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Positions

Basic Neuroscience Research Pathway

Pediatrics
Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Selected Publications

• Dana K. Oakes, Cecilia A. Attaway, Wenxin Zeng, Jun Cai, William Guido, Aaron W. McGee. " A mouse model for cerebral/cortical visual impairment (CVI) impairs vision and disrupts the spatial frequency tuning of neurons in visual cortex " Exp Neurol. 2026 May ; 399
• Thomas C. Brown, Emily C. Crouse, Cecilia A. Attaway, Dana K. Oakes, Sarah W. Minton, Bart G. Borghuis, Aaron W. McGee. " Microglia are dispensable for experience-dependent refinement of mouse visual circuitry " Nat Neurosci. 2024 Aug ; 27 (8) : 1462-1467.
  Pubmed PMID: 38977886.
• Imranul Alam, Dana K Oakes, Austin M. Reilly, Caylin Billingsley, Shahed Sbeta, Rita L. Gerard-O'Riley, Dena Acton, Amy Sato, Teresita Bellido, Michael J. Econs. " Overexpression of WNT16 Does Not Prevent Cortical Bone Loss Due to Glucocorticoid Treatment in Mice " JBMR Plus. 2018 Oct ; 3 (4)
  Pubmed PMID: 31044183.
• Imranul Alam, Austin M. Reilly, Mohammed Alkhouli, Rita L. Gerard-O’Riley, Charishma Kasipathi, Dana K. Oakes, Weston B. Wright, Dena Acton, Amie K. McQueen, Bhavmik Patel, Kyung-Eun Lim, Alexander G. Robling, & Michael J. Econs. " Bone Mass and Strength are Significantly Improved in Mice Overexpressing Human WNT16 in Osteocytes " Calcif Tissue Int. 2017 Apr ; 100 : 361–373.
• Imranul Alam, Amie K. McQueen, Dena Acton, Austin M. Reilly, Rita L. Gerard-O'Riley, Dana K. Oakes, Charishma Kasipathi, Abigail Huffer, Weston B. Wright, & Michael J Econs. " Phenotypic severity of autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type II (ADO2) mice on different genetic backgrounds recapitulates the features of human disease " Bone. 2017 Jan ; 94 : 34-41.
  Pubmed PMID: 27746321.