Mercedes Paredes, MD, PhD

Assoc Professor in Residence
Neurology
Research Overview: 

The Paredes lab studies cortical development to understand the molecular and cellular basis of neuropsychiatric conditions, such as epilepsy, and brain malformations. Our hypothesis is that the gyrencephalic brain has evolved developmental processes and a prolonged timeline that, when disrupted, will lead to cortical disorganization and aberrant connectivity. We are currently focused on identifying features of neuronal progenitor proliferation and migration, with an emphasis on the perinatal period, that are unique to the gyrated brain. Our approach is to advance ways to directly investigate the human brain and to better model its development using gyrencephalic systems like the piglet cortex.

Migratory neurons in piglet brain

 

Primary Thematic Area: 
Neurobiology
Secondary Thematic Area: 
None
Research Summary: 
Studying cortical development to understand the molecular and cellular basis of neuropsychiatric conditions, such as epilepsy and brain malformations.
Publications: 

Molecular and cellular dynamics of the developing human neocortex at single-cell resolution.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Wang L, Wang C, Moriano JA, Chen S, Zuo G, Cebrián-Silla A, Zhang S, Mukhtar T, Wang S, Song M, de Oliveira LG, Bi Q, Augustin JJ, Ge X, Paredes MF, Huang EJ, Alvarez-Buylla A, Duan X, Li J, Kriegstein AR

Conservation, alteration, and redistribution of mammalian striatal interneurons.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Corrigan EK, DeBerardine M, Poddar A, Turrero García M, Schmitz MT, Harwell CC, Paredes MF, Krienen FM, Pollen AA

Large-scale neurophysiology and single-cell profiling in human neuroscience.

Nature

Lee AT, Chang EF, Paredes MF, Nowakowski TJ

Cell-Type Specificity of Mosaic Chromosome 1q Gain Resolved by snRNA-seq in a Case of Epilepsy With Hyaline Protoplasmic Astrocytopathy.

Neurology. Genetics

Leng K, Cadwell CR, Devine WP, Tihan T, Qi Z, Singhal NS, Glenn OA, Kamiya S, Wiita AP, Berger AC, Shieh JT, Titus EW, Paredes MF, Upadhyay V

Cell type specificity of mosaic chromosome 1q gain resolved by snRNA-seq in a case of epilepsy with hyaline protoplasmic astrocytopathy.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Leng K, Cadwell CR, Devine WP, Tihan T, Qi Z, Singhal N, Glenn O, Kamiya S, Wiita A, Berger A, Shieh JT, Titus EW, Paredes MF, Upadhyay V