Publications

2022

Yap K, Chung TH, Makeyev EV (2022) Hybridization-proximity labeling reveals spatially ordered interactions of nuclear RNA compartments. Mol Cell 82: 463-478.e11
Leaman S, Marichal N, Berninger B (2022) Reprogramming cellular identity in vivo. Development 149
Poort J, Wilmes KA, Blot A, Chadwick A, Sahani M, Clopath C, Mrsic-Flogel TD, Hofer SB, Khan AG (2022) Learning and attention increase visual response selectivity through distinct mechanisms. Neuron 110: 686-697.e6

2021

Ha KCH, Sterne-Weiler T, Morris Q, Weatheritt RJ, Blencowe BJ (2021) Differential contribution of transcriptomic regulatory layers in the definition of neuronal identity. Nat Commun 12: 335
Ward HN, Aregger M, Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis T, Billmann M, Ohsumi TK, Brown KR, Blencowe BJ, Moffat J, Myers CL (2021) Analysis of combinatorial CRISPR screens with the Orthrus scoring pipeline. Nat Protoc 16: 4766-4798
Dumbović G, Braunschweig U, Langner HK, Smallegan M, Biayna J, Hass EP, Jastrzebska K, Blencowe B, Cech TR, Caruthers MH, Rinn JL (2021) Nuclear compartmentalization of TERT mRNA and TUG1 lncRNA is driven by intron retention. Nat Commun 12: 3308
Pellegrini L, Lancaster MA (2021) Breaking the barrier: In vitro models to study choroid plexus development. Curr Opin Cell Biol 73: 41-49
Llorca A, Marín O (2021) Orchestrated freedom: new insights into cortical neurogenesis. Curr Opin Neurobiol 66: 48-56
Ucar B, Kajtez J, Foidl BM, Eigel D, Werner C, Long KR, Emnéus J, Bizeau J, Lomora M, Pandit A, Newland B, Humpel C (2021) Biomaterial based strategies to reconstruct the nigrostriatal pathway in organotypic slice co-cultures. Acta Biomater 121: 250-262
Lipovsek M, Bardy C, Cadwell CR, Hadley K, Kobak D, Tripathy SJ (2021) Patch-seq: Past, Present, and Future. J Neurosci 41: 937-946
Galliano E, Hahn C, Browne LP, R Villamayor P, Tufo C, Crespo A, Grubb MS (2021) Brief Sensory Deprivation Triggers Cell Type-Specific Structural and Functional Plasticity in Olfactory Bulb Neurons. J Neurosci 41: 2135-2151
Moglie MJ, Marcovich I, Corradi J, Carpaneto Freixas AE, Gallino S, Plazas PV, Bouzat C, Lipovsek M, Elgoyhen AB (2021) Loss of Choline Agonism in the Inner Ear Hair Cell Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Linked to the α10 Subunit. Front Mol Neurosci 14: 639720
Pollak TA, Vincent A, Iyegbe C, Coutinho E, Jacobson L, Rujescu D, Stone J, Jezequel J, Rogemond V, Jamain S, Groc L, David A, Egerton A, Kahn RS, Honnorat J, Dazzan P, Leboyer M, McGuire P (2021) Relationship Between Serum NMDA Receptor Antibodies and Response to Antipsychotic Treatment in First-Episode Psychosis. Biol Psychiatry 90: 9-15

Patkee PA, Baburamani AA, Long KR, Dimitrova R, Ciarrusta J, Allsop J, Hughes E, Kangas J, McAlonan GM, Rutherford MA, De Vita E (2021) Neurometabolite mapping highlights elevated myo-inositol profiles within the developing brain in down syndrome. Neurobiol Dis 153: 105316
Salam S, Tacconelli S, Smith BN, Mitchell JC, Glennon E, Nikolaou N, Houart C, Vance C (2021) Identification of a novel interaction of FUS and syntaphilin may explain synaptic and mitochondrial abnormalities caused by ALS mutations. Sci Rep 11: 13613
Lattke M, Goldstone R, Ellis JK, Boeing S, Jurado-Arjona J, Marichal N, MacRae JI, Berninger B, Guillemot F (2021) Extensive transcriptional and chromatin changes underlie astrocyte maturation in vivo and in culture. Nat Commun 12: 4335
Aviña-Padilla K, Ramírez-Rafael JA, Herrera-Oropeza GE, Muley VY, Valdivia DI, Díaz-Valenzuela E, García-García A, Varela-Echavarría A, Hernández-Rosales M (2021) Evolutionary Perspective and Expression Analysis of Intronless Genes Highlight the Conservation of Their Regulatory Role. Front Genet 12: 654256
Sharif N, Calzolari F, Berninger B (2021) Direct In Vitro Reprogramming of Astrocytes into Induced Neurons. Methods Mol Biol 2352: 13-29
Mastrolia V, Al Massadi O, de Pins B, Girault JA (2021) Pyk2 in dorsal hippocampus plays a selective role in spatial memory and synaptic plasticity. Sci Rep 11: 16357
Stricker SH, Berninger B, Götz M (2021) Editorial overview: Fluidity of cell fates - from reprogramming to repair. Curr Opin Genet Dev 70: iii-v
Calzolari F, Berninger B (2021) cAAVe phaenomena: Beware of appearances! Cell 184: 5303-5305
Long KR, Huttner WB (2021) The Role of the Extracellular Matrix in Neural Progenitor Cell Proliferation and Cortical Folding During Human Neocortex Development. Front Cell Neurosci 15: 804649

Eigel D, Schuster R, Männel MJ, Thiele J, Panasiuk MJ, Andreae LC, Varricchio C, Brancale A, Welzel PB, Huttner WB, Werner C, Newland B, Long KR (2021) Sulfonated cryogel scaffolds for focal delivery in ex-vivo brain tissue cultures. Biomaterials 271: 120712

Tuvikene J, Esvald EE, Rähni A, Uustalu K, Zhuravskaya A, Avarlaid A, Makeyev EV, Timmusk T (2021) Intronic enhancer region governs transcript-specific Bdnf expression in rodent neurons. Elife 10
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

Lentini C, d'Orange M, Marichal N, Trottmann MM, Vignoles R, Foucault L, Verrier C, Massera C, Raineteau O, Conzelmann KK, Rival-Gervier S, Depaulis A, Berninger B, Heinrich C (2021) Reprogramming reactive glia into interneurons reduces chronic seizure activity in a mouse model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Cell Stem Cell 28: 2104-2121.e10
Ellingford RA, Panasiuk MJ, de Meritens ER, Shaunak R, Naybour L, Browne L, Basson MA, Andreae LC (2021) Cell-type-specific synaptic imbalance and disrupted homeostatic plasticity in cortical circuits of ASD-associated Chd8 haploinsufficient mice. Mol Psychiatry 26: 3614-3624
Gonzalez Sabater V, Rigby M, Burrone J (2021) Voltage-gated potassium channels ensure action potential shape fidelity in distal axons. J Neurosci

Gordon PM, Hamid F, Makeyev EV, Houart C (2021) A conserved role for the ALS-linked splicing factor SFPQ in repression of pathogenic cryptic last exons. Nat Commun 12: 1918

2020

Wong RW, Balachandran A, Cheung PK, Cheng R, Pan Q, Stoilov P, Harrigan PR, Blencowe BJ, Branch DR, Cochrane A (2020) An activator of G protein-coupled receptor and MEK1/2-ERK1/2 signaling inhibits HIV-1 replication by altering viral RNA processing. PLoS Pathog 16: e1008307
Rodrigues DC, Mufteev M, Weatheritt RJ, Djuric U, Ha KCH, Ross PJ, Wei W, Piekna A, Sartori MA, Byres L, Mok RSF, Zaslavsky K, Pasceri P, Diamandis P, Morris Q, Blencowe BJ, Ellis J (2020) Shifts in Ribosome Engagement Impact Key Gene Sets in Neurodevelopment and Ubiquitination in Rett Syndrome. Cell Rep 30: 4179-4196.e11
Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis T, Aregger M, Brown KR, Farhangmehr S, Braunschweig U, Ward HN, Ha KCH, Weiss A, Billmann M, Durbic T, Myers CL, Blencowe BJ, Moffat J (2020) Genetic interaction mapping and exon-resolution functional genomics with a hybrid Cas9-Cas12a platform. Nat Biotechnol 38: 638-648
Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis T, Blencowe BJ (2020) Microexons: at the nexus of nervous system development, behaviour and autism spectrum disorder. Curr Opin Genet Dev 65: 22-33
Pellegrini L, Albecka A, Mallery DL, Kellner MJ, Paul D, Carter AP, James LC, Lancaster MA (2020) SARS-CoV-2 Infects the Brain Choroid Plexus and Disrupts the Blood-CSF Barrier in Human Brain Organoids. Cell Stem Cell 27: 951-961.e5
Lagogiannis K, Diana G, Meyer MP (2020) Learning steers the ontogeny of an efficient hunting sequence in zebrafish larvae. Elife 9
Briscoe J, Marín O (2020) Looking at neurodevelopment through a big data lens. Science 369
Knüfer A, Diana G, Walsh GS, Clarke JD, Guthrie S (2020) Cadherins regulate nuclear topography and function of developing ocular motor circuitry. Elife 9
Bostock MP, Prasad AR, Chaouni R, Yuen AC, Sousa-Nunes R, Amoyel M, Fernandes VM (2020) An Immobilization Technique for Long-Term Time-Lapse Imaging of Explanted Drosophila Tissues. Front Cell Dev Biol 8: 590094
Exposito-Alonso D, Osório C, Bernard C, Pascual-García S, Del Pino I, Marín O, Rico B (2020) Subcellular sorting of neuregulins controls the assembly of excitatory-inhibitory cortical circuits. Elife 9

Symonds AC, Buckley CE, Williams CA, Clarke JDW (2020) Coordinated assembly and release of adhesions builds apical junctional belts during de novo polarisation of an epithelial tube. Development 147
Lipovsek M, Browne L, Grubb MS (2020) Protocol for Patch-Seq of Small Interneurons. STAR Protoc 1: 100146
Pop S, Chen CL, Sproston CJ, Kondo S, Ramdya P, Williams DW (2020) Extensive and diverse patterns of cell death sculpt neural networks in insects. Elife 9
Patel DS, Diana G, Entchev EV, Zhan M, Lu H, Ch'ng Q (2020) A Multicellular Network Mechanism for Temperature-Robust Food Sensing. Cell Rep 33: 108521
Ivy Usansky Patrycja Jaworska Ludovica Asti Fiona N Kenny Carl Hobbs Vasiliki Sofra Hanfei Song Malcolm Logan Anthony Graham Tanya J Shaw (2020) A developmental basis for the anatomical diversity of dermis in homeostasis and wound repair The Journal of Pathology 253 Issue 3: 315-325

Pan-Vazquez A, Wefelmeyer W, Gonzalez Sabater V, Neves G, Burrone J (2020) Activity-Dependent Plasticity of Axo-axonic Synapses at the Axon Initial Segment. Neuron 106: 265-276.e6

Muraina IA, Bury NR, Scott A, Graham A, Hogstrand C (2020) The zebrafish Znt1asa17 mutant reveals roles of zinc transporter-1a in embryonic development. J Trace Elem Med Biol 60: 126496
Adnan G, Rubikaite A, Khan M, Reber M, Suetterlin P, Hindges R, Drescher U (2020) The GTPase Arl8B Plays a Principle Role in the Positioning of Interstitial Axon Branches by Spatially Controlling Autophagosome and Lysosome Location. J Neurosci 40: 8103-8118

Sahara S, Kodama T, Stevens CF (2020) A common rule governing differentiation kinetics of mouse cortical progenitors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117: 15221-15229

Marcovich I, Moglie MJ, Carpaneto Freixas AE, Trigila AP, Franchini LF, Plazas PV, Lipovsek M, Elgoyhen AB (2020) Distinct Evolutionary Trajectories of Neuronal and Hair Cell Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors. Mol Biol Evol 37: 1070-1089
Moore R, Alexandre P (2020) Delta-Notch Signaling: The Long and The Short of a Neuron's Influence on Progenitor Fates. J Dev Biol 8
Ramos SI, Makeyev EV, Salierno M, Kodama T, Kawakami Y, Sahara S (2020) Tuba8 Drives Differentiation of Cortical Radial Glia into Apical Intermediate Progenitors by Tuning Modifications of Tubulin C Termini. Dev Cell 52: 477-491.e8

Maierbrugger KT, Sousa-Nunes R, Bateman JM (2020) The mTOR pathway component Unkempt regulates neural stem cell and neural progenitor cell cycle in the Drosophila central nervous system. Dev Biol 461: 55-65
Pegge J, Tatsinkam AJ, Rider CC, Bell E (2020) Heparan sulfate proteoglycans regulate BMP signalling during neural crest induction. Dev Biol 460: 108-114
Kainov YA, Makeyev EV (2020) A transcriptome-wide antitermination mechanism sustaining identity of embryonic stem cells. Nat Commun 11: 361
Makarova M, Peter M, Balogh G, Glatz A, MacRae JI, Lopez Mora N, Booth P, Makeyev E, Vigh L, Oliferenko S (2020) Delineating the Rules for Structural Adaptation of Membrane-Associated Proteins to Evolutionary Changes in Membrane Lipidome. Curr Biol
Shum C, Dutan L, Annuario E, Warre-Cornish K, Taylor SE, Taylor RD, Andreae LC, Buckley NJ, Price J, Bhattacharyya S, Srivastava DP (2020) Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol and 2-AG decreases neurite outgrowth and differentially affects ERK1/2 and Akt signaling in hiPSC-derived cortical neurons. Mol Cell Neurosci 103: 103463
Armstrong EC, Caruso A, Servadio M, Andreae LC, Trezza V, Scattoni ML, Fernandes C (2020) Assessing the developmental trajectory of mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders: Social and communication deficits in mice with Neurexin 1α deletion. Genes Brain Behav 19: e12630

Wu A, Noël GPJC, Wingate R, Kielstein H, Sakurai T, Viranta-Kovanen S, Chien C-L, Traxler H, Waschke J, Vielmuth F, Sagoo MG, Kitahara S, Kato Y, Keay KA, Olsen J, Bernd P (2020) An International Partnership of 12 Anatomy Departments: Improving Global Health through Internationalization of Medical Education. Annals of Global Health 86(1): 27: 1-14

2019

Quesnel-Vallières M, Weatheritt RJ, Cordes SP, Blencowe BJ (2019) Autism spectrum disorder: insights into convergent mechanisms from transcriptomics. Nat Rev Genet 20: 51-63
Torres-Méndez A, Bonnal S, Marquez Y, Roth J, Iglesias M, Permanyer J, Almudí I, O'Hanlon D, Guitart T, Soller M, Gingras AC, Gebauer F, Rentzsch F, Blencowe BJ, Valcárcel J, Irimia M (2019) A novel protein domain in an ancestral splicing factor drove the evolution of neural microexons. Nat Ecol Evol 3: 691-701
Maslon MM, Braunschweig U, Aitken S, Mann AR, Kilanowski F, Hunter CJ, Blencowe BJ, Kornblihtt AR, Adams IR, Cáceres JF (2019) A slow transcription rate causes embryonic lethality and perturbs kinetic coupling of neuronal genes. EMBO J 38
Andersen RE, Hong SJ, Lim JJ, Cui M, Harpur BA, Hwang E, Delgado RN, Ramos AD, Liu SJ, Blencowe BJ, Lim DA (2019) The Long Noncoding RNA Pnky Is a Trans-acting Regulator of Cortical Development In Vivo. Dev Cell 49: 632-642.e7
Barutcu AR, Blencowe BJ, Rinn JL (2019) Differential contribution of steady-state RNA and active transcription in chromatin organization. EMBO Rep 20: e48068
Ule J, Blencowe BJ (2019) Alternative Splicing Regulatory Networks: Functions, Mechanisms, and Evolution. Mol Cell 76: 329-345
Kostadinov D, Mathy A, Clark BA (2019) Dynamics of the Inferior Olive Oscillator and Cerebellar Function
Kostadinov D, Beau M, Blanco-Pozo M, Häusser M (2019) Predictive and reactive reward signals conveyed by climbing fiber inputs to cerebellar Purkinje cells. Nat Neurosci 22: 950-962
Youli Hu, Thomas Butts, Subathra Poopalasundaram, Anthony Graham, Pierre-Marc Bouloux (2019) Extracellular matrix protein anosmin-1 modulates olfactory ensheathing cell maturation in chick olfactory bulb development Eur J Neurosci 50(9): 3472-3486

Anthony Graham Subathra Poopalasundaram Victoria Shone Clemens Kiecker (2019) A reappraisal of the numbering of the pharyngeal arches Journal of Anatomy 235 Issue 6: 1019-1023

Kiecker C, Clarke J, Bell E (2019) Teaching embryology through science fiction and role-play. Med Educ 53: 519
Hanzel M, Rook V, Wingate RJT (2019) Mitotic granule cell precursors undergo highly dynamic morphological transitions throughout the external germinal layer of the chick cerebellum. Sci Rep 9: 15218

Iulianella A, Wingate RJ, Moens CB, Capaldo E (2019) The generation of granule cells during the development and evolution of the cerebellum. Dev Dyn 248: 506-513