Anna M Szekely MD

Associate Research Scientist in Genetics and in Neurology; Attending Physician, Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine; Member, Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration, Yale University

Departments & Organizations

Yale Medical Group

Stem Cell Center, Yale

Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration

Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration

Neurology: Neurogenetics | General Neurology

Genetics

Research Interests

neuronal lineage specification of embryonic stem cells; disease-specific human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells; genetics of autism; genetic disorders of the nervous system; application of genomics and other high throughput technologies to understand disease mechanism (genome-wide RNA interference; next-generation nucleic acid sequencing, high-throughput cell-based phenotypic analysis) more...

Education

• M.D., Semmelweis University, 1980

Selected Publications

• Alexej Abyzov, Dean Palejev, Lior Rosenberg Belmaker, Ying Zhang, Jessica Mariani, Livia Tomasini, Anthony Ferrandino, Anna Szekely, Michael Wilson, Michael Seamus Haney, Elena L. Grigorenko, Anita Huttner, Sherman Weissman, Alexander Eckehart Urban, Mark Gerstein, Flora M. Vaccarino (2012). Detection and analysis of origin of genomic CNV in human induced pluripotent stem cells using whole genome sequencing Nature, 2012 Nov 18. doi: 10.1038/nature11629.
• Alexandra E. Charos, Brian D. Reed, Debasish Raha, Anna M. Szekely, Sherman M. Weissman and Michael Snyder (2012): A highly integrated and complex PPARGC1A transcription factor binding network in HepG2 cells. Genome Research 22, 1668-1679.
• Jessica Mariani, Maria Vittoria Simonini, Dean Palejev, Livia Tomasini, Gianfilippo Coppola, Anna Szekely, Tamas Horvath, and Flora M. Vaccarino (2012): Modeling Human Cortical Development in vitro using induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA, 109, 12770-12775. Epub 2012 Jul 3.

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