Yajun Liu

This study shows that mice with a germ-line deletion of a Csf1r enhancer lack specific macrophages but maintain normal physiology and can be replenished by donor cells.

This study shows that CSF1R-dependent macrophages are essential for hematopoiesis but many functions of tissue resident macrophages are redundant or strain-specific in mice.

This study identifies a conserved regulatory element in the mouse Csf1r locus that contributes to transcription in hematopoietic and trophoblast cells, with partial redundancy with other enhancers.

The paper shows that wild-type bone marrow-derived microglia-like cells reduce strain-dependent neuropathology in Csf1r mutant mice by preventing thalamic calcification.