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Overview

Alysson R. Muotri is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, in the United States. The scientist's research spans several core fields and topics related to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience.

The main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, notable subfields of study are:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental Neuroscience

The research topics covered in the scientist's body of work highlight a focus on:

  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Congenital heart defects research

Frequent publication venues where this researcher has contributed multiple papers are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Nature Communications
  • Science
  • Cell Reports

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Cleber A. Trujillo
  • Priscilla D. Negraes
  • John R. Yates
  • Janaína Sena de Souza
  • Pinar Mesci

Selected recent papers illustrate the range and depth of their research contributions:

  • Three-dimensional bioprinted glioblastoma microenvironments model cellular dependencies and immune interactions, 2020, Cell Research
  • A nomenclature consensus for nervous system organoids and assembloids, 2022, Nature
  • Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish, 2023, Frontiers in Science
  • A phenotypic spectrum of autism is attributable to the combined effects of rare variants, polygenic risk and sex, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Zika Virus Targets Glioblastoma Stem Cells through a SOX2-Integrin αvβ5 Axis, 2020, Cell stem cell

Best Publications

  • A Model for Neural Development and Treatment of Rett Syndrome Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Maria C.N. Marchetto;Cassiano Carromeu;Allan Acab;Diana Yu

  • The Brazilian Zika virus strain causes birth defects in experimental models

    Fernanda R. Cugola;Isabella R. Fernandes;Isabella R. Fernandes;Fabiele B. Russo;Beatriz C. Freitas

  • Human embryonic stem cells express an immunogenic nonhuman sialic acid

    Maria J Martin;Alysson Muotri;Fred Gage;Ajit Varki

  • Somatic mosaicism in neuronal precursor cells mediated by L1 retrotransposition

    Alysson R. Muotri;Vi T. Chu;Maria C. N. Marchetto;Wei Deng

  • Complex Oscillatory Waves Emerging from Cortical Organoids Model Early Human Brain Network Development.

    Cleber A. Trujillo;Richard Gao;Priscilla D. Negraes;Jing Gu

  • Wnt-mediated activation of NeuroD1 and retro-elements during adult neurogenesis

    Tomoko Kuwabara;Jenny Hsieh;Alysson Muotri;Gene Yeo

  • L1 retrotransposition in neurons is modulated by MeCP2

    Alysson R. Muotri;Maria C. N. Marchetto;Nicole G. Coufal;Ruth Oefner

  • Multipotent Stem Cells from Umbilical Cord: Cord Is Richer than Blood!

    Mariane Secco;Eder Zucconi;Natássia M. Vieira;Luciana Luchesi Quintanilha Fogaça

  • Noncoding RNAs in the mammalian central nervous system.

    Xinwei Cao;Gene Yeo;Alysson R. Muotri;Tomoko Kuwabara

  • Non-Cell-Autonomous Effect of Human SOD1G37R Astrocytes on Motor Neurons Derived from Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    Maria C.N. Marchetto;Alysson R. Muotri;Yangling Mu;Alan M. Smith

  • Mice lacking methyl-CpG binding protein 1 have deficits in adult neurogenesis and hippocampal function

    Xinyu Zhao;Tetsuya Ueba;Tetsuya Ueba;Brian R. Christie;Basam Barkho

  • Altered proliferation and networks in neural cells derived from idiopathic autistic individuals

    Maria C Marchetto;Haim Belinson;Yuan Tian;Beatriz C Freitas

  • Transcriptional signature and memory retention of human-induced pluripotent stem cells.

    Maria C. N. Marchetto;Gene W. Yeo;Osamu Kainohana;Martin Marsala

  • Efficient Generation of Human iPSCs by a Synthetic Self-Replicative RNA

    Naohisa Yoshioka;Edwige Gros;Hai-Ri Li;Shantanu Kumar

  • Generation of neuronal variability and complexity

    Alysson R. Muotri;Fred H. Gage

  • DNA repair proteins affect the lifecycle of herpes simplex virus 1

    Caroline E. Lilley;Christian T. Carson;Alysson R. Muotri;Fred H. Gage

  • Modeling of TREX1-Dependent Autoimmune Disease using Human Stem Cells Highlights L1 Accumulation as a Source of Neuroinflammation.

    Charles A. Thomas;Leon Tejwani;Cleber A. Trujillo;Priscilla D. Negraes

  • Differential L1 regulation in pluripotent stem cells of humans and apes

    Maria C. N. Marchetto;Iñigo Narvaiza;Ahmet M. Denli;Christopher Benner

  • Downregulation of VAPB expression in motor neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells of ALS8 patients

    Miguel Mitne-Neto;Marcela Machado-Costa;Maria C.N. Marchetto;Mario H. Bengtson

  • LINE-1 retrotransposition in human embryonic stem cells

    Jose L. Garcia-Perez;Maria C.N. Marchetto;Alysson R. Muotri;Nicole G. Coufal

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred H. Gage
Fred H. Gage Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Carlos Frederico Martins Menck
Carlos Frederico Martins Menck Universidade de São Paulo
Gabriel G. Haddad
Gabriel G. Haddad University of California, San Diego
Gene W. Yeo
Gene W. Yeo University of California, San Diego
Jonathan Sebat
Jonathan Sebat University of California, San Diego
John R. Yates
John R. Yates Scripps Research Institute
Anna Devor
Anna Devor Boston University
Jose L. Garcia-Perez
Jose L. Garcia-Perez University of Granada
Eric Courchesne
Eric Courchesne University of California, San Diego
Kinichi Nakashima
Kinichi Nakashima Kyushu University

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