Flora Maria Vaccarino MD
Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Neurobiology and Residential College Associate Fellow in Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience | Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Stem Cell Center, Yale: Stem Cell Genetics
Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program
Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration
Neurobiology: Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Child Study Center: Tourette’s Syndrome & Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders | NIMH Research Training Program in Childhood-onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program | Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration
Research Interests
Neural stem cells; Cerebral cortex; Neuronal progenitors; Tyrosine kinase growth factors; Excitatory neurons; GABAergic neurons; Postmortem human brain; Induced pluripotent stem cells; Hypoxia more...
Education
- M.D., Padua University Medical University, 1979
Selected Publications
- Abyzov, A., Mariani, J., Palejev, D., Zhang, Y., Haney, M.S., Tomasini, L., Ferrandino, A., Rosenberg Belmaker, L., Szekely, A., Wilson, M., Kocabas, A., Calixto, N.E., Grigorenko, E.L., Huttner, A., Chawarska, K., Weissman, S., Eckehart Urban, A., Gerstein, M, & Vaccarino, F.M. Somatic copy-number mosaicism in human skin revealed by induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature, in press. doi: 10.1038/nature11629
- Mariani, J., Simonini, M.V., Palejev, D., Tomasini, L., Coppola, G., Szekely, A., Horvath, T., & Vaccarino, F.M. (2012). Modeling human cortical development in vitro using induced pluripotent stem cells. Proceedings of the National Academy for Sciences USA, 109(31), 12770-12775. http://www.pnas.org/content/109/31/12770.long
- Stevens, H.E., Mariani, J., Coppola, G., & Vaccarino, F.M. (in press). Neurobiology meets genomic science: The promise of human induced pluripotent stem cells. In Grigorenko, E. L., & Cicchetti, D. (Eds.), The contribution of genetic/genomic sciences to developmental psychopathology [Special Issue], Development and Psychopathology, 24(4), 1443-1451.
