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Oscar Marín is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and related molecular biology fields, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Marín's work intersects multiple subfields including molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, and neurology.

The scientist has published extensively on topics such as neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, RNA research and splicing, and congenital heart defects research.

Oscar Marín's recent papers include:

  • Molecular and cellular evolution of the primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, 2022, Science
  • Mouse and human share conserved transcriptional programs for interneuron development, 2021, Science
  • The single-cell and spatial transcriptional landscape of human gastrulation and early brain development, 2023, Cell Stem Cell
  • Cortical wiring by synapse type-specific control of local protein synthesis, 2022, Science
  • A white paper on a neurodevelopmental framework for drug discovery in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, 2021, European Neuropsychopharmacology

Frequent co-authors in Marín's work are:

  • Fazal Oozeer
  • C. Bernard
  • Martijn Selten
  • Alicia Hanusz-Godoy
  • Da Mi

Marín's research has appeared repeatedly in these publication venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • European Journal of Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Lidia Alonso-Nanclares;Stewart A. Anderson;German Barrionuevo

  • Interneuron dysfunction in psychiatric disorders

    Oscar Marín

  • Loss of Nkx2.1 homeobox gene function results in a ventral to dorsal molecular respecification within the basal telencephalon: evidence for a transformation of the pallidum into the striatum

    L. Sussel;O. Marin;S. Kimura;J. L. R. Rubenstein

  • A long, remarkable journey: tangential migration in the telencephalon

    Oscar Marín;John L. R. Rubenstein

  • Cell migration in the forebrain.

    Oscar Marín;John L.R. Rubenstein

  • New neurons follow the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the adult brain.

    Kazunobu Sawamoto;Hynek Wichterle;Oscar Gonzalez-Perez;Jeremy A. Cholfin

  • New insights into the classification and nomenclature of cortical GABAergic interneurons

    Javier DeFelipe;Pedro L. López-Cruz;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Concha Bielza

  • Distinct cortical migrations from the medial and lateral ganglionic eminences.

    S.A. Anderson;O. Marin;C. Horn;K. Jennings

  • Origin and Molecular Specification of Striatal Interneurons

    Oscar Marı́n;Stewart A. Anderson;John L. R. Rubenstein

  • Development and Functional Diversification of Cortical Interneurons

    Lynette Lim;Da Mi;Alfredo Llorca;Oscar Marín

  • Preventive strategies for mental health

    Celso Arango;Covadonga M Díaz-Caneja;Patrick D McGorry;Judith Rapoport

  • Delineation of multiple subpallial progenitor domains by the combinatorial expression of transcriptional codes.

    Nuria Flames;Ramón Pla;Diego M. Gelman;John L. R. Rubenstein

  • Altering the course of schizophrenia: progress and perspectives

    Mark J. Millan;Annie Andrieux;George Bartzokis;Kristin Cadenhead

  • Control of cortical GABA circuitry development by Nrg1 and ErbB4 signalling

    Pietro Fazzari;Ana V. Paternain;Manuel Valiente;Ramón Pla

  • Slit proteins prevent midline crossing and determine the dorsoventral position of major axonal pathways in the mammalian forebrain.

    Anil Bagri;Oscar Marı́n;Andrew S. Plump;Judy Mak

  • Short- and long-range attraction of cortical GABAergic interneurons by neuregulin-1.

    Nuria Flames;Jason E. Long;Alistair N. Garratt;Tobias M. Fischer

  • Sorting of Striatal and Cortical Interneurons Regulated by Semaphorin-Neuropilin Interactions

    Oscar Marı́n;Avraham Yaron;Anil Bagri;Marc Tessier-Lavigne

  • Guiding Neuronal Cell Migrations

    Oscar Marín;Manuel Valiente;Xuecai Ge;Li-Huei Tsai

  • Spatial Genetic Patterning of the Embryonic Neuroepithelium Generates GABAergic Interneuron Diversity in the Adult Cortex

    Matthew Fogarty;Matthew Grist;Diego Gelman;Oscar Marín

  • Tangential Neuronal Migration Controls Axon Guidance: A Role for Neuregulin-1 in Thalamocortical Axon Navigation

    Guillermina López-Bendito;Aline Cautinat;Juan Antonio Sánchez;Franck Bielle

Frequent Co-Authors

Agustín González
Agustín González Complutense University of Madrid
Wilhelmus J.A.J. Smeets
Wilhelmus J.A.J. Smeets Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
John L.R. Rubenstein
John L.R. Rubenstein University of California, San Francisco
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Marc Tessier-Lavigne Xaira Therapeutics
Giorgio A. Ascoli
Giorgio A. Ascoli George Mason University
Gábor Tamás
Gábor Tamás University of Szeged
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University
Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Víctor Borrell
Víctor Borrell Miguel Hernandez University
Stewart A. Anderson
Stewart A. Anderson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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