Coordinated control of neuronal differentiation and wiring by sustained transcription factors.

Özel, M.N., Gibbs, C.S., Holguera, I., Soliman, M., Bonneau, R., and Desplan, C. (2022). Science 378, eadd1884. doi:10.1126/science.add1884.

A complete temporal transcription factor series in the fly visual system.

Konstantinides, N., Holguera, I., Rossi, A.M., Escobar, A., Dudragne, L., Chen, Y.-C., Tran, T.N., Martínez Jaimes, A.M., Özel, M.N., Simon, F., …. , Desplan, C. (2022). Nature 604, 316-322.

Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly.

Li, H., Janssens, J., …. ,Özel, M.N., …. ,Luo, L., Aerts S. (2022). Science 375, eabk2432.

Neuronal diversity and convergence in a visual system developmental atlas.

Özel, M.N., Simon, F., Jafari, S., Holguera, I., Chen, Y.-C., Benhra, N., El-Danaf, R.N., Kapuralin, K., Malin, J.A., Konstantinides, N., and Desplan, C. (2021). Nature 589, 88-95.

Serial Synapse Formation through Filopodial Competition for Synaptic Seeding Factors.

Özel, M.N., Kulkarni, A., Hasan, A., Brummer, J., …. , Prohaska, S., von Kleist, M., and Hiesinger, P.R. (2019). Developmental Cell 50, 447-461.e448.

Live Observation of Two Parallel Membrane Degradation Pathways at Axon Terminals.

Jin, E.J., Kiral, F.R., Ozel, M.N., Burchardt, L.S., Osterland, M., Epstein, D., Wolfenberg, H., Prohaska, S., and Hiesinger, P.R. (2018). Curr Biol 28, 1027-1038 e1024.

Live Imaging of Connectivity in Developing Neural Circuits in Drosophila. In Decoding Neural Circuit Structure and Function: Cellular Dissection Using Genetic Model Organisms,

Özel, M.N., and Hiesinger, P.R. (2017) A. Çelik, and M.F. Wernet, eds. (Cham: Springer International Publishing), pp. 149-167.

Filopodial dynamics and growth cone stabilization in Drosophila visual circuit development.

Özel, M.N., Langen, M., Hassan, B.A., and Hiesinger, P.R. (2015). eLife 4, e10721.

Characterization of a novel zebrafish (Danio rerio) gene, wdr81, associated with cerebellar ataxia, mental retardation and dysequilibrium syndrome (CAMRQ).

Doldur-Balli, F., Ozel, M.N., Gulsuner, S., Tekinay, A.B., Ozcelik, T., Konu, O., and Adams, M.M. (2015). BMC Neurosci 16, 96.

Regulation of branching dynamics by axon-intrinsic asymmetries in Tyrosine Kinase Receptor signaling.

Zschatzsch, M., Oliva, C., Langen, M., De Geest, N., Ozel, M.N., Williamson, W.R., Lemon, W.C., Soldano, A., Munck, S., Hiesinger, P.R., Sanchez-Soriano, N., and Hassan, B.A. (2014). eLife 3, e01699.

Charcot-Marie-Tooth 2B mutations in rab7 cause dosage-dependent neurodegeneration due to partial loss of function.

Cherry, S., Jin, E.J., Ozel, M.N., Lu, Z., Agi, E., Wang, D., Jung, W.H., Epstein, D., Meinertzhagen, I.A., Chan, C.C., and Hiesinger, P.R. (2013). eLife 2, e01064.