Dr. Marcos Costa

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsMolecular and Cellular Neurology and Neuropathology
KeywordsiPSCs, Cell-lineage reprogramming, cerebral organoids, Alzheimer's disease, neural networks

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityLille CEDEX
InstitutionInstitut Pasteur de Lille

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Magdalena GötzInstitut für Stammzellforschung (ISF), Helmholtz Zentrum München, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH), Oberschleißheim
Prof. Dr. Benedikt BerningerFTN & Physiologische Chemie, Universitätsmedizin Johannnes Gutenberg, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2007

Program(s)

2007Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2010Marcos Costa, Cecilia Hedin-Pereira: Does cell lineage in the developing cerebral cortex contribute to its columnar organization?. In: Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2010, 1-7
2010Marcos Costa, Magdalena Götz, Benedikt Berninger: What determines neurogenic competence in glia?. In: Brain Research reviews, 2010, 47-59
2009Marcos Costa, Ravi Jagasia and Benedikt Berninger: Directed Neuronal Differentiation of Embryonic and Adult-Derived Neurosphere Cells. In: Laurie Doering, Protocols for Neural Cell Culture. Humana Press, 2009. 29-49
2009Marcos Costa, Oliver Bucholz, Timm Schroeder and Magdalena Götz: Late origin of glia-restricted progenitors in the developing mouse cerebral cortex . In: Cerebral Cortex, 2009, i135-i143
2008Marcos R. Costa, Gaiping Wen, Alexandra Lepier, Timm Schroeder and Magdalena Götz: Par-complex proteins promote proliferative progenitor divisions in the developing mouse cerebral cortex. In: Development, 2008, 11-22
2007Benedikt Berninger, Marcos Costa, Ursula Koch, Timm Schroeder, Bernd Sutor, Benedikt Grothe, and Magdalena Gotz: Functional Properties of Neurons Derived from In Vitro Reprogrammed Postnatal Astroglia. In: Journal of Neuroscience, 2007, 8654-8664
2007Marcos Costa, Nicoletta Kessaris, William D. Richardson, Magdalena Gotz, and Cecilia Hedin-Pereira: The Marginal Zone/Layer I as a Novel Niche for Neurogenesis and Gliogenesis in Developing Cerebral Cortex. In: Journal of Neuroscience, 2007, 11376-11388