PUBLICATIONS
2023
Wong, F.K., Favuzzi, E., The brain's polymath: Emerging roles of microglia through brain development
Current Opinion in Neurobiology 79, 102700
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2015
Wong, F.K.*, Fei J.F.*, Mora-Bermúdez, F., Taverna, E., Haffner, C., Fu, J., Anastassiadis, K., Stewart, A.F., Huttner, W.B. (2015) Sustained Pax6 expression generates primate-like basal radial glia in developing mouse neocortex.
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Media Coverage
Switching mouse neural stem cells to a primate-like behaviour (Max-Planck-Gessellshaft)
Take Pax6 for a cortical 6-pack (PLoS Biology)
Mouse brain cells made primate-like (Nature)
How to create a genius mouse (Kurzweil)
Genetic tweak makes mouse brain cells behave like primates' (IFLScience)
Florio, M., Albert, M., Taverna, E., Namba, T., Brandl, H., Lewitus, E., Haffner, C., Sykes, A., Wong, F.K., Peters, J., Guhr, E., Klemroth, S., Prüfer, K., Kelso, J., Naumann, R., Nüsslein, I., Dahl, A., Lachmann, R., Pääbo, S., and Huttner, W.B., (2015) Human-specific gene ARHGAP11B promotes basal progenitor amplification and neocortex expansion.
2016
Kalebic, N.*, Taverna, E.*, Tavano, S., Wong, F.K., Suchold, D., Winkler, S., Huttner, W.B., Sarov, M. (2016) CRISPR/Cas9-induced disruption of gene expression in mouse embryonic brain and single neural stem cells in vivo.
2018
Wong, F.K.*, Bercsenyi, K.*, Sreenivasan, V., Portales A., Fernandez-Otero, M., Marín O., (2018) Pyramidal cell regulation of interneuron survival sculpts cortical networks.
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Media coverage
How to build a brain: discovery solves evolutionary mystery (King's College London)
Scientists explain how human brains grew so big (Financial Times)
Episode 277 - Breaking down the brain and figuring out how the pieces work (Lagrange Point)
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2019
Llorca, A., Ciceri, G., Beattie, R., Wong F.K., Diana, G., Serafemidou, E., Fernandez-Otero, M., Streicher, C., Arnold, S.J., Meyer, M., Hippenmeyer, S., Maravall, M., Marin, O. (2019) A stochastic framework of neurogenesis underlies the assembly of neocortical cytoarchitecture.
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Wong, F.K. and Marín, O. (2019) Developmental Cell Death in the Cerebral Cortex.
2022
Wong, F.K., Selten, M., Roses-Novella, C., Sreenivasan, V., Pallas-Bazarra, N., Serafeimidou-Pouliou, E., Hanusz-Godoy, A., Oozeer, F., Edwards, E., Marín, O. (2022) Serotonergic regulation of bipolar cell survival in the developing cerebral cortex
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2014
Wong, F.K., Haffner, C., Huttner, W.B., Taverna, E., (2014) Microinjection of membrane-impermeable molecules into single neural stem cells in brain tissue.
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Stenzel, D., Wilsch-Bräuninger, M., Wong, F.K., Heuer, H., Huttner, W.B., (2014) Integrin αvβ3 and thyroid hormones promotes expansion of progenitors in embryonic neocortex.
2010
Wong F.K., Lee S.H., Atcha, Z., Ong, A.B., Pemberton, D.J., Chen, W.S., (2010) Rasagiline improves learning and memory in young healthy rats.