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World Ranking
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National Ranking
450

Overview

Stefano Stifani is affiliated with the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital in Canada. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields, primarily focusing on Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work emphasizes subfields such as Neurology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Immunology.

The main topics of Stifani's research include Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling, Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding, and Immune Cells in Cancer.

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts include Thomas M. Durcan, Guy A. Rouleau, Louise Thiry, Mathilde Chaineau, and Vincent Soubannier.

Stifani's recent publications span notable journals and cover diverse aspects of neurological and molecular biology research. Selected papers include:

  • Characterization of human iPSC-derived astrocytes with potential for disease modeling and drug discovery, 2020, Neuroscience Letters
  • Spinal cord extracts of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spread TDP-43 pathology in cerebral organoids, 2023, PLoS Genetics
  • Characterization of Human iPSC-derived Spinal Motor Neurons by Single-cell RNA Sequencing, 2020, Neuroscience
  • Optimization of Long-Term Human iPSC-Derived Spinal Motor Neuron Culture Using a Dendritic Polyglycerol Amine-Based Substrate, 2022, ASN NEURO
  • An Arf/Rab cascade controls the growth and invasiveness of glioblastoma, 2020, The Journal of Cell Biology

Several journals and venues have frequently published their studies, including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), ASN NEURO, Glia, PLoS Genetics, and Neuroscience Letters.

Best Publications

  • The secretory proprotein convertase neural apoptosis-regulated convertase 1 (NARC-1): Liver regeneration and neuronal differentiation

    Nabil G. Seidah;Suzanne Benjannet;Louise Wickham;Jadwiga Marcinkiewicz

  • The timing of cortical neurogenesis is encoded within lineages of individual progenitor cells

    Qin Shen;Yue Wang;John T Dimos;Christopher A Fasano

  • Alterations in Notch signaling in neoplastic lesions of the human cervix

    Panayiotis Zagouras;Stefano Stifani;Christine M. Blaumueller;Maria L. Carcangiu

  • Ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin attenuate microglia inflammatory response via TLR4/NF-kB pathway.

    Morena Zusso;Valentina Lunardi;Davide Franceschini;Andrea Pagetta

  • Human homologs of a Drosophila Enhancer of split gene product define a novel family of nuclear proteins.

    Stefano Stifani;Christine M. Blaumueller;Nicola J. Redhead;Robert E. Hill

  • Two Domains Unique to Osteoblast-Specific Transcription Factor Osf2/Cbfa1 Contribute to Its Transactivation Function and Its Inability To Heterodimerize with Cbfβ

    Kannan Thirunavukkarasu;Muktar Mahajan;Keith W. McLarren;Stefano Stifani

  • Groucho/TLE/R-esp proteins associate with the nuclear matrix and repress RUNX (CBF(alpha)/AML/PEBP2(alpha)) dependent activation of tissue-specific gene transcription

    A. Javed;B. Guo;S. Hiebert;J.Y. Choi

  • The Mammalian Basic Helix Loop Helix Protein HES-1 Binds to and Modulates the Transactivating Function of the Runt-related Factor Cbfa1

    Keith W. McLarren;Rita Lo;Diane Grbavec;Kannan Thirunavukkarasu

  • Molecular interaction between TLE1 and the carboxyl-terminal domain of HES-1 containing the WRPW motif.

    Diane Grbavec;Stefano Stifani

  • MOZ and MORF histone acetyltransferases interact with the Runt-domain transcription factor Runx2.

    Nadine Pelletier;Nathalie Champagne;Stefano Stifani;Xiang-Jiao Yang

  • The Groucho/Transducin-like Enhancer of split Transcriptional Repressors Interact with the Genetically Defined Amino-terminal Silencing Domain of Histone H3

    Anuradha Palaparti;Ari Baratz;Stefano Stifani

  • The ‘Marx’ of Groucho on development and disease

    Manuel Buscarlet;Stefano Stifani

  • A single chicken oocyte plasma membrane protein mediates uptake of very low density lipoprotein and vitellogenin

    Stefano Stifani;Dwayne L. Barber;Johannes Nimpf;Wolfgang J. Schneider

  • The Winged-Helix Protein Brain Factor 1 Interacts with Groucho and Hes Proteins To Repress Transcription

    Jing Yao;Eseng Lai;Stefano Stifani

  • Regulation of postnatal forebrain amoeboid microglial cell proliferation and development by the transcription factor Runx1.

    Morena Zusso;Morena Zusso;Laurent Methot;Rita Lo;Andrew D. Greenhalgh

  • Solubilization and characterization of the chicken oocyte vitellogenin receptor

    S Stifani;R George;W J Schneider

  • A homozygous mutation in HESX1 is associated with evolving hypopituitarism due to impaired repressor-corepressor interaction.

    Luciani R. Carvalho;Kathryn S. Woods;Berenice B. Mendonca;Nathalie Marcal

  • Hes6 Promotes Cortical Neurogenesis and Inhibits Hes1 Transcription Repression Activity by Multiple Mechanisms

    Michel-Olivier Gratton;Elena Torban;Stephanie Belanger Jasmin;Francesca M. Theriault

  • TCF and Groucho-Related Genes Influence Pituitary Growth and Development

    Michelle L. Brinkmeier;Mary Anne Potok;Kelly B. Cha;Thomas Gridley

  • Regulation of oogenesis: The piscine receptor for vitellogenin

    Stefano Stifani;Francoise Le Menn;Jesus Nunez Rodriguez;Wolfgang J. Schneider

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang J. Schneider
Wolfgang J. Schneider Medical University of Vienna
Isabella Screpanti
Isabella Screpanti Sapienza University of Rome
Lucio Miele
Lucio Miele Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas Harvard University
Johannes Nimpf
Johannes Nimpf Medical University of Vienna
Lucio Miele
Lucio Miele Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Sylvain Williams
Sylvain Williams McGill University
Sally A. Camper
Sally A. Camper University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Guy A. Rouleau
Guy A. Rouleau Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Andrea C. Ferrari
Andrea C. Ferrari University of Cambridge

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