Jean-Leon Thomas PhD, MSc

Associate Professor of Neurology

Departments & Organizations

Stem Cell Center, Yale: Stem Cell Niche and Homing

Neurology

Research Interests

Neural stem cells; Glial cells; Neurovascular niches; Cell proliferation and differentiation; Cell migration; Vascular growth factors and receptors; Axonal guidance molecules

Education

• M.Sc., University of Nantes, 1981
• Ph.D., University of Paris, 1992

Selected Publications

• Eichmann A. and Thomas J-L. Molecular Parallels between Neural and Vascular Development. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a006551.
• Calvo CF, Fontaine RH, Soueid J, Tammela T, Makinen T, Alfaro-Cervello C, Bonnaud F, Miguez A, Benhaim L, Xu Y, Barallobre MJ, Moutkine I, Lyytikkä J, Tatlisumak T, Pytowski B, Zalc B, Richardson W., Kessaris N, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Alitalo K, Eichmann A, Thomas JL. Genes Dev. 2011 Apr 15;25(8):831-44.
• Le Bras B, Barallobre B, Homman-Ludiye J, Ny A, Wyns S, Tammela T, Haiko P, Karkkainen MJ, Yuan L, Muriel MP, Chatzopoulou E, Bréant C, Zalc B, Carmeliet P, Alitalo K, Eichmann A, Thomas JL. VEGF-C is a trophic factor for neural progenitors in the vertebrate embryonic brain. Nat. Neuroscience 2006; 9: 340-348.