Publications

  1. Ferrara NC, Che A, Briones B, Padilla-Coreano N, Lovett-Barron M, Opendak M. Neural Circuit Transitions Support Developmentally Specific Social Behavior. J Neurosci. 2023 43(45):7456-7462.

  2. Babij R, Ferrer C, Donatelle A, Wacks S, Buch AM, Niemeyer JE, Ma H, Duan ZRS, Fetcho RN, Che A, Otsuka T, Schwartz TH, Huang BS, Liston C, De Marco García NV. Gabrb3 is required for the functional integration of pyramidal neuron subtypes in the somatosensory cortex. Neuron. 2023 111(2):256-274.

  3. Che A and De Marco García NV. An In Vivo Calcium Imaging Approach for the Identification of Cell-Type Specific Patterns in the Developing Cortex. Front. Neural Circuits. 2021, 15:747724.

  4. Inda MC, Joshi S, Wang T, Bolaender A, Gandu S, Koren Iii J, Che AY, Taldone T, Yan P, Sun W, Uddin M, Panchal P, Riolo M, Shah S, Barlas A, Xu K, Chan LYL, Gruzinova A, Kishinevsky S, Studer L, Fossati V, Noggle SA, White JR, de Stanchina E, Sequeira S, Anthoney KH, Steele JW, Manova-Todorova K, Patil S, Dunphy MP, Pillarsetty N, Pereira AC, Erdjument-Bromage H, Neubert TA, Rodina A, Ginsberg SD, De Marco Garcia N, Luo W, Chiosis G. The epichaperome is a mediator of toxic hippocampal stress and leads to protein connectivity-based dysfunction. Nat Commun. 2020;11(1):319.

  5. Duan ZS*, Che A*, Chu P*, Modol L, Bollmann Y, Babij R, Fetcho RN, Otsuka T, Fuccillo MV, Liston C, Pisapia DJ, Cossart R and De Marco García NV. GABAergic Restriction of Network Dynamics Regulates Interneuron Survival in the Developing Cortex. Neuron. 2020;105(1):1-13. * Equal contribution.

  6. Modol L, Bollmann Y, Tressard T, Baude A, Che A, Duan ZRS, Babij R, De Marco García NV, Cossart R. Assemblies of Perisomatic GABAergic Neurons in the Developing Barrel Cortex. Neuron. 2020;105(1):93-105.

  7. Che A, Babij R, Iannone AF, Fetcho RN, Ferrer M, Fishell G, Liston C, De Marco García, NV. Layer I interneurons sharpen sensory maps during neonatal development. Neuron. 2018;99(1):98-116.

  8. Kabir ZD, Che A, Fischer DK, Rice RC, Rizzo BK, Byrne M, Glass MJ, De Marco Garcia NV, Rajadhyaksha AM. Rescue of impaired sociability and anxiety-like behavior in adult cacna1c-deficient mice by pharmacologically targeting eIF2α. Mol Psychiatry. 2017;22(8):1096-1109.

  9. Che A, Truong DT, Fitch RH, LoTurco JJ. Mutation of the Dyslexia-Associated Gene Dcdc2 Enhances Glutamatergic Synaptic Transmission Between Layer 4 Neurons in Mouse Neocortex. Cereb Cortex. 2016;26(9):3705-3718.

  10. Chen F, Rosiene J, Che A, Becker A, LoTurco J. Tracking and transforming neocortical progenitors by CRISPR/Cas9 gene targeting and piggyBac transposase lineage labeling. Development. 2015;142(20):3601-11.

  11. Schueler M, Braun DA, Chandrasekar G, Gee HY, Klasson TD, Halbritter J, Bieder A, Porath JD, Airik R, Zhou W, LoTurco JJ, Che A, Otto EA, Böckenhauer D, Sebire NJ, Honzik T, Harris PC, Koon SJ, Gunay-Aygun M, Saunier S, Zerres K, Bruechle NO, Drenth JP, Pelletier L, Tapia-Páez I, Lifton RP, Giles RH, Kere J, Hildebrandt F. DCDC2 mutations cause a renal-hepatic ciliopathy by disrupting Wnt signaling. Am J Hum Genet. 2015;96(1):81-92.

  12. Truong DT, Che A, Rendall AR, Szalkowski CE, LoTurco JJ, Galaburda AM, Holly Fitch R. Mutation of Dcdc2 in mice leads to impairments in auditory processing and memory ability. Genes Brain Behav. 2014;13(8):802-11. 

  13. Che A, Girgenti MJ, LoTurco J. The dyslexia-associated gene DCDC2 is required for spike-timing precision in mouse neocortex. Biol Psychiatry. 2014;76(5):387-96.

  14. Loturco JJ, Tarkar A, Che AY. Loss of the dyslexia susceptibility gene Dcdc2 increases synaptic connectivity in the mouse neocortex. Developmental Dyslexia: Early Precursors, Neurobehavioral Markers, and Biological Substrate. 2012.

  15. Gabel LA, Marin I, LoTurco JJ, Che A, Murphy C, Manglani M, Kass S. Mutation of the dyslexia-associated gene Dcdc2 impairs LTM and visuo-spatial performance in mice. Genes Brain Behav. 2011;10(8):868-75.