Francois St-Pierre, Ph.D.
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Francois St-Pierre, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
- Assistant Professor
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice University
- McNair Scholar
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Baylor College of Medicine
Addresses
- BCM-Smith Medical Research Bldg - Rm: S636A (Office)
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Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (281) 888-8468
http://www.stpierrelab.com
Education
- BA from University of Cambridge
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
- MA from University of Cambridge
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
- PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Cambridge
- Postdoctoral Training at Stanford University
- Stanford
Professional Interests
Websites
Selected Publications
- Yang J, Lee J, Land MA, Lai S, Igoshin OA, St-Pierre F "A synthetic circuit for buffering gene dosage variation between individual mammalian cells.." Nat. Commun.. 2021; Pubmed PMID: 34226556
- Lee J, Liu Z, Suzuki PH, Ahrens JF, Lai S, Lu X, Guan S, St-Pierre F "Versatile phenotype-activated cell sorting." 33097540. 2020 Oct 23;
- Chamberland, Simon; Yang, Helen H; Pan, Michael M; Evans, Stephen W; Guan, Sihui; Chavarha, Mariya; Yang, Ying; Salesse, Charleen; Wu, Haodi; Wu, Joseph C; Clandinin, Thomas R; Toth, Katalin; Lin, Michael Z; St-Pierre, François "Fast two-photon imaging of subcellular voltage dynamics in neuronal tissue with genetically encoded indicators." eLife. 2017 Jul 27;6 Pubmed PMID: 28749338
- Yang HH, St-Pierre F, Sun X, Ding X, Lin MZ, Clandinin TR "Subcellular Imaging of Voltage and Calcium Signals Reveals Neural Processing In Vivo." Cell. 2016;16:30582-7. Pubmed PMID: 27264607
- Yang, Helen H; St-Pierre, François "Genetically Encoded Voltage Indicators: Opportunities and Challenges." J. Neurosci.. 2016 Sep 28;36(39):9977-9989. Pubmed PMID: 27683896
- St-Pierre F, Chavarha M, Lin MZ "Designs and sensing mechanisms of genetically encoded fluorescent voltage indicators." Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol.. 2015;27:31-38.
- St-Pierre F, Marshall JD, Yang Y, Gong Y, Schnitzer MJ, Lin MZ "High-fidelity optical reporting of neuronal electrical activity with an ultrafast fluorescent voltage sensor." Nature Neurosci. 2014;17:884-889. Pubmed PMID: 24755780
- St-Pierre F, Cui L, Priest DG, Endy D, Dodd IB, Shearwin KE "One-step cloning and chromosomal integration of DNA." ACS Synth Biol. 2013;2:537-41. Pubmed PMID: 24050148
- Cui L, St-Pierre F, Shearwin K "Repurposing site-specific recombinases for synthetic biology." Future Microbiol. 2013;8:1361-4. Pubmed PMID: 24199794
- Lam A, St-Pierre F, Gong Y, Marshall JD, Cranfill PJ, Baird MA, McKeown MR, Wiedenmann Jörg, Davidson MW, Schnitzer MJ, Tsien RY, Lin MZ "Improving FRET dynamic range with bright green and red fluorescent proteins." Nature Methods. 2012;9:1005-12. Pubmed PMID: 22961245
- St-Pierre F, Endy D "Determination of cell fate selection during phage lambda infection." PNAS. 2008;105:20705-207010. Pubmed PMID: 19098103
- Yoshimatsu T, Bartel P, Schröder C, Janiak FK, St-Pierre F, Berens P, Baden T "Ancestral circuits for vertebrate color vision emerge at the first retinal synapse." Sci Adv.. 2021 Oct 15; Pubmed PMID: 34644120
- Lee J, St-Pierre F "A blueprint for glow tag engineering." Nat Rev Chem. 2022 Jan 6;
- Behrens C, Yadav SC, Korympidou MM, Zhang Y, Haverkamp S, Irsen S, Schaedler A, Lu X, Liu Z, Lause J, St-Pierre F, Franke K, Vlasits A, Dedek K, Smith RG, Euler T, Berens P, Schubert T "Retinal horizontal cells use different synaptic sites for global feedforward and local feedback signaling." Curr Biol. 2022 Feb 7;
- Kim BB, Wu H, Hao YA, Pan M, Chavarha M, Zhao Y, Westberg M, St-Pierre F, Wu JC, Lin MZ "A red fluorescent protein with improved monomericity enables ratiometric voltage imaging with ASAP3." Sci Rep.. 2022 Mar 7; Pubmed PMID: 35256624
- Govorunova EG, Gou Y, Sineshchekov OA, Li H, Lu X, Wang Y, Brown LS, St-Pierre F, Xue M, Spudich JL "Kalium channelrhodopsins are natural light-gated potassium channels that mediate optogenetic inhibition." Nat Neurosci. 2022 Jul 25;
- Liu Z, Lu X, Villette V, Gou Y, [...], St-Pierre F "Sustained deep-tissue voltage recording using a fast indicator evolved for two-photon microscopy." Cell. 2022 Aug 16; Pubmed PMID: 35985322
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