Patterning and Cell Type Specification in the Developing CNS and PNS: Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience

Patterning and Cell Type Specification in the Developing CNS and PNS: Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience

Table of Contents:
I: INDUCTION AND PATTERNING OF THE CNS AND PNS 1. Morphogens, Patterning Centers, and their Mechanisms of Action Edwin Shinichi Monuki 2. Telencephalon Patterning Shubha Tole and Jean Hébert 3. Area Patterning of the Mammalian Neocortex Elizabeth A. Grove 4. Patterning of Thalamus Guillermina López-Bendito 5. Midbrain Patterning: Polarity Formation of the Tectum, Midbrain Regionalization, and Isthmus Organizer Harukazu Nakamura 6. Cerebellar Patterning Hitoshi Komuro 7. Spinal Cord Patterning Catarina Catela 8. The Formation and Maturation of Neuromuscular Junctions Gregorio Valdez 9. Neural Induction of Embryonic Stem/Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Anindita Sarkar, Maria Carol Marchetto and Fred H. Gage 10. Cerebral organoids Orly Reiner and Eyal Karzburn 11. Formation of gyri and sulci Katherine Long and Wieland B. Huttner II: GENERATION OF NEURONAL DIVERSITY 12. Cell Biology of Neuronal Progenitor Cells Qin Shen 13. Notch and Neural Development Joshua J. Breunig 14. bHLH Factors in Neurogenesis and Neuronal Subtype Specification Jane Johnson 15. The Specification and Generation of Neurons in the Ventral Spinal Cord Michael Matise and Kamal Sharma 16. Neurogenesis in the Cerebellum Kathleen J Millen 17. The Generation of Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons Sandra Blaess and Siew-Lan Ang 18. Neurogenesis in the Basal Ganglia Kenneth James Campbell 19. Specification of Cortical Projection Neurons: Transcriptional Mechanisms Jeffrey D. Macklis 20. The Generation of Cortical Interneurons Gordon Fishell and Renata Batista-Brito 21. Specification of Retinal Cell Types Bernadett Bosze, Robert B. Hufnagel and Nadean L. Brown 22. Neurogenesis in the Postnatal VZ-SVZ and the Origin of Interneuron Diversity Arturo Alvarez-Buylla 23. Neurogenesis in the Damaged Mammalian Brain Masato Nakafuku 24. Neurogenesis in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans Oliver Hobert 25. Development of the Drosophila melanogaster embryonic CNS: From neuroectoderm to unique neurons and glia Stefan Thor 26. Neurogenesis in Zebrafish Laure Bally-Cuif 27. Gene regulatory networks controlling neuronal diversity: epigenetics/lncRNAs/enhancers Jason T. Lambert, Jessica Haigh and Alex S. Nord 28. Post-transcriptional and translational control of neurogenesis Debra Silver 29. Human neurogenesis: single cell sequencing and in vitro modeling (cerebral organoids) Arnold Kriegstein, Aparna Bhaduri and Madeline Andrews III: DEVELOPMENT OF GLIA, BLOOD VESSELS, CHOROID PLEXUS, IMMUNE CELLS IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 30. ‘Glial’ Biology: Has it Come to the Beginning of the End? David Rowitch and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla 31. Neural Stem Cells Among Glia Arnold Kriegstein and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla 32. Structure and Function of Myelinated Axons Matthew Rasband 33. Mechanisms of Astrocyte Development Debosmita Sardar, Anna Victoria Molofsky and Benjamin Deneen 34. Specification of Macroglia by Transcription Factors: Oligodendrocytes Michael Wegner 35. Specification of Macroglia by Transcription Factors: Schwann Cells John Svaren 36. Signaling Pathways that Regulate Glial Development and Early Migration – Oligodendrocytes　 Stephen Fancy and Robert H. Miller 37. Signaling Pathways that Regulate Glial Development and Early Migration – Schwann Cells Kristjan R. Jessen and Rhona Mirsky 38. Microglia Astrid E. Cardona, Katerina Akassoglou and Dimitrios Davalos 39. Ependymal cells Kazunobu Sawamoto and Nathalie Spassky 40. Meninges and Vasculature Julie Siegenthaler and Samuel Pleasure 41. Neuron–Glial Interactions: Neurotransmitter Signaling to Cells of the Oligodendrocyte Lineage Dwight Bergles 42. Nonmammalian Model Systems: Zebrafish Bruce Appel and Kelly Monk 43. Astrocyte-Synapse Interactions and Neural Circuit Regulation Nicola Allen in Glial Biology: Imaging Neuroglial Pathology In Vivo

About the Author :
Dr. Rubenstein is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He also serves as a Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child Psychiatry at the Nina Ireland Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology. His research focuses on the regulatory genes that orchestrate development of the forebrain. Dr. Rubenstein's lab has demonstrated the role of specific genes in regulating neuronal specification, differentiation, migration and axon growth during embryonic development and on through adult life. His work may help to explain some of the mechanisms underlying human neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. Dr. Rakic is currently at the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, where his main research interest is in the development and evolution of the human brain. After obtaining his MD from the University of Belgrade School of Medicine, his research career began in 1962 with a Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University after which he obtained his graduate degrees in Developmental Biology and Genetics. He held a faculty position at Harvard Medical School for 8 years prior to moving to Yale University, where he founded and served as Chair of the Department of Neurobiology for 37 years, and also founder and director of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience. In 2015, he returned to work full-time on his research projects, funded by US Public Health Services and various private foundations. He is well known for his studies of the development and evolution of the brain, in particular his discovery of basic cellular and molecular mechanisms of proliferation and migration of neurons in the cerebral cortex. He was president of the Society for Neuroscience and popularized this field with numerous lectures given in over 35 counties. In 2008, Rakic shared the inaugural Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Thomas Jessell and Stan Grillner. He is currently the Dorys McConell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and serves on Advisory Boards and Scientific Councils of a number of Institutions and Research Foundations. Dr. Chen is Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Research in her laboratory focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the generation of diverse cell types in the brain, and the assembly of these cell types into functional neural circuits. Dr. Chen completed her graduate study with Dr. Sidney Strickland at Stony Brook University-SUNY, and her post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Susan McConnell at Stanford University. She has 22 years of experience in genetics and developmental neurobiology research. Her laboratory has been funded by the March of Dimes Foundation, California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, and National Institute of Health. Dr. Kwan is Assistant Professor of Human Genetics and Research Assistant Professor in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan Medical School. Research in his laboratory is aimed at the molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie normal neural circuit assembly in the cerebral cortex and their dysregulation in human neurodevelopmental disorders, in particular autism spectrum disorder, fragile X syndrome, and schizophrenia. Dr. Kwan completed his graduate and post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Nenad Sestan at Yale School of Medicine. He has 14 years of experience in developmental neurobiology research and his worked has been recognized by awards from the Brain Research Foundation, March of Dimes Foundation, Simons Foundation, and Cajal Club.