Publications

From Post-Doctoral Work:

 Co-First Author*

Li Z*, Kaur N*, Santpere G*, Muchnik SK*, Sindhu SK*, Qi C*, Shibata M*, Clément O, Klarić TS, de Martin X, Luria V, Cho H, Li M, Shibata A, Tebbenkamp ATN, Ma S, Han W, Kim SK, Pochareddy S, Duy PQ, Xing X, Bao Y, Xu X, Gladwyn-Ng IE, Cullen HD, Paolino A, Fenlon LR, Kozulin P, Suárez R, Risgaard RD, Gulden FO, Karger A, Suzuki IK, Hirata T, Gobeske KT, Richards LJ, Sousa AMM, Heng JI, Sestan N. Adaptive Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks in Mammalian Neocortical Neurons. Nature. 2026 Mar 18: doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10226-y PMID: 40475427.

Kim SK, Cherskov A, Sindhwani A, Choi SH, Kim H, Li ML, Zhang M, Mato-Blanco X, Liu Y, Micali N, Young DM, Estacion M, Zhang Y, Ruiz-Jiménez JM, Nadkarni A, Luria V, Sindhu SK, Chatterjee I, Shibata A, Liang D, Cho H, Park S, Spajic A, Kovner R, Glavan M, Chen RJ, Risgaard RD, Li X, Pochareddy S, Karger A, Huttner A, Morozov YM, Daadi EW, Colantuoni C, Gobeske KT, Ely JJ, Hof PR, Daadi MM, Sherwood CC, Duque A, Ma S, Sousa AMM, Waxman SG, Rakic P, Santpere G, Sanders SJ, Sestan N. Human-specific features of the cerebellum and ZP2-regulated synapse development. Cell. 2026 Mar 11:S0092-8674(26)00221-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.02.014. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41819103.

Micali N, Ma S, Li M, Kim SK, Mato-Blanco X, Sindhu SK, Arellano JI, Gao T, Shibata M, Gobeske KT, Duque A, Santpere G, Sestan N, Rakic P. Molecular programs of regional specification and neural stem cell fate progression in macaque telencephalon. Science. 2023 Oct 13;382(6667):eadf3786. doi: 10.1126/science.adf3786. Epub 2023 Oct 13. PMID: 37824652.

From PhD Work:

Co-First* & #Co-Corresponding Author

Mishra A*, Sindhu SK*#, Udaykumar N, Sen J#. microRNA-19b regulates proliferation & patterning in the avian forebrain eLife Preprint, 2025 May 2. doi: 10.7554/eLife.105787.1.sa4

First Author

Sindhu SK, Udaykumar N, Zaidi MAA, Soni A, Sen J. MicroRNA-19b restricts Wnt7b to the hem, which induces aspects of hippocampus development in the avian forebrain. Development. 2019 Oct 2;146(20):dev175729. doi: 10.1242/dev.175729. PMID: 31578189.