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Li F, Jiang D, Samuel MA. Microglia in the developing retina. Neural Dev. 2019 Dec 30;14(1):12. doi: 10.1186/s13064-019-0137-x. PMID: 31888774
 
Sarin S, Zuniga-Sanchez E, Kurmangaliyev YZ, Cousins H, Patel M, Hernandez J, Zhang KX, Samuel MA, Morey M, Sanes JR, Zipursky SL. Role for Wnt Signaling in Retinal Neuropil Development: Analysis via RNA-Seq and In Vivo Somatic CRISPR Mutagenesis. Neuron. 2018 Apr 4;98(1):109-126.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.03.004. Epub 2018 Mar 22. PMID: 29576390 
 
Greer PL, Samuel MA. Becoming a Principal Investigator: Designing and Navigating Your Academic Adventure. Neuron. 2019 Sep 25;103(6):959-963. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.023. PMID: 31557459
 
Burger CA, Jiang D, Li F, Samuel MA. C1q Regulates Horizontal Cell Neurite Confinement in the Outer Retina. Front Neural Circuits. 2020 Oct 16;14:583391. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2020.583391. eCollection 2020. PMID: 33177995
 
Jiang D, Burger CA, Casasent AK, Albrecht NE, Li F, Samuel MA. Spatiotemporal gene expression patterns reveal molecular relatedness between retinal laminae. J Comp Neurol. 2020 Apr 1;528(5):729-755. doi: 10.1002/cne.24784. Epub 2019 Oct 31. PMID: 31609468
 
Burger CA, Alevy J, Casasent AK, Jiang D, Albrecht NE, Liang JH, Hirano AA, Brecha NC, Samuel MA. LKB1 coordinates neurite remodeling to drive synapse layer emergence in the outer retina. Elife. 2020 May 7;9:e56931. doi: 10.7554/eLife.56931. PMID: 32378514
 
Alevy J, Burger CA, Albrecht NE, Jiang D, Samuel MA. Progressive myoclonic epilepsy-associated gene Kctd7 regulates retinal neurovascular patterning and function. Neurochem Int. 2019 Oct;129:104486. doi: 10.1016/j.neuint.2019.104486. Epub 2019 Jun 6. PMID: 31175897
 
Albrecht NE, Alevy J, Jiang D, Burger CA, Liu BI, Li F, Wang J, Kim SY, Hsu CW, Kalaga S, Udensi U, Asomugha C, Bohat R, Gaspero A, Justice MJ, Westenskow PD, Yamamoto S, Seavitt JR, Beaudet AL, Dickinson ME, Samuel MA. Rapid and Integrative Discovery of Retina Regulatory Molecules. Cell Rep. 2018 Aug 28;24(9):2506-2519. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.07.090.
PMID: 30157441
 
Diamond MS, Mehlhop E, Oliphant T, Samuel MA. The host immunologic response to West Nile encephalitis virus. Front Biosci (Landmark Ed). 2009 Jan 1;14:3024-34. doi: 10.2741/3432. PMID: 19273254

Samuel MA, Diamond MS. Pathogenesis of West Nile Virus infection: a balance between virulence, innate and adaptive immunity, and viral evasion.
J Virol. 2006 Oct;80(19):9349-60. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01122-06. PMID: 16973541
 
Samuel MA, Voinescu PE, Lilley BN, de Cabo R, Foretz M, Viollet B, Pawlyk B, Sandberg MA, Vavvas DG, Sanes JR. LKB1 and AMPK regulate synaptic remodeling in old age. Nat Neurosci. 2014 Sep;17(9):1190-7. doi: 10.1038/nn.3772. Epub 2014 Aug 3. PMID: 25086610
 
Samuel MA, Zhang Y, Meister M, Sanes JR. Age-related alterations in neurons of the mouse retina. J Neurosci. 2011 Nov 2;31(44):16033-44. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3580-11.2011. PMID: 22049445

Samuel MA, Valdez G, Tapia JC, Lichtman JW, Sanes JR. Agrin and synaptic laminin are required to maintain adult neuromuscular junctions. PLoS One. 2012;7(10):e46663. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046663. Epub 2012 Oct 3.
PMID: 23056392
 
Hussmann KL, Samuel MA, Kim KS, Diamond MS, Fredericksen BL. Differential replication of pathogenic and nonpathogenic strains of West Nile virus within astrocytes. J Virol. 2013 Mar;87(5):2814-22. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02577-12. Epub 2012 Dec 26. PMID: 23269784
 
Noueiry AO, Olivo PD, Slomczynska U, Zhou Y, Buscher B, Geiss B, Engle M, Roth RM, Chung KM, Samuel M, Diamond MS. Identification of novel small-molecule inhibitors of West Nile virus infection. J Virol. 2007 Nov;81(21):11992-2004. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01358-07. Epub 2007 Aug 22. PMID: 17715228
 
Klein RS, Lin E, Zhang B, Luster AD, Tollett J, Samuel MA, Engle M, Diamond MS. Neuronal CXCL10 directs CD8+ T-cell recruitment and control of West Nile virus encephalitis. J Virol. 2005 Sep;79(17):11457-66. doi: 10.1128/JVI.79.17.11457-11466.2005. PMID: 16103196
 
Pierson TC, Diamond MS, Ahmed AA, Valentine LE, Davis CW, Samuel MA, Hanna SL, Puffer BA, Doms RW. An infectious West Nile virus that expresses a GFP reporter gene. Virology. 2005 Mar 30;334(1):28-40. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.01.021. PMID: 15749120
 
Parameswaran P, Sklan E, Wilkins C, Burgon T, Samuel MA, Lu R, Ansel KM, Heissmeyer V, Einav S, Jackson W, Doukas T, Paranjape S, Polacek C, dos Santos FB, Jalili R, Babrzadeh F, Gharizadeh B, Grimm D, Kay M, Koike S, Sarnow P, Ronaghi M, Ding SW, Harris E, Chow M, Diamond MS, Kirkegaard K, Glenn JS, Fire AZ. Six RNA viruses and forty-one hosts: viral small RNAs and modulation of small RNA repertoires in vertebrate and invertebrate systems. PLoS Pathog. 2010 Feb 12;6(2):e1000764. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000764. PMID: 20169186
 
Daffis S, Samuel MA, Suthar MS, Gale M Jr, Diamond MS. Toll-like receptor 3 has a protective role against West Nile virus infection. J Virol. 2008 Nov;82(21):10349-58. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00935-08. Epub 2008 Aug 20. PMID: 18715906 
 
Shiryaev SA, Ratnikov BI, Chekanov AV, Sikora S, Rozanov DV, Godzik A, Wang J, Smith JW, Huang Z, Lindberg I, Samuel MA, Diamond MS, Strongin AY. Cleavage targets and the D-arginine-based inhibitors of the West Nile virus NS3 processing proteinase. Biochem J. 2006 Jan 15;393(Pt 2):503-11. doi: 10.1042/BJ20051374. PMID: 16229682 

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