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
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
- Jessica Mariani, Maria Vittoria Simonini, Dean Palejev, Livia Tomasini, Gianfilippo Coppola, Anna Szekely, Tamas Horvath, and Flora M. Vaccarino (2011): Modeling Human Cortical Development in vitro using induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (submitted).
- 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 (2011): Detection and analysis of origin of genomic CNV in human induced pluripotent stem cells using whole genome sequencing (submitted).
- Flora M. Vaccarino, Alexander Eckehart Urban, Hanna Stevens, Anna Szekely, Alexej Abyzov, Elena Grigorenko, Mark Gerstein, Sherman Weissman (2011): The promise of stem cell research for neuropsychiatric disorders. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2011, January 4 [Epub ahead of print]
