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Kathleen J. Millen is affiliated with Seattle Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research activity spans multiple interconnected fields within the life sciences, with a focus on molecular biology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, genetics, cancer research, and developmental neuroscience.

The scientist's work includes notable papers such as Spatial and cell type transcriptional landscape of human cerebellar development (2021) published in Nature Neuroscience, Unified rhombic lip origins of group 3 and group 4 medulloblastoma (2022) in Nature, and Adaptations in Hippo-Yap signaling and myofibroblast fate underlie scar-free ear appendage wound healing in spiny mice (2021) in Developmental Cell. Additional publications include Human Cerebellar Development and Transcriptomics: Implications for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (2022) appearing in the Annual Review of Neuroscience, and Intermediate progenitors support migration of neural stem cells into dentate gyrus outer neurogenic niches (2020) in eLife.

The scientist's frequent co-authors include:

  • Parthiv Haldipur
  • Kimberly A. Aldinger
  • Mei Deng
  • Branden R. Nelson
  • Paul Wakenight

Kathleen J. Millen's research has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuro-Oncology
  • Nature
  • American Journal of Neuroradiology
  • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Main fields of study related to their work are:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Subfields of study include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Genetics
  • Cancer Research
  • Developmental Neuroscience

Kathleen J. Millen's research addresses several main topics, such as:

  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Best Publications

  • Consensus Paper: Pathological Role of the Cerebellum in Autism

    S. Hossein Fatemi;Kimberly A. Aldinger;Paul Ashwood;Margaret L. Bauman

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellar Development.

    Ketty Leto;Marife Arancillo;Esther B. E. Becker;Annalisa Buffo

  • Abnormal embryonic cerebellar development and patterning of postnatal foliation in two mouse Engrailed-2 mutants

    Kathleen Joyce Millen;Wolfgang Wurst;Karl Herrup;Alexandra Joyner

  • Tissue-specific thyroid hormone deprivation and excess in monocarboxylate transporter (mct) 8-deficient mice.

    Alexandra M. Dumitrescu;Xiao Hui Liao;Roy E. Weiss;Kathleen Millen

  • The mouse Dreher gene Lmx1a controls formation of the roof plate in the vertebrate CNS

    James H. Millonig;Kathleen J. Millen;Mary E. Hatten

  • Heterozygous deletion of the linked genes ZIC1 and ZIC4 is involved in Dandy-Walker malformation.

    Inessa Grinberg;Hope Northrup;Holly Ardinger;Chitra Prasad

  • A developmental and genetic classification for midbrain-hindbrain malformations

    A. James Barkovich;Kathleen J. Millen;William B. Dobyns

  • A role for En-2 and other murine homologues of Drosophila segment polarity genes in regulating positional information in the developing cerebellum

    Kathleen J. Millen;Chi-Chung Hui;Alexandra L. Joyner

  • Functional Analysis of the weaver Mutant GIRK2 K+ Channel and Rescue of weaver Granule Cells

    Paulo Kofuji;Magdalena Hofer;Kathleen J Millen;James H Millonig

  • Cilia Proteins Control Cerebellar Morphogenesis by Promoting Expansion of the Granule Progenitor Pool

    Victor V. Chizhikov;James Davenport;Qihong Zhang;Evelyn Kim Shih

  • Roof plate-dependent patterning of the vertebrate dorsal central nervous system

    Victor V. Chizhikov;Kathleen J. Millen

  • Spatial and cell type transcriptional landscape of human cerebellar development.

    Kimberly A. Aldinger;Zachary Thomson;Ian G. Phelps;Parthiv Haldipur

  • The roof plate regulates cerebellar cell-type specification and proliferation

    Victor V. Chizhikov;Anne G. Lindgren;D. Spencer Currle;Matthew F. Rose

  • Proprioceptive Sensory Neuropathy in Mice with a Mutation in the Cytoplasmic Dynein Heavy Chain 1 Gene

    Xiang Jun Chen;Eleni N. Levedakou;Kathleen J. Millen;Robert L. Wollmann

  • Spatiotemporal expansion of primary progenitor zones in the developing human cerebellum

    Parthiv Haldipur;Kimberly A. Aldinger;Silvia Bernardo;Mei Deng

  • Cerebellar development and disease.

    Kathleen J Millen;Joseph G Gleeson

  • Rhombencephalosynapsis: a hindbrain malformation associated with incomplete separation of midbrain and forebrain, hydrocephalus and a broad spectrum of severity

    Gisele E. Ishak;Jennifer C. Dempsey;Dennis W. W. Shaw;Dennis W. W. Shaw;Hannah Tully;Hannah Tully

  • Mutation of FOXC1 and PITX2 induces cerebral small-vessel disease

    Curtis R. French;Sudha Seshadri;Anita L. Destefano;Myriam Fornage

  • Midbrain and hindbrain malformations: advances in clinical diagnosis, imaging, and genetics

    Dan Doherty;Kathleen J Millen;A James Barkovich

  • Development and malformations of the cerebellum in mice.

    Victor Chizhikov;Kathleen J Millen

  • The Transcription Factor Encyclopedia

    Dimas Yusuf;Stefanie L. Butland;Magdalena I. Swanson;Eugene I. Bolotin

Frequent Co-Authors

William B. Dobyns
William B. Dobyns University of Minnesota
Robert F. Hevner
Robert F. Hevner University of California, San Diego
Peggy J. Farnham
Peggy J. Farnham University of Southern California
Reiner A. Veitia
Reiner A. Veitia Université Paris Cité
Wyeth W. Wasserman
Wyeth W. Wasserman University of British Columbia
Elizabeth M. Simpson
Elizabeth M. Simpson University of British Columbia
Bruce E. Torbett
Bruce E. Torbett Seattle Children's Hospital
Paola Bovolenta
Paola Bovolenta Spanish National Research Council
Alexandra L. Joyner
Alexandra L. Joyner Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mary E. Hatten
Mary E. Hatten Rockefeller University

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