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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Marc R. Freeman is affiliated with the Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad fields, their work frequently engages with cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, cell biology, and developmental neuroscience.

The scientist's recent publications cover a variety of topics related to neural circuits and astrocyte function. Notable papers include:

  • Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions (2021, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Behaviorally consequential astrocytic regulation of neural circuits (2020, Neuron)
  • Live-imaging of astrocyte morphogenesis and function in zebrafish neural circuits (2020, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Astrocytes close a motor circuit critical period (2021, Nature)
  • Injury-Induced Inhibition of Bystander Neurons Requires dSarm and Signaling from Glia (2020, Neuron)

Frequent co-authors contributing to their work include Amy E. Sheehan, Yunsik Kang, Taylor R. Jay, Amanda Jefferson, and Kelly R. Monk.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

Marc R. Freeman has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent venues are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuron, Cancer Research, Nature Neuroscience, and Nature. Their publication record includes several contributions to the preprint platform bioRxiv, as well as peer-reviewed journals focusing on neuroscience and cancer research.

In recognition of their academic career, they were awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions

    Carole Escartin;Elena Galea;András Lakatos;James P. O’Callaghan

  • A novel family of divergent seven-transmembrane proteins: candidate odorant receptors in Drosophila.

    Peter J. Clyne;Coral G. Warr;Marc R. Freeman;Derek Lessing

  • dSarm/Sarm1 Is Required for Activation of an Injury-Induced Axon Death Pathway

    Jeannette M. Osterloh;Jing Yang;Timothy M. Rooney;A. Nicole Fox

  • The Drosophila Cell Corpse Engulfment Receptor Draper Mediates Glial Clearance of Severed Axons

    Jennifer M. MacDonald;Margaret G. Beach;Ermelinda Porpiglia;Amy E. Sheehan

  • Wallerian Degeneration, WldS, and Nmnat

    Michael P. Coleman;Marc R. Freeman

  • Specification and Morphogenesis of Astrocytes

    Marc R. Freeman

  • Unwrapping Glial Biology: Gcm Target Genes Regulating Glial Development, Diversification, and Function

    Marc R. Freeman;Jeffrey Delrow;Junhyong Kim;Eric Johnson

  • Ensheathing Glia Function as Phagocytes in the Adult Drosophila Brain

    Johnna E. Doherty;Mary A. Logan;Ozge E. Tasdemir;Marc R. Freeman

  • Drosophila Central Nervous System Glia

    Marc R. Freeman

  • Glial cell biology in Drosophila and vertebrates

    Marc R. Freeman;Johnna E. Doherty

  • ECDYSONE RESPONSE GENES GOVERN EGG CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT DURING MID-OOGENESIS IN DROSOPHILA

    Michael Buszczak;Marc R. Freeman;John R. Carlson;Michael Bender

  • Behaviorally consequential astrocytic regulation of neural circuits

    Jun Nagai;Xinzhu Yu;Thomas Papouin;Eunji Cheong

  • Astrocytes engage unique molecular programs to engulf pruned neuronal debris from distinct subsets of neurons

    Ozge E. Tasdemir-Yilmaz;Marc R. Freeman

  • Neuron-Glia Interactions through the Heartless FGF Receptor Signaling Pathway Mediate Morphogenesis of Drosophila Astrocytes

    Tobias Stork;Amy E. Sheehan;Ozge E. Tasdemir-Yilmaz;Marc R. Freeman

  • Neuromodulators signal through astrocytes to alter neural circuit activity and behaviour

    Zhiguo Ma;Tobias Stork;Dwight E. Bergles;Marc R. Freeman

  • Draper-dependent glial phagocytic activity is mediated by Src and Syk family kinase signalling

    Jennifer S. Ziegenfuss;Romi Biswas;Michelle A. Avery;Kyoungja Hong

  • Evolving Concepts of Gliogenesis: A Look Way Back and Ahead to the Next 25 Years

    Marc R. Freeman;David H. Rowitch

  • Attenuated traumatic axonal injury and improved functional outcome after traumatic brain injury in mice lacking Sarm1.

    Nils Henninger;James P. Bouley;Elif M. Sikoglu;Jiyan An

  • Prevalent presence of periodic actin–spectrin-based membrane skeleton in a broad range of neuronal cell types and animal species

    Jiang He;Ruobo Zhou;Zhuhao Wu;Monica A. Carrasco

  • Glia and muscle sculpt neuromuscular arbors by engulfing destabilized synaptic boutons and shed presynaptic debris

    Yuly Fuentes-Medel;Mary A. Logan;James Ashley;Bulent Ataman

  • WldS prevents axon degeneration through increased mitochondrial flux and enhanced mitochondrial Ca2+ buffering.

    Michelle A. Avery;Timothy M. Rooney;Jignesh D. Pandya;Thomas M. Wishart

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Züchner
Stephan Züchner University of Miami
Vivian Budnik
Vivian Budnik University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
John R. Carlson
John R. Carlson Yale University
Michael P. Coleman
Michael P. Coleman University of Cambridge
Patrick G. Sullivan
Patrick G. Sullivan University of Kentucky
Pierre J. Magistretti
Pierre J. Magistretti École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Baljit S. Khakh
Baljit S. Khakh University of California, Los Angeles
Xiaowei Zhuang
Xiaowei Zhuang Harvard University
Dwight E. Bergles
Dwight E. Bergles Johns Hopkins University

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