Publications

For a complete list of my publications, please visit My NCBI Collection.

Publications led by the Petros Lab

Li J, Tanzillo A, Pizzirusso G, Caccavano A, Chittajallu R, Sohn M, Abebe D, Zhang Y, Pelkey K, Dale RK, McBain CJ, Petros TJ. Reducing methylation of histone 3.3 lysine 4 in the medial ganglionic eminence and hypothalamus recapitulates neurodevelopmental disorder phenotypes. bioRxiv 2025.
Garg V*, Beyene S*, Tanzillo A*, Tucker A, Johantges A, Abebe D, Zhang Y, Petros TJ. Mature interneuron subtypes arise from distinct spatial and temporal subdomains within the caudal ganglionic eminence. bioRxiv 2025.
Rhodes CT, Asokumar D*, Sohn M*, Naskar S*, Elisha L, Stevenson P, Lee DR, Zhang Y, Rocha PP, Dale RK, Lee S, Petros TJ. Loss of Ezh2 in the medial ganglionic eminence alters interneuron fate, cell morphology and gene expression profiles. Front Cell Neurosci 2024.
Lee DR, Zhang Y, Rhodes CT, Petros TJ. Generation of single cell and single nuclei suspensions from embryonic and adult mouse brains. STAR Protocols 2022.
Rhodes CT, Mitra A, Lee DR, Lee DJ, Zhang Y, Thompson JJ, Rocha PP, Dale RK, Petros TJ. An epigenome atlas of neural progenitors within the embryonic mouse forebrain. Nature Commun 2022.
Lee DR, Rhodes CT, Mitra A, Zhang Y, Maric D, Dale RK, Petros TJ. Transcriptional heterogeneity of ventricular zone cells in the ganglionic eminences of the mouse forebrain. eLife 2022.
Quattrocolo G, Isaac M, Zhang Y, Petros TJ. Homochronic transplantation of interneuron precursors into early postnatal mouse brains. JoVE 2018.
Petros TJ. Stranger in a strange land: Using heterotopic transplantations to study nature vs nurture in brain development. J Exp Neurosci 2018.
Quattrocolo G, Fishell G, Petros TJ. Heterotopic transplantations reveal environmental influences on interneuron diversity and maturation. Cell Rep 2017.

Collaborative publications

Sun W, Zhang Y, Roy S, Williams Avram SK, Sun CY, Petros TJ, Amara SG. Dynamic regulation of cholesterol metabolism genes in dopaminergic neurons following methamphetamine treatment as revealed by single-nucleus RNA sequencing. bioRxiv 2025.
Chakraborty S, Wenzlitschke N, Anderson MJ, Eraso A, Baudic M, Thompson JJ, Evans AA, Shatford-Adams LM, Chari R, Awasthi P, Dale RK, Lewandoski M, Petros TJ, Rocha PP. Structural perturbation of chromatin domains with multiple developmental regulators can severely impact gene regulation and development. Dev Cell 2024.
Zhang J, Pandey M, Awe A, Lue N, Kittock C, Fikse E, Degner K, Staples J, Mokhasi N, Chen W, Yang Y, Adikaram P, Jacob N, Greenfest-Allen E, Thomas R, Bomeny L, Zhang Y, Petros TJ, Wang X, Li Y, Simonds WF. The association of GNB5 with Alzheimer disease revealed by genomic analysis restricted to variants impacting gene function. Am J Hum Genet 2024.
Chakraborty S, Kopitchinski N, Zuo Z, Eraso A, Awasthi P, Chari R, Mitra A, Tobias IC, Moorthy SD, Dale RK, Mitchell JA, Petros TJ, Rocha PP. Enhancers that activate target genes across CTCF boundaries increase phenotypic robustness. Nat Genet 2023.
Mahadevan V, Mitra A, Zhang Y, Yuan X, Peltekian A, Chittajallu R, Esnault C, Maric D, Rhodes C, Pelkey KA, Dale R, Petros TJ, McBain CJ. NMDARs drive the expression of neuropsychiatric disorder risk genes within GABAergic interneuron subtypes in the juvenile brain. Front Mol Neurosci 2021.
Alkaslasi MR, Piccus ZE, Silberberg H, Chen L, Zhang Y, Petros TJ, Le Pichon CE. Single nucleus RNA-sequencing defines unexpected diversity of cholinergic neuron types in the adult mouse spinal cord. Nat Commun 2021, 12(1):2471.
Murillo A, Navarro AI, Puelles E, Zhang Y, Petros TJ, Perez-Otaño I. Temporal dynamics and neuronal specificity of Grin3a expression in the mouse forebrain. Cereb Cortex 2021.
Ekins TG, Mahadevan V, Zhang Y, D’Amour JA, Akgül G, Petros TJ, McBain CJ. Emergence of non-canonical parvalbumin-containing interneurons in hippocampus of a murine model of Type I lissencephaly. eLife 2020.
Wester JC, Mahadevan V, Rhodes CT, Calvigioni D, Venkatesh S, Maric D, Hunt S, Yuan X, Zhang Y, Petros TJ, McBain CJ. Neocortical projection neurons instruct inhibitory interneuron circuit development in a lineage-dependent manner. Neuron 2019.
McKenzie MG, Cobbs LV, Dummer PD, Petros TJ, Halford MM, Stacker SA, Zou Y, Fishell GJ, Au E. Non-canonical Wnt signaling through Ryk regulates the generation of somatostatin- and parvalbumin-expressing cortical interneurons. Neuron 2019.