Ximena Contreras

This study investigates the role of Pten in radial glial progenitor lineage progression and astrocyte production during cortical development, finding that Pten loss increases astrocyte generation and disrupts growth factor signaling.

The paper identifies a shared visual perception and place avoidance deficit in ASD models, linked to Kv1 channel hypoexcitability in the dPAG, and shows pharmacological rescue of these deficits.

The paper introduces a genome-wide MADM mouse library enabling single-cell genetic mosaic analysis and uses it to study chromosome-specific segregation biases in stem cell division.

The paper shows that Notch signaling regulates the fate of cerebellar progenitors to generate both excitatory and inhibitory neurons.

This study shows that GluD2 and Cbln1 mediate competitive synaptogenesis, shaping Purkinje cell dendritic arbors in the cerebellum through competitive synapse formation.