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Overview

Franck Polleux is a researcher affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as molecular biology.

Their research covers a variety of subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Neurology. The main topics addressed in their work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Neural dynamics and brain function, Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms.

Polleux has contributed to several recent scientific papers published in high-profile journals. Notable publications include:

  • Reconstruction of neocortex: Organelles, compartments, cells, circuits, and activity, 2022, Cell
  • Whole-Neuron Synaptic Mapping Reveals Spatially Precise Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance Limiting Dendritic and Somatic Spiking, 2020, Neuron
  • Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of human cortical circuits, 2023, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  • Local circuit amplification of spatial selectivity in the hippocampus, 2021, Nature
  • Compartment-specific tuning of dendritic feature selectivity by intracellular Ca 2+ release, 2022, Science

They frequently collaborate with a number of co-authors, including Attila Losonczy, Nicholas L. Turner, Thomas Macrina, Runzhe Yang, and Alyssa M. Wilson.

Polleux has published extensively in several venues, contributing most frequently to UNC Libraries and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other common publication venues include Neuron, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature.

Best Publications

  • Semaphorin 3A is a chemoattractant for cortical apical dendrites

    Franck Polleux;Theresa Morrow;Anirvan Ghosh

  • Establishment of axon-dendrite polarity in developing neurons

    Anthony P. Barnes;Franck Polleux

  • Inhibition of SRGAP2 Function by Its Human-Specific Paralogs Induces Neoteny during Spine Maturation

    Cécile Charrier;Kaumudi Joshi;Jaeda Coutinho-Budd;Ji-Eun Kim

  • LKB1 and SAD Kinases Define a Pathway Required for the Polarization of Cortical Neurons

    Anthony P. Barnes;Brendan N. Lilley;Y. Albert Pan;Lisa J. Plummer

  • ER-mitochondria tethering by PDZD8 regulates Ca2+ dynamics in mammalian neurons

    Yusuke Hirabayashi;Seok-Kyu Kwon;Seok-Kyu Kwon;Hunki Paek;Hunki Paek;Wolfgang Maximilian Pernice

  • Sequential phases of cortical specification involve Neurogenin-dependent and -independent pathways.

    Carol Schuurmans;Olivier Armant;Marta Nieto;Jan M Stenman

  • Human-Specific NOTCH2NL Genes Expand Cortical Neurogenesis through Delta/Notch Regulation

    Ikuo K. Suzuki;Ikuo K. Suzuki;Ikuo K. Suzuki;David Gacquer;Roxane Van Heurck;Devesh Kumar;Devesh Kumar;Devesh Kumar

  • Control of cortical interneuron migration by neurotrophins and PI3-kinase signaling.

    Franck Polleux;Kristin L. Whitford;Paul A. Dijkhuizen;Tania Vitalis

  • The F-BAR Domain of srGAP2 Induces Membrane Protrusions Required for Neuronal Migration and Morphogenesis

    Sabrice Guerrier;Jaeda Coutinho-Budd;Takayuki Sassa;Aurélie Gresset

  • KCC2 Expression Promotes the Termination of Cortical Interneuron Migration in a Voltage-Sensitive Calcium-Dependent Manner

    Dante Bortone;Franck Polleux

  • Phosphorylation of Neurogenin2 specifies the migration properties and the dendritic morphology of pyramidal neurons in the neocortex.

    Randal Hand;Dante Bortone;Pierre Mattar;Laurent Nguyen

  • The CAMKK2-AMPK Kinase Pathway Mediates the Synaptotoxic Effects of Aβ Oligomers through Tau Phosphorylation

    Georges Mairet-Coello;Julien Courchet;Simon Pieraut;Virginie Courchet

  • Terminal Axon Branching Is Regulated by the LKB1-NUAK1 Kinase Pathway via Presynaptic Mitochondrial Capture

    Julien Courchet;Tommy Len Lewis;Sohyon Lee;Virginie Courchet

  • Molecular Control of Cortical Dendrite Development

    Kristin L. Whitford;Paul Dijkhuizen;Franck Polleux;Anirvan Ghosh

  • Patterning of Cortical Efferent Projections by Semaphorin-Neuropilin Interactions

    Franck Polleux;Roman J. Giger;David D. Ginty;Alex L. Kolodkin

  • TGF-β Signaling Specifies Axons during Brain Development

    Jason J. Yi;Anthony P. Barnes;Randal Hand;Franck Polleux

  • Toward a developmental neurobiology of autism.

    Franck Polleux;Jean M. Lauder

  • MFF-dependent mitochondrial fission regulates presynaptic release and axon branching by limiting axonal mitochondria size.

    Tommy L. Lewis;Seok-Kyu Kwon;Seok-Kyu Kwon;Annie Lee;Reuben Shaw

  • Area specificity and topography of thalamocortical projections are controlled by ephrin/Eph genes.

    Audrey Dufour;Julie Seibt;Lara Passante;Vanessa Depaepe

  • Reconstruction of neocortex: Organelles, compartments, cells, circuits, and activity

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  • Initiating and Growing an Axon

    F. Polleux;William Snider

  • Sequential phases of cortical specificationinvolve Neurogenin-dependentand -independent pathways

    Carol Schuurmans;Olivier Armant;Marta Nieto;Jan M Stenman

Frequent Co-Authors

Anirvan Ghosh
Anirvan Ghosh Unity Biotechnology
Attila Losonczy
Attila Losonczy Columbia University
François Guillemot
François Guillemot The Francis Crick Institute
Andreas S. Tolias
Andreas S. Tolias Baylor College of Medicine
Michael D. Ehlers
Michael D. Ehlers MPM BioImpact
Melitta Schachner
Melitta Schachner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Christopher A. Walsh
Christopher A. Walsh Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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