Santos Franco, PhD

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PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2005)

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BS, Colorado State University (CO) (2000)

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Pediatrics-Developmental Biology

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Tran LN, Loew SK, Franco SJ. Notch Signaling Plays a Dual Role in Regulating the Neuron-to-Oligodendrocyte Switch in the Developing Dorsal Forebrain. J Neurosci. 2023 Oct 11;43(41):6854-6871. PubMed PMID: 37640551
Kleinjan MS, Buchta WC, Ogelman R, Hwang IW, Kuwajima M, Hubbard DD, Kareemo DJ, Prikhodko O, Olah SL, Gomez Wulschner LE, Abraham WC, Franco SJ, Harris KM, Oh WC, Kennedy MJ. Dually innervated dendritic spines develop in the absence of excitatory activity and resist plasticity through tonic inhibitory crosstalk. Neuron. 2023 Feb 1;111(3):362-371.e6. PubMed PMID: 36395772
Hoff KJ, Aiken JE, Gutierrez MA, Franco SJ, Moore JK. TUBA1A tubulinopathy mutants disrupt neuron morphogenesis and override XMAP215/Stu2 regulation of microtubule dynamics. Elife. 2022 May 5;11. PubMed PMID: 35511030
Kleinjan MS, Buchta WC, Ogelman R, Hwang IW, Kuwajima M, Hubbard DD, Kareemo DJ, Prikhodko O, Olah SL, Gomez Wulschner LE, Abraham WC, Franco SJ, Harris KM, Oh WC, Kennedy MJ. Dually innervated dendritic spines develop in the absence of excitatory activity and resist plasticity through tonic inhibitory crosstalk. Neuron. 2022 Nov 11. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36395772
Winkler CC, Franco SJ. Loss of Shh signaling in the neocortex reveals heterogeneous cell recovery responses from distinct oligodendrocyte populations. Dev Biol. 2019 Aug 1;452(1):55-65. PubMed PMID: 31071314
Gutierrez MA, Dwyer BE, Franco SJ. Csmd2 Is a Synaptic Transmembrane Protein that Interacts with PSD-95 and Is Required for Neuronal Maturation. eNeuro. 2019 Mar Apr;6(2). PubMed PMID: 31068362
Fregoso SP, Dwyer BE, Franco SJ. Lmx1a drives Cux2 expression in the cortical hem through activation of a conserved intronic enhancer. Development. 2019 Mar 7;146(5). PubMed PMID: 30770393
Winkler CC, Yabut OR, Fregoso SP, Gomez HG, Dwyer BE, Pleasure SJ, Franco SJ. The Dorsal Wave of Neocortical Oligodendrogenesis Begins Embryonically and Requires Multiple Sources of Sonic Hedgehog. J Neurosci. 2018 Jun 6;38(23):5237-5250. PubMed PMID: 29739868
Csmd2 is a Synaptic Transmembrane Protein that Interacts with PSD-95. Mark A Gutierrez, Brett E Dwyer, Santos J Franco. bioRxiv 362657 July 5, 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/362657
Lmx1a drives Cux2 expression in the cortical hem through activation of a conserved intronic enhancer. Santiago P Fregoso, Brett E Dwyer, Santos J Franco. bioRxiv 368555, July 13 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/368555
Kazmierczak M, Kazmierczak P, Peng AW, Harris SL, Shah P, Puel JL, Lenoir M, Franco SJ, Schwander M. Pejvakin, a Candidate Stereociliary Rootlet Protein, Regulates Hair Cell Function in a Cell-Autonomous Manner. J Neurosci. 2017 Mar 29;37(13):3447-3464. PubMed PMID: 28209736
Martinez-Garay I, Gil-Sanz C, Franco SJ, Espinosa A, Molnár Z, Mueller U. Cadherin 2/4 signaling via PTP1B and catenins is crucial for nucleokinesis during radial neuronal migration in the neocortex. Development. 2016 Jun 15;143(12):2121-34. PubMed PMID: 27151949
Gil-Sanz C, Espinosa A, Fregoso SP, Bluske KK, Cunningham CL, Martinez-Garay I, Zeng H, Franco SJ, Müller U. Lineage Tracing Using Cux2-Cre and Cux2-CreERT2 Mice. Neuron. 2015 May 20;86(4):1091-9. PubMed PMID: 25996136
Trotter J, Lee GH, Kazdoba TM, Crowell B, Domogauer J, Mahoney HM, Franco SJ, Müller U, Weeber EJ, D'Arcangelo G. Dab1 is required for synaptic plasticity and associative learning. J Neurosci. 2013 Sep 25;33(39):15652-68. PubMed PMID: 24068831
Gil-Sanz C, Franco SJ, Martinez-Garay I, Espinosa A, Harkins-Perry S, Müller U. Cajal-Retzius cells instruct neuronal migration by coincidence signaling between secreted and contact-dependent guidance cues. Neuron. 2013 Aug 7;79(3):461-77. PubMed PMID: 23931996
Franco SJ, Müller U. Shaping our minds: stem and progenitor cell diversity in the mammalian neocortex. Neuron. 2013 Jan 9;77(1):19-34. PubMed PMID: 23312513
Brunne B, Franco S, Bouché E, Herz J, Howell BW, Pahle J, Müller U, May P, Frotscher M, Bock HH. Role of the postnatal radial glial scaffold for the development of the dentate gyrus as revealed by Reelin signaling mutant mice. Glia. 2013 Aug;61(8):1347-63. PubMed PMID: 23828756

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