Shared behavioural impairments in visual perception and place avoidance across different autism models are driven by periaqueductal grey hypoexcitability in Set haploinsufficient mice
L. Burnett, P. Koppensteiner, O. Symonova, T. Masson, T.A. Vega Zuniga, X. Contreras, T. Rülicke, R. Shigemoto, G. Novarino, M.A. Jösch, PLoS Biology 22 (2024).

Shared behavioural impairments in visual perception and place avoidance across different autism models are driven by periaqueductal grey hypoexcitability in Set haploinsufficient mice
L. Burnett, P. Koppensteiner, O. Symonova, T. Masson, T.A. Vega Zuniga, X. Contreras, T. Rülicke, R. Shigemoto, G. Novarino, M.A. Jösch, (2024).

HepaCAM controls astrocyte self-organization and coupling
K.T. Baldwin, C.X. Tan, S.T. Strader, C. Jiang, J.T. Savage, X. Elorza-Vidal, X. Contreras, T. Rülicke, S. Hippenmeyer, R. Estévez, R.-R. Ji, C. Eroglu, Neuron 109 (2021) 2427–2442.e10.

Generation of excitatory and inhibitory neurons from common progenitors via Notch signaling in the cerebellum
T. Zhang, T. Liu, N. Mora, J. Guegan, M. Bertrand, X. Contreras, A.H. Hansen, C. Streicher, M. Anderle, N. Danda, L. Tiberi, S. Hippenmeyer, B.A. Hassan, Cell Reports 35 (2021).

A genome-wide library of MADM mice for single-cell genetic mosaic analysis
X. Contreras, N. Amberg, A. Davaatseren, A.H. Hansen, J. Sonntag, L. Andersen, T. Bernthaler, C. Streicher, A.-M. Heger, R.L. Johnson, L.A. Schwarz, L. Luo, T. Rülicke, S. Hippenmeyer, Cell Reports 35 (2021).

Glu- and Cbln1-mediated competitive synaptogenesis shapes the dendritic arbors of cerebellar Purkinje cells
Y.H. Takeo, S.A. Shuster, L. Jiang, M. Hu, D.J. Luginbuhl, T. Rülicke, X. Contreras, S. Hippenmeyer, M.J. Wagner, S. Ganguli, L. Luo, Neuron 109 (2021) 9–644..

Lineage tracing and clonal analysis in developing cerebral cortex using mosaic analysis with double markers (MADM)
R.J. Beattie, C. Streicher, N. Amberg, G.T. Cheung, X. Contreras, A.H. Hansen, S. Hippenmeyer, Journal of Visual Experiments (2020).

Genetic dissection of neural development in health and disease at single cell resolution
X. Contreras, Genetic Dissection of Neural Development in Health and Disease at Single Cell Resolution, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020.

Memo1 tiles the radial glial cell grid
X. Contreras, S. Hippenmeyer, Neuron 103 (2019) 750–752.

Incorrect trafficking route leads to autism
X. Contreras, S. Hippenmeyer, Brain a Journal of Neurology 141 (2018) 2542–2544.

Haploinsufficiency of the intellectual disability gene SET disturbs developmental gene expression and cognition
E. Deliu, N. Arecco, J. Morandell, C. Dotter, X. Contreras, C. Girardot, E. Käsper, A. Kozlova, K. Kishi, I. Chiaradia, K. Noh, G. Novarino, Nature Neuroscience 21 (2018) 1717–1727.