Publications

Fernandopulle MS, Prestil R, Grunseich C, Wang C, Gan L, Ward ME.  2018.  Transcription Factor-Mediated Differentiation of Human iPSCs into Neurons.. Curr Protoc Cell Biol. 79(1):e51.

Tracy TE, Madero-Pérez J, Swaney DL, Chang TS, Moritz M, Konrad C, Ward ME, Stevenson E, Huttenhain R, Kauwe G et al..  2022.  Tau interactome maps synaptic and mitochondrial processes associated with neurodegeneration.. Cell. 185(4):712-728.e14.

Krencik R, Seo K, van Asperen JV, Basu N, Cvetkovic C, Barlas S, Chen R, Ludwig C, Wang C, Ward ME et al..  2017.  Systematic Three-Dimensional Coculture Rapidly Recapitulates Interactions between Human Neurons and Astrocytes.. Stem Cell Reports. 9(6):1745-1753.

Cho S-H, Chen JA, Sayed F, Ward ME, Gao F, Nguyen TA, Krabbe G, Sohn PDongmin, Lo I, Minami S et al..  2015.  SIRT1 deficiency in microglia contributes to cognitive decline in aging and neurodegeneration via epigenetic regulation of IL-1β.. J Neurosci. 35(2):807-18.

S Minami S, Sun B, Popat K, Kauppinen T, Pleiss M, Zhou Y, Ward ME, Floreancig P, Mucke L, Desai T et al..  2012.  Selective targeting of microglia by quantum dots.. J Neuroinflammation. 9:22.

Wang C, Ward ME, Chen R, Liu K, Tracy TE, Chen X, Xie M, Sohn PDongmin, Ludwig C, Meyer-Franke A et al..  2017.  Scalable Production of iPSC-Derived Human Neurons to Identify Tau-Lowering Compounds by High-Content Screening.. Stem Cell Reports. 9(4):1221-1233.

A Willsey J, Morris MT, Wang S, Willsey HR, Sun N, Teerikorpi N, Baum TB, Cagney G, Bender KJ, Desai TA et al..  2018.  The Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative: A Convergent Systems Biological Approach to Illuminating Key Molecular Pathways in Neuropsychiatric Disorders.. Cell. 174(3):505-520.

S Minami S, Min S-W, Krabbe G, Wang C, Zhou Y, Asgarov R, Li Y, Martens LH, Elia LP, Ward ME et al..  2014.  Progranulin protects against amyloid β deposition and toxicity in Alzheimer's disease mouse models.. Nat Med. 20(10):1157-64.

Krabbe G, S Minami S, Etchegaray JI, Taneja P, Djukic B, Davalos D, Le D, Lo I, Zhan L, Reichert MC et al..  2017.  Microglial NFκB-TNFα hyperactivation induces obsessive-compulsive behavior in mouse models of progranulin-deficient frontotemporal dementia.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 114(19):5029-5034.

Ward ME, Chen R, Huang H-Y, Ludwig C, Telpoukhovskaia M, Taubes A, Boudin H, Minami SS, Reichert M, Albrecht P et al..  2017.  Individuals with progranulin haploinsufficiency exhibit features of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis.. Sci Transl Med. 9(385)

Ward ME, Taubes A, Chen R, Miller BL, Sephton CF, Gelfand JM, Minami S, Boscardin J, Martens LHerl, Seeley WW et al..  2014.  Early retinal neurodegeneration and impaired Ran-mediated nuclear import of TDP-43 in progranulin-deficient FTLD.. J Exp Med. 211(10):1937-45.

Dräger NM, Sattler SM, Huang CTzu-Ling, Teter OM, Leng K, Hashemi SHadi, Hong J, Aviles G, Clelland CD, Zhan L et al..  2022.  A CRISPRi/a platform in human iPSC-derived microglia uncovers regulators of disease states.. Nat Neurosci.