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Overview

Roy V. Sillitoe is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a focus on subfields such as Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems.

Their work addresses key topics including:

  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep

Among recent publications, the following papers illustrate the scope of their research:

  • "Bifidobacteria shape host neural circuits during postnatal development by promoting synapse formation and microglial function" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Purkinje cell misfiring generates high-amplitude action tremors that are corrected by cerebellar deep brain stimulation" (2020) published in eLife
  • "Abnormal Cerebellar Development in Autism Spectrum Disorders" (2021) published in Developmental Neuroscience
  • "Neuromodulation of the cerebellum rescues movement in a mouse model of ataxia" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "Interactions Between Purkinje Cells and Granule Cells Coordinate the Development of Functional Cerebellar Circuits" (2020) published in Neuroscience

Sillitoe frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Dystonia
  • Neurology
  • Neuron

They collaborate often with colleagues including Tao Lin, Amanda M. Brown, Meike E. van der Heijden, Luis E. Salazar Leon, and Jason S. Gill. These partnerships have contributed to multidisciplinary approaches within their research domain.

Best Publications

  • Morphology, molecular codes, and circuitry produce the three-dimensional complexity of the cerebellum.

    Roy V Sillitoe;Alexandra L Joyner

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellar Development.

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

  • Emerging connections between cerebellar development, behaviour and complex brain disorders.

    Aaron Sathyanesan;Joy Zhou;Joseph Scafidi;Joseph Scafidi;Detlef H. Heck

  • Redefining the cerebellar cortex as an assembly of non-uniform Purkinje cell microcircuits

    Nadia L. Cerminara;Eric J. Lang;Roy V. Sillitoe;Richard Apps

  • Patterned Purkinje cell degeneration in mouse models of Niemann-Pick type C disease.

    Justyna R Sarna;Matt Larouche;Hassan Marzban;Roy V Sillitoe

  • New roles for the cerebellum in health and disease

    Stacey L Reeber;Tom S. Otis;Roy Vincent Sillitoe

  • Whole-mount immunohistochemistry: a high-throughput screen for patterning defects in the mouse cerebellum.

    Roy V. Sillitoe;Richard Hawkes

  • Cerebellar Modules and Their Role as Operational Cerebellar Processing Units

    Richard Apps;Richard Hawkes;Sho Aoki;Sho Aoki;Fredrik Bengtsson

  • Pumilio1 Haploinsufficiency Leads to SCA1-like Neurodegeneration by Increasing Wild-Type Ataxin1 Levels

    Vincenzo A. Gennarino;Vincenzo A. Gennarino;Ravi K. Singh;Joshua J. White;Joshua J. White;Antonia De Maio;Antonia De Maio

  • Engrailed Homeobox Genes Regulate Establishment of the Cerebellar Afferent Circuit Map

    Roy V. Sillitoe;Michael W. Vogel;Alexandra L. Joyner

  • Development of the cerebellum: from gene expression patterns to circuit maps

    Joshua J. White;Roy V. Sillitoe

  • Disruption of the ATXN1-CIC complex causes a spectrum of neurobehavioral phenotypes in mice and humans.

    Hsiang Chih Lu;Hsiang Chih Lu;Qiumin Tan;Maxime W.C. Rousseaux;Wei Wang

  • Consensus Paper: Experimental Neurostimulation of the Cerebellum

    Lauren L.N. Miterko;Kenneth K.B. Baker;Jaclyn Beckinghausen;Lynley L.V. Bradnam

  • MLL4 Is Required to Maintain Broad H3K4me3 Peaks and Super-Enhancers at Tumor Suppressor Genes

    Shilpa S. Dhar;Dongyu Zhao;Dongyu Zhao;Tao Lin;Bingnan Gu

  • Genetic silencing of olivocerebellar synapses causes dystonia-like behaviour in mice.

    Joshua J. White;Roy V. Sillitoe

  • SGCE missense mutations that cause myoclonus-dystonia syndrome impair ε-sarcoglycan trafficking to the plasma membrane: modulation by ubiquitination and torsinA

    Christopher T. Esapa;Adrian James Waite;Matthew Locke;Matthew A. Benson

  • Engrailed Homeobox Genes Determine the Organization of Purkinje Cell Sagittal Stripe Gene Expression in the Adult Cerebellum

    Roy V. Sillitoe;Daniel Stephen;Zhimin Lao;Alexandra L. Joyner

  • Conservation of the architecture of the anterior lobe vermis of the cerebellum across mammalian species

    Roy V. Sillitoe;Hassan Marzban;Matt Larouche;Sepehr Zahedi

  • Extensive cryptic splicing upon loss of RBM17 and TDP43 in neurodegeneration models

    Qiumin Tan;Qiumin Tan;Hari Krishna Yalamanchili;Hari Krishna Yalamanchili;Jeehye Park;Jeehye Park;Antonia De Maio

  • Insights into cerebellar development and connectivity

    Jaclyn Beckinghausen;Roy V. Sillitoe

  • A Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel Regulates Lysosomal Fusion with Endosomes and Autophagosomes and Is Required for Neuronal Homeostasis

    Xuejun Tian;Upasana Gala;Yongping Zhang;Weina Shang

  • Cerebellar zonal patterning relies on Purkinje cell neurotransmission.

    Joshua J. White;Marife Arancillo;Trace L. Stay;Nicholas A. George-Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Hawkes
Richard Hawkes University of Calgary
Detlef H. Heck
Detlef H. Heck University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Huda Y. Zoghbi
Huda Y. Zoghbi Baylor College of Medicine
Alexandra L. Joyner
Alexandra L. Joyner Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Harry T. Orr
Harry T. Orr University of Minnesota
Elan D. Louis
Elan D. Louis The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Derek J. Blake
Derek J. Blake Cardiff University
Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett National Institutes of Health
Javier F. Medina
Javier F. Medina Baylor College of Medicine
Tom J. H. Ruigrok
Tom J. H. Ruigrok Erasmus University Rotterdam

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