Selected Publications
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Molecular And Cellular Evolution Of The Primate Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Ma S*, Skarica M*, Li Q, Xu C, Risgaard RD, Tebbenkamp ATN, Mato-Blanco X, Kovner R, Krsnik Ž, de Martin X, Luria V, Martí-Pérez X, Liang D, Karger A, Schmidt DK, Gomez-Sanchez Z, Qi C, Gobeske KT, Pochareddy S, Debnath A, Hottman CJ, Spurrier J, Teo L, Boghdadi AG, Homman-Ludiye J, Ely JJ, Daadi EW, Mi D, Daadi M, Marín O, Hof PR, Rasin MR, Bourne J, Sherwood CC, Santpere G, Girgenti MJ, Strittmatter SM, Sousa AMM, Sestan N. Science. 2022 377(6614):eabo7257.
Molecular programs of regional specification and neural stem cell fate progression in macaque telencephalon
Micali N*, Ma S*, Li M*, Kim SK, Mato-Blanco X, Sindhu SK, Arellano JI, Gao T, Shibata M, Gobeske KT, Duque A, Santpere G, Sestan N, Rakic P. Science. 2023 382(6667):eadf3786.
Transcriptomic taxonomy and neurogenic trajectories of adult human, macaque, and pig hippocampal and entorhinal cells
Franjic D*, Skarica M*, Ma S*, Arellano JI*, Tebbenkamp ATN*, Choi J, Xu C, Li Q, Morozov YM, Andrijevic D, Vrselja Z, Spajic A, Santpere G, Li M, Zhang S, Liu Y, Spurrier J, Zhang L, Gudelj I, Rapan L, Takahashi H, Huttner A, Fan R, Strittmatter SM, Sousa AMM, Rakic P, Sestan N. Neuron. 2022 110(3):452-469.e14.
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of human cortical connectivity
Luria V*, Ma S*, Shibata M, Pattabiraman K*, Sestan N. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2023 80:102699.
Adaptive Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks in Mammalian Neocortical Neurons
Li Z, Kaur N, Santpere G, Muchnik SK, Sindhu SK, Qi C, Shibata M, Clément O, Klarić TS, de Martin X, Luria V, Cho H, Li M, Shibata A, Tebbenkamp ATN, Ma S, Han W, Kim SK, Pochareddy S, Duy PQ, Xing X, Bao Y, Xu X, Gladwyn-Ng IE, Cullen HD, Paolino A, Fenlon LR, Kozulin P, Suárez R, Risgaard RD, Gulden FO, Karger A, Suzuki IK, Hirata T, Gobeske KT, Richards LJ, Sousa AMM, Heng JI, Sestan N. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10226-y
Human-specific features of the cerebellum and ZP2-regulated synapse development
Kim SK, Cherskov A, Sindhwani A, Choi SH, Kim H, Li ML, Zhang M, Mato-Blanco X, Liu Y, Micali N, Young DM, Estacion M, Zhang Y, Ruiz-Jiménez JM, Nadkarni A, Luria V, Sindhu SK, Chatterjee I, Shibata A, Liang D, Cho H, Park S, Spajic A, Kovner R, Glavan M, Chen RJ, Risgaard RD, Li X, Pochareddy S, Karger A, Huttner A, Morozov YM, Daadi EW, Colantuoni C, Gobeske KT, Ely JJ, Hof PR, Daadi MM, Sherwood CC, Duque A, Ma S, Sousa AMM, Waxman SG, Rakic P, Santpere G, Sanders SJ, Sestan N. Human-specific features of the cerebellum and ZP2-regulated synapse development. Cell. 2026 Mar 11:S0092-8674(26)00221-7. PMID: 40964325
Specification of claustro-amygdalar and palaeocortical neurons and circuits
Kaur N, Kovner R, Gulden FO, Pletikos M, Andrijevic D, Zhu T, Silbereis J, Shibata M, Shibata A, Liu Y, Ma S, Salla N, de Martin X, Klarić TS, Burke M, Franjic D, Cho H, Yuen M, Chatterjee I, Soric P, Esakkimuthu D, Moser M, Santpere G, Mineur YS, Pattabiraman K, Picciotto MR, Huang H, Sestan N. Nature. 2025 Feb;638(8050):469-478. PMID: 39814878
Single-cell genomics and regulatory networks for 388 human brains
Emani PS, Liu JJ, Clarke D, Jensen M, Warrell J, Gupta C, Meng R, Lee CY, Xu S, Dursun C, Lou S, Chen Y, Chu Z, Galeev T, Hwang A, Li Y, Ni P, Zhou X; PsychENCODE Consortium‡; Bakken TE, Bendl J, Bicks L, Chatterjee T, Cheng L, Cheng Y, Dai Y, Duan Z, Flaherty M, Fullard JF, Gancz M, Garrido-Martín D, Gaynor-Gillett S, Grundman J, Hawken N, Henry E, Hoffman GE, Huang A, Jiang Y, Jin T, Jorstad NL, Kawaguchi R, Khullar S, Liu J, Liu J, Liu S, Ma S, Margolis M, Mazariegos S, Moore J, Moran JR, Nguyen E, Phalke N, Pjanic M, Pratt H, Quintero D, Rajagopalan AS, Riesenmy TR, Shedd N, Shi M, Spector M, Terwilliger R, Travaglini KJ, Wamsley B, Wang G, Xia Y, Xiao S, Yang AC, Zheng S, Gandal MJ, Lee D, Lein ES, Roussos P, Sestan N, Weng Z, White KP, Won H, Girgenti MJ, Zhang J, Wang D, Geschwind D, Gerstein M; PsychENCODE Consortium. Science. 2024 May 24;384(6698):eadi5199.
Cellular recovery after prolonged warm ischaemia of the whole body
Andrijevic D, Vrselja Z, Lysyy T, Zhang S, Skarica M, Spajic A, Dellal D, Thorn SL, Duckrow RB, Ma S, Duy PQ, Isiktas AU, Liang D, Li M, Kim SK, Daniele SG, Banu K, Perincheri S, Menon MC, Huttner A, Sheth KN, Gobeske KT, Tietjen GT, Zaveri HP, Latham SR, Sinusas AJ, Sestan N. Nature. 2022. 608(7922):405-412.
Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus
Duy PQ, Weise SC, Marini C, Li XJ, Liang D, Dahl PJ, Ma S, Spajic A, Dong W, Juusola J, Kiziltug E, Kundishora AJ, Koundal S, Pedram MZ, Torres-Fernández LA, Händler K, De Domenico E, Becker M, Ulas T, Juranek SA, Cuevas E, Hao LT, Jux B, Sousa AMM, Liu F, Kim SK, Li M, Yang Y, Takeo Y, Duque A, Nelson-Williams C, Ha Y, Selvaganesan K, Robert SM, Singh AK, Allington G, Furey CG, Timberlake AT, Reeves BC, Smith H, Dunbar A, DeSpenza T Jr, Goto J, Marlier A, Moreno-De-Luca A, Yu X, Butler WE, Carter BS, Lake EMR, Constable RT, Rakic P, Lin H, Deniz E, Benveniste H, Malvankar NS, Estrada-Veras JI, Walsh CA, Alper SL, Schultze JL, Paeschke K, Doetzlhofer A, Wulczyn FG, Jin SC, Lifton RP, Sestan N, Kolanus W, Kahle KT. Nat Neurosci. 2022. 25(4):458-473.