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Overview

Robert F. Hevner is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields mainly within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Neuroscience.

The scientist's work has been published in venues such as Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, Nature Communications, European Journal of Human Genetics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Science Translational Medicine.

Hevner's research covers several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, Developmental Neuroscience, and Physiology. The main topics of their work are:

  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery

Recent publications linked to Robert F. Hevner include:

  • Long-lasting analgesia via targeted in situ repression of Na V 1.7 in mice, 2021, Science Translational Medicine
  • Biodistribution of onasemnogene abeparvovec DNA, mRNA and SMN protein in human tissue, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • ATP1A2- and ATP1A3-associated early profound epileptic encephalopathy and polymicrogyria, 2021, Brain
  • AUTS2 Syndrome: Molecular Mechanisms and Model Systems, 2022, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
  • Longitudinal assessment of tumor development using cancer avatars derived from genetically engineered pluripotent stem cells, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators identified from their publications include:

  • Ray A. M. Daza
  • William B. Dobyns
  • Tomoyuki Koga
  • Alison D. Parisian
  • Shunichiro Miki

Best Publications

  • Pax6, Tbr2, and Tbr1 Are Expressed Sequentially by Radial Glia, Intermediate Progenitor Cells, and Postmitotic Neurons in Developing Neocortex

    Chris Englund;Andy Fink;Charmaine Lau;Diane Pham

  • Transcriptional landscape of the prenatal human brain

    Jeremy A. Miller;Song Lin Ding;Susan M. Sunkin;Kimberly A. Smith

  • Tbr1 Regulates Differentiation of the Preplate and Layer 6

    Robert F. Hevner;Limin Shi;Nicholas J Justice;Yi Ping Hsueh

  • Growth and folding of the mammalian cerebral cortex: from molecules to malformations

    Tao Sun;Robert F. Hevner

  • Transcription factors in glutamatergic neurogenesis : Conserved programs in neocortex, cerebellum, and adult hippocampus

    Robert F. Hevner;Rebecca D. Hodge;Ray A.M. Daza;Chris Englund

  • Intermediate neuronal progenitors (basal progenitors) produce pyramidal-projection neurons for all layers of cerebral cortex.

    Tom Kowalczyk;Adria Pontious;Chris Englund;Ray A. M. Daza

  • Role of intermediate progenitor cells in cerebral cortex development.

    Adria Pontious;Tom Kowalczyk;Chris Englund;Robert F. Hevner

  • Adult generation of glutamatergic olfactory bulb interneurons

    Monika S Brill;Jovica Ninkovic;Eleanor Winpenny;Rebecca D Hodge

  • Cell migration from the ganglionic eminences is required for the development of hippocampal GABAergic interneurons.

    Samuel J. Pleasure;Stewart Anderson;Robert Hevner;Anil Bagri

  • A comprehensive transcriptional map of primate brain development

    Trygve E. Bakken;Jeremy A. Miller;Song Lin Ding;Susan M. Sunkin

  • Early neocortical regionalization in the absence of thalamic innervation.

    Emily M. Miyashita-Lin;Robert Hevner;Karen Montzka Wassarman;Salvador Martinez

  • New insights into the development of the human cerebral cortex

    Zoltán Molnár;Gavin J Clowry;Nenad Šestan;Ayman Alzu'bi

  • An olfactory sensory map develops in the absence of normal projection neurons or GABAergic interneurons.

    Alessandro Bulfone;Fan Wang;Robert Hevner;Stewart Anderson

  • PI3K/AKT pathway mutations cause a spectrum of brain malformations from megalencephaly to focal cortical dysplasia

    Laura A. Jansen;Laura A. Jansen;Ghayda M. Mirzaa;Gisele E. Ishak;Brian J. O'Roak

  • Tbr1 regulates regional and laminar identity of postmitotic neurons in developing neocortex

    Francesco Bedogni;Rebecca D. Hodge;Gina E. Elsen;Branden R. Nelson

  • Intermediate Progenitors in Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis: Tbr2 Expression and Coordinate Regulation of Neuronal Output

    Rebecca D. Hodge;Thomas D. Kowalczyk;Susanne A. Wolf;Juan M. Encinas

  • A Huntington's Disease CAG Expansion at the Murine Hdh Locus Is Unstable and Associated with Behavioural Abnormalities in Mice

    Peggy F. Shelbourne;Nigel Killeen;Robert F. Hevner;Heather M. Johnston

  • Fetal brain lesions after subcutaneous inoculation of Zika virus in a pregnant nonhuman primate

    Kristina M. Adams Waldorf;Jennifer E. Stencel-Baerenwald;Raj P. Kapur;Raj P. Kapur;Colin Studholme

  • Development of the deep cerebellar nuclei: transcription factors and cell migration from the rhombic lip.

    Andrew J. Fink;Chris Englund;Ray A. M. Daza;Diane Pham

  • Neurogenin 2 controls cortical neuron migration through regulation of Rnd2

    Julian Ik Tsen Heng;Laurent Nguyen;Diogo S. Castro;Céline Zimmer

Frequent Co-Authors

William B. Dobyns
William B. Dobyns University of Minnesota
Kathleen J. Millen
Kathleen J. Millen Seattle Children's Hospital
John L.R. Rubenstein
John L.R. Rubenstein University of California, San Francisco
Margaret T.T. Wong-Riley
Margaret T.T. Wong-Riley Medical College of Wisconsin
Jan-Marino Ramirez
Jan-Marino Ramirez University of Washington
Elizabeth M. Simpson
Elizabeth M. Simpson University of British Columbia
Wyeth W. Wasserman
Wyeth W. Wasserman University of British Columbia
Reiner A. Veitia
Reiner A. Veitia Université Paris Cité
Peggy J. Farnham
Peggy J. Farnham University of Southern California
Bruce E. Torbett
Bruce E. Torbett Seattle Children's Hospital

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