Barbara K. Robens

The paper generates zebrafish models of candidate human epilepsy genes and identifies five genes associated with seizure-like behavior and hyperexcitability.

This study shows that both mosaic and non-mosaic pcdh19 mutations in zebrafish lead to neuronal hyperexcitability, challenging the idea that mosaicism alone causes PCDH19-related epilepsy.

This study identifies SLK as critical for dendritic complexity and inhibitory synapse maintenance in neurons, with implications for human cortical malformations.