Publications

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2025

Yilmaz E, Chen KW, Cakir EÖ, Bhattarai P, Liu M, Ciener BL, Qiao M, Lantigua R, Medrano M, Rivera D, Piriz AL, De Jager P, Bartolini F, Ma Y, Teich AF, Lee AJ, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Vardarajan BN, Mayeux R, Kizil C. (2025) Single-nucleus multiomics in brains from Hispanic individuals reveal APOE-ε4 -driven disruption of focal adhesion signaling in the presence of cerebrovascular pathology. medRxiv 2025.05.21.25328040. doi: 10.1101/2025.05.21.25328040. PMID: 40475150; PMCID: PMC12140522.

Bhattarai P, Yilmaz E, Cakir EÖ, Korkmaz HY, Lee AJ, Ma Y, Celikkaya H, Cosacak MI, Haage V, Wang X, Nelson N, Lin W, Zhang Y, Nuriel T, Jülich D, Iş Ö, Holley SA, de Jager P, Fisher E, Tubbesing K, Teich AF, Bertucci T, Temple S, Ertekin-Taner N, Vardarajan BN, Mayeux R, Kizil C. (2025) APOE- ε4-induced Fibronectin at the blood-brain barrier is a conserved pathological mediator of disrupted astrocyte-endothelia interaction in Alzheimer’s disease. bioRxiv 2025.01.24.634732. doi: 10.1101/2025.01.24.634732. PMID: 39975303; PMCID: PMC11838230.

Gumnit E, Gattoni G, Woych J, Deryckere A, Bhattarai P, Gillis JA, Kizil C, Tosches MA. (2025) Evolution of Cajal-Retzius Cells in Vertebrates from an Ancient Class of Tp73+ Neurons. bioRxiv. 2025.08.21.671508. doi: 10.1101/2025.08.21.671508. PMID: 40894618; PMCID: PMC12393536.

Ray NR, Bradley J, Yilmaz E, Kizil C, Kurup JT, Martin ER, Klein HU, Kunkle BW, Bennett DA, De Jager PL; Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium; Beecham GW, Cruchaga C, Reitz C. (2025) Local genetic covariance analysis with lipid traits identifies novel loci for early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. PLoS Genet. 21(3):e1011631. doi: 10.1371 journal.pgen.1011631. PMID: 40096060; PMCID: PMC11984970.

Popova S, Bhattarai P, Yilmaz E, Lascu D, Kuo JH, Erdem G, Coban B, Michling J, Cosacak MI, Tayran H, Kurth T, Schambony A, Buchholz F, Gentzel M, Kizil C. (2025) NCBP2-AS2 is a mitochondrial microprotein, regulates energy metabolism and neurogenesis, and is downregulated in Alzheimer’s disease. bioRxiv. 2025.01.25.634884. doi: 10.1101/2025.01.25.634884. PMID: 39975220; PMCID: PMC11838228.

2024

Bhattarai P, Gunasekaran TI, Belloy ME, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Jülich D, Tayran H, Yilmaz E, Flaherty D, Turgutalp B, Sukumar G, Alba C, McGrath EM, Hupalo DN, Bacikova D, Le Guen Y, Lantigua R, Medrano M, Rivera D, Recio P, Nuriel T, Ertekin-Taner N, Teich AF, Dickson DW, Holley S, Greicius M, Dalgard CL, Zody M, Mayeux R*, Kizil C*, Vardarajan BN* (2024). Rare genetic variation in Fibronectin 1 (FN1) protects against APOEe4 in Alzheimer’s disease. Acta Neuropathologica. 147(1):70. * equal contribution. doi:10.1007/s00401-024-02721-1

Tayran H, Yilmaz E, Bhattarai P, Min Y, Wang X, Ma Y, Wang N, Jeong I, Nelson N, Kassara N, Cosacak MI, Dogru RM, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Stenersen JM, Reddy JS, Qiao M, Flaherty D, Gunasekaran TI, Yang Z, Jurisch-Yaksi N, Teich AF, Kanekiyo T, Tosto G, Vardarajan BN, İş Ö, Ertekin-Taner N, Mayeux R, Kizil C. (2024) ABCA7-dependent induction of neuropeptide Y is required for synaptic resilience in Alzheimer’s disease through BDNF/NGFR signaling. Cell Genomics. 4(9):100642. doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100642.

Pedroni A, Yilmaz E, Del Vecchio L, Bhattarai P, Vidal IT, Dai YE, Koutsogiannis K, Kizil C*, Ampatzis K*. (2024). Decoding the molecular, cellular, and functional heterogeneity of zebrafish intracardiac nervous system. Nature Communications. 15(1):10483. * equal contribution. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-54830-w.

İş Ö, Wang X, Reddy JS, Min Y, Yilmaz E, Bhattarai P, Patel T, Bergman J, Quicksall Z, Heckman MG, Tutor-New FQ, Can Demirdogen B, White L, Koga S, Krause V, Inoue Y, Kanekiyo T, Cosacak MI, Nelson N, Lee AJ, Vardarajan B, Mayeux R, Kouri N, Deniz K, Carnwath T, Oatman SR, Lewis-Tuffin LJ, Nguyen T; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative; Carrasquillo MM, Graff-Radford J, Petersen RC, Jr Jack CR, Kantarci K, Murray ME, Nho K, Saykin AJ, Dickson DW, Kizil C, Allen M, Ertekin-Taner N. (2024) Gliovascular transcriptional perturbations in Alzheimer’s disease reveal molecular mechanisms of blood brain barrier dysfunction. Nature Communications. 15(1):4758. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48926-6.

Turgutalp B, Kizil C. (2024) Multi-target drugs for Alzheimer’s disease. Trends in Pharmacoloical Sciences. 45(7):628-638. doi: 10.1016/j.tips.2024.05.005.

Ray NR, Kunkle BW, Hamilton-Nelson K, Kurup JT, Rajabli F, Cosacak MI, Kizil C, Jean-Francois M, Cuccaro M, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Cantwell L, Kuzma A, Vance JM, Gao S, Hendrie HC, Baiyewu O, Ogunniyi A, Akinyemi RO; Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium; Lee WP, Martin ER, Wang LS, Beecham GW, Bush WS, Farrer LA, Haines JL, Byrd GS, Schellenberg GD, Mayeux R, Pericak-Vance MA, Reitz C. (2024). Extended genome-wide association study employing the African Genome Resources Panel identifies novel susceptibility loci for Alzheimers Disease in individuals of African ancestry. Alzheimers and Dementia. 20(8):5247-5261. doi: 10.1002/alz.13880

Haage V, Tuddenham JF, Comandante-Lou N, Bautista A, Monzel A, Chiu R, Fujita M, Garcia FG, Bhattarai P, Patel R, Buonfiglioli A, Idiarte J, Herman M, Rinderspacher A, Mela A, Zhao W, Argenziano MG, Furnari JL, Banu MA, Landry DW, Bruce JN, Canoll P, Zhang Y, Nuriel T, Kizil C, Sproul AA, de Witte LD, Sims PA, Menon V, Picard M, De Jager PL. (2024) A pharmacological toolkit for human microglia identifies Topoisomerase I inhibitors as immunomodulators for Alzheimer’s disease. BioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.02.06.579103.

Rayamajhi D, Ege M, Ukhanov K, Ringers C, Zhang Y, Jung I, D’Gama PP, Li SS, Cosacak MI, Kizil C, Park HC, Yaksi E, Martens JR, Brody SL, Jurisch-Yaksi N, Roy S. (2024) The forkhead transcription factor Foxj1 controls vertebrate olfactory cilia biogenesis and sensory neuron differentiation. PLoS Biology. 22(1):e3002468. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002468.

Carter RC, Yang Z, Akkaya-Hocagil T, Jacobson SW, Jacobson JL, Dodge NC, Hoyme HE, Zeisel SH, Meintjes EM, Kizil C, Tosto G. (2024) Genetic admixture predictors of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in a South African population. Gene. 931:148854. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2024.148854.

2020-2023

Chen, F., Kohler, M., Cucun, G., Takamiya, M., Kizil, C., Cosacak, M.I., and Rastegar, S. (2023). sox1a:eGFP transgenic line and single-cell transcriptomics reveal the origin of zebrafish intraspinal serotonergic neurons. iScience 26, 107342. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.107342

Kim, Y.A., Mellen, M., Kizil, C., and Santa-Maria, I. (2023). Mechanisms linking cerebrovascular dysfunction and tauopathy: Adding a layer of epiregulatory complexity. British Journal of Pharmacology. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1111/bph.16280

Siddiqui T, Cosacak MI, Popova S, Bhattarai P, Yilmaz E, Lee AJ, Min Y, Wang X, Allen M, İş Ö, Atasavum ZT, Rodriguez-Muela N, Vardarajan BN, Flaherty D, Teich AF, Santa-Maria I, Freudenberg U, Werner C, Tosto G, Mayeux R, Ertekin-Taner N, Kizil C. (2023). Nerve growth factor receptor (Ngfr) induces neurogenic plasticity by suppressing reactive astroglial Lcn2/Slc22a17 signaling in Alzheimer’s disease. NPJ Regenerative Medicine 8, 33. doi: 10.1038/s41536-023-00311-5 

Lin W, Gandhi S, Bhattarai P, Kasa K, Kizil C*, Zhang Y*. Combining high throughput array synthesis and growth algorithm to discover TNF-α binders with new structures and properties. European Journal of Medical Chemistry. 2023. 248:115078. doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2022.115078. * equal contribution.

Siddiqui T, Celikkaya H, Atasavum ZT, Popova S, Freudenberg U, Werner C, Kizil C. Three-Dimensional Biohybrid StarPEG-Heparin Hydrogel Cultures for Modeling Human Neuronal Development and Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology. Methods in Molecular Biology. 2023. 2561:159-170. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2655-9_8.

Felsky D, Santa-Maria I, Cosacak MI, French L, Schneider JA, Bennett DA, De Jager PL, Kizil C, Tosto G. The Caribbean-Hispanic Alzheimer’s disease brain transcriptome reveals ancestry-specific disease mechanisms. Neurobiology of Disease. 2022. 176:105938. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2022.105938.

Kim YA, Siddiqui T, Blaze J, Cosacak MI, Winters T, Kumar A, Tein E, Sproul AA, Teich AF, Bartolini F, Akbarian S, Kizil C, Hargus G, Santa-Maria I. RNA methyltransferase NSun2 deficiency promotes neurodegeneration through epitranscriptomic regulation of tau phosphorylation. Acta Neuropathologica. 2022. doi: 10.1007/s00401-022-02511-7.

Bhattarai P, Turgutalp B, Kizil C. Zebrafish as an Experimental and Preclinical Model for Alzheimer’s Disease. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 2022. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro. 2c00583.

Lee AJ, Raghavan NS, Bhattarai P, Siddiqui T, Sariya S, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Flowers XE, Cardoso SAL, De Jager PL, Bennett DA, Schneider JA, Menon V, Wang Y, Lantigua RA, Medrano M, Rivera D, Jiménez-Velázquez IZ, Kukull WA, Brickman AM, Manly JJ, Tosto G, Kizil C*, Vardarajan BN*, Mayeux R*. FMNL2 regulates gliovascular interactions and is associated with vascular risk factors and cerebrovascular pathology in Alzheimer’s disease. Acta Neuropathologica. 2022 Jul;144(1):59-79. doi: 10.1007/s00401-022-02431-6. * equal contribution. Open access.

Turgutalp B, Bhattarai P, Ercetin T, Luise C, Reis R, Gurdal EE, Isaak A, Biriken D, Dinter E, Sipahi H, Schepmann D, Junker A, Wünsch B, Sippl W, Gulcan HO, Kizil C*, Yarim M*. Discovery of Potent Cholinesterase Inhibition-Based Multi-Target-Directed Lead Compounds for Synaptoprotection in Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 2022. 65(18):12292-12318. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.2c01003.  * equal contribution

Kizil C, Sariya S, Kim YA, Rajabli F, Martin E, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Vardarajan B, Maldonado A, Haines JL, Mayeux R, Jiménez-Velázquez IZ, Santa-Maria I, Tosto G. Admixture Mapping of Alzheimer’s disease in Caribbean Hispanics identifies a new locus on 22q13.1. Molecular Psychiatry. 2022. 27(6):2813-2820. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01526-6.

D’Gama PP, Qiu T, Cosacak MI, Rayamajhi D, Konac A, Hansen JN, Ringers C, Acuña-Hinrichsen F, Hui SP, Olstad EW, Chong YL, Lim CKA, Gupta A, Ng CP, Nilges BS, Kashikar ND, Wachten D, Liebl D, Kikuchi K, Kizil C, Yaksi E, Roy S, Jurisch-Yaksi N. Diversity and function of motile ciliated cell types within ependymal lineages of the zebrafish brain. Cell Reports. 2021. 37(1):109775. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109775. Open access.

Siddiqui T, Bhattarai P, Popova S, Cosacak MI, Sariya S, Zhang Y, Mayeux R, Tosto G, Kizil C. KYNA/Ahr Signaling Suppresses Neural Stem Cell Plasticity and Neurogenesis in Adult Zebrafish Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Cells. 2021. 10(10):2748. doi: 10.3390/cells10102748. Open access.

Chang W, Pedroni A, Bertuzzi M, Kizil C, Simon A, Ampatzis K. Locomotion dependent neuron-glia interactions control neurogenesis and regeneration in the adult zebrafish spinal cord. Nature Communications. 2021. 12(1):4857. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25052-1. Open access.

Cosacak MI, Bhattarai P, Kizil C. Protocol for Dissection and Dissociation of Zebrafish Telencephalon for Single-Cell Sequencing. STAR Protocols. 2020. 1(1):100042. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2020.100042. Open access.

Fore S, Acuña-Hinrichsen F, Mutlu KA, Bartoszek EM, Serneels B, Faturos NG, Chau KTP, Cosacak MI, Verdugo CD, Palumbo F, Ringers C, Jurisch-Yaksi N, Kizil C, Yaksi E. Functional properties of habenular neurons are determined by developmental stage and sequential neurogenesis. Science Advances. 2020. 6(36):eaaz3173. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz3173. Open access.

Jurisch-Yaksi N, Yaksi E, Kizil C. Radial glia in the zebrafish brain: Functional, structural, and physiological comparison with the mammalian glia. Glia. 2020. 68(12):2451-2470. doi: 10.1002/glia.23849.

Mashkaryan V, Siddiqui T, Popova S, Cosacak MI, Bhattarai P, Brandt K, Govindarajan N, Petzold A, Reinhardt S, Dahl A, Lefort R, Kizil C. Type 1 Interleukin-4 Signaling Obliterates Mouse Astroglia in vivo but Not in vitro. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 2020. 8:114. doi:10.3389/fcell.2020.00114. Open access.

Bhattarai P, Cosacak MI, Mashkaryan V, Demir S, Popova SD, Govindarajan N, Brandt K, Zhang Y, Chang W, Ampatzis K, Kizil C. Neuron-glia interaction through Serotonin-BDNF-NGFR axis enables regenerative neurogenesis in Alzheimer’s model of adult zebrafish brain. PLoS Biology. 2020. 18(1):e3000585. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000585. Open access.

Cosacak MI, Bhattarai P, Kizil C. Alzheimer’s disease, neural stem cells and neurogenesis: cellular phase at single-cell level. Neural Regeneration Research. 2020. 15(5):824-827. doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.268896. 

Diaz Verdugo C, Myren-Svelstad S, Aydin E, Van Hoeymissen E, Deneubourg C, Vanderhaeghe S, Vancraeynest J, Pelgrims R, Cosacak MI, Muto A, Kizil C, Kawakami K, Jurisch-Yaksi N, Yaksi E. Glia-neuron interactions underlie state transitions to generalized seizures. Nature Communications. 2019. 10(1):3830. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11739-z. Open access.

Cosacak MI, Bhattarai P, Reinhardt S, Petzold A, Dahl A, Zhang Y, Kizil C. Single-Cell Transcriptomics Analyses of Neural Stem Cell Heterogeneity and Contextual Plasticity in a Zebrafish Brain Model of Amyloid Toxicity. Cell Reports. 2019 Apr 23;27(4):1307-1318.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.03.090. Open access.

Diaz Verdugo C, Myren-Svelstad S, Aydin E, Van Hoeymissen E, Deneubourg C, Vanderhaeghe S, Vancraeynest J, Pelgrims R, Cosacak MI, Muto A, Kizil C, Kawakami K, Jurisch-Yaksi N, Yaksi E. Glia-neuron interactions underlie state transitions  to generalized seizures. Nature Communications. 2019 Aug 23;10(1):3830. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11739-z. Open access.

Cosacak MI, Bhattarai P, Kizil C. Alzheimer’s disease, neural stem cells and neurogenesis: cellular phase at single-cell level. Neural Regeneration Research. 2020 May;15(5):824-827. doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.268896. Open access.

2017-2019

Celikkaya H, Cosacak MI, Papadimitriou C, Popova S, Bhattarai P, Biswas SN, Siddiqui T, Wistorf S, Nevado-Alcalde I, Naumann L, Mashkaryan V, Brandt K, Freudenberg U, Werner C, Kizil C. (2019) GATA3 Promotes the Neural Progenitor State but Not Neurogenesis in 3D Traumatic Injury Model of Primary Human Cortical Astrocytes. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 13:23. doi:10.3389/fncel.2019.00023. Open access.

Reinhardt L, Kordes S, Reinhardt P, Glatza M, Baumann M, Drexler HCA, Menninger S, Zischinsky G, Eickhoff J, Fröb C, Bhattarai P, Arulmozhivarman G, Marrone L, Janosch A, Adachi K, Stehling M, Anderson EN, Abo-Rady M, Bickle M, Pandey UB, Reimer MM, Kizil C, Schöler HR, Nussbaumer P, Klebl B, Sterneckert JL. (2019) Dual Inhibition of GSK3β and CDK5 Protects the Cytoskeleton of Neurons from Neuroinflammatory-Mediated Degeneration In Vitro and In Vivo. Stem Cell Reports. 12(3):502-517. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2019.01.015. Open access.

Kizil C, Bhattarai P. (2018) Is Alzheimer’s Also a Stem Cell Disease? – The Zebrafish Perspective. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 6:159. doi:10.3389/fcell.2018.00159. Open Access.

Papadimitriou C, Celikkaya H, Cosacak MI, Mashkaryan V, Bray L, Bhattarai P, Brandt K, Hollak H, Chen X, He S, Antos CL, Lin W, Thomas AK, Dahl A, Kurth T, Friedrichs J, Zhang Y, Freudenberg U, Werner C, Kizil C. (2018) 3D Culture Method for Alzheimer’s Disease Modeling Reveals Interleukin-4 Rescues Aβ42-Induced Loss of Human Neural Stem Cell Plasticity. Developmental Cell. 46(1):85-101.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.06.005.

Kizil, C. (2018). Mechanisms of pathology-induced neural stem cell plasticity and neural regeneration in adult zebrafish brain.  Current Pathobiology Reports. 10.1007/s40139-018-0158-x (PDF)

Cosacak, MI, Yigit, H, Kizil, C, Akgul, B. (2018) Re-Arrangements in the Cytoplasmic Distribution of Small RNAs Following the Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition in Drosophila Embryos. Genes 9:82. 10.3390/genes9020082. (PDF)

Kizil, C. (2018). Turkish Medical Association central council detained for demanding peace. Lancet. PubMed 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30201-0 (PDF)

Cosacak MI, Bhattarai P, Bocova L, Dzewas T, Mashkaryan V, Papadimitriou C, Brandt K, Hollak H, Antos CL, Kizil C. (2017). Human TAUP301L overexpression results in TAU hyperphosphorylation without neurofibrillary tangles in adult zebrafish brain. Scientific Reports. 7(1), 12959. PubMed 10.1038/s41598-017-13311-5 (PDF)

Bhattarai P, Thomas AK, Mashkaryan V, Cosacak MI, Papadimitriou C, Zhang Y, Kizil C. (2017) Modeling Amyloid-beta42 toxicity and neurodegeneration in adult zebrafish brain. JoVE. 128. PubMed 10.3791/56014

Bhattarai P, Thomas AK, Zhang Y, Kizil C. (2017). The effects of ageing on Amyloid-b42-induced neurodegeneration and regeneration in adult zebrafish brain. Neurogenesis. 4(1):e1322666. PubMed 10.1080/23262133.2017.1322666 (PDF)

Kizil C. (2017) An existential threat. New Scientist. 234(3121):24-25. doi: 1016/S0262-4079(17)30727-3. Link

2014-2016

Bhattarai P, Thomas AK, Cosacak MI, Papadimitriou C, Mashkaryan V, Froc C, Reinhardt S, Kurth T, Dahl A, Zhang Y, Kizil C. (2016) IL4/STAT6 activates neural stem cells in response to Amyloid-b42 aggregation in adult zebrafish brain. Cell Reports, 17(4): 941-948. PubMed 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.09.075 (PDF)

Tincer, G., Mashkaryan, V., Bhattarai, P., Kizil, C. (2016). Neural stem/progenitor cells in Alzheimer’s disease. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 89(1), 23–35. PubMed

Kizil C. (2016) Degrees of freedom. New Scientist. 231(3084):20-21. doi: 1016/S0262-4079(16)31366-5. Link

Kizil C*, Alberts B, Ayata P, Blobel G, Capecchi M, Clark MM, Curl R, Freiwald WA, Hoffmann R, Mucida D, Nestler EJ, Skotheim JM, Trautmann A, zur Hausen H, Altindis E. (2016). Government: Concern grows for Turkey’s academics. Nature. 529(7587):466. doi: 10.1038/529466a. (*Corresponding author). PubMed

Kizil C*, Kyritsis N, Brand M. (2015) Effects of inflammation on stem cells: together they strive? EMBO Reports. 16(4):416-26. (corresponding author). PubMed 10.15252/embr.201439702

Cosacak MI, Papadimitriou C, Kizil C. (2014). Regeneration, plasticity and induced molecular programs in adult zebrafish brain. BioMed Research International. 2015:769763. PubMed 10.1155/2015/769763

Kizil C, Iltzsche A, Thomas AK, Bhattarai P, Zhang Y, Brand M. (2015) Efficient Cargo Delivery into Adult Brain Tissue Using Short Cell-Penetrating Peptides. PLoS One. 10(4):e0124073. PubMed

Kizil C, Küchler B, Yan JJ, Ozhan G, Moro E, Argenton F, Brand M, Weidinger G, Antos CL. (2014) Simplet/Fam53b is required for Wnt signal transduction by regulating β-catenin nuclear localization. Development. 141(18):3529-39. PubMed

Kyritsis N*, Kizil C*, Brand M. (2014) The role of neuroinflammation in central nervous system regeneration. Trends in Cell Biology. 24(2):128-35 (* equal contribution). PubMed

2013 or earlier

Kizil C#, Iltzsche A, Kaslin J, Brand M. (2013) Micromanipulation of gene expression in the adult zebrafish brain using cerebroventricular microinjection of morpholino oligonucleotides. JoVE. e50415 (# Corresponding author) PubMed

Altindis E, Alpar MA, Aksay E, Beckwith J, Bökel C, Curl RF, Darnell RB, Elledge SJ, Erman B, Frahm J, Goff SP, Greengard P, Hoffmann R, Ilhan B, Kaslin J, Lipkin SM, Poulopoulou C, Raz E, Rubin MA, Salturk M, Schrock RR, Trautmann A, Unutmaz D, Weinstein H, Kizil C*. (2013) Turkey must end violent response to protests. Science. 341(6143):236. (*Corresponding author) PubMed

Kizil C, Kyritsis N, Dudczig S, Kroehne V, Freudenreich F, Kaslin J, Brand M. (2012) Regenerative neurogenesis from neural progenitor cells requires injury-induced expression of Gata3. Developmental Cell. 23(6): 1230-1237. PubMed

  • Related Commentary: Strähle U, Schmidt R. (2012) A universal program for tissue regeneration? Developmental Cell. 23(6):1123-4.  PubMed

Kyritsis N, Kizil C, Kroehne V, Zocher S, Kaslin J, Freudenreich D, Iltzsche A, Brand M. (2012) Acute inflammation initiates the regenerative response in the adult zebrafish brain. Science. 338(6112): 1353-1356. PubMed

  • Related commentary: Stella N. (2012) Neuroscience. Inflammation to rebuild a brain. Science. 338(6112):1303-4. PubMed
  • Related commentary: Cui Y, Li J, Arias-Carrión O, Yuan TF. (2012) Utilizing neuro-inflammation: turning degeneration to regeneration. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 11(8):953-4. PubMed

Kizil C, Dudczig S, Kyritsis N, Machate A, Blaesche J, Kroehne V, Brand M. (2012). The chemokine receptor cxcr5 regulates the regenerative neurogenesis response in the adult zebrafish brain. Neural Development 7:27. PubMed

Kizil C, Kaslin J, Kroehne V, Brand M. (2012) Adult neurogenesis and brain regeneration in zebrafish. Developmental Neurobiology 72(3):429-461. PubMed

Kizil C, Brand M (2011) Cerebroventricular Microinjection (CVMI) into Adult Zebrafish Brain Is an Efficient Misexpression Method for Forebrain Ventricular Cells. PLoS ONE 6(11): e27395. PubMed

Kizil C. (2011) Academic autonomy: more freedom for Turkish science. Nature. 477(7366):538. PubMed

Kizil C. (2011) Turkish science seeks freedom. Science. 334(6055):452-3. PubMed

Kizil C, Otto GW, Geisler R, Nüsslein-Volhard C, Antos CL. (2009). Simplet controls cell proliferation and gene transcription during zebrafish caudal fin regeneration. Developmental Biology. 325(2):329-40. PubMed

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