Microglia action towards neuronal circuit formation and function in health and disease

Microglia enable mature perineuronal nets disassembly upon anesthetic ketamine exposure or 60-Hz light entrainment in the healthy brain
A. Venturino, R. Schulz, H. De Jesús-Cortés, M.E. Maes, B. Nagy, F. Reilly-Andújar, G. Colombo, R.J. Cubero, F.E. Schoot Uiterkamp, M.F. Bear, S. Siegert, Cell Reports 36 (2021).

Targeting microglia with lentivirus and AAV: Recent advances and remaining challenges
M.E. Maes, G. Colombo, R. Schulz, S. Siegert, Neuroscience Letters 707 (2019).

A systematic characterization of microglia-like cell occurrence during retinal organoid differentiation
K. Bartalska, V. Hübschmann, M. Korkut, R.J. Cubero, A. Venturino, K. Rössler, T. Czech, S. Siegert, IScience 25 (2022).

Assessing human iPSC-derived microglia identity and function by immunostaining, phagocytosis, calcium activity, and inflammation assay
V. Hübschmann, M. Korkut, S. Siegert, STAR Protocols 3 (2022).

Optimizing AAV2/6 microglial targeting identified enhanced efficiency in the photoreceptor degenerative environment
M.E. Maes, G.M. Wögenstein, G. Colombo, R. Casado Polanco, S. Siegert, Molecular Therapy - Methods and Clinical Development 23 (2021) 210–224.

Minimally invasive protocols and quantification for microglia-mediated perineuronal net disassembly in mouse brain
A. Venturino, S. Siegert, STAR Protocols 2 (2021).

A tool for mapping microglial morphology, morphOMICs, reveals brain-region and sex-dependent phenotypes
G. Colombo, R.J. Cubero, L. Kanari, A. Venturino, R. Schulz, M. Scolamiero, J. Agerberg, H. Mathys, L.-H. Tsai, W. Chachólski, K. Hess, S. Siegert, Nature Neuroscience 25 (2022) 1379–1393.