MA LAB
Brain Evo-devo
Selected work on brain evolution, development and dysfunctions.
#: corresponding author. *: first author.
Lu X, Chu S, Wei J, Zhu J, Zhou W, Liu Y, Feng X, Zhang X, Wang M, Li M, Gao J, Jiang L, Pang W, Yin Y, Chen Z, Cao Y, Zhang Q, Chen S, Ma S#, Xiang Y#. Dev Cell. 2026 Sep 18:S1534-5807(26)00324-2.
Tsyporin J, Zhang M, Qi C, Segal A, Li X, Kim H, Choi SH, Pavlovic I, Bandiera S, Finn T, Kim SK, Shibata A, Nakamura T, Onishi K, Zhang Z, Hammarlund E, Su G, Salla N, Kachko J, Hawley C, Li S, Doyle DZ, Peng X, Nottoli T, Ruiz-Reig N, Tissir F, Nakagawa Y, Herzog E, Ma S, Gobeske K, Pattabiraman K, Shimogori T, Duque A, Fornito A, Huang H, Shibata M, Chen B, Sestan N. Nature. 2026 Aug;656(8128):688-699.
He W, Hou W, Jiang C, Zhang X, Wang Y, Zhou Y, Gobeske KT, Ma S, Fan J, Wang H, Li P, Xie W, Yan B, Sestan N, Chen L, Zhang J, Zhu Y. Genome Biol. 2026 Jun 29;27(1):269.
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, Choi SH, Kim H, 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 May;653(8113):156-166.
Huang Z, Yang Q, Li S, Zhu X, Wang H, Lin J, Zhan Y, Wu Y, Wang Z, Majka P, Qu H, Atapour N, Yang T, Lin Y, Cui L, Yao YG, Liang Z, Liu Z, Li C, Wei W, Zhou Y, Ma S, Shen Z, Wei X, Xu X, Liu S, Li C, Poo M, Liu L, Rosa MGP, Sun Y, Hao S, Liu C. Science. 2026 Apr 16;392(6795):eaea2673.
Wang Z, Chu F, Wang X, Li S, Gao Y, Feng X, Li Y, Li M, Wang Y, Mei K, Zhu Y, Ma S, Lu Q, Li M. Nat Commun. 2026 Apr 02;17(1):4712.
Sonthalia S, Herb B, Adkins RS, Orvis J, Li G, Liao X, Yu Q, Blanco XM, Casella A, Liu J, Stein-O'Brien G, Caffo B, Hertzano R, Mahurkar A, Xu JC, Gillis J, Werner J, Ma S, Kim SK, Micali N, Sestan N, Rakic P, Santpere G, Ament SA, Colantuoni C. Nat Neurosci. 2026 Apr;29(4):978-991.
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. Cell. 2026 Mar 19;189(6):1802-1819.e28.
Mato-Blanco X, Kim SK, Jourdon A, Ma S, Choi SH, Giani AM, Paredes MI, Tebbenkamp ATN, Liu F, Duque A, Vaccarino FM, Sestan N, Colantuoni C, Rakic P, Santpere G, Micali N. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 09;16(1):6347.
Joyce MKP, Ivanov TG, Krienen FM, Mitchell JF, Ma S, Inoue W, Nandy AS, Datta D, Duque A, Arellano JI, Gupta R, Gonzalez-Burgos G, Lewis DA, Sestan N, McCarroll SA, Martinez-Trujillo J, Froudist-Walsh S, Arnsten AFT. Commun Biol. 2025 Jul 01;8(1):974.
Sun L, Liu P, Guo J, Fang C, Li L, Liu Y, Tan Y, Zhang Y, Zhao R, Zhang F, Xiao J, Dong R, Ma S, Mei X, Qi D. Brain. 2025 Jun 03;148(6):2218-2232.
Fang C, Zhang X, Yang L, Sun L, Lu Y, Liu Y, Guo J, Wang M, Tan Y, Zhang J, Gao X, Zhu L, Liu G, Ren M, Xiao J, Zhang F, Ma S, Zhao R, Mei X, Qi D. Nat Commun. 2025 Apr 08;16(1):3320.
Yang M, Li Y, Shi K, Wang X, Liu X, Huang X, Shi FD, Ma S, Li M, Wang Y. Adv Sci (Weinh). 2025 Apr;12(13):e2408722.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Luria V*, Ma S*, Shibata M, Pattabiraman K*, Sestan N. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2023 80:102699.
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.
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.
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.
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