Publications
Some light reading
Selected publications that have come from the Wells team.
2023
- Wells MF*, Nemesh J*, Ghosh S*, Mitchell JM*, Mello C, Meyer D, Raghunathan K, Tegtmeyer M, Hawes D, Neumann A, Worringer K, Raymond J, Kommineni S, Chan K, Ho D, Peterson B, Piccioni F, Nehme R, Eggan K, McCarroll S. “Natural variation in gene expression and Zika virus susceptibility revealed by villages of neural progenitor cells.” Cell Stem Cell, 2023 February 15.
2020
- Burberry A, Wells MF, Limone F, Couto A, Smith KS, Keaney J, Gillet G, van Gastel N, Wang J-Y, Pietilainen O, Qian M, Eggan P, Cantrell C, Mok J, Kadiu I, Scadden DT, Eggan K. “C9orf72 suppresses systemic and neural inflammation induced by gut bacteria.” Nature 582: 89-94, 2020 May 13.
- Chen Q, Diester CA, Gao X, Guo B, Lynn-Jones T, Chen N, Wells MF, Liu R, Goard MJ, Dimidschstein J, Feng S, Shi Y, Liao W, Lu Z, Fishell G, Moore CI, Feng G. “Dysfunction of cortical GABAergic neurons leads to sensory hyper-reactivity in a Shank3 mouse model of ASD.” Nature Neuroscience 1-13, 2020 March 2.
- Altimus CM, Marlin BJ, Charalambakis NE, Colon-Rodriquez A, Glover EJ, Izbicki P, Johnson A, Lourenco MV, Makinson RA, McQuail J, Obeso I, Padilla-Coreano N, Wells MF. “The Next 50 Years of Neuroscience.” Journal of Neuroscience 40 (1) 101-106, 2020 January 2.
2019
- Orefice LL, Mosko JR, Morency DT, Wells MF, Tasnim A, Mozeika SM, Ye M, Chirila AM, Emanuel AJ, Rankin G, Fame RM, LehtinenMK, Feng G, Ginty DD. “Targeting Peripheral Somatosensory Neurons to Article Targeting Peripheral Somatosensory Neurons to Improve Tactile-Related Phenotypes in ASD Models.” Cell (178) 867-886, 2019 Aug 8.
2018
- Wells MF, Salick MR, Piccioni F, Hill EJ, Mitchell JM, Worringer K, Raymond J, Kommineni S, Chan K, Ho D, Peterson B, Siekmann M, Pietilainen O, Nehme R, Kaykas A, Eggan K. “Genome-wide screens in accelerated human stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells identify Zika virus host factors and drivers of proliferation.” bioRxiv, 2018 November 22. (Under review)
2017
- Salick MR*, Wells MF*, Eggan K, Kaykas A. “Modelling Zika Virus Infection of the Developing Human Brain In Vitro Using Stem Cell Derived Cerebral Organoids.” J. Vis. Exp. (127): e56404, 2017 September 19.
2016
- Wells MF*, Salick MR*, Wiskow O, Ho D, Worringer K, Ihry R, Kommineni S, Bilican B, Klim JR, Kane LT, Kaykas A, and Eggan K. “Genetic ablation of AXL does not protect human neural progenitor cells and cerebral organoids from Zika virus infection.” Cell Stem Cell 19 (6): 703-708, 2016 December 1.
- Wells MF*, Wimmer R*, Schmitt I, Feng G, Halassa M. “Thalamic reticular defects underlie ADHD-like behaviors in Ptchd1Y/- mice.”Nature 532: 58–63, 2016 April 7.
- Zhou Y, Kaiser T, Monteiro P, Zhang X, Van der Goes MS, Wang D, Barak B, Zeng M, Li C, Lu C, Wells M, Amaya A, Nguyen S, Lewis M, Sanjana N, Zhou Y, Zhang M, Zhang F, Fu Z, Feng G. “Mice with Shank3 mutations associated with ASD and schizophrenia display both shared and distinct defects.” Neuron 89 (1): 147-162, 2016 January 6.
2011
- Peca J*, Feliciano C*, Ting J, Wang W, Wells MF, Fu Z, Feng G. “Shank3 mutant mice display autistic-like behaviors and postsynaptic dysfunction.” Nature 472: 437-442, 2011 April 28.