Comparative Developmental Neurobiology
Neurons are the most diverse cell type in the animal body.
In the lab of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, our goal is to understand how the impressive diversity of neurons that can be found in the animal brain develops during the hours, days, or weeks of embryonic development and how it has evolved over the millions of years of evolution. We use single-cell sequencing and Drosophila powerful genetic tools to characterize complex neurodevelopmental mechanisms and understand how they have evolved.
Research Topics
Biologie quantitative et modélisation (Bioinformatics, Regulatory networks, Transciptomics), Développement et évolution (Cell fate and differentiation, Evolution, Neurobiology), Dynamique cellulaire et signalisation (Neurobiology, Gene expression), Dynamique du génome et des chromosomes (Gene expression, Genome structure and evolution), Pathologies moléculaires et cellulaires
Selected publications
Konstantinides N.*, Rossi A.M., Escobar A., Dudragne L., Chen Y.C., Tran T., Martinez Jaimes A., Özel M.N., Simon F., Shao Z., Tsankova N.M., Fullard J.F., Walldorf U., Roussos P., Desplan C.* (2021) A comprehensive series of temporal transcription factors in the fly visual system.
Biorxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.13.448242
* co-corresponding author
Simon F.*, Konstantinides N.* (2021) Single-cell transcriptomics in the Drosophila visual system: advances and perspectives on cell identity regulation, connectivity, and neuronal diversity evolution.
Developmental Biology 479:107-122
* co-corresponding author
Özel M.N., Jafari S., Holguera I., Chen Y.C, Benhra N., El-Danaf R.N., Kapuralin K., Malin J.A., Konstantinides N.*, Desplan C. (2021) Transient and heterogeneous neuronal types revealed by a comprehensive developmental atlas of the Drosophila optic lobe.
Nature 589(7840):88-95
* co-corresponding author
Konstantinides N.*, and Desplan C.* (2020) Neuronal differentiation strategies: insights from single-cell sequencing and machine learning.
Development 147: dev193631
* co-corresponding author
Konstantinides N.*, Kapuralin K., Fadil C., Barboza L., Satija R., Desplan C. (2018) Phenotypic convergence in the brain: distinct transcription factors regulate common terminal neuronal characters.
Cell 174(3):622-635.
* co-corresponding author
Konstantinides N.*, Degabriel S., Desplan C. (2018) Neuro-evo-devo in the single cell sequencing era.
Curr Opin Syst Biol 11:32-40.
* corresponding author
Konstantinides N.* and Averof M. (2014) A common cellular basis for muscle regeneration in arthropods and vertebrates.
Science 343(6172):788-91
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