Tan Lab@SIAT Genetics, Plasticity and Vision

Cortical Development

Cadwell et al., Development and Arealization of the Cerebral Cortex, Neuron 2019

OLeary and Sahara, Area Patterning of the Mammalian Cortex, Neuron 2007

Hypothalamus development and function

Chen, Wu et al, Transcriptional conservation and evolutionary divergence of cell types across mammalian hypothalamus development, Developmental Cell 2025_s

Fong, Kurrasch, The structural and functional complexity of the integrative hypothalamus, Science 2023

Loos and Yeo, The genetics of obesity, from discovery to biology, Nature Reviews Genetics 2022

Stuber and Luscher, The neurobiology of overeating, Neuron 2025

The hypothalamus review by Lowell

Zhuolei Jiao,Xiaohong Xu et al., nature neuroscience 2025 Projectome-based characterization of hypothalamic peptidergic neurons in male mice, Nature Neuroscience 2025

Neural Circuit Assembly

Heckman and Doe, Establishment and Maintenance of Neural Circuit Architechture, JN 2021

Kolodkin and Tessier-Lavigne, Mechanisms and Molecules of Neuronal Wiring, Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2011

Sanes and Zipursky, Cell 2020 Synaptic Specificity,Recognition molecules,and assembly of neural circuits

Sudhof, Towards an understanding of synapse formation, Neuron 2018

Tan Zipursky Cell 2015

Three systems of circuit formation- assembly, updating and tuning

Yogev and Shen, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Specificity. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 2014

Neuropsychiatric Disorders

McClellan and King, An evolutionary perspective on complex neuropsychiatric disease, Neuron 2023

Paus and Giedd, Why do many psychiatric disorders emerge during adolescence, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2008

Visual System Development, Plasticity and Organization

Arcaro and Livingstone, A Whole-Brain Topographic Ontology, annurev-neuro 2024

Cang and Feldheim, developmental mechanisms of topographic map formation and alignment, Annu Rev Neurosci 2013

Cheng, Butrus, Tan et al., Cell 2022

Espinosa and Stryker, Development and Plasticity of the Primary Visual Cortex, Neuron 2012

Kuhlman et al. A disinhibitory microcircuit initiates critical-period plasticity in the visual cortex_Nature 2013

Seabrook et al., Architecture, Function, and Assembly of the Mouse Visual System, annurev-neuro 2017

Zhou et al., Thalamic vs cortical plasticity, Neuron 2025