest, and territory in the retinotectal projection. J Neurosci 30: 10939-51
Grubb MS, Burrone J (2010) Building and maintaining the axon initial segment. Curr Opin Neurobiol
Grubb MS, Burrone J (2010) Activity-dependent relocation of the axon initial segment fine-tunes neuronal excitability. Nature
Graham A (2010) Developmental homoplasy: convergence in cellular differentiation. J Anat
Yates LL, Schnatwinkel C, Murdoch JN, Bogani D, Formstone CJ, Townsend S, Greenfield A, Niswander LA, Dean CH (2010) The PCP genes Celsr1 and Vangl2 are required for normal lung branching morphogenesis. Hum Mol Genet 19: 2251-67

Formstone CJ, Moxon C, Murdoch J, Little P, Mason I (2010) Basal enrichment within neuroepithelia suggests novel function(s) for Celsr1 protein. Mol Cell Neurosci

Tahirovic S, Hellal F, Neukirchen D, Hindges R, Garvalov BK, Flynn KC, Stradal TE, Chrostek-Grashoff A, Brakebusch C, Bradke F (2010) Rac1 regulates neuronal polarization through the WAVE complex. J Neurosci 30: 6930-43
Tymanskyj SR, Lin S, Gordon-Weeks PR (2010) Evolution of the spatial distribution of MAP1B phosphorylation sites in vertebrate neurons. J Anat 216: 692-704
Fanto M and Charroux B (2010) Book chapter: Atrophin-1. In: Kompoliti K, and Verhagen Metman L (eds.) Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders. Oxford: Academic Press 1: 100-103
Charroux B & Fanto M (2010) The fine line between waste disposal and recycle. Autophagy, In press : TBA
Arancio W, Onorati MC, Burgio G, Collesano M, Ingrassia AM, Genovese SI, Fanto M, Corona DF (2010) The Nucleosome Remodeling Factor ISWI Functionally Interacts with an Evolutionarily Conserved Network of Cellular Factors. Genetics
Nisoli I, Chauvin JP, Napoletano F, Calamita P, Zanin V, Fanto M, Charroux B (2010) Neurodegeneration by polyglutamine Atrophin is not rescued by induction of autophagy. Cell Death Differ
Pinter R, Hindges R (2010) Perturbations of microRNA function in mouse dicer mutants produce retinal defects and lead to aberrant axon pathfinding at the optic chiasm. PLoS One 5: e10021
Truman JW, Moats W, Altman J, Marin EC, Williams DW (2010) Role of Notch signaling in establishing the hemilineages of secondary neurons in Drosophila melanogaster. Development 137: 53-61
Wheldon LM, Haines BP, Rajappa R, Mason I, Rigby PW, Heath JK (2010) Critical role of FLRT1 phosphorylation in the interdependent regulation of FLRT1 function and FGF receptor signalling. PLoS One 5: e10264
Formstone C, & Mason I (2010) Book chapter: The Celsr/Flamingo Family of Protocadherins. In ³Molecular and Functional Diversities of Cadherins and Protocadherins² Ed. K. Yoshida. Research Signpost Books.
Formstone CJ (2010) Book Chapter: 7TM‑Cadherins: Developmental Roles and Future Challenges. In "Adhesion-GPCRs: Structure to Function". Eds. Simon Yona and Martin Stacey
Castaño Z, Gordon-Weeks PR, Kypta RM (2010) The neuron-specific isoform of glycogen synthase kinase-3beta is required for axon growth. J Neurochem
Chaplin N, Tendeng C, Wingate RJ (2010) Absence of an external germinal layer in zebrafish and shark reveals a distinct, anamniote ground plan of cerebellum development. J Neurosci 30: 3048-57
Grossman N, Poher V, Grubb MS, Kennedy GT, Nikolic K, McGovern B, Palmini RB, Gong Z, Drakakis EM, Neil MA, Dawson MD, Burrone J, Degenaar P (2010) Multi-site optical excitation using ChR2 and micro-LED array. J Neural Eng 7: 16004

2009

Bergami M, Berninger B, Canossa M (2009) Conditional deletion of TrkB alters adult hippocampal neurogenesis and anxiety-related behavior. Commun Integr Biol 2: 14-6
Brill MS, Ninkovic J, Winpenny E, Hodge RD, Ozen I, Yang R, Lepier A, Gascón S, Erdelyi F, Szabo G, Parras C, Guillemot F, Frotscher M, Berninger B, Hevner RF, Raineteau O, Götz M (2009) Adult generation of glutamatergic olfactory bulb interneurons. Nat Neurosci 12: 1524-33
Martini FJ, Valiente M, López Bendito G, Szabó G, Moya F, Valdeolmillos M, Marín O (2009) Biased selection of leading process branches mediates chemotaxis during tangential neuronal migration. Development 136: 41-50

Gelman DM, Martini FJ, Nóbrega-Pereira S, Pierani A, Kessaris N, Marín O (2009) The embryonic preoptic area is a novel source of cortical GABAergic interneurons. J Neurosci 29: 9380-9

van Diepen MT, Parsons M, Downes CP, Leslie NR, Hindges R, Eickholt BJ (2009) MyosinV controls PTEN function and neuronal cell size. Nat Cell Biol 11: 1191-6
Sahara S, O'Leary DD (2009) Fgf10 regulates transition period of cortical stem cell differentiation to radial glia controlling generation of neurons and basal progenitors. Neuron 63: 48-62
Sousa-Nunes R, Chia W, Somers WG (2009) Protein phosphatase 4 mediates localization of the Miranda complex during Drosophila neuroblast asymmetric divisions. Genes Dev 23: 359-72
Andreae LC, Lumsden A, Gilthorpe JD (2009) Chick Lrrn2, a novel downstream effector of Hoxb1 and Shh, functions in the selective targeting of rhombomere 4 motor neurons. Neural Dev 4: 27
Ashioti M, Beech JS, Lowe AS, Bernanos M, McCreary A, Modo MM, Williams SC (2009) Neither in vivo MRI nor behavioural assessment indicate therapeutic efficacy for a novel 5HT(1A) agonist in rat models of ischaemic stroke. BMC Neurosci 10: 82
Tuxworth RI, Vivancos V, O'Hare MB, Tear G (2009) Interactions between the juvenile Batten disease gene, CLN3, and the Notch and JNK signalling pathways. Hum Mol Genet 18: 667-78
Nikolaou N, Watanabe-Asaka T, Gerety S, Distel M, Köster RW, Wilkinson DG (2009) Lunatic fringe promotes the lateral inhibition of neurogenesis. Development 136: 2523-33
Kiecker C, Lumsden A (2009) Recent advances in neural development. F1000 Biol Rep 1: 1
Cardona A, Larsen C, Hartenstein V (2009) Neuronal fiber tracts connecting the brain and ventral nerve cord of the early Drosophila larva. J Comp Neurol 515: 427-40