Zhang Laboratory
Relevant Publications
Weick JP, Johnson MA, Skroch SP, Williams JC, Deisseroth K, Zhang SC (2010): Functional control of transplantable human ESC-derived neurons via optogenetic targeting. Stem Cells, accepted.
Zhang X, Huang CT, Chen J, Pankratz MT, Xi J, Li J, Yang Y, LaVaute TM, Li XJ, Ayala M, Bondarenko GI, Z Du ZW, Jin Y, Golos TG, Zhang SC (2010): Pax6 Is a Human Neuroectoderm Cell Fate Determinant. Cell Stem Cell, 7: 90-100. NIHMSID 206512.
Hu B.Y., Weick J., Yu J. Zhang X.., Ma L., Thomson J.A., Zhang SC (2010): Neural Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Follows Developmental Principles but with Variable Potency. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107: 4335-4340. PMCID: 20160098
Li XJ, Zhang X, Johnson MA, Wang ZB, Lavaute TM, Zhang SC (2009): Coordination of Sonic hedgehog and Wnt signaling determines ventral and dorsal telencephalic neuron types from human embryonic stem cells. Development, 136:4055-4063. PMCID2778748
Hu, B., Du, Z.W., Li, X.J., Ayala, M., Zhang, SC. (2009) Oligodendrocytes from human embryonic stem cells: Conserved transcription networks and divergent FGF effects. Development, 136:1443-1452. PMCID:2673255
Du, Z.W., Hu, B.Y., Sauer, B., Zhang, SC. (2009) Cre recombination-mediated cassette exchange for building versatile transgenic human embryonic stem cells lines. Stem Cells, 27:1032-1041. PMCID:2801346
Yang, D., Zhang, Z., Oldenburg, M., Ayala, M., Zhang, SC. (2008) Human ES cell-derived dopamine neurons reverse functional deficit in a Parkinson’s rat. Stem Cells, 26: 55-63. PMC#2707927
Johnson, M.A., Weick, J., Pearce, R., Zhang, SC. (2007) Functional neural development of human embryonic stem cells: Accelerated synaptic activity via astrocyte co-culture. Journal of Neuroscience., 27:3069-3077. PMCID:2735200
Pankratz, M.T., Li, X.J., Lavaute, T.M., Lyons, E.A., Chen, X., Zhang, SC. (2007) Directed neural differentiation of human embryonic stem cells via an obligated primitive anterior stage. Stem Cells 25: 1511-1520. PMCID:2743478
Li XJ, Du ZW, Zarnowska ED, Pankratz M, Hansen LO, Pearce RA, Zhang S-C (2005): Specification of motoneurons from human embryonic stem cells. Nature Biotechnology., 23: 215-221.