Selected Publications

Nunnelly, Luke F., Melissa Campbell, Dylan I. Lee, Patrick Dummer, Guoqiang Gu, Vilas Menon, and Edmund Au. “St18 Specifies Globus Pallidus Projection Neuron Identity in MGE Lineage.” Nature Communications 13, no. 1 (December 14, 2022): 7735. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35518-5.

 

Huijuan Feng, Daniel F. Moakley, Shuonan Chen, Melissa G. McKenzie, Vilas Menon, Chaolin Zhang. Complexity and graded regulation of neuronal cell type-specific alternative splicing revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing. PNAS. March 9, 2021, 118 (10) e2013056118.

 

Ustianenko D, McKenzie MG, Zhang C. Brain Translation: A Feather Tips the Scale. Mol Cell. 2020 Mar 19;77(6):1155-1156. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.02.027. PubMed PMID: 32200794.

 

McKenzie MG, Cobbs LV, Dummer PD, Petros TJ, Halford MM, Stacker SA, Zou Y, Fishell GJ, Au E. Non-canonical Wnt Signaling through Ryk Regulates the Generation of Somatostatin- and Parvalbumin-Expressing Cortical Interneurons. Neuron. 2019 Sep 4;103(5):853-864.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.06.003. Epub 2019 Jun 27. PubMed PMID: 31257105; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6728181 (cover story).

 

Melissa McKenzie and Gord Fishell. “Human brains teach us a surprising lesson”. Science. 07 Oct 2016: Vol. 354, Issue 6308, pp. 38-39.

 

Goichi Miyoshi, Allison Young, Timothy Petros, Theofanis Karayannis, Melissa McKenzie Chang, Alfonso Lavado, Tomohiko Iwano, Miho Nakajima, Hiroki Taniguchi, Z. Joshua Huang, Nathaniel Heintz, Guillermo Oliver, Fumio Matsuzaki, Robert Machold, and Gord Fishell. “Prox1 regulates the subtype-specific development of caudal ganglionic eminence-derived GABAergic cortical interneurons”. Journal of Neuroscience. 16 September 2015, 35 (37) 12869-12889.