Reelin coordinates neuronal positioning and Müller glia scaffold maturation during retinal development

Priya Purohit, Simran Purohit, Yinuo Meng, William Cho, Francesca Telese, Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk

https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.16.745098

GWAS and multimodal transcriptomic profiling of human otolithic organs characterize the genetic architecture of balance in the elderly

Seyed Mehdi Esmaeili-Fard, Adam X. Maihofer, Thomas W. Willis, Elizabeth A. Mikita, Jacquelyn A. Johnson, Daniel Munro, Ashley Kumar, Narayan Pokhrel, Abraham A. Palmer, Caroline M. Nievergelt, Francesca Telese, Rick A. Friedman, Pejman Mohammadi, Royce E. Clifford

doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.21.26360655

The development of FEDUPP: feeding experimentation device users processing package to assess learning and cognitive flexibility

Mingyang Yao, Avraham M. Libster, Shane Desfor, Freiya Malhotra, Nathalia Castorena, Patricia Montilla-Perez & Francesca Telese; Translational Psychiatry (2026) 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-026-04091-6

Transcription initiation profiling defines the regulatory logic of astrocyte gene regulation

Kumar, A., Zuo, Y., Formoli, N., Sun, D., Pokhrel, N., Guzman, C., Heinz, S., Benner, C., & Telese, F. (2026). bioRxiv 2026.05.03.722406; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.03.722406

Novel candidate genes for vestibular function identified through GWAS in the hybrid mouse diversity panel

Ninoyu, Y., Pan, C., Luu, J., Rashid, S., Johnston, J., Ortega, B., Boussaty, E., Lu, L., Clifford, R., Mohammadi, P., Telese, F., Palmer, A. A., Lusis, A. J., & Friedman, R. A. (2026). BMC Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12810-y

Profiling active RNA polymerase II transcription start sites from total RNA by capped small RNA sequencing (csRNA-seq)

Mackenzie K. Meyer, Oluwadamilola J. Olanrewaju, Patricia Montilla-Perez, Anna L. McDonald, Eva M. Rickard, Francesca Telese, Christopher Benner, Marina I. Savenkova & Sascha H. Duttke  (2026). Nat Protoc (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-025-01285-y

Whole Genome Sequencing of Sporadic Vestibular Schwannoma Reveals Novel Genetic Changes

Benjamin T Ostrander, Olivia La Monte, Vivienne Li, Vivian Vo, Ashley Kumar, Francesca Telese, Marc S Schwartz, Rick A Friedman  (2026). Otol Neurotol; doi: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000004727.