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Florence Kermen

University of CopenhagenORCID 0000-0002-2247-9636Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 5 Organism:zebrafish· 5 Assay:imaging· 4 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:spatial domain detection· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Zoltán Kristóf VargaiD· 3 shared Lucía Jiménez-Fernández· 2 shared Adam UjhelyiiD· 1 shared Anna H. AndreasseniD· 1 shared Archana GollaiD· 1 shared Emre YaksiiD· 1 shared Fredrik JutfeltiD· 1 shared Jorun Van Mieghem· 1 shared

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Organization, development, and plasticity of the serotonergic dorsal raphe nucleus projectome

Lucía Jiménez-Fernández, Zoltán Kristóf Varga, Klara Thurner, Florence Kermen

In larval zebrafish, 68% of 81 traced serotonergic dorsal raphe neurons target only one of telencephalon and spinal cord; stress in week 1, not week 2, raised telencephalic fiber density.

bioRxiv · Sep 11, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience✦ In-depth digest

SEROTONERGIC ANXIETY IS A STRESS INTENSITY-DEPENDENT STATE MEDIATED BY DOPAMINERGIC SIGNALING

Zoltán Kristóf Varga, Jorun Van Mieghem, Lucía Jiménez-Fernández, Adam Ujhelyi, Florence Kermen

This study shows that stress intensity determines serotonergic involvement in anxiety, with higher stress leading to DRN-independent anxiety and dopaminergic modulation.

bioRxiv · Sep 3, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Early life chronic stress-disrupted activity of the dorsal raphe nucleus selectively drives behavioral impairments

Zoltán Kristóf Varga, Archana Golla, Florence Kermen

This study shows that early life chronic stress disrupts DRN serotonergic activity, particularly in vulnerable GABAergic cells, leading to specific behavioral impairments.

Communications Biology · Mar 20, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Brain dysfunction during warming is caused by oxygen limitation in larval zebrafish

Anna H. Andreassen, Petter Hall, Pouya Khatibzadeh, Fredrik Jutfelt, Florence Kermen

This study identifies oxygen limitation as the mechanism causing brain dysfunction during warming in larval zebrafish, showing CTmax precedes global brain depolarization.

bioRxiv · Dec 28, 2020 · PreprintNeuroscience

Interhemispheric connections between olfactory bulbs improve odor detection

Florence Kermen, Pradeep Lal, Nicholas Faturos, Emre Yaksi

The paper shows that interhemispheric connections in zebrafish olfactory bulbs enhance odor detection by modulating neural responses to pheromones in complex environments.

PLoS Biology · Apr 20, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience