Duncan NRI Faculty and Staff Publications
The Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Institute is home to 37 Principal Investigators, more than 400+ scientists and 10 Core labs.
Dan and Duncan Neurological Institute also house the Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation Laboratories which are focused on epilepsy research and Baylor College's of Medicine's Center for Drug Discovery which is aimed at quick identification and advancement of small molecules to clinical trials.
Since inception, more than 1700 scientific studies have been published, and more than 85 disease-causing genetic mutations have been discovered or co-discovered by our scientists. There are currently 6 active clinical trials and studies.
Submissions from 2025
Atg Conjugation-Dependent/Independent Mechanisms Underlie Lysosomal Stress-Induced TFEB Regulation, Shiori Akayama, Takayuki Shima, Tatsuya Kaminishi, et al.
Current Practices in the Study of Biomolecular Acondensates: A Community Comment, Simon Alberti, Paolo Arosio, Robert B Best, et al.
Maternal Loss of Mouse Nlrp2 Alters the Transcriptome and DNA Methylome in Gv Oocytes and Impairs Zygotic Genome Activation in Embryos, Zahra Anvar, Michael D Jochum, Imen Chakchouk, et al.
Acute MeCP2 Loss in Adult Mice Reveals Transcriptional and Chromatin Changes That Precede Neurological Dysfunction and Inform Pathogenesis, Sameer S Bajikar, Jian Zhou, Ryan O'Hara, et al.
IGF-1 Impacts Neocortical Interneuron Connectivity in Epileptic Spasm Generation and Resolution, Carlos J Ballester-Rosado, John T Le, Trang T Lam, et al.
Comparative Analysis of AAV Serotypes for Transduction of Olfactory Sensory Neurons, Benjamin D W Belfort, Johnathan D Jia, Alexandra R Garza, et al.
De Novo Variants in CDKL1 and CDKL2 Are Associated With Neurodevelopmental Symptoms, Ali H Bereshneh, Jonathan C Andrews, Daniel F Eberl, et al.
Adsl Deficiency Is a Secondary Mitochondrial Disease Affecting Organelle Homeostasis and ERK2/Akt Signaling in a Linear Genotype-Phenotype Relation, Matteo Bordi, Beatrice Testa, Claudia Compagnucci, et al.
Sex-Specific Astrocyte Regulation of Spinal Motor Circuits by Nkx6.1, Navish A Bosquez Huerta, Zhung-Fu Lee, Eun-Ah Christine Song, et al.
Developmental Transformations of Purkinje Cells Tracked by DNA Electrokinetic Mobility, Cheryl Brandenburg, Garrett W Crutcher, Andrea J Romanowski, et al.
Computationally Resolved Neuroprogenitor Cell Biomarkers Associate With Human Disorders, Gerarda Cappuccio, William T Choi, Fatih Semerci, et al.
Regulation of Food Intake by Connexin43 via Adipocyte-Sensory Neuron Electrical Synapses, Xi Chen, Xing Fang, Hong Zhou, et al.
Rare Variants in BMAL1 Are Associated With a Neurodevelopmental Syndrome, Vishnu Anand Cuddapah, Dechun Chen, Bumsik Cho, et al.
Sleep Drive, Not Total Sleep Amount, Increases Seizure Risk, Vishnu Anand Cuddapah, Cynthia T Hsu, Fernanda Valle Sirias, et al.
Structural Basis for mTORC1 Activation on the Lysosomal Membrane, Zhicheng Cui, Alessandra Esposito, Gennaro Napolitano, et al.
KMT2D Temporally Activates Neuronal Transcriptional Factor Genes To Mediate Cerebellar Granule Cell Differentiation, Shilpa S Dhar, Kyung-Pil Ko, Jinho Jang, et al.
Genome-Wide Prediction of Dominant and Recessive Neurodevelopmental Disorder-Associated Genes, Ryan S Dhindsa, Blake A Weido, Justin S Dhindsa, et al.
Time to Treatment in Pediatric Patients With Repeated Episodes of Status Epilepticus, Jennifer V Gettings, Iván Sánchez Fernández, Anne Anderson, et al.
Volumetric Changes in Cerebellar Transverse Zones: Age and Sex Effects in Health and Neurological Disorders, Farshid Ghiyamihoor, Payam Paymani, Jarrad Perron, et al.
Distinguishing PEX2 and PEX16 Gene Variant Severity for Mild, Severe and Atypical Peroxisome Biogenesis Disorders, Vanessa A Gomez, Oguz Kanca, Sharayu V Jangam, et al.
Synaptic Alterations in Pyramidal Cells Following Genetic Manipulation of Neuronal Excitability in Monkey Prefrontal Cortex, Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos, Takeaki Miyamae, Yosuke Nishihata, et al.
Blue-Shifted Ancyromonad Channelrhodopsins for Multiplex Optogenetics, Elena G Govorunova, Oleg A Sineshchekov, Hai Li, et al.
Diverse Ancestral Representation Improves Genetic Intolerance Metrics, Alexander L Han, Chloe F Sands, Dorota Matelska, et al.
Breaking the Synaptic Vesicle Cycle: Mechanistic Insights into Presynaptic Dysfunctions in Epilepsy, Kevin Jiang, Lu-Tang Yang, and Mingshan Xue
Molecular Logic for Cellular Specializations That Initiate the Auditory Parallel Processing Pathways, Junzhan Jing, Ming Hu, Tenzin Ngodup, et al.