Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD

Director
M_Neurology
415-476-0766

Neural Stem Cells and Embryonic Cortical Development

Research in our lab focuses on the way in which neural stem and progenitor cells produce neurons, and ways in which this information can be used for cell based therapies to treat diseases of the nervous system.  We found that radial glial cells, long thought to simply guide nerve cells during migration, are neuronal stem cells in the developing brain.  We also found a second type of nerve cell precursor produced by radial glial cells suggesting a new mechanism for the generation of cell diversity and potential new strategies for generating specific neuronal subtypes.  Recent insights gained from studies of the developing human cerebral cortex are illuminating potential evolutionary steps that contributed to structural and functional features of the human brain, as well as neurodevelopmental events that underlie a spectrum of cortical disorders including autism, schizophrenia, and epilepsy.  Unlike the developing rodent cortex, the developing human cortex contains a massively expanded outer proliferative zone that is thought to account for the bulk of cortical neurogenesis.  We have begun to characterize the types of progenitor cells within this progenitor region, to determine the genetic profiles of specific progenitor populations, and to explore how these cells contribute to the huge expansion of neuron number that characterize the human cerebral cortex. 

Lab Website

Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research

Publications

Fate plasticity of interneuron specification.

Mostajo-Radji MA, Leon WRM, Breevoort A, Gonzalez-Ferrer J, Schweiger HE, Lehrer J, Zhou L, Schmitz MT, Perez Y, Mukhtar T, Robbins A, Chu J, Andrews MG, Sullivan FN, Tejera D, Choy EC, Paredes MF, Teodorescu M, Kriegstein AR, Alvarez-Buylla A, Pollen AA

The commitment of the human cell atlas to humanity.

Amit I, Ardlie K, Arzuaga F, Awandare G, Bader G, Bernier A, Carninci P, Donnelly S, Eils R, Forrest ARR, Greely HT, Guigo R, Hacohen N, Haniffa M, Kirby ES, Knoppers BM, Kriegstein A, Lein ES, Linnarsson S, Majumder PP, Merad M, Meyer K, Mhlanga MM, Nolan G, Ntusi NAB, Pe'er D, Prabhakar S, Raven-Adams M, Regev A, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Saha S, Saltzman A, Shalek AK, Shin JW, Stunnenberg H, Teichmann SA, Tickle T, Villani AC, Wells C, Wold B, Yang H, Zhuang X

Tropism of SARS-CoV-2 for human cortical astrocytes.

Andrews MG, Mukhtar T, Eze UC, Simoneau CR, Ross J, Parikshak N, Wang S, Zhou L, Koontz M, Velmeshev D, Siebert CV, Gemenes KM, Tabata T, Perez Y, Wang L, Mostajo-Radji MA, de Majo M, Donohue KC, Shin D, Salma J, Pollen AA, Nowakowski TJ, Ullian E, Kumar GR, Winkler EA, Crouch EE, Ott M, Kriegstein AR

A roadmap for the Human Developmental Cell Atlas.

Haniffa M, Taylor D, Linnarsson S, Aronow BJ, Bader GD, Barker RA, Camara PG, Camp JG, Chédotal A, Copp A, Etchevers HC, Giacobini P, Göttgens B, Guo G, Hupalowska A, James KR, Kirby E, Kriegstein A, Lundeberg J, Marioni JC, Meyer KB, Niakan KK, Nilsson M, Olabi B, Pe'er D, Regev A, Rood J, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Satija R, Teichmann SA, Treutlein B, Vento-Tormo R, Webb S, Human Cell Atlas Developmental Biological Network

Does Adult Neurogenesis Persist in the Human Hippocampus?

Paredes MF, Sorrells SF, Cebrian-Silla A, Sandoval K, Qi D, Kelley KW, James D, Mayer S, Chang J, Auguste KI, Chang EF, Gutierrez Martin AJ, Kriegstein AR, Mathern GW, Oldham MC, Huang EJ, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Yang Z, Alvarez-Buylla A

Human-Specific NOTCH2NL Genes Affect Notch Signaling and Cortical Neurogenesis.

M_Anatomy-General

Fiddes IT, Lodewijk GA, Mooring M, Bosworth CM, Ewing AD, Mantalas GL, Novak AM, van den Bout A, Bishara A, Rosenkrantz JL, Lorig-Roach R, Field AR, Haeussler M, Russo L, Bhaduri A, Nowakowski TJ, Pollen AA, Dougherty ML, Nuttle X, Addor MC, Zwolinski S, Katzman S, Kriegstein A, Eichler EE, Salama SR, Jacobs FMJ, Haussler D

An analytical framework for whole-genome sequence association studies and its implications for autism spectrum disorder.

Werling DM, Brand H, An JY, Stone MR, Zhu L, Glessner JT, Collins RL, Dong S, Layer RM, Markenscoff-Papadimitriou E, Farrell A, Schwartz GB, Wang HZ, Currall BB, Zhao X, Dea J, Duhn C, Erdman CA, Gilson MC, Yadav R, Handsaker RE, Kashin S, Klei L, Mandell JD, Nowakowski TJ, Liu Y, Pochareddy S, Smith L, Walker MF, Waterman MJ, He X, Kriegstein AR, Rubenstein JL, Sestan N, McCarroll SA, Neale BM, Coon H, Willsey AJ, Buxbaum JD, Daly MJ, State MW, Quinlan AR, Marth GT, Roeder K, Devlin B, Talkowski ME, Sanders SJ

The Human Cell Atlas.

M_PEDS-NEONATOLOGY

Regev A, Teichmann SA, Lander ES, Amit I, Benoist C, Birney E, Bodenmiller B, Campbell P, Carninci P, Clatworthy M, Clevers H, Deplancke B, Dunham I, Eberwine J, Eils R, Enard W, Farmer A, Fugger L, Göttgens B, Hacohen N, Haniffa M, Hemberg M, Kim S, Klenerman P, Kriegstein A, Lein E, Linnarsson S, Lundberg E, Lundeberg J, Majumder P, Marioni JC, Merad M, Mhlanga M, Nawijn M, Netea M, Nolan G, Pe'er D, Phillipakis A, Ponting CP, Quake S, Reik W, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Sanes J, Satija R, Schumacher TN, Shalek A, Shapiro E, Sharma P, Shin JW, Stegle O, Stratton M, Stubbington MJT, Theis FJ, Uhlen M, van Oudenaarden A, Wagner A, Watt F, Weissman J, Wold B, Xavier R, Yosef N

A high-resolution enhancer atlas of the developing telencephalon.

M_Anatomy-General

Visel A, Taher L, Girgis H, May D, Golonzhka O, Hoch RV, McKinsey GL, Pattabiraman K, Silberberg SN, Blow MJ, Hansen DV, Nord AS, Akiyama JA, Holt A, Hosseini R, Phouanenavong S, Plajzer-Frick I, Shoukry M, Afzal V, Kaplan T, Kriegstein AR, Rubin EM, Ovcharenko I, Pennacchio LA, Rubenstein JL